Nick Visser

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Esther Linder |Nick Visser

Lady Gaga's first trip to Australia in 11 years will see her fanbase of "Little Monsters" descend on Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in December. But sky-high fees to see the superstar have left some fans mourning the rising cost of seeing a beloved artist, and some alleged dynamic pricing was to blame. Ahead of a possible ban on the practice, however, ticket companies have stated an algorithm surge is not in use — and experts say other factors are at play in increasing ticket prices.

4 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Nick Visser

The mass sale of 18 plots of land in the inner-Sydney suburb of Haberfield has raked in more than $44 million, ending a two-decade saga over the valuable — and in some cases flood-prone — real estate in spitting distance of the CBD. The 1.9 hectare, triangular parcel is the former site of the Defence Department's Army Reserve Depot in the inner west.

2 months ago | aol.com | Nick Visser

A new study found dramatic increases in microplastics in recent human brain samples compared to brains from just eight years ago. The study, published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine, analyzed 24 brains of people who died within a few months of January 2024. When researchers compared those results with 28 brains collected in 2016, they found that levels of micro- and nanoplastics had jumped about 50% in less than a decade.

2 months ago | aol.com | Nick Visser

Elon Musk and a group of investors offered more than $97 billion to buy the nonprofit that controls the artificial intelligence giant OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, on Monday. The bid, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, escalates a long-standing feud between Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The pair co-founded the company as a nonprofit in 2015, but Musk left several years later and has been engaged in a legal tussle over its control for several years.

2 months ago | huffpost.com | Nick Visser

Elon Musk and a group of investors offered more than $97 billion to buy the nonprofit that controls the artificial intelligence giant OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, on Monday. The bid, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, escalates a long-standing feud between Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The pair co-founded the company as a nonprofit in 2015, but Musk left several years later and has been engaged in a legal tussle over its control for several years.