Technology
Don’t look for loopholes, Medical Board chair tells online doctors
The Medical Board of Australia has seen cases where telehealth patients have got the wrong drugs, the wrong dose or been given a prescription on outdated information.
- by Nick Bonyhady
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Amazon fined $47 million for hoarding kids’ data, spying through cameras
Amazon dismisses American regulator’s allegations, but has agreed to pay the fines.
- by Tim Biggs
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Start-ups
Canva investor cuts valuation by 10 per cent again
Australian start-ups are facing a “mortgage cliff” as companies boasting paper valuations in the hundreds of millions start to run out of cash and raise money at much lower prices.
- by Nick Bonyhady
AI poses ‘risk of extinction’ on par with nukes, tech leaders say
There are hundreds of signatures on a one-sentence open letter that succinctly warns AI poses an existential threat to humanity, but two notable names are missing.
- by Aaron Gregg, Cristiano Lima and Gerrit De Vynck
How a tech mogul’s murder exposed Silicon Valley’s underbelly of sex and drugs
When Cash App founder Bob Lee was stabbed to death, it looked like a brutal instance of San Francisco’s urban decay. The truth turned out to be stranger.
- by James Titcomb
Social giants grade themselves in the fight against fake news
Google, TikTok, Twitter and more have released their annual transparency reports, but regulators around the world are mulling a shift to compulsory codes of conduct.
- by Tim Biggs
Analysis
AI
AI fakes and Twitter’s lack of control are a dangerous combination
Twitter’s reinvention of its verification program, combined with a new generation of synthetic media, could create a perfect storm for misinformation.
- by Tim Biggs
Analysis
Phones
Google’s Pixel 7a shows why we should demand more from Apple’s iPhone SE
The least expensive Pixel is a baseline phone you could recommend to anyone, while the least expensive iPhone feels like a big compromise.
- by Tim Biggs
AI has power to kill ‘many people’, warns former Google chief
Eric Schmidt said that he was concerned about the “existential risk” posed by AI, which he compared to the rise of nuclear technology.
- by James Titcomb
One of these voices is an AI-generated clone, can you guess which?
Listen to the two voices - real and AI-generated - in the video above. Can you tell which is which?
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Start-ups
Milkrun bet it could beat Woolies. Now it’s part of it
The supermarket giant has bought fallen rapid grocery retailer Milkrun’s brand and customer list to use on its former Metro60 delivery service.
- by Nick Bonyhady