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Anthropic says AI agents didn’t breach Australian government websites – video

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During a joint parliamentary hearing on artificial intelligence, Anthropic’s head of safeguards, Dave Orr, says that investigations of hundreds of millions of transcripts reveal no unauthorised interactions with Australian government systems. However, Orr acknowledges Anthropic has limited visibility into customer usage due to standard ‘zero data retention’ policiesAnthropic tells AI inquiry it ‘never tried to

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OpenAI to reiterate apology to Australia over Medicare hack as inquiry told artists risk becoming ‘roadkill’

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Company executive to acknowledge ‘more work to do to rebuild trust with the Australian people’ as ABC says copyright laws do not need changingGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOpenAI will use an appearance before a parliamentary committee to apologise again to Australia about the hack on Medicare last month, on

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Comedian’s offensive mock Welcome to Country at far-right rally gets rerun in the Daily Mail | Weekly Beast

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Daily Mail’s report on March for Australia rally quotes – in full – and embeds video of Lisa Jane Spencer’s disrespectful skit. Plus: AI takes us back to 1956Last weekend’s March for Australia rally drew significantly less media attention than the previous anti-immigration protests under its banner, when politicians including Pauline Hanson and Bob Katter

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Nine CEO confident new AI laws will deliver a ‘world of growth in publishing’ as network slashes costs

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Matt Stanton says company has ‘good pipeline’ of AI deals ahead even as it aims to cut $160m in costsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe head of Nine Entertainment sees a “world of growth in publishing” on the horizon backed by laws

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Australia news live: Chalmers asks regulator to watch service stations ‘like a hawk’ as fuel excise cut ends

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Fuel excise cut, which was imposed after outbreak of Iran conflict, ended at midnight on Monday. Follow today’s news liveChalmers puts service stations on notice … againNow that the fuel exercise cut has ended, the treasurer has told the consumer watchdog to closely monitor service stations to make sure they’re not price gouging.The regulator will

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Nine to axe 30 jobs at the Age and SMH due to ‘extreme’ AI disruption

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Staff told positions will be cut via voluntary and targeted redundancies as part of ‘evolution’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s biggest media company, Nine Entertainment, has blamed the “extreme state of disruption” from AI for its decision to cut another 30 newsroom

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As One Nation seeks donations to ‘fire the liar’, News Corp gives it front-page billing | Weekly Beast

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Pauline Hanson’s fundraising drive gets front-page coverage in Sydney tabloid. Plus: The Hollywood Reporter scoop that wasn’tWant to get this in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for the Weekly Beast media newsletter hereThere may be some doubt about whether One Nation has raised more than $2.7m in its Fire the Liar fundraising appeal this

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Writing is an exercise in the art of persuasion. If we use AI we lose the art | Alan Finkel

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Every reader deserves to be informed about whether what they are reading is human or AIA few weeks ago, Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an academic in political science at Macquarie University, wrote an opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald in which she reported on excessive use of AI chatbots by students to write their essays.In

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Tech giants face new levy to pay for Australian news as Meta calls position ‘simply wrong’

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Google also rejects need for reform after Albanese government reveals draft news bargaining incentive scheme Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has urged Google, Meta and TikTok to make deals with Australian media outlets to avoid a dedicated 2.25% levy on

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Could AI write this column? In a world of slop-inion, I’m certifying myself human | Peter Lewis

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I actually don’t want to make my work easier. We should demand authenticity if we care about the sort of society that comes out the other end of this so-called revolutionI never thought I’d have to write these words but here I am: my name is Peter and I am human.What seems like a self-evident

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