DeepSeek: how a small Chinese AI company is shaking up US tech heavyweights
More efficient AI models may make research easier – and raise questions about the value of investments in huge datacentres.
Trump pulls out of WHO and Paris – how did international bodies get through deglobalisation last time around?
Modern global regulatory bodies should draw upon the repertoire of strategies used by their 1930s predecessors to survive ...
Deepseek: China’s gamechanging AI system has big implications for UK tech development
The UK government’s recent and much-publicised 50-point action plan on AI offers glimpses of progressive intent, but also ...
A hot and troubled world of work: how South Africa’s bold new climate act and labour law can align to drive a just transition
South Africa is working on how best to integrate labour and environmental justice and how its labour laws can be used to ...
Australia’s drama dilemma: how taxpayers foot the bill for content that ends up locked behind paywalls
Commercial TV broadcasters once commissioned around 300 hours of Australian drama each year. Last year, they commissioned ...
Here’s what ‘deep listening’ can tell us about the natural world and our place in it
To listen deeply to nature is to become aware of behaviours, relationships and patterns of interaction between multiple ...
How the AFL and NRL have crept into cricket’s traditional summer timeslot
The AFL and NRL seasons are getting longer, seemingly every year. This poses some major difficulties for cricket in summer.
1975 was declared International Women’s Year. 50 years on, the ‘revolution in our heads’ is still being fought
Australia was a trailblazer from the inception of International Women’s Year. But despite the gains, there are still forces ...
What’s the difference between a food allergy and an intolerance?
You can have a reaction to various foods, but it’s not always an allergy – the difference lies with your immune system.