‘Make it Easy’ app honoured at 2025 TechDiversity Awards
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Elon Musk’s xAI published hundreds of thousands of Grok chatbot conversations
xAI published conversations with Grok and made them searchable on Google, including a plan to assassinate Elon Musk and instructions for making fentanyl and bombs.
Elon Musk’s self-driving Tesla lies are finally catching up to him
For nearly a decade Elon Musk has claimed Teslas can truly drive themselves. They can’t. Now California regulators, a Miami jury and a new class action suit are calling him on it.
Canva valued at $42 billion in employee share sale
The latest funding round was led by Fidelity Management & Research and funds linked to J.P. Morgan Asset Management.
Butter: The anti-establishment app working to get you offline and breaking bread IRL
Founded just a year ago in Melbourne, Butter has secured 10,000 users, a $260,000 investment from ‘day one’ investor Antler, and a $2.2 million valuation. The problem it is solving is universal: loneliness.
Blackstone-backed AirTrunk gets $1.8 billion loan to build second data centre
The new AI-powered data center, which will have a capacity of over 70 megawatts, will be financed by a syndicate of more than 20 banks including Crédit Agricole CIB, DBS Bank and ING Bank.
Who’s getting rich off the $100 billion crypto treasury boom
From Anchorage Digital to BitGo and Morgan Stanley, a growing cast of financial firms are reaping big fees riding the tidal wave of corporate bitcoin buying.
Who owns AI at work? The case for distributed stewardship
Opinion: AI capabilities demand we rethink not just how we can use it during the workday, but how we govern, shape, and integrate it into our organisations. With this comes a question echoing through many companies right now – who owns AI at work?
Qantas fined $90 million for illegally sacking 1,700 ground staff
The national carrier has also paid $120 million into the compensation fund for affected former employees, after it sacked 1,700 ground handling staff during the pandemic.
Go1 founders bank $2.5 million for new MRI start-up
The duo behind education start-up Go1 and investor Gopi Sara teamed up to launch OneMRI, a preventative care company that offers whole-body MRI scans.