- Analysis
- Social media
Australia banned under-16s from social media. The world is split on whether to follow
No platform has been fined and the rift between regulator and minister is in the open. How are our world-first social media laws faring?
- David Swan and Bronte Gossling
Latest
- Updated
- News Bargaining Incentive
Labor holds firm on plan to make tech giants pay for news as Meta attacks
The government is pressing ahead with its plan to make tech giants fund journalism, shrugging off Meta’s claim it amounts to a “discriminatory tax”.
- David Swan, Calum Jaspan and Nick Newling
- Opinion
- AI
The brands that Australians are now hating on, and why
Artificial intelligence businesses and other technology giants have ranked poorly in a new survey of the brands that Australians trust most and least.
- Elizabeth Knight
- Analysis
- Web culture
Google’s plan to run your life could break the internet
The tech giant’s new AI overhaul is set to have damaging ramifications.
- James Warrington and James Titcomb
Google unveils new search bar, smart glasses as it ramps up the AI wars
Google may be starting to win the race towards truly useful consumer AI.
- Tim Biggs
What are passkeys? The end of the password era explained
Passkeys are designed to be the end of “remembering” login credentials. And it may be time to accept them.
- Tim Biggs
- Exclusive
- NSW State Parliament
Tech giants snub inquiry as court ruling ‘guts’ parliament’s power
The Coalition has accused Chris Minns of abandoning his “warrior of integrity” mantle as a wave of corporates and ministerial no-shows threatens to render parliamentary inquiries toothless.
- Max Maddison and Michael McGowan
The Sydney newspaper banned from council meetings that has its own questions to answer
At first glance, a council’s decision to ban a newspaper from its premises represents a remarkable intrusion on press freedom. But this fight is less cut and dried than it seems.
- Bevan Shields and Ellie Busby
- Analysis
- AI
The world’s richest man, the AI king, and a courtroom showdown
Elon Musk and Sam Altman have finally landed in an Oakland courtroom and the verdict could reshape OpenAI, the AI race, and the technology defining our era.
- David Swan
- Updated
- News Bargaining Incentive
Albanese risks Trump backlash with plan to make tech giants pay for journalism
The prime minister is pressing ahead with a scheme to make social media giants such as TikTok, Google and Meta funnel up to $250 million into Australian news content.
- Paul Sakkal and David Swan