There have been six key shifts – and no doubt more is to come.
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The slight decrease in diversity in corporate boardrooms in 2025 comes as the Trump administration and its allies have pushed to unwind diversity initiatives.
Major job cuts at Meta could signal a shift from virtual reality to the broader, less-immersive forms of extended reality.
Recent advances in computer vision and other types of artificial intelligence offer an opportunity for facial recognition to apply to bears and other animals.
Without dedicated AI regulation, Australia will leave the most vulnerable at risk of harm.
Only time will tell whether Australia’s bold, world-first experiment will succeed. Despite this, it has set off a global reaction.
A summit on the future of the European digital sector comes after a shift in how Brussels sees its role.
Christopher Luxon has hyped Amazon Web Service’ data centre plans as a chance for NZ to emulate Singapore and Ireland. Politics and geography make this unlikely.
It’s no surprise these lifelike AI companions are attractive to lonely people. But for some, these relationships are harmful and even dangerous.
In 2024, one data center in Iowa consumed 1 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the state’s residences with water for five days.
Canada needs to consider its digital independence from the domination of the United States. Participating in the Eurostack initiative offers a way to do so.
The messaging service was always going to be monetised.
Even though WhatsApp has strong privacy and security features, it isn’t impenetrable – as Israel has previously shown.
The Trump administration canceled hundreds of grants it said amounted to federal censorship, implying that those conducting misinformation research are enemies of the First Amendment. This isn’t true.
AI watermarks are supposed to help us tell if content is real or generated. But they dramatically vary in effectiveness.
Meta faces heightened scrutiny and fines from Nigerian regulators demanding respect for local data protection and consumer rights.
Meta’s Community Notes program relies on crowdsourcing to counteract the dissemination of misinformation.
Climate 200, Advance Australia and the ACTU were some of the biggest third party social media advertising spenders during the 2025 election campaign.
Even those involved in the trial admit there are major problems with the tech that’s being tested.
We’re just as likely to share intimate info with a chatbot as we are with a fellow human. It’s a privacy risk.
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Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Professor of AI and Behavioral Data Science, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Data Analytics in the Social Sciences, Deputy Director of the Centre for AI, Trust and Governance, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of Digital Communication, RMIT University
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Professor, School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, University of British Columbia
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Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Digital Communication, Director of QUT Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Digital and Social Media, School of Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University