AI/Machine Learning

Now you’re hallucinating – OpenAI denies there are ads on ChatGPT, after users complain about seeing them

- December 8, 2025 3 MIN READ

OpenAI insists it is not running ads inside ChatGPT. However, after multiple paying users reported seeing what looked like promotions for Target and Peloton, the company has been forced to clarify what, exactly, is happening. Over the weekend, senior executives from OpenAI responded to screenshots posted on X by ChatGPT subscribers claiming they had seen… Read more »

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OpenAI’s browser, Atlas, makes the privacy and security risks of using it your problem

- October 29, 2025 4 MIN READ

Last week, OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT Atlas, a web browser that promises to revolutionise how we interact with the internet. The company’s CEO, Sam Altman, described it as a “once-a-decade opportunity” to rethink how we browse the web. The promise is compelling: imagine an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that follows you across every website, remembers your… Read more »

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OpenAI just won a 2nd Australian government contract after being the only company invited to bid

- October 23, 2025 3 MIN READ

OpenAI is steadily embedding itself in the Australian government, with the US tech giant winning its second contract without any competition as the public sector is encouraged to embrace public generative AI tools. The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) last week issued new guidance recommending agencies and departments be encouraged to use public generative AI tools… Read more »

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SXSW Sydney ends with AI optimism – from the company selling remedies to the pain they’re causing

- October 20, 2025 3 MIN READ

I’m personally pro-tech and use AI every day. I’m genuinely excited by progressive tools that expand what creators and businesses can do. But the pace of what’s happening — and how it’s being rolled out — has been eye-jarring: creators sidelined, copyright murky at best, implementation racing ahead of consent. Right now it feels like a land-grab: who can… Read more »

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OpenAI looks to set up shop in Sydney

- August 28, 2025 2 MIN READ

US artificial intelligence giant OpenAI, is looking to open a base in Sydney by the end of 2025. The company behind ChatGPT, now worth around A$750 billion, has been busy signing local deals over the past 12 months, including with UNSW and most recently, the Commonwealth Bank, as well as ramping up its lobbying efforts… Read more »

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An information expert factchecks OpenAI’s claims AI could deliver $115 billion in annual gains to Australia’s economy

- July 31, 2025 4 MIN READ

AI is on the agenda in Canberra. In August, the Productivity Commission will release an interim report on harnessing data and digital technology such as AI “to boost productivity growth, accelerate innovation and improve government services”. Shortly afterward, the government will host an Economic Reform Roundtable where AI policy will be up for discussion. AI… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

ChatGPT = brain rot? Here’s why the MIT research is a little yeah, but nah

- June 23, 2025 4 MIN READ

Since ChatGPT appeared almost three years ago, the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies on learning has been widely debated. Are they handy tools for personalised education, or gateways to academic dishonesty? Most importantly, there has been concern that using AI will lead to a widespread “dumbing down”, or decline in the ability to think… Read more »

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Did China’s DeepSeek just drive the karma bus straight into US AI’s house?

- January 30, 2025 4 MIN READ

The British feminist writer Angela Carter wrote that “Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people”. And right now, quite a few people are chuckling at a tragedy that’s befallen OpenAI amid claims that Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek “stole” the US startup’s data to train its large language model (LLM), R1. A quick recap… Read more »

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How Chinese AI startup DeepSeek shook the foundations of cashed-up US tech giants

- January 28, 2025 3 MIN READ

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek has sent shockwaves through the tech community, with the release of extremely efficient AI models that can compete with cutting-edge products from US companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic. Founded in 2023, DeepSeek has achieved its results with a fraction of the cash and computing power of its competitors.… Read more »

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Like a fast car without seatbelts: why America’s $800 billion AI project, Stargate, is high risk

- January 23, 2025 3 MIN READ

In one of his first moves as the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump announced a new US$500 billion project called Stargate to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in the US. The project is a partnership between three large tech companies – OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle. Trump called it “the largest… Read more »

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UNSW inks OpenAI deal to keep its questions private

- December 16, 2024 2 MIN READ

UNSW Sydney will be the first Asia-Pacific university collaborating with the US-based OpenAI to deploy ChatGPT Edu. The deal will allow UNSW researchers, educators and students to use OpenAI’s artificial intelligence tools on a secure platform, which means academics can protect their intellectual property and keep their prompt questions private while using the generative AI… Read more »

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Business

Australian startup investor Boman Group grabs a $10 million slice of OpenAI

- October 7, 2024 2 MIN READ

OpenAI’s gobsmacking US$6.6 billion (A$9.5 billion) raise, announced last week at a US$157bn (A$230bn) valuation, has a small slice of Australia on the cap table, with Melbourne fund manager Boman Group chipping in A$10 million. The record raise for the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup was led by Josh KuschUS VC Thrive Capital with… Read more »

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman has a new manifesto of AI utopia – and it has some massive blind spots

- September 27, 2024 4 MIN READ

By now, many of us are probably familiar with artificial intelligence hype. AI will make artists redundant! AI can do lab experiments! AI will end grief Even by these standards, the latest proclamation from OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, published on his personal website this week, seems remarkably hyperbolic. We are on the verge of… Read more »

Mira Murati
AI/Machine Learning

Her gets real: GPT-4o takes faking human emotion to the next level

- May 20, 2024 4 MIN READ

Last week OpenAI launched GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”), a new version of the artificial intelligence (AI) system powering the popular ChatGPT chatbot. GPT-4o is promoted as a step towards more natural engagement with AI. According to the demonstration video, it can have voice conversations with users in near real-time, exhibiting human-like personality and behaviour. This… Read more »

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