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Data centres power what we do online. So why all the controversy now?

You might never go inside one of these massive structures – but your digital presence has, probably hundreds of times a day. What goes on in a data centre?

  • Angus Holland

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Warsh and US President Donald Trump confer following their speeches.

Will the AI boom lead to lower interest rates?

New US Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh says the productivity gains from artificial intelligence will allow significant cuts in interest rates. More like the opposite.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Donald Trump is still demanding higher interest rates.

Trump will be furious but his man’s hands are tied

A surprising jump in the latest jobs figures is good news for America but it spells doom for one of the US president’s biggest wishes.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
The Magnificent Seven is growing, helped by AI expectations.

The AI craze will soon hold even more sway over the world’s biggest sharemarket

As investors prepare for the biggest float in history, Wall Street’s performance is being tied more closely to artificial intelligence profits.

  • Chris Zappone
Increasing distrust for the OpenAI brand.

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
Valuations are sky-high for AI companies like SpaceX, and keep rising. Can it continue?

SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI: What if one of the mega AI IPOs fizzles?

The companies driving artificial intelligence need access to ever-increasing amounts of capital at ever-increasing valuations. That makes them vulnerable.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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It’s already too late to stop AI. But before the p(doom), let’s consider the p(boom)

Pope Leo says management of the new tech is now humanity’s most important mission. Australia is uniquely well-placed to play a role in that endeavour.

  • Peter Hartcher
Pope Leo has taken a stand against the increasingly powerful tech tycoons.

‘Idolatry of profit’: Pope Leo takes on AI’s wannabe trillionaires

The Pope takes a stand against those who want the morality and ethics of artificial intelligence to be entirely in the hands of its creators.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

I’m an academic, but I’ve told my stepdaughter to think twice about going to university

We have arrived at a point where universities are committing industrial-scale fraud thanks to the real-time experiment in degree by AI.

  • Kylie Moore-Gilbert
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (virtual) with CommBank CEO Matt Comyn.

OpenAI boss downplays jobs apocalypse as ‘threats of violence’ hit Aussie tech giant

Sam Altman no longer thinks AI will replace workers en masse, but admits businesses are yet to see a return on their massive AI spending.

  • Colin Kruger