Labor, Coalition agree OpenAI's Medicare breach proves the need for Australia to secure "a seat at the AI table" by rolling out data centres nationally.

Nobody wakes up to sudden authoritarianism. We relinquish ourselves to it by allowing our favoured government to get away with bending norms and rules. Over time, these bends become clean breaks.

Today, two ASRC vans were stolen, disrupting the work our teams do every day alongside refugees and people seeking asylum.

Ah yes, anonymous desserts that contain none of the usual allergens. So tasty. Good luck if you are allergic to anything not in that list. A funny thing happens when you have dietary or accessibility needs at conferences and events - too many bad experiences can leave you a little defensive. A few weeks ago that defensiveness saved me from getting an accidental (and potentially very unpleasant) dose of gluten, as I noticed that serving utensils were happily being swapped between gluten and gluten free foods, meaning the gluten free foods were no longer reliably gluten free.

Every day we butt heads with technology in a myriad of ways, some tiny, some huge. All of them take their toll. Technology should be a wondrous boon! From speech recognition to customised interfaces, it could make life so much easier. The tech industry chooses not to make that kind of tech, or even allow it.

In an effort to combat the inappropriate use of AI in schools, the NSW Government is restricting the percentage of marks that HSC students can get from take home assignments. This announcement has largely been well received. However, it also highlights a systemic problem in the education system. Students are so willing to hand their learning over to an AI because they have been taught that the goal of school is to get a good mark.

Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives

Anthropic says that its billion-dollar AI business would be profitable, if only you ignore the figure on the bottom line.