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The business of AI
The inaugural Financial Review AI Summit set to redefine the conversation about artificial intelligence, delving deep into the biggest trend reshaping industry and society.
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Join business leaders, technology pioneers, government figures and leading thinkers at this timely Financial Review summit to see the best of AI adoption, and be a part of the conversation that is shaping the future.
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- Analysis
- AI
AI start-ups face a rough financial reality check
The AI revolution, it is becoming clear in Silicon Valley, is going to come with a very big price tag.
- Cade Metz, Karen Weise and Tripp Mickle
Warren Buffett says AI may be better for scammers than society
The billionaire investing guru predicted scammers would seize on the technology, and may do more harm with it than all the good already realised or envisioned.
- Josh Funk
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Beware big tech’s AI profit gap
Amazon’s stellar earnings underscore big tech’s profit challenge: cost-cutting is done, and the payoff from AI investments are still some way off.
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- Quantum Computing
Only quantum physics can explain an investment this weird
The federal government has replaced sports rorts with a quantum rort that will not make real revolutions like AI go any faster.
- Toby Walsh
Amazon posts strong cloud unit sales on rising AI demand
The e-commerce company’s operating income more than tripled as Amazon Web Services and adverts provided a boost.
- Camilla Hodgson
April
AI could kill call centres, says boss of Tata IT business
Chief executive K Krithivasan says chatbots would soon be able to analyse a customer’s transaction history and do much of the work done by call centre agents.
- Benjamin Parkin and Chris Kay
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Mark Zuckerberg is stuck in AI purgatory, and that’s OK
Meta Platforms has a clear-eyed vision of how its artificial intelligence bets will pay off, but the returns on its growing investments remain some way off. Investors should expect to see more of this.
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- AI
Are the magnificent seven at risk of having their wings clipped?
Perhaps investors are finally losing patience with the hundreds of billions of dollars being ploughed into artificial intelligence as the world’s leading tech companies vie for supremacy.
- Karen Maley
- Updated
- Social media
Meta’s plans to spend billions on AI unsettle investors
Shareholders are preparing to wipe around $US200 billion ($308 billion) of the social media giant’s value, despite better than expected earnings this year.
- Updated
- Joshua Peach
- Opinion
- AI
AI keeps going wrong. What if it can’t be fixed?
Pessimists warn it could wipe out humanity. Optimists hail a medical revolution. But sceptics argue that the technology is simply flawed.
- Henry Mance
- Exclusive
- AI
Business is about to get a say on AI rules
The government plans to announce a revamped expert group to shape its thinking on the pivotal new technology around the time of the May budget.
- Nick Bonyhady
Data centre giant AirTrunk strikes major Hong Kong renewables deal
The surge in energy demand by data centres, now turbo-charged by the emergence of AI, is straining the capacity of electricity grids around the world.
- Nick Lenaghan
- Opinion
- Investing
Five ways to play the long-term AI theme on the ASX
There’s probably no Australian-listed company that’s not using AI in some way to become more efficient and improve margins. But who might the bigger beneficiaries be?
- Elio D'Amato
Commodity traders bet on big data and AI
Firms that traditionally relied on political connections, handshakes and logistical skill to move natural resources to willing buyers are increasingly focused on how to apply AI.
- Updated
- Tom Wilson and Malcolm Moore
Booming AI demand threatens electricity supply
Regulators are scrambling to factor the explosive growth of data centres into demand projections as one network warns of a 250 per cent surge in power needs.
- Ben Potter
TSMC outlook beats estimates as AI demand helps propel business
The better-than-projected outlook follows its first profit rise in a year, after strong AI demand revived growth at the world’s biggest contract chipmaker.
- Jane Lanhee Lee
AI boom drives $174m data centre deal on 3.6pc yield
Macquarie Technology Group will acquire the Intellicentre Campus at Macquarie Park from Singapore’s Keppel DC REIT as it looks to lift data storage capacity.
- Larry Schlesinger
AI to create 150,000 jobs, claim the academics who study it
A new economic analysis by a consortium of top Australian professors has found AI should add 150,000 jobs to the economy by 2030 and boost GDP by $200b a year.
- John Davidson
How soon will machines outsmart us? Biggest brains in AI can’t agree
Elon Musk’s prediction that artificial intelligence will surpass human experts by 2025 sets him apart from rivals at OpenAI, Google and Meta.
- George Hammond
- Updated
- Cloud
NextDC boss says nuclear should be on table as AI sucks up energy
The country’s largest listed developer and operator of data centres is raising $1.3 billion to expand its operations amid a boom in demand for computing power.
- Updated
- Tess Bennett
Speed of development making it hard for firms to invest wisely in AI
Whether assessing safety, performance or efficiency, the groups tasked with stress-testing AI systems are rushing to keep up with the state of the art.
- George Hammond
- Analysis
- AI
Google’s Gemini AI can now write your emails and create spreadsheets
It turns out Google’s new AI isn’t only good for generating images of black Nazis. Soon you’ll be able to generate spreadsheets and emails with it, too.
- John Davidson
- Opinion
- Australian economy
AI could stretch Australia’s electricity supply to the limits
It would be ironic if world-changing technology like AI ended up prolonging the life of coal-fired power.
- Patrick Gibbons
- Analysis
- The Breakdown
‘AI honeymoon is over’, Canva co-founder declares
Just two years after the last technology bubble burst, investors shouldn’t mistake AI tools that look like magic for a business model that is.
- Nick Bonyhady
March
Keep AI on a tight leash or embed bias, experts say
AI’s potential to reinforce discrimination is one of its most worrying effects. New regulations aim to keep the powerful technology in check.
- Alexandra Cain
