Australia is preparing to impose its data centre energy rules over Queensland’s objection
Australia is preparing to impose its data centre energy rules over Queensland’s objection

The Australian government intends to impose national energy standards on AI data centres at this week’s National Cabinet meeting even though Queensland will not agree to them, a shift from the consensus approach that stalled when Queensland and the Nor…

Sam Altman says AI still has not had its iPhone moment
Sam Altman says AI still has not had its iPhone moment

Sam Altman says the industry has been too ambitious on AI timelines. He counts himself among the people who got it wrong. The OpenAI chief executive said so to the podcaster David Senra, in an episode released on Sunday. He was answering a question abo…

Dr Dre says only people who struggle to create are scared of AI
Dr Dre says only people who struggle to create are scared of AI

Dr Dre says he is using AI in the studio, and that he does not see it as a threat. The producer said so in an interview with the New York Times, published on Sunday. His longtime business partner Jimmy Iovine sat alongside him and went further. “I thin…

How Google, Microsoft and OpenAI came to shape what US children learn
How Google, Microsoft and OpenAI came to shape what US children learn

On a humid afternoon in the summer of 2025, Microsoft representatives waited as about 200 teachers filed into a conference hall in downtown Manhattan. The subject was AI chatbots. The team presented Copilot and had the teachers practise using it to wri…

Lunar co-founders launch AI audit startup Repodo, raising over €8M

The co-founders of Danish challenger bank Lunar have launched an AI audit startup, which has secured over €8 million in pre-seed funding. Called Repodo, it has four co-founders in total, including the…

UPS is investing more than $2bn across international, healthcare and supply chain
UPS is investing more than $2bn across international, healthcare and supply chain

UPS has told CNBC it is investing more than $2bn across its international, healthcare and supply chain businesses, spending that began in 2024 and runs to 2028. The same company cut about 48,000 roles last year and said in January it would cut 30,000 m…

OpenAI wants California to toughen the AI law it once fought
OpenAI wants California to toughen the AI law it once fought

OpenAI has asked California to toughen the AI safety law it once fought. The company published the request on Friday, and Chase DiFeliciantonio reported it for Politico. It is the first major AI lab to call for changes to the transparency law. That law…

OpenAI loses a second sales leader in a week to Salesforce
OpenAI loses a second sales leader in a week to Salesforce

OpenAI’s vice-president of sales in the Americas has resigned after five months in the job. Kaylin Voss is going back to Salesforce, according to The Information, which broke the story on Friday. She left a week after her former boss. Denise Dresser, O…

The biggest question about AI is what humans will do next
The biggest question about AI is what humans will do next

When I had back surgery, I assumed recovery would be linear. I thought each week would bring a little less pain, a little more mobility, and another step toward normal. Then I hit a setback. I had assumed I was further along than I actually was. That e…

Australian data centres will use seven times more power by 2036
Australian data centres will use seven times more power by 2036

Australian data centres will take 13% of the country’s main electricity market by 2035-36, up from 3% today. That is almost a sevenfold rise in a decade, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator. Keira Wright reported the forecast for Bloombe…