Innovation

Carbon emissions are the easy part. Fair Supply also wants to find the endangered frogs and the enslaved people in your supply chain.

The billionaire technologist has quietly founded a startup that aims to “bring people closer, simplify communication, and enhance engagement” through artificial intelligence.

Leonardo.AI had a bumper 2024. In June it released Phoenix, Australia’s first generative AI foundational model. In July, the company was acquired by Canva – and over the last month, Leonardo shipped its latest product, Flow State.

Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest has spent 5 years secretly working to bring together US and Chinese foreign policy experts to find common ground on national security and AI. Here’s what the Brookings Institute consortium has achieved.

The AI startup behind Claude, the rival product to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is raising $2 billion in fresh funding, sources confirmed to Forbes.

Many fact-checkers got less than an hour’s notice that Meta planned to replace the work they do with X-style community notes. Some had signed new contracts just weeks earlier.

Since Elon Musk torpedoed Twitter, Bluesky has seen a stunning surge. CEO Jay Graber is working on “billionaire-proofing” social media against any similar takeover.

In the new year, advancements in AI and voice technology could fulfill a promise that tech giants have been making for more than a decade.

From transforming coal to computing with DNA to pharmaceutical manufacturing in space, these are the discoveries that will set the stage for the next decade’s technology.

The designs could evolve into radar-evading medium bombers.