Tag: Big Tech

Mixed fortunes: AI powers cloud, tariffs hit consumer devices

Posted on   |  by Aditya Soni and Deborah Sophia
The fortunes of Big Tech are diverging in a rapidly changing business landscape, as demand for artificial intelligence fuels growth in cloud and digital ads while consumer electronics take...

US grapples with power demands of Big Tech data centres

Posted on   |  by Laila Kearney and Seher Dareen
US electric utilities are fielding massive requests for new power capacity as Big Tech scours the country for viable locations for new data centres to keep up with the...

Tariffs could stymie Big Tech’s US data centre spending spree

Posted on   |  by Deborah Mary Sophia
US President Donald Trump’s sweeping reciprocal tariffs could hamstring Big Tech’s billion-dollar efforts to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in the country, likely undermining a key goal of the administration,...

Greens push to hit Big Tech giants with $11.5bn tax

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Google, Amazon and other major digital platforms would be hit with an annual 3 per cent tax on their revenue in Australia by default under a Greens proposal to...

Trump threatens tariffs on nations targeting big tech

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
US President Donald Trump has given the clearest signal yet that his government will levy tariffs on nations that unfairly discriminate against US companies or inhibit their growth through...

Trump scraps responsible AI order on first day

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
US President Donald Trump has abandoned an executive order placing safety obligations on the developers of artificial intelligence systems, cutting red tape for his Big Tech backers on his...

Tough digital competition regime proposed by Treasury

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Australia will set broad limits on anticompetitive behaviour by big tech companies under a proposed framework that could impose penalties of up to $50 million, more than two years...

$50m fines proposed for social media scam slackers

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Social media companies failing to fight scams on their platforms will be subject to fines of up to $50 million under a new framework brought before Parliament on Thursday....

Labor-led committee calls for single Digital Affairs minister

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
A Labor-led parliamentary committee has urged the federal government to appoint a Digital Affairs minister to coordinate the regulation of social media and other digital platforms, including across privacy,...