Digital Economy Research, Forecasts & Analysis

Is Big Tech Weaponising AI Safety to Crush Open-Source Rivals?

: Between 2023 and 2026, the world's AI oligopoly shifted from publishing abstract ethical declarations to submitting comprehensive legislative blueprints to global policymakers. This explainer analyses the AI governance doctrines of Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, IBM, Amazon Web Service…

Inside the AI Efficiency Revolution: Why AI Is Getting Cheaper to Run

: The Venture Insights report The Great AI Gamble argued that algorithmic efficiency breakthroughs, primarily led by Chinese AI laboratories, could render a significant portion of Australia's 5.4 GW data centre pipeline as phantom demand. This explainer unpacks the engineering behind that argument. I…

The End of Search - Navigating the Transition to an AI-Centric Information Ecosystem

: The digital information landscape is on the precipice of a fundamental and irreversible transformation, moving away from the keyword-driven model that has dominated for a quarter-century. As artificial intelligence progresses toward an agentic paradigm and eventually artificial general intelligence…