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Griffin on Tech: America - champions of innovation, as long as it’s US-made
TikTok’s travails show that the US will allow open innovation to flourish - as long as it doesn’t threaten US power.
Griffin on Tech: Newshub - disrupted and down, but not out
Newshub’s crisis starkly illustrates the structural problem with media, which have seen their advertising move online and into the coffers of Google and Meta, as audiences ditch linear TV in favour of short-form video content and social media.
The secret sauce of Coles’ and Woolworths’ profits: high-tech surveillance and control
As the largest private-sector employers and providers of essential household goods, the supermarkets play an outsized role in public life. Indeed, they are such familiar places that technological developments there may fly under the radar of public attention.
Will AI help or hurt the credibility of ESG efforts?
If the last few years have seen companies tool up to improve their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting, the latest revolution in artificial intelligence raises the question of whether AI can help or hinder ESG efforts.
AI: a way to freely share technology and stop it being misused already exists
Ironically given the company name, OpenAI – the company behind ChatGPT – does not license its most powerful AI models openly.
Griffin on Tech: “Unaffordable, unrealistic” - our digital government plans need a rethink
Yesterday’s deluge of briefings to incoming ministers contained a few juicy tidbits but also gave some insights into where the nation’s policy wonks think the country is heading.