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AI will show workers the door, but it will open doors for others.

This time is different. Why we must conquer AI before it conquers us

The new tech is both boom and doom. The sudden purge of jobs by Australia’s tech giants is scary, yes, but that’s precisely why we have to master it.

  • Toby Walsh

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Illustration by Simon Letch

I wrote the book on anxious kids. It doesn’t matter if this ban isn’t perfect

The American author of The Anxious Generation writes that parents around the world are cheering on Australia as its pioneering social media law comes into effect today.

  • Jonathan Haidt
Superyacht charters are the pinnacle of luxury travel experiences.

The superpower behind successful super yachts

Life as a guest on a superyacht is seamless, but in the background is a frenetic level of work and planning.

  • Adam Turner
July luggage

Going global: how to build a borderless business

Determined to go global from day one, Australian luggage brand July tapped into Airwallex’s financial services to power its sky-high growth.

  • Adam Turner
A Summer of Friends: Grace Lagan and fellow Gen Zeders.

Gen Zs like me have stopped dating altogether. We’re opting for friends with (other) benefits

And we’ve consecrated this as our summer of friendship.

  • Grace Lagan
Automation can free up more time for staff to apply the ‘human touch’.

Your new tech toolkit: AI, automation, and agility

Artificial intelligence can unlock the huge amount of human potential lost to manual tasks.

  • Adam Turner
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Trust is vital for e-commerce businesses.

How finance leaders can future-proof their business

Everyone’s a winner - including customers - when businesses modernise their technology.

  • Adam Turner
The AI craze has surprised Wall Street forecasters and spurred a race among strategists to keep up with a sharemarket rally.

The rising threat to the global financial system

The AI boom has stoked fears about what would happen to the sharemarket if it goes wrong. Now there are concerns the damage could be much more widespread.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
There are fears if facial recognition is used to verify ages for social media sites, then everyone’s data could be put at risk.

Fears big tech could steal your face under teen social media ban

A privacy expert who quit the social media ban advisory board over privacy fears says biometrics pose a serious risk to online identification.

  • Brittany Busch
Sigourney Waver as Ripley in Alien and Col Needham, the founder of the website IMDb.

He watched Alien 14 times in a row, then gave birth to an internet monster

Col Needham first tracked movie credits in a paper notebook in 1981. Now his IMDb is the go-to site for film and TV fans around the world – and worth a fortune.

  • Karl Quinn