AI

The Meta founder called for a broader AI strategy focused on “individual empowerment.”

Opinion: AI is tearing up the old SaaS rule book and pushing venture capital towards a barbell of mega-bets and tiny cheques. Australia needs to pay close attention, argues Daniel Petre Venture capital, lazily defined, is capital invested into high-risk and hopefully high-return companies that disrupt tired market sectors with genuinely new products. That’s been […]

Opinion: AI could perform nearly one-third of Australian jobs, even as other sectors struggle to find workers. Futurist and work strategist Dom Price asks why Australia is not planning for both at once. Here’s a stat I find genuinely reassuring and then immediately infuriating. New EY-Parthenon modelling suggests artificial intelligence could add as much as $116 billion […]

Opinion: As companies rush to deploy AI, a new kind of organisational debt is building: capability without clear ownership, workflow or accountability, argues Lucio Ribeiro Last year in South Australia, ambulances spent close to 49,000 hours parked outside hospitals with patients still inside. Six years earlier, the figure was around 15,000. Paramedics kept monitoring patients […]

The Chinese tech giant hailed its model as its “most capable.”

Twenty-four-year-old founder Anjali Sardana wants to give domestic workers in India a share in the AI gold rush by sending them into people’s homes to collect training data for U.S. AI companies.

Fortune 500 companies are embracing AI, but few can measure a tangible return. Atlassian’s chief people and AI enablement officer says widespread adoption means little unless businesses redesign the processes around it. The executive in charge of Atlassian’s internal AI tooling says the world’s biggest companies are struggling to see productivity gains from AI, and […]

Opinion: People are already working hard. The productivity problem is how much of that effort is being swallowed by meetings, reporting, approvals and other work that creates little value, argues The CEO Institute’s Richard Wynn Productivity has moved firmly into the CEO’s office and is the top issue on their mind.  Across The CEO Institute’s […]

Opinion: Australia should play to its strengths in the AI era, leveraging critical minerals and renewable energy while ensuring global tech giants pay their fair share of tax, argues AirTree co-founder Daniel Petre AI is the biggest technological shift in modern history. It’s already smarter than us at a growing list of tasks, touches every […]

An army of newly wealthy AI workers is searching for causes worthy of its money. Animal advocates think they may also be sitting on the future of philanthropy.