Technology

An Australian AI start-up helping businesses develop their own team of AI agents has raised $15 million to scale globally.

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.

“You won’t lose your job to AI, but you will lose your job to someone who knows AI.”

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.

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.

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.

An Australian generative AI content production platform, Leonardo.Ai, has already amassed 7 million global users – who are creating 4.5 million images each day on its platform. Now, it’s raised $47 million to keep users creating.

A pared-down version of Gemini is available in Google’s AI chatbot Bard.

Apple did not release new iPads this year, contributing to a decline in sales for the device, which combined with Macs make up 15% of Apple’s revenue.

Forbes has unveiled its annual list of the world’s most powerful women, featuring celebrities like Beyoncé and politicians like Kamala Harris. Meet the four Australians who made the cut.