Argentina-Spain World Cup final is most expensive US sporting event ever
Argentina and Spain will face off in the final, which will feature Lionel Messi attempting to secure his second World Cup trophy.
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These World Cup stars didn’t get the trophy—but won big on social media
Little-known soccer players from Cabo Verde, New Zealand and elsewhere took in huge new social media followings.
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google respond to Albanese’s AI announcement
Prime Minister Albanese was emphatic in today’s AI address that Australian writers, musicians, artists and journalists will retain copyright to their works. Here is how Anthropic and OpenAI responded.
Albanese creates Office of AI so Australia can be ‘more than a data warehouse’
“We should not treat AI as a threat to good jobs, we must use it as an instrument to create them,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, pledging to legislate national AI standards – including copyright protections – by early 2027. A swaggering Anthony Albanese declared Australia the best place in the world to invest in […]
OpenAI’s first consumer device will be a smart speaker
The AI companion will mark OpenAI’s first physical device.
Australian startups punch above their weight. Coming from America, I think I know why
Opinion: Australian startups turn modest venture capital funding into global companies more efficiently than anywhere on earth. The reasons are in the dirt and distance, argues partner at Side Stage Ventures, Elli Hanson
Workers spend up to 15 hours a week in meetings. Here’s a better way
Opinion: Meetings consume up to a third of the working week, but often leave us drained. Work futurist Dominic Price offers a practical way to decide which ones to kill, keep or tweak.
IBM shares crashed 25% in worst day ever. Here’s why
“What played out was worse than our expectations,” CEO Arvind Krishna warned investors.
Australia doesn’t need copyright change to win data centre billions, AI boss says
Copyright law has become the central flashpoint of Australia’s AI and data centre policy. Sharon AI chief executive James Manning says no changes are needed.
AI model wars: Anthropic extends Fable access again after OpenAI’s Sol release
Anthropic extended access for Claude Fable 5 for subscribers for the second time in a week, an apparent response to the launch of OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT model—which the rival firm claims sets a “new standard”—following Fable’s turbulent debut overshadowed by its clash with the U.S. government.