| Good afternoon, Welcome to your twice-weekly look at how generative AI is transforming the way we live, work and play – plus the latest news and analysis. It's a bird, it's a plane! No, it's just Qantas using artificial intelligence. The use of AI in the airline industry is more than customer chatbots and flight status updates, with Qantas among the early adopters of bespoke tech that has saved it nearly $100m. Australia has taken another leap in capitalising on the AI boom, with Macquarie Technology Group starting construction on a new $350m data centre in Sydney. Harvey Norman chief executive Katie Page says AI is now available to everyone, after a new line of laptops featuring hardware specifically designed to run the technology’s power hungry tasks hit the Australian market. Let me know what you think — lynchj@theaustralian.com.au | 