Artificial intelligence has a huge appetite for electricity and South Australia is stepping up to feed the beast. ASX-listed clean energy company 1414 Degrees has just announced a major deal to build a massive AI data center campus near Port Augusta. The company has signed a master agreement with an Australian data center operator to
While hair dryers aren’t typically something we cover at techAU, when they list AI as a feature, I was eager to get to work and understand whether this is a marketing spin or a genuine application of AI that improves the product category. I have good news to share on this front. Dreame leverages AI
The CEO of OpenAI says we have reached a point in the AI race that is the stuff of science fiction novels. “Now we’re like at the singularity,” Sam Altman said on Saturday’s episode of the “Relentless” podcast. The singularity is often considered the point at which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and begins to
Today is Monday, July 27, 2026. This is not a normal Monday. Your phone is about to do something pretty extraordinary, and if you’re not prepared, it could be pretty amazing. The Australian government is carrying out its first nationwide trial of the new emergency alert system, known as AusAlert. This is an important time
The launch of the latest AI model from a Chinese company, Moonshot AI’s Kimi, has reignited debates about American competitiveness and open versus proprietary AI. While there has been a lot of conversation on social media, it appears the debate is also taking place behind the scenes in Washington, DC, where OpenAI and Anthropic have
Even in the age of AI, some conversations are best held in person. Last week, after Hugging Face suffered an unusual security breach involving an AI agent running on OpenAI models, the company’s CEO Clem Delangue boarded a flight to San Francisco to meet with the maker of ChatGPT. A week later, in a “spirit
