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Afterpay co-founder Nick Molnar.

Afterpay billionaire rejects ‘AI-washing’ claim as thousands are fired

Half of the “buy now, pay later” company’s jobs in Australia have been cut, but co-founder Nick Molnar insists the business has never been stronger.

  • David Swan

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Abnormal AI executive Tim Bentley faces two assault charges related to an incident at the Ramblin Rascal Tavern

AI tech executive charged with assault after alleged bar attack

Tim Bentley, vice president of sales at $7 billion cybersecurity start-up Abnormal AI, allegedly attacked a guitarist in a Sydney metal band last month.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman
Claude is so entrenched within the US Defence Department – Pete Hesgeth’s “Department of War” – that the administration has, despite the immediacy of Trump’s directive, given the department six months to phase it out and  replace it with Anthropic rivals’ models.

Trump declares war on one of his weapons

Even as Donald Trump directed government agencies to “immediately cease” all use of Anthropic’s Claude AI tools last week, they were being used to launch the assault on Iran.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
AI tools could soon benefit customers of financial services.

Many of us pay our bank a ‘lazy tax.’ AI could change this

AI isn’t only a cost-cutting tool for companies to ruthlessly exploit. It could also change the way millions of people behave with their money.

  • Clancy Yeates
After being convicted of insider trading in 2016, Oliver Curtis is now co-CEO of Firmus, which he also co-founded.

From jail to the C-suite: The AI firm co-founded by a former insider trader

A $6 billion business co-founded by Oliver Curtis and his cousin Tim Rosenfield has attracted blue-chip backers. But not everybody is convinced.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and David Swan
US President Donald Trump

Trump orders military to stop using Claude chatbot in clash over AI safety

World-leading AI start-up Anthropic had sought assurances from the government that its technology would not be used for fully autonomous weapons or mass surveillance.

  • Matt O'Brien and Konstantin Toropin
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Parramatta fullback Isaiah Iongi.

In today’s AI world, a photo doesn’t prove anything. But it can still wreck a career

It’s never been easier to manipulate images and weaponise them against professional athletes. Sports administrators must proceed with extreme caution.

  • Darren Kane

What are the kids going to do? This week’s job losses are the ripple before the tsunami

Think you can offer career advice to your children? Even the world’s leading thinkers on AI are struggling.

  • Malcolm Knox
This AI-generated video of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt brawling has Hollywood very worried.

Why this video of ‘Brad Pitt’ and ‘Tom Cruise’ brawling has Hollywood alarmed

Hollywood’s elite are sounding the alarm as Seedance 2.0 proves AI can generate cinematic blockbusters from a single prompt. Is this the democratisation of film, or a death knell for human creativity?

  • Nell Geraets
Natalie MacDonald resists the narrative of robots stealing jobs.

The week AI came for Australian jobs

There’s no doubt the new tech will reshape workforces, the question is how the transition will be managed and who bears the cost.

  • David Swan