James Purtill

Scammers on Facebook and Instagram are using a fake, AI-generated Dr Karl to sell health pills to Australians. When users reported the ads to Meta, the company initially said there was nothing wrong with them.

A small community of hobby drone racers, chasing a need for speed, unintentionally made a “terrifyingly powerful” weapon that has changed the world.

Most stories during WA’s record-breaking heatwave last month didn’t mention the health risks of extreme heat and the link with climate change, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, according to an analysis of how news outlets reported on the event.

Facebook profited from the decline of Australia’s news organisations, but enforcing the News Media Bargaining Code will make a bad situation worse without solving the problem of who will pay for the news.

Exclusive data from the NAB shows customer reports of buying and selling scams spiked in the final quarter of 2023, with most occurring through online marketplaces and social media.

The internet is filling up with machine-generated “zombie content” designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the “great AI flood”.

Experts say we may look back on the first landing of a US spacecraft on the Moon in more than 50 years as the day everything changed for space exploration.

Recent election campaigns from Pakistan, India and Indonesia have shown radical new uses of generative AI that change how campaigns are run. Here’s what’s coming for Australia and the rest of the world.

Freelance copywriting is one of the professions most exposed to the new artificial intelligence tools. Here’s how copywriters are adapting — and what this says about the future of work.

Elon Musk once mocked electric vehicle maker BYD. Now he says Chinese companies like BYD could dominate global car sales. Here’s the story of its remarkable rise.

James Gill discovered how to streamline texting between Apple and Android devices during his school holidays, but Apple blocked the workaround. Now the tech giant may face legal action in the US.

Los Angeles and other US cities have embraced lighter-coloured “cool roads” in response to climate change and heatwaves. So why isn’t Australia doing the same?

A string of recent developments, from battery manufacturing to new engine efficiency rules, will affect the price you pay for a new car.

At the start of 2023, experts warned ChatGPT would swamp schools in a wave of cheating. With the academic year wrapping up, we asked students what really happened.

As big tech invests billions in a race to control “the most powerful technology in the world”, some of AI’s inventors fear the future they’ve helped create.

In January 2020, Robert Williams was wrongly arrested — the victim of a faulty artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition system. Even as he fought to clear his name, the system continued operating.

A board game contest between human and machine in 2016 marked the birth of modern AI. This is the moment the world changed forever.

After the Black Summer fires, experts called for a way of detecting bushfires more rapidly, using satellites. But executing this idea faces challenges.

Two communities that went without power during Black Summer are getting a microgrid to keep the lights on during network outages. As another dangerous fire season looms, is this technology the way forward?

Google has unveiled an experimental revamp of its Search results page, replacing the familiar list of blue links with an AI-generated “snapshot” answer. Here’s what to expect when it comes to Australia.