This Month
Trump taps Zuckerberg, Andreessen and Huang for tech council
It’s the latest marker of the nexus between Silicon Valley and the Trump administration that will focus on AI policy and other science-related issues.
Meta links new executive stock options to $13 trillion valuation
A company spokesperson said the pay packages represent a “big bet” and that they “will not be realised unless Meta achieves massive future success”.
Meta and Google found liable in US social media addiction trial
The verdict could mark a turning point in the global backlash against their platforms’ perceived mental health harms to kids and teens.
Fines loom for social media giants as kids give ban 100-day fail mark
A hundred days into the under-16 social media ban, the government is keeping quiet on numbers that would reveal how many children have carried on as normal.
Meta to spend up to $38b on Nebius AI infrastructure
The outlay is one of the biggest single contracts the Instagram and Facebook owner has signed in its push for more computing capacity.
Microsoft, Meta fuel near $1trn boom in data centre leases
The commitments to future data centre leases underscore an escalating bet the tech industry is making on artificial intelligence.
Oracle, OpenAi end plan to expand flagship data centre
The collapsed talks created an opening for Meta Platforms to step in and consider leasing the planned expansion site in Abilene, Texas.
Firmus lands $600m-plus annual tech giant deal as it eyes ASX float
The artificial intelligence start-up has already announced a $70 billion plan to work with Nvidia and CDC Data Centres on facilities across the country.
February
Meta to spend billions of dollars on AMD gear, buy stock
The social media company, which is “aggressively” front-loading computing capacity, plans to continue developing its own AI chips and buy from Nvidia too.
Big tech races to fund its trillion-dollar spending spree
Executives face a choice: cut returns to shareholders, raid reserves or tap equity and bond markets, as spending outruns cash flows.
Ban AI ‘Slopoganda’ spreading antisemitism
We can’t tackle extremism without confronting the disinformation ecosystem that thrives on digital platforms.
January
Microsoft and Meta had AI ‘trust me’ moments. One surged, one sank
The two tech giants are pushing ahead with their ambitious artificial intelligence investment plans. But the market is seeing their results very differently.
ASX climbs, Iran teeters, Meta wipes 544k teen accounts
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Meta slams social media ban after wiping 544k accounts
A month into Australia’s social media ban, the world’s biggest social media company says it’s taken down 544,000 Instagram, Facebook and Threads accounts.
December 2025
Australia’s media industry wants these 5 tech giants to pay up
A group representing three of Australia’s biggest media companies has called for urgent new laws to force global platforms to pay for news.
Worried about an AI bubble? Look for these four ‘O’s
Tallying up all four suggest AI is a bubble. However, history also shows that there is no exact point at which a bubble bursts under its own weight.
Australia starting to build the safer internet big tech feared
It’s possible the public will gain ambition for a better internet: an environment with rules, consequences and corporate accountability for consumer safety.
‘Survivors’, loopholes, pushback: Social media ban’s first day
Australian teenagers awoke to find some (but not all) of their accounts had been deactivated on Wednesday.
Teens prepping for social media ban consider the unthinkable: phone calls
Under 16s are getting ready for the impending prohibition by downloading new apps, getting VPNs, fake IDs and even exchanging phone numbers.
November 2025
From Meta to Microsoft, tech giants are eyeing Australia’s bond market
To finance the AI gold rush, the most profitable companies in history are assessing the nation’s pool of fixed income capital.
