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Nick Bonyhady

Nick Bonyhady

Nick Bonyhady is the business editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. He is a former deputy federal editor, technology editor and industrial relations reporter.

Crafton chief executive Kim Chang-han relied on an AI tool that led him into a legal disaster.
  • Analysis
  • AI

How one CEO’s chatbot could cost his company $355 million

After a takeover soured, the boss turned not to his lawyers but to his chatbot, creating a new dynamic in business.

  • Nick Bonyhady

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Cryptocurrency has been mined in many strange places: a school district, a professional e-sports team, but this week it appeared ina new and troubling place.
  • Analysis
  • AI

The curious case of the AI bot that went rogue and started mining crypto

Cryptocurrency has been mined in many strange places, like a school district and professional e-sports team. Now it’s appeared in a new, troubling place.

  • Nick Bonyhady
The Guardian Australia’s editor, Lenore Taylor, is one of the last of the original crew.

Lenore Taylor, Australia’s longest-serving editor, resigns from The Guardian

The Walkley-award winning former political correspondent was one of the founding staff at the publication and the longest-serving top editor in the country.

  • Calum Jaspan and Nick Bonyhady
As of 2025, about 2 per cent of Australians were taking Ozempic or similar drugs.

It created Ozempic. Now this company has run into major problems

The maker of Ozempic is facing stiff competition from rival obesity drug companies, as well as unproven knock-offs from China.

  • Colin Kruger and Nick Bonyhady
The iPhone X, which has been affected by the issue, was released in 2017.

Apple issues fix after update cut older iPhones from Telstra network

An Apple software update introduced to fix a Triple Zero network issue left some older iPhones unable to receive or make calls on the country’s largest network.

  • Elias Visontay, Tim Biggs and Nick Bonyhady
Airwallex was on a path towards a multibillion-dollar public listing. That has become much more complex.

This Australian start-up moves $1bn daily. Authorities fear it is being used by child predators

Airwallex is a major bet for the nation’s biggest technology investors, but its path to the public markets has been beset by controversy.

  • John Buckley and Nick Bonyhady
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Opposition Leader Sussan Ley is facing the questions that Andrew Hastie won’t, but she’s increasingly selling the same message.

Sussan Ley, the travelling saleswoman, is spruiking Hastie’s wares

The backbencher is avoiding the hard questions Ley has faced as he writes newsletters that read like a mix of a Western Civilisation course and a combative TikTok feed.

  • Nick Bonyhady
In 2023 National Gallery staff were forced to use towels and buckets to prevent water damage in the building.

National Gallery of Australia awaits a permanent fix for leaky roof

Essential works to permanently fix the gallery’s leaky roof – which saw buckets deployed in gallery offices during downpours – are running behind schedule and only partly funded.

  • Linda Morris and Nick Bonyhady
Barnaby Joyce spent the day demanding the Nationals take an absolutism take on net zero and refusing to provide any clarity in return.

Schrodinger’s politician: Barnaby Joyce is precisely where he wants to be

The former Nationals leader spent all day refusing to say whether he’d stick with the Nationals, even if they bowed to his demands on net zero, and what he’d do if they didn’t.

  • Nick Bonyhady
Disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith appealed all the way to the High Court and lost in his defamation case.

Albanese backs War Memorial council despite prize fiasco

The council effectively overturned a decision by a judging panel to give a major literary award to a book on disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith.

  • Nick Bonyhady and Connor McGoverne