Block to face ‘disruptive’ internal overhaul, founder Jack Dorsey warns staff
Fintech company Block is set to overhaul its internal reporting structure, founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey, told staff in an internal memo.
Innovation
Decades in the making: BiVACOR implants first in-human artificial heart
The Australian designed maglev heart, the BiVACOR – which promises to be the world’s first permanent artificial heart replacement – will be spinning in Australian chests as early as this year.
OpenAI announces AI-powered search engine that could challenge Google
The AI-powered search engine will launch among a small group of users first and later be combined with ChatGPT.
Chicago to get PsiQuantum’s second computer
Fresh from a controversial $940-million deal with Australian taxpayers to attempt the world’s first useful quantum computer in Brisbane, PsiQuantum has inked a deal to build its second one in Chicago.
AirTable’s new AI tool can generate apps from just a prompt
Airtable’s new Cobuilder product generates apps just from a simple prompt — and has the $11.7 billion-valued startup back eyeing an IPO after painful job cuts.
Meet the new biotech billionaire putting pig hearts in humans
The planet’s latest billionaire is a helicopter-flying transgender woman who made a fortune saving her daughter’s life.
OpenAI founder Sam Altman gave thousands of people free money. Here’s what happened.
The landmark study provides more data on the benefits of universal basic income, the OpenAI founder’s favored solution for a future in which AI takes everyone’s jobs.
‘In the billions’: What will the CrowdStrike outage cost the Australian economy?
AMP’s chief economist tells Forbes Australia the global cost will be in the billions. Australia’s Minister for Cyber Security says the CrowdStrike update fallout may take weeks to recover from.
How to recover your IT system from the CrowdStrike outage
The ‘blue screen of death’ descended on computers around the world on Friday. Here are the immediate, short, and long-term things you can do to ensure your system is up and running.
What is CrowdStrike and what does it do?
The firm at the heart of the global IT outage was created to ‘reinvent security for the cloud era,’ according to company documents. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas, listed on NASDAQ, and is valued at $124 billion.