An AI safety firm had several frontier models run competing simulated vending machines for a year to see how they'd behave with no human oversight.
eBay and three former executives have agreed to pay US$55.7 million to a couple they targeted in one of the strangest corporate harassment campaigns on record.
Ford wants to sell cars the way Nike sells sneakers, with limited-edition "vehicle drops" and a customisation arm it's betting will become a much bigger slice of profit.
Forensic testing has found Leggo's, Coles and Aldi are selling tomato products labelled Australian or Italian that are actually from China.
Australian Maccas workers earn 2.3 Big Macs per hour - unchanged since the early 2000s.
Australia is rolling out AusAlert, a new national emergency warning system built to reach every mobile phone via cell broadcast technology, replacing the old SMS-based alerts that failed so many people during the Black Summer bushfires.
A Newcastle postie of more than 30 years has lost his unfair dismissal case after taking an Australia Post van to KFC during work hours, then telling his supervisor to "make an appointment" when asked where he'd been.
A study of 218,000 people across nearly 150 countries found about 1 in 5 feel lonely on a typical day.
Spain are world champions after a 1-0 win over Argentina, with Ferran Torres coming off the bench to score the winner in extra time.
Canva co-founder Melanie Perkins is launching a Global Goals Platform that asks people a single question - what is one goal you'd like to see achieved in your lifetime?
OpenAI's first consumer device will be a mobile, screen-free smart speaker designed as an AI companion for the home.
The founder of Hinge has raised $18 million for a new AI dating service called Overtone, funded in part by Match Group, which owns Hinge, Tinder and OkCupid.
