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Andrew Bailey says the central bank is watching the waves of cash being invested in artificial intelligence "very carefully".

US FTC investigates OpenAI and Anthropic over potential consumer harms

Synopsys, OpenAI strike deal to develop AI model for chip design work

Warning comes as central bank estimates fewer than one in 100 borrowers owe more on their home than its worthFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Reserve Bank says households are well placed to weather the twin storm of rising interest rates and plunging property prices, but warned that Australia would not be immune to a sudden collapse of the global AI investment boom.The central bank’s latest financial stability re

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Despite Australia's rapid housing downturn, which threatens to be the worst in decades, the Reserve Bank believes the main threats to the nation's financial stability come from overseas.

A major milestone accompanying the launch is the announcement of CAIK’s first cohort of 15 start-ups.
SA Premier Peter Malinauskas has appointed former federal court judge Dr Iain Ross AO to lead a royal commission into artificial intelligence alongside experts Kate Pounder and Christopher Manning.

Beijing has cracked down on AI chatbots that can replicate human relationships. Experts are asking if this is the right thing to do.

Will farmers want AI tools to help judge when to pick fruit, or is their own intuition enough?

Google said it is voluntarily giving the US government early access to the model and will gather feedback from testers before making it widely available.

Google said it would withhold its most powerful artificial intelligence model from the public for now, releasing Gemini 4 Argon only to a vetted group of cybersecurity experts to avoid misuse by hackers.

Meta’s Muse and Tencent’s Xiaowei share one ambition, a personal AI agent for ordinary people, but take different paths: an AI-first assistant versus AI bui...

Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, said internally that the super PAC, Leading the Future, had become a “distraction” for the A.I. company.

MI5 said more than 100 U.K.-based academics had contributed to projects funded by a group with "very strong ties" to Beijing intelligence.

An extraordinary cadre of the country's richest tech titans with collective net worths over $1.8 trillion converged upon the White House Tuesday for President T...

In tonight's edition, Africa's richest man breaks ground on a 16 billion dollar oil refinery in Kenya. Also, at universities across Cameroon, programming is overshadowed with uncertainty amidst an indefinite strike by lecturers. And I speak to Ethiopian-born computer scientist and pioneering AI ethicist Timnit Gebru as she is honored with the Swedish Right Livelihood Award for her work on how AI is influenced by biases.

Donald Trump has launched “America”, an AI chatbot designed as a digital portal for US government information. But its responses appear to be changing. The chatbot initially challenged several of Trump’s claims, including on the 2020 election and inflation, providing evidence and links. More recently, it has refused to answer some of the same questions. Other responses still contradict Trump, while some echo his views. Vedika Bahl tests the chatbot, and its varying answers in Truth or Fake.

Gemini 4 Argon is Alphabet's most advanced model yet, with major coding, cybersecurity, and complex professional work improvements.
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