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As White House shields the AI gold rush, Trump family and other allies strike it rich – with few guardrails
It’s not clear that financial interests are driving White House policy, but they run parallel even as resistance mounts
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More Australians to live into their 90s as life expectancy forecast to rise over coming decades
Treasury’s latest intergenerational report projects life expectancy at birth will reach 89 for women and 86 for men by 2...
Business
AI slowdown calls justified but collapse of bubble may be more immediate threat
Scale of debt issuance being used to fund the hectic pace of the datacentre rollout by tech firms is a worry
Technology
Australia has done precious little to prepare for the dangers of AI. Where is brilliant leadership when you need it?
Australia faces stark choices about the most significant technological development since the splitting of the atom in th...
Technology
Trump to create ‘AI Force’ to monitor technology as fears over out-of-control agents grow
President had brushed away suggestions to slow down AI technology, even as his own party counseled caution
Technology
Your AI doomsday questions answered: ‘What, if anything, can people like me do about it?’
Our technology reporters Aisha Down, Blake Montgomery and Dan Milmo answer your questions on the reality of the AI threa...
Technology
China bogeyman looms large over American firms’ AI doomsday scenario
Silicon Valley China hawks, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei among them, fear the country surpassing US’s AI lead as much as s...
Technology
Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies
Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models
Technology
OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot
US cybersecurity researchers who conducted hack say ‘scope of what we could theoretically access was huge’
Technology
Andrew Hastie says AI advised him to reply ‘congratulations!’ to man who planned to end life with assisted dying
Liberal MP speaks of AI’s shortcomings as cyber chief tells inquiry the tech is needed to fend off ‘highly capable malic...
Automobile
Could AI really end humanity? Post your questions for our tech reporters now
After a week of alarming warnings from insiders, our panel of experts will take your questions on the AI threat. Join us...
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OpenAI reveals cases of ‘concerning’ AI behaviour as it announces new disclosure system
Model adopting ‘jailbreak-like instructions’ among six more cases as firm reveals framework for tracking AI misalignment