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Hassell Workplace Futures Survey shows why employees are demanding quiet office spaces to focus away from AI technology
9+ hour, 26+ min ago (121+ words) Amid the rise of AI, workplaces can provide space other places can’t AFR Artificial intelligence is shaking up offices all over again as AI use on handheld devices – which lets people work at home, while commuting, in bed and even…...
AFR Chanticleer podcast: Macquarie’s new CEO, when good news is bad news and China’s AI shock
2+ day, 19+ min ago (119+ words) The chooks discuss the growing sense of panic inside Australia’s property industry, and look ahead to the next big test for markets. This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald examine the growing sense of panic inside…...
Intellihub vets St Baker’s Evie Networks
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (120+ words) AFR Intellihub, owned 50-50 by Pacific Equity Partners and Brookfield, is weighing the prospects of Evie Networks, owner of the country’s largest network of ultra-fast chargers for electric vehicles. The smart metering player is trying Evie for a fit with its…...
Brookfield, PEP’s Intellihub vets Trevor St Baker’s Evie Networks
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (128+ words) AFR Intellihub, owned 50-50 by Pacific Equity Partners and Brookfield, is weighing the prospects of Evie Networks, owner of the country’s largest network of ultra-fast chargers for electric vehicles. The smart metering player is trying Evie for a fit with its…...
Echo IQ’s failed trial slashes $600m, dragging down major investors
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (110+ words) AFR Investors in medical software darling Echo IQ have been left nursing significant losses after the drug authority in the United States rejected its application to commercialise its heart disease detection platform, delivering a windfall for hedge funds that had…...
Explosion in data centre demand looms over entire power grid
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (99+ words) afr.com Electricity use by data centres in NSW is expected to expand four times as much in the next 10 years as was expected 12 months ago, underscoring the huge expansion needed in renewables, storage and transmission to meet demand while…...
Google invests $21 billion investment in AI and nuclear power plant in Finland
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (91+ words) Google makes $21b investment in AI and nuclear power in Finland AFR Helsinki | Alphabet’s Google will invest at least €13 billion ($21 billion) in artificial intelligence infrastructure in Finland over the next two years and has signed its first nuclear power contract outside…...
Netflix CEO says it can limit AI costs, vows to protect IP
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (91+ words) AFR Netflix co-chief executive Greg Peters says he is confident the global streaming giant will avoid major cost blowouts from its adoption of artificial intelligence, while criticising companies that were using leaderboards to rank and track employee usage. Peters, who…...
Alceon private equity bets on AI implementation biz Engage Squared
4+ day, 17+ min ago (56+ words) AFR Alceon’s private equity unit is back for another crack at the artificial intelligence and data implementation sector, less than a year after it scored 2.5-times return on selling Efex to Advent Partners. Alceon Private Equity co-head Zac Midalia and…...
Companies spruiking AI becoming a red flag for hedge funds
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (93+ words) AFR Investors listening in on earnings calls over the last month would have been inundated with management eagerly spruiking their company’s pivot toward artificial intelligence – regardless of whether the business actually uses it. About 60 per cent of Australia’s 200 biggest companies…...