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Tech giant nVidia breaks Wall Street record after posting an enormous increase in profits

ABC News Radio 'The World Today' programme, Friday 23 February 2024  - Interview for ABC 'The World Today' radio programme about why nVidia has suddenly become the 3rd most valuable company in the world, and how they're litterally printing money on silicon with their must-have AI chips.

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As we grapple with 'sovereign AI', perhaps we should treat computational resources as finite and precious

COSMOS column 21  February 2024 - "While both commercial and political imperatives drive some of the explosive growth in 'foundation' large language models, more of it – much, much more – will be driven by an increasingly nuanced understanding of the value of these models...."

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AI has a terrible energy problem. It’s about to hit crisis point

COSMOS column 14  February 2024 - "Unless something knocks us off this path, it’s reasonable to expect that by around 2030 there will be more than a billion people using AI day-to-day in their work, and perhaps another 3 or 4 billion using it..."

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It's time we add friction to digital experiences and slow them down

Decades of obsessing about always going faster have left us in constant danger.

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Microsoft's new subscription 'Copilot Pro' service - is it worth AUD $45 per person per month? Read our white paper to learn whether the business case makes sense for your organisation.

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In my regular chat with RNZ's Nine To Noon host Kathryn Ryan, I talk about the huge advance in "spatial computing" introduced by Apple's Vision Pro. It comes with a hefty price tag - and will people really want to wear them?

Deepfakes keep getting better - just ask the Hong Kong employee whose company lost $40m on an extremely real scam and what are the implications of Google no longer backing up the web?

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Apple has botched 3D for decades, so good luck with the Vision Pro, Tim

It looks like a fine product, but it's the ecosystem that will determine success

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It's uncertain where consumer technology is heading, but judging from CES, it smells

Our vulture spent a week in Las Vegas – here are his key takeaways

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Second of two reports from CES 2024 for COSMOS

COSMOS column 11 January 2024 - "...the most interesting and innovative takeaways can reliably be found amongst the thousands of startups and tiny companies vying for the attentions of the 200,000+ CES attendees..."

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COSMOS column 7 January 2024 - "I’d come to CES this year expecting to see AI pretty much everywhere, integrated into pretty much everything, but I very quickly learned that this wouldn’t be the big story of 2024...."

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