The challenge of AI agents can't be charmed away and Meta challenges the 'pervert glasses' moniker with new camera-free smart glasses.

Music and AI deals are under scrutiny, music tech is behind Apple Music's London venue and UK startup Unit1 and the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger is going ahead.

The government’s copyright and AI proposals, AI leaders call for an AI development pause and AI music platforms go legit.

Australia’s digital duty of care bill and the Trump administration wades in on a copyright and AI case and releases propaganda games.

More controversey at Powerhouse Museum with its CEO standing down, trust in AI is behind increasing AI backlash, the Australian Government proposes huge privacy reforms and Meta settled its child safe...

Social media and AI regulation are intensifying through child protection court cases, government debates on national data centre standards and new AI and music rules from ARIA.

Significant new screen research out, ChatGPT for Teens is a sign of the times and Spotify adds playlist annotations and AI persona labels.

Some guy's AI agent exploited software to jump a gym class waitlist and Cloudflare thinks non-human traffic will be 1,000 times more in 5 years.

I am enroute back to Brisbane from Paris where I was attending Wikimania 2026. It was a huge week immersed in all things Wiki, so the newsletter is a little shorter this issue. The two big things cov...

An Indigenous Content guide for Wikipedia, Anthropic's AI and copyright settlement is approved and more AI developments.

An Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) and Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDSov) Guide for the Wikimedia platforms released.

Albanese had outlined Australia’s response to AI, two initiatives for creators fight back against AI and the Jayson Gillham–MSO unfair dismissal case has ended.

More voices chime in to Australia's AI copyright clash, open data in the EU is at risk because of the Digital Omnibus and a major music royalty lawsuit dismissal in the UK leaves the status quo as is.

Local and international statements on copyright and AI have been circulated. Cate Blanchett launches a likeness and AI registry. And multiple musicals in Australia have been cancelled.

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The Australian Government's public position on copyright and AI questioned, Five Eyes have issued an urgent cyber security call arts organisations may find it hard to answer and the EU has made a decl...

Potential politicisation of the US Copyright Office could change the AI regulation trajectory in the US, the Australian Government talks up its data centre ‘triple lock’ and indie horror film successe...

AI are eyeing off IPOs while government AI regulatory responses are under fire and a global call to recognise human creativity is calling for signatories.

Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF), Queensland’s premier film festival, will be paused in 2026 to allow Screen Queensland time to lay the foundations for a new operating model.

The next arts participation survey results are out, antisemitic requirements on federal arts funding are coming and what are organisations keen for in the next National Cultural Policy.

A face-off between the Wikimedia community and the Wikimedia Foundation is brewing, Australia considers a right to repair expansion and I and Teddy Horton wonder why AI wasn't in the next National Cul...

Photographer and digital media artist Teddy Horton and arts marketing consultant Elliott Bledsoe ask lots of questions about the arts and AI.

Compliance and complacency in arts leadership called out but will calls for change be heard? Australia’s public and education lending rights scheme have been updated. And community radio is the unsung...

Much ado about music this week with 2SER at risk, Live Nation declared a monopolist in the US and indie venues in the UK calling for transparency from the music collecting society.

Concerns have been raised about the international music royalty collecting system, news organisations blocking archiving by the Wayback Machine, the impact of the proposed Paramount–Warner Bros. merge...