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Sora imagery of an ice skater with a cat on her head.
  • Analysis
  • AI

With OpenAI’s Sora gone, who will take up the AI video mantle?

Sora created whole cottage industries and let millions of people create videos at will, but now there’s a void to be filled.

  • Tim Biggs

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We need to make AI work for us, not the other way around

Tech companies started shedding staff as AI affects bottom lines

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Claude is so entrenched within the US Defence Department – Pete Hesgeth’s “Department of War” – that the administration has, despite the immediacy of Trump’s directive, given the department six months to phase it out and  replace it with Anthropic rivals’ models.

Trump declares war on one of his weapons

Even as Donald Trump directed government agencies to “immediately cease” all use of Anthropic’s Claude AI tools last week, they were being used to launch the assault on Iran.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
US President Donald Trump

Trump orders military to stop using Claude chatbot in clash over AI safety

World-leading AI start-up Anthropic had sought assurances from the government that its technology would not be used for fully autonomous weapons or mass surveillance.

  • Matt O'Brien and Konstantin Toropin
Anthropic was founded just five years ago by siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei.

The siblings who built a $537 billion giant in five years

The staggering growth of AI has seen the value of companies surge to eye-watering levels. It also has markets very nervous.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic says no one seems prepared for the massive change ahead.
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ChatGPT’s biggest rival is setting up shop in Australia

Multibillion-dollar start-up Anthropic is set to become the latest tech giant to establish a presence here as the nation ramps up efforts to lure foreign investment.

  • John Buckley
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The Disney store in the Times Square neighborhood of New York, US, on Friday, March 29, 2024. Billionaire activist Nelson Peltz’s efforts to gain board seats at Walt Disney Co. will be decided at the company’s April 3 annual meeting. Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg

Disney strikes licensing deal with OpenAI, agrees to $US1b investment

OpenAI’s Sora will be able to draw from characters – from Lilo and Stitch to Ariel and Simba –when generating AI videos in response to user prompts.

  • Molly Schuetz
Google’s rise in AI is rocking its rivals.

It’s a Code Red moment for the dominant AI players

Google’s latest chatbot and AI chip are a threat to Nvidia and OpenAI’s dominance.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton.

My scary night in Georgetown with the ‘Godfather of AI’

I cast aside my prejudices about artificial intelligence to hear what one of its creators had to say. Had he unleashed Frankenstein’s monster, or can we co-exist?

  • Michael Koziol
Andrew Tulloch has left the AI start-up he co-founded to join Meta.
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  • AI

An offer he couldn’t refuse: The young Aussie who couldn’t say no to Zuckerberg

Australians are plentiful in Silicon Valley, building the future of artificial intelligence. And they’re earning pay packets that defy belief.

  • David Swan