The masterminds behind AI chat bot, Claude, are facing investor concerns over their plans to retain near-total control when they float the company. Here is what we know.
Tom Richardson
Australia’s top diplomat has vowed to take “any decisions” necessary to protect Australians amid revelations Iran has targeted a journalist.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike has warned that frontier artificial intelligence models are being easily abused to access off-record information.
Lucinda Garbutt-Young
Astronauts will have spent 378 days living as though they were on Mars when they leave their artificial home designed to help plan a mission to the Red Planet.
Nick Lester
A popular Aussie holiday park group has issued an urgent warning to customers following a data security breach, which led to fraudulent emails and messages being sent.
Emma Kirk
Businesses have hours to fix security holes as average reported cybercrime costs surge, with Richard Marles urging firms to go offline if necessary.
Ryan Johnson
Plans to give social media users an opt-out from algorithms and get big tech to stamp out extremist content will be good for democracy, experts say.
Will Nicholas
A Labor-turned-independent senator has made an “outrageous” allegation about Anthony Albanese amid a long-running dispute over staffing.
Australia's security chief is warning technology users to prepare for a future wave of cyber security attacks driven by artificial intelligence.
Noah Secomb
Australians are being warned to get used to compromised cybersecurity as the number of threats soar and outdated technology offers opportunities for hackers.
Australia’s cyber spy agency has warned hostile nations are quietly burrowing into critical infrastructure networks, poised to unleash sabotage at a “time of their choosing”.
A former councillor, One Nation candidate and farmer has died after attempting to drive through a flooded creek in regional Queensland.
Alexandra Feiam, Emma Kirk and Andrew Hedgman
The first words Helen Haines spoke after waking have been revealed as MPs pay tribute to the injured politician a week after the attack.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer, Samantha Maiden
The first international flight has touched down at Australia’s sprawling new airport complex.
Jack Nivison
Australia’s AI data centre boom risks outrunning reality, with a senior executive at $220 billion Swiss industrial technology giant ABB predicting many proposed facilities will never be built.
The Coalition is taking steps to “protect” cash, warning that the Albanese government’s cash mandate has failed to do the job.
A monster storm system is tearing across Australia, smashing one state and putting millions more on alert.
Cameron Micallef and Andrew Hedgman
Helen Haines’ parliamentary colleagues will pay their respects to the independent MP after she received life-altering injuries in a car attack.
Almost every patient who sits down with a Sydney psychotherapist is suffering from some degree of stress and anxiety – and they often don’t know how to manage it.
A minister has made a chilling claim about life as a politician in Australia, as the attack on Helen Haines has forced a national conversation about political discourse.
A product that was dreamt up by an Aussie but launched overseas is finally coming home 11 years after it was first designed.
David Hannant
A man’s bizarre illegal hoard of hundreds of frozen, stuffed and live native animals – found across 14 freezers – has been revealed.
A Tesla travelling at 112km/h has hit and killed a 71-year-old man, with the driver claiming the car was in full self-driving mode when it ploughed into the pedestrian in the dead of night.
Troy de Ruyter
Dramatic footage has emerged of rescuers pulling a man to safety from raging floodwaters, as wet weather will continue to smash multiple states.
