Artificial Intelligence

Kindle Scribe in Australia and New Zealand gets smarter with AI! New features rolling out now include AI-powered notebook summarisation, handwriting refinement, and expandable margins. Effortlessly create synopses, neaten handwriting, and jot margin notes on your 2022/2024 model. A powerful update for digital note-taking, arriving automatically via Wi-Fi soon.

Adobe's Firefly introduces advanced text-to-video, surpassing OpenAI's Sora with creative control options like aspect ratios, shot sizes, camera angles, and motion presets. Currently limited to 5-second clips, it's free with limited use or enhanced via Adobe's subscription plans, offering impressive results from simple prompts.

Melbourne-based ResetData, in collaboration with Nvidia, is launching Australia's first sovereign public AI-Factory with a GPU cluster of H200s in Melbourne's CBD. This initiative, starting in Q2 2025, aims to enhance business innovation, productivity, and competitiveness while addressing concerns about off-shore data handling.

Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang just gave a keynote address at the 2025 Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. During the event, Huang announced the new RTX 50 series GPU cards led by the flagship RTX 5090. These GPUs are powered by the new NVIDIA Blackwell architecture and leverage AI to deliver unprecedented performance and visual quality. During the presentation, Huang highlighted that the engineering team is leveraging...

In a surprising move overnight, Microsoft has announced that GitHub Copilot, their AI-powered code completion tool, is now be available to users for free. This decision marks a significant shift in the landscape of software development, breaking down barriers to access and potentially reshaping how developers around the globe work. What is GitHub Copilot? GitHub Copilot, initially launched in partnership with OpenAI, has been an innovative tool...

It feels like in the world of AI, a day is a long time with a steady stream of updates being released to AI models and services powered by Large Language Models. Today's newest development was from Google DeepMind, introducing Veo 2, a state-of-the-art video generation model that promises to transform the landscape of video creation through artificial intelligence. This follows the recent release of Sora...

The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney have announced a new agreement with OpenAI, the creators of one of the leading Large Language Models (LLMs) and services like ChatGPT and Sora. UNSW Sydney has become the first university in the Asia-Pacific region to sign an Education Agreement with OpenAI, providing access to the powerful ChatGPT Edu platform. This landmark deal grants UNSW researchers academics can...

Microsoft's Copilot AI is being embedded across their product portfolio and each month we see new Copilot features added, enhancing the value to those who subscribe. This month, Microsoft has announced a new feature in Outlook called 'Meeting Prep'. This is designed to address a challenge many of us have, when going from meeting to meeting and you're short on time, you may...