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Passing the bar — Capital Brief
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (332+ words) Matt Collins KC is worried barristers are on the wrong side of the “digital divide” between the AI haves and have-nots. But the former president of the Victorian Bar says that will soon change — and hopes acting now will give…...
TSMC, MediaTek sales surge as AI chip demand stays strong
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (328+ words) The news: MediaTek and TSMC both reported a surge in monthly sales on Thursday as Taiwanese chipmakers grapple with strong demand for AI semiconductors. TSMC, the world’s largest chipmaker, reported a 53.3% increase in monthly sales in August, lifting revenue to…...
Claude help us — Capital Brief
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (172+ words) Once again, the story of the day is AI. But even by the standards of the current era, this one is a little odd. As we covered in this morning’s Standup, pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon dramatically resigned from Anthropic, warning…...
Don’t call it a backlash, AirTrunk’s been building data centres for years
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (235+ words) AirTrunk has been building and operating data centres in Australia for more than a decade. But even it has been caught off guard by the shift in sentiment towards the facilities as a generational AI boom kicks into gear. The…...
Main Sequence injects $10m into Metacognition AI to build ‘Windows for robots’
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (259+ words) Australian artificial intelligence researcher Anton van den Hengel has raised $10 million from Main Sequence to build what he describes as the “Windows for robots” — a software layer designed to let people safely control robots and complex industrial systems using natural…...
School students who use AI chatbots score lower in OECD science test
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (386+ words) The news: Students who use generative AI for specific tasks score lower in science than those who don’t, according to an OECD report. Andreas Schleicher, the OECD’s director for education and skills, said outcomes depended on exactly how generative AI…...
Firmus locks in OpenAI as anchor customer, unveils two Malaysian sites
5+ day, 12+ hour ago (353+ words) The news: AI factory company Firmus has announced a multi-year strategic partnership with ChatGPT developer OpenAI. The numbers: Under the partnership, OpenAI will become an anchor customer of ASX-bound Firmus and contract AI compute capacity from two new Firmus AI…...
IREN’s Roberts reckons compute will never catch up
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (165+ words) Live now: On The Call. Join now → Essential overnight intelligence. Sent first thing. Get Standup → One read. You’re across it. Get access → Get the Capital Brief app. Download → Good morning. Here’s what happened overnight and what you need to know…...
Computing power may never catch up to AI demand, Iren says
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (321+ words) The news: The supply of computing power may never catch up with demand from AI products, according to Sydney-based Iren co-founder Daniel Roberts. In an interview with the Financial Times, Roberts said the data centre buildout was fundamentally different from…...
Agents of fortune — Capital Brief
6+ day, 9+ hour ago (295+ words) In the past week, the federal government launched a new financial innovation strategy, the Reserve Bank called for submissions on tokenisation and most of the big banks urged regulators to act early on AI and autonomous commerce. The industry’s increasingly…...