Google’s top 10 trending tech queries for 2023
The term AI joined the global lexicon a year ago, and Aussies have been googling up a tech-storm ever since. Here are Google’s Top 10 trending tech terms for 2023
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‘Gamechanger’: AI startup banks $15 million to help businesses leverage GenAI
An Australian AI start-up helping businesses develop their own team of AI agents has raised $15 million to scale globally.
Feel pressure to work after hours? You may be less productive, not more.
How’s this for irony? Slack, whose workplace messaging app has at some point prompted many employees to feel the tug of responding after hours, has a warning: People who feel obligated to work after hours also tend to be less productive.
The AI race: Before getting the car, you need to learn to drive
“You won’t lose your job to AI, but you will lose your job to someone who knows AI.”
Paramount shares skyrocket after reports of potential takeover
The company’s A and B Class shares were both up more than 10% on Friday.
Commercialisation has won AI. What comes next?
The battle over the past week at OpenAI – the creator of industry-changing ChatGPT and DALL-E AI products has been described as many things.
Harvey family office backs Aussie scalp-care brand in $4 million raise
Scalp-care company Straand has raised $4 million in funding from Harvey Norman’s family office and Unilever Ventures.
NZ All Blacks performance coach on moulding champions on and off the field
Dr Nic Gill is the head of performance for the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team and sits on the performance advisory board of functional fitness gym Fitstop. With a PhD in human performance, Gill claims physical exercise can help you train qualities like discipline and goal setting – and improve your performance in the boardroom.
The car might be – but the business case for Musk’s Cybertruck isn’t bulletproof
Dubious environmental benefits aside, billionaire Elon Musk’s polarising Cybertruck may be a strategic misfire given its price, big R&D costs and murky sales outlook.
Meta launches end-to-end encryption for messages on Facebook and Messenger
The major privacy update means Meta will no longer be able to see the contents of messages and brings Facebook and Messenger in line with the company’s other platform, WhatsApp.