Australia’s teen social media ban sparks chaos on day one
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Prime minister shrugs off the mess as kids flaunt their workarounds

Australia’s under-16 social media ban had barely landed before the country’s feeds filled with teenagers loudly proving they could dodge it, prompting Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to defend the scheme as fair dinkum.

Intel boss tangled in deals that fatten his own portfolio
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Lip-Bu Tan’s investment web puts Troubled Chipzilla in an awkward spotlight

Troubled Chipzilla’s chief Lip-Bu Tan is under fire as revelations pile up about deals that seem to bulk up his personal fortune. At the same time, he presides over a company that Washington wants to drag back to industrial prominence.

Nvidia cooks up chip-tracking tech
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GPU giant moves to stop its kit wandering into banned markets

Nvidia has cooked up location-verification software that can reveal which country its chips are running in as it scrambles to stop its AI hardware from being smuggled into places where Washington has slapped export bans.

Adobe shoves its wares into ChatGPT
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Software giant scrambles to stay visible in the chatbot stampede

Adobe is stuffing three of its big-name apps into ChatGPT as it hustles to keep pace with a swelling mob of firms hitching themselves to the chatbot.

Oracle’s spending spree rattles investors
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Rising bill for AI data centres spooks market

Oracle opened its books with a thud as the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street fretted about the size of its cheques for AI-driven data centre expansion.