👤 David Swan

19 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
19
2026-09-28 – 2026-11-04
Claims per article
43
812 extracted in total
Hedged claims
6%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
5,290
characters
Writes for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Technology
58%
Politics
16%
Economy/Business
11%
Crime & Law
5%
Environment
5%
Health
5%
Most-tagged topics
AustralianAustraliaNSWOpenAISydneyAnthropicAppleCanva

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
2 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.27 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Health
‘We are sorry’: OpenAI apologises for Medicare hack
14 outlets covered this event
2026-11-04 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Technology
‘Sad and devastated’: Canva’s cuts hit its staff, and Australian tech overall
6 outlets covered this event
2026-11-03 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Technology
Canva unveils mass job cuts in ‘hardest moment’ of its history
6 outlets covered this event
2026-10-09 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Economy/Business
Two tech outsiders tried to sell a $44bn tech company. It didn’t work
5 outlets covered this event
2026-10-07 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Technology
Pornhub returns for Australians, but only if Apple says you’re over 18
5 outlets covered this event
2026-10-30 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Environment
Finnish police investigate Google over forest cleared for data centre
4 outlets covered this event

What they said would happen

2026-09-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Anthropic boss to skip Senate grilling into rogue AI agents
🔮 AI giant Anthropic will skip Thursday’s Senate hearing on rogue AI agents but send US and Australian executives to parliament next week. assertive
2026-09-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘We are sorry’: OpenAI apologises for Medicare hack
🔮 In a blog post on Tuesday, titled “How we will do better for Australia”, the company said an experimental model found a way into Services Australia’s Medicare Statistics Reporting Service in June. assertive
2026-09-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Too much heat’: How residents beat a $1.2b data centre
🔮 It told the NSW planning department it would no longer pursue Project Mars, a 90-megawatt facility that would have sat about 20 metres from the nearest home and 160 metres from Lane Cove West Public School. assertive
2026-09-30 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Your next phone could take four years to pay off
🔮 Vodafone will let customers pay off a new phone over four years, making it the first Australian telco to offer a 48-month device repayment plan as latest models can cost more than $5000. assertive
2026-10-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘More arrests are on the table’: Qantas hack gang member nabbed
🔮 The FBI declined to comment to Reuters on any arrest abroad, but said it had already worked with partners to arrest multiple subjects and would “spare no resource in bringing each of the responsible individuals to justice”. assertive
2026-10-06 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Sneak peek: AI giant given early look at rules it agreed to follow
🔮 As proposed, that would put Anthropic’s own Australian data centre plans under the rules it saw in draft. assertive
2026-10-07 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Kmart’s $89 camera glasses removed from sale online amid privacy backlash
🔮 Her team’s research, released in August, found that in Instagram videos where women appeared not to know they were being filmed, about 60 per cent of the interactions could be classed as potential harassment. assertive
2026-10-07 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Pornhub returns for Australians, but only if Apple says you’re over 18
🔮 Aylo, the Montreal-based company behind Pornhub, said on Wednesday that age-verified iOS users in Australia would now be served “a standard adult user experience”. assertive
2026-10-09 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘I never gave consent’: The Australians being replaced with copies of themselves
🔮 OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Google all put Canberra on notice - Australia’s copyright rules will dictate whether they train their flagship models on local soil. assertive
2026-10-09 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Two tech outsiders tried to sell a $44bn tech company. It didn’t work
🔮 The data centre start-up withdrew its $43.7 billion sharemarket float, which would have been the largest on the ASX since Telstra in 1997, after big investors refused to pay its price. assertive
2026-10-10 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘I never gave consent’: The Australians being replaced with copies of themselves
🔮 OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Google all put Canberra on notice – Australia’s copyright rules will dictate whether they train their flagship models on local soil. assertive
2026-10-13 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Didn’t foot the bill’: Telstra outage cost the economy half a billion dollars, modelling finds
🔮 Telstra’s nationwide mobile outage in July wiped an estimated $552 million from the Australian economy, according to new modelling that consumer advocates will put before senators this week. assertive
2026-10-14 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Australian kids’ AI chats for sale as chatbot app goes bankrupt
🔮 If no better offer emerges, the company has told the court its platform “will be wound down”. assertive
2026-10-16 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘It will be us’: Former Australian of the Year is building her answer to OpenAI
🔮 Michelle Simmons, founder and chief executive of Silicon Quantum Computing, was asked at the John Monash Foundation oration on Thursday evening whether Australia could produce a quantum equivalent of OpenAI or Anthropic. assertive
2026-10-30 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Finnish police investigate Google over forest cleared for data centre
🔮 CBA economists estimated this week that the local data centre build-out could attract about $260 billion in investment by the mid-2030s. assertive
2026-11-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Europe’s answer to Elon Musk’s Starlink wants to build satellites in Australia
🔮 A Finnish satellite maker says it could help Australia build its own alternative to Elon Musk’s Starlink, made locally and owned by Australians. assertive
2026-11-03 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Canva unveils mass job cuts in ‘hardest moment’ of its history
🔮 More than a thousand jobs will be impacted in a major restructure at design giant Canva, with some staff to lose their roles and others asked to relocate to centralised hubs. assertive
2026-11-04 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Sad and devastated’: Canva’s cuts hit its staff, and Australian tech overall
🔮 Canva chief executive Melanie Perkins told staff on Wednesday that 1,271 people would be affected by a restructuring, aimed at resetting the business after growth started to slow this year. assertive
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