
The Guardian - 1 hour 30 min ago
Chief executives of Australia's 100 biggest companies earned a median $4.8m in the 2025 financial year. Follow today's news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Luca has more on ACSI's CEO pay report, which reveals that Life360's founder Chris Hulls was the top-paid chief executive of an Australian-listed company in 2025's financial year. Hull earned $47.7m in realised pay, which was about 437 times more than the average Australian full-time adult...

NPR - 2 hours 24 min ago
What's it like to grow up and learn in the age of AI? NPR put that question to seven teenagers across the country.

The Guardian - 4 hours 7 min ago
Group of major publishers accuses the tech giant of one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history' A group of major publishers have filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of illegally using millions of copyrighted books to help build its Gemini artificial intelligence models, in "one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history". The case, filed in federal court in New York, has been brought by three publishers Hachette...

The Next Web - 5 hours 59 min ago
JPMorgan Chase has cut jobs by as much as 40 percent in some parts of the bank using artificial intelligence, CEO Jamie Dimon told analysts during the company's second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday. But investors hoping the technology will dramatically improve profit margins are likely to be disappointed. Dimon said that in a competitive market, […] This story continues at The Next Web...

New York Times - 6 hours 38 min ago
Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York has backed artificial intelligence as a tool for research and good governance, but said innovation must be balanced with public benefit.

The Hill - 6 hours 47 min ago
Hundreds of economics and artificial intelligence researchers warned Monday that institutions must begin preparing for the potential economic upheaval AI could unleash, while putting many jobs at risk. The open letter, signed by Nobel laureates, top computer scientists and technology executives, including from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, said policymakers "must act now" to address the...

The Guardian - 7 hours 50 min ago
Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order enacting a moratorium on the large, resource-intensive AI facilities New York became the first US state to enact a moratorium on new datacenters on Tuesday. Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order mandating a one-year statewide pause on the large facilities used to power artificial intelligence products. Continue reading...

TechRadar - 7 hours 54 min ago
Artificial intelligence has quickly become the boardroom's favorite solution. From forecasting and reporting to scenario planning and budgeting, finance leaders are under growing pressure to demonstrate how AI can improve efficiency and drive better decisions. But against the rush to adopt AI, many organizations are overlooking a fundamental truth: that AI is only as effective as the systems, processes and data that support it. This is particularly true in finance , where many teams continue...

CNBC - 8 hours 48 min ago
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., will host Kevin Warsh before the Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday for his first time testifying as Fed chairman.

ABC News - 11 hours 7 sec ago
New York will block new large data centers that fuel artificial intelligence for up to a year to protect the environment and energy grid...

The Guardian - 12 hours 23 min ago
A combination of fact and fiction leaves the celebrated documentarian's puzzling project about software training wanting for depth Marc Isaacs' new film is a curious, intriguing, semi-sincere affair that I couldn't make friends with. It is an odd, shallow piece of work about artificial intelligence that is itself exasperatingly artificial, a self-aware docudrama hybrid. Isaacs is, or rather pretends to be, licensing the vivid characters from his previous, acclaimed documentaries to a...

The Next Web - 13 hours 24 min ago
Liang Wenfeng is now the wealthiest founder in artificial intelligence, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which revalued his stake in DeepSeek on 13 July and added roughly $19bn to his fortune overnight. His net worth is put at about $36bn, up from around $16.7bn, placing him above Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei and OpenAI president […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Next Web - 14 hours 11 min ago
"Every year $5 trillion, or 800 trillion yen, you might think that's a lie, but I am confident that's what it will cost." That was Masayoshi Son on Tuesday, at SoftBank's annual corporate conference in Tokyo, telling the room what building artificial intelligence will require each year by 2040. Yet, he did not say how he […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Next Web - 15 hours 7 min ago
Nvidia has more than halved the number of customers in Asia cleared to buy its artificial intelligence chips, according to the Financial Times, which cited three people with knowledge of the matter. The company has built a new white list of approved regional buyers and stepped up due diligence in Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan, the […] This story continues at The Next Web...

Newser - 16 hours 17 min ago
New York will block the construction of any new large data centers for up to a year so the state can create rules to protect the environment and energy grid from the power-hungry facilities that fuel artificial intelligence technology. Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to sign an executive order Tuesday...

The Guardian - 16 hours 43 min ago
Labor MP also says watering down copyright rules is going against the ethos' of his party The Labor MP Ed Husic says any moves to water down copyright law to benefit AI companies would be "going against the ethos" of the party, urging his colleagues to place stricter rules on the big tech firms or be "doomed to failure". Ahead of Anthony Albanese's major speech on artificial intelligence on Wednesday , the Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance the union for journalists, artists...

ABC News - 16 hours 50 min ago
China's customs agency says its exports accelerated in June, jumping 27% from a year earlier, driven by strong demand due to the boom in artificial intelligence...

ABC News - 16 hours 55 min ago
Oil prices are higher and Asian shares have fallen, dragged lower by losses for artificial-intelligence stocks...

ABC News - 16 hours 59 min ago
Oil prices are higher and Asian shares have fallen, dragged lower by losses for artificial-intelligence stocks...

ABC News - 18 hours 20 sec ago
China's customs agency says its exports accelerated in June, jumping 27% from a year earlier, driven by strong demand due to the boom in artificial intelligence...