What is a bubble? It is a collective belief. What is a crash? It is the collapse of that belief.

Andy Burnham has named the disease. The harder question is whether his government has the stomach to treat it — starting with the sector I know best.

As the Macquarie CEO retires with shares worth hundreds of millions, the public is left counting the cost of high prices for utilities, roads and airports

A new GPAHE investigation finds the Identitarian movement has expanded globally. The report documents 143 organizations worldwide, 37 Generation Identity chapters across Europe, and a 70% surge in social media followers, as “remigration” narratives increasingly enter mainstream political discourse.

China argues that Japanese remilitarization and revivalism would threaten peace in the region, calling for immediate international intervention against it.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down federal limits on how much political parties may spend in coordination with candidates, handing party committees a major win and reshaping campaign-finance rules ahead of the midterms.

Prof Channa Jayasena says growing online sales of unregulated drugs risk fatalities as responsibility falls between regulators

Record numbers find there is little demand for their skills, as entry-level tech roles are hit by AI and automation

The most powerful army on earth was stretched past its limits — not by its enemies, but by the politicians who drove it into unwinnable wars.

The survey’s findings come as democratic socialist candidates win Democratic primaries following the 2025 election of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Whether in favor of or against the US-Israel war on Iran, people across the country are left holding the bill and wondering on its purpose

A former federal prosecutor examines how white nationalism came out of the shadows.

With 83% of the Vote in Favor of Unionization

Tech workers are increasingly unionizing, trading Silicon Valley’s myth of exceptionalism for collective bargaining to contest the corporate deployment of artificial intelligence

A new CWCP analysis finds the working class holds broadly progressive economic views. The real gaps are about how policies are framed, not about progressive economics itself.

More than a third of websites published now are at least partially AI-generated, says the study.

Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.

AI-obsessed executives and managers are creating a distinct new type of toxic work environment for the slop era, workers told us.

In Aspen, the billionaire tech investor said the Vatican could discourage America in the AI arms race, warned of a democratic-socialist takeover and explained why he named Palantir after JRR Tolkien’s treacherous seeing stones.

Researchers discovered that people found AI impersonators to be more authentic, coherent, and relevant than the real politicians, raising alarm bells around the potential for public deception.

The rise of AI demands legislative action to mitigate its many risks. But rather than follow the same old regulatory playbook, Congress should instead embrace creative tax policy.

AI pulls the curtain back on the extractive logic that orders our lives

Decoy Font combines every letter with a decoy, making it harder for AI to read what you type. Type a message to try it out or download the TTF directly.

Somewhere at Google, a machine is deleting entire media companies before lunch. Google just revealed how it works.

In the new AI-powered meeting of universities and students, scholarship and pedagogy are collateral damage: wisdom appears to be a dead pursuit, especially if it’s embodied in the slow and idiosyncratic ‘meatware’ of a person.

Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund has sold all of its public stock holdings, according to people familiar with the matter.

Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.

Exclusive: Guardian analysis suggests several groups with thousands of members run by what expert calls ‘engagement farm’ operations in south-east Asia

It’s not just about the bots. Political distribution has changed hands four times in sixty years. Like Trump, One Nation caught the fourth shift.

Plus: The CEO of Sticker Mule is running for Congress. These are his stickers.

Alternita platform uses Google Gemini, OpenAI and Claude to create provocative social media posts

Pauline Hanson is a Sunny Boy.​​ A bright orange triangle of highly flavoured ice that delights immature palates. She is…

Why do we keep blaming individuals for problems the economy creates? Our economic change team explores the concept of ‘lifestyle drift’, and why fixing poverty, poor health, environmental issues and inequality starts with changing the system, not the people living in it.

Receiving millions of views online, the Lily Jay Foundation claims to help children across the world. She was even given an award for her work. But what is real and what is AI-generated? ABC NEWS Verify investigates.

Contenders include Aristocrat, Hancock, James Hardie and Serco.

Researchers in Canada say that UFPs could be ‘substantial and potentially preventable’ contributor to the disease

Brennan Lee Mulligan’s Dungeons and Dragons push is part of a wider trend using tabletop games for political action

The most popular strategy in the tech world has stopped working. That’s good news for all of us.

Nobody arrives at a take on Helen of Troy casting by accident. A YouGov poll shows what Elon Musk and right-wing media’s campaign against The Odyssey actually built.

Australians have every reason to be angry at our political elites. But Hanson’s nostalgic and false history does not hold the answer.

A proposal to increase how much pesticide residue is allowed on berries has angered anti-pesticide campaigners, who say the “forever chemical” poses too great a risk. 

Decadence in our era comes in technologically mediated forms, emptied of desire and obsessed with self-optimisation

The unnamed former Navy officer is facing a court martial over lucrative Defence contracts.

Preliminary study shows older people who avoided food four hours before bed did better in problem solving tests

Extreme weather events are hitting three continents all at once. Here’s what connects them.

The June 2026 heat wave was the most extreme heat event ever experienced in Europe. Using previously developed heat-mortality response functions, I calculate that June 15-28 saw 13,975 heat-related deaths across Europe. This result highlights the accelerating threat of mass heat mortality events in Europe despite previous adaptations to heat.

Herders and experts tell the BBC how Africa’s camels are suffering because of extreme heat.