The race to stop rogue AI
When OpenAI revealed its AI models went rogue during safety testing, science fiction suddenly became a reality. Since then, the company has...
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An irritated Trump meets Netanyahu
It was the first face-to-face meeting between Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump since the war with Ir...
Did Jacinta Allan have a Dan Andrews problem?
After becoming one of the most unpopular leaders in Australia’s history, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan reluctantly gave up the top job. Th...
The shocking investigation into food labels
When you pick up a product at the supermarket, you trust what's written on the label. So, when it says an ingredient was sourced in Australi...
Is AI changing how we think?
AI has taken the grunt work out of many everyday tasks; from writing emails to planning dinner. But are we starting to rely on AI to think f...
How Pauline Hanson is controlling the narrative
This week, Pauline Hanson has again declared that she could become Prime Minister after the next election. But could she? Or will her recent...
Will the SpaceX slump pop the AI bubble?
At the end of last week Elon Musk’s much-hyped SpaceX shares took a tumble just over a month after the company went public. But what does th...
Is this what a forever war looks like?
Donald Trump's MOU with Iran was supposed to stop the war and then end it. Now it's barely worth the paper it's written on. The bombing has...
Do Pauline Hanson’s economics add up?
Pauline Hanson has spent the past fortnight in Europe spruiking her anti-immigration policies which have long been familiar to Australian vo...
The renewed obsession with living longer
For thousands of years the question of extending life or living forever has occupied minds. But now it’s taken on a new life, from peptides,...
Why Trump's so sensitive about Air Force One
When Donald Trump went to the NATO summit in Ankara, he took one plane in and a different one out. They were both called Air Force One, but...
The gaps in the prime minister’s big AI speech
It was dubbed a landmark speech on how the government will deal with the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and data centres. But di...
How will Telstra pay for its network meltdown?
Telstra says its sorry for letting Australians down after last week’s nationwide outage, but how is it going compensate customers left out o...
Are Chinese EVs a national security risk?
Relatively cheap EVs from China are increasingly seen on Australian roads. But you won’t find many in the US, because of hefty tariffs and b...
The developers hoping to cash in on 'affordable' housing
When you say 'affordable housing' there’s a natural scepticism. Across the country developers are being offered perks to be part of schemes...
The $5.3 billion NRL game changer
It’s the most lucrative sports broadcast deal in history, worth $5.3 billion for seven years. The deal between the NRL and broadcasters Nine...
What’s behind China’s ballistic missile test?
On Monday, China’s military launched a nuclear capable ballistic missile over the Pacific Ocean from a submarine hidden in the sea off China...
How Trump tainted the World Cup and still lost
Even an extraordinary intervention by the US president couldn’t save his soccer team, with the USA now out of the FIFA World Cup after being...
How Putin's war reached Moscow's petrol pumps
Vladimir Putin's war is running off course as the Russian capital Moscow comes under repeated Ukrainian attack. Ukrainian strikes are leadin...
Is Chinese AI about to crush Silicon Valley?
Last month the Trump administration forced AI company Anthropic to shut down two of its most powerful models because of national security co...