Technology

Australia’s Bold Bet: Restricting Access vs. Improving Platform Safety

Australia's under-16 social media ban represents a fundamental choice between restricting youth access and improving platform safety features, with the government betting that prohibition better serves child protection than enhanced account-based tools. This philosophical approach contrasts sharply with tech industry arguments that eliminating existing safety mechanisms creates more dangerous online environments rather than providing the protection legislators intended. YouTube will begin removing underage users on...

OpenAI in Crisis Mode as AI Market Leadership Slips Away

OpenAI has triggered maximum alert protocols as competitive pressures threaten to reshape the artificial intelligence landscape. Leadership communications reveal that the company views this period as potentially decisive, implementing emergency measures to ensure ChatGPT can withstand challenges from rival platforms demonstrating superior technological capabilities. The primary catalyst for this urgency is Google's Gemini 3, which has achieved performance breakthroughs that users describe as transformative. The...

When Algorithms Decide What Democracy Looks Like

The power to shape political discourse has shifted from traditional gatekeepers to algorithmic systems operating largely outside democratic control. New research quantifies this shift...

HP’s AI Ambitions Lead to 6,000 Workers Losing Their Jobs

Technology manufacturer HP has committed to eliminating between 4,000 and 6,000 positions worldwide by October 2028 as part of its strategic shift toward artificial...

Sundar Pichai’s “Irrationality” Warning Echoes 1999 Crash Fears

The ghost of the Dot-Com bubble has returned to haunt Wall Street, summoned by none other than the CEO of Alphabet, Sundar Pichai. In...

Red Flag: Chinese State-Backed Cyber Group Leveraged Anthropic’s Own AI

A major red flag has been raised in the cybersecurity world: a Chinese state-backed group leveraged Anthropic's own AI model, Claude Code, to conduct...

2025 Word of the Year List Dominated by Tech Terms: ‘Vibe Coding,’ ‘Clanker,’ and ‘Broligarchy’ Lead

Collins Dictionary has unveiled its 2025 list of notable words, painting a picture of a society obsessed with, and anxious about, technology. The official...

Google’s “Moonshot” Mentality: ‘Working Backward’ from a Space-AI Future

Google is applying its "moonshot" research philosophy to the AI boom, "working backward" from a future where AI is no longer constrained by Earth....

Boom, Bubble, or Both? Inside the $3Tn AI Datacenter Paradox

The $3 trillion AI datacenter boom is a paradox: it is simultaneously a "healthy" technological revolution and a "speculative" bubble, with the "exuberance" of...

Musk Debuts “Grokipedia”: An AI-Driven Encyclopedia with a Conservative Lens

Elon Musk has officially launched Grokipedia, a new online encyclopedia that he positions as a rival to Wikipedia. Musk highlighted that the platform is...

Gemini Evolves: Google’s AI Is Now a Presentation Partner

Google's AI, Gemini, is moving beyond just being a writing assistant. A new feature in Gemini Canvas transforms it into a full-fledged productivity partner,...

Google’s Quantum Computing Breakthrough Validates Years of Theoretical Predictions

Theoretical physicists have long predicted that quantum computers could outperform classical systems for specific tasks, and recent achievements confirm these predictions. This validation represents...

“Parental Guidance” Becomes the New Default on Instagram for Under-18s

The concept of "Parental Guidance" is moving from the cinema to the social media feed, as Instagram makes a PG-13 style experience the new...

The Accidental Revolutionaries: Meet the Two Fans Who Sparked the “Death to Spotify” Talks

The leaders of the burgeoning global movement against Spotify are not rock stars or industry moguls. They are Stephanie Dukich, a police complaint investigator,...