The Australian Financial Review

1 day ago | afr.com | Paul Smith

Jun 7, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? It is 2027 and the world-leading US artificial intelligence company OpenBrain has lost control of its latest system, Agent 4, which has grown so smart that it hides its true abilities and goals from the human engineers and earlier AI models monitoring its development.

1 day ago | afr.com | Zoe Samios

Jun 7, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The ground floor of Pullman Melbourne on the Park is probably the last place you would expect to find a former AFL boss, an English cricket legend, a Tour de France champion, and a former rugby league player.

2 days ago | afr.com | Ayesha de Kretser

Jun 6, 2025 – 5.05pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Virgin Australia’s new chief executive Dave Emerson could earn more than $10 million if the airline’s share price is still trading above its $2.90 initial public offer price when his entitlements vest in three years.

2 days ago | afr.com | Zoe Samios |Max Mason

Star Entertainment’s high-risk junket business generated 14 per cent of the company’s revenues over a five-year period before the casino giant was undone by the COVID-19 pandemic and an investigation which revealed it had turned a blind eye to high-rollers laundering money in its venues. Star, which runs casinos in Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast, made the admission in documents filed in the Federal Court as part of a lawsuit brought by AUSTRAC, the agency which pursues financial crimes.

2 days ago | afr.com | Joyce Moullakis |Johnny Shapiro

Jun 6, 2025 – 4.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? A Texas-headquartered investment manager has spent as much as $1 billion buying up Commonwealth Bank shares over the last fortnight, helping push the market capitalisation of the lending giant over $300 billion.