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AI-powered surveillance company Palantir created a chore coat. Great, now I have no choice but to burn mine | Van Badham

The gentle French garment is now as cursed as the infamous megacorp, which has accumulated $80m in government contracts in Australia alone It’s taken me years to find a chore coat with a cut that flatters my big tits but, now that I finally own one, I want to incinerate it.Such is the power of […]

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

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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Fifteen-year-old Noah hasn’t been kicked off any social media platforms – he’s still fighting Australia’s under-16 ban in court

Millions of accounts have been deactivated since the ban came into effect in December, but Noah Jones found it was easily circumventedFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSince Australia’s under-16s social media ban began four months ago, Noah Jones’s online experience has been

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I have always seen myself as ‘progressive’ – but with AI it’s time to hit the brakes | Peter Lewis

At a time when the populist right is on the rise, progressives are shooting blanks while history rushes headlong into an automated futureCanberra rolled out the red carpet this week to one of the AI overlords whose technology is driving the world down the path of creative destruction. Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei, the putative “good”

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Nine urges Albanese to prop up media in face of AI threat

Long-awaited news bargaining code with Google, Meta and TikTok at risk of further delay, chief executive saysSign up for Guardian Australia’s free weekly media newsletter hereThe head of Nine Entertainment has called on the prime minister to prioritise a policy to force global platforms to compensate local media as artificial intelligence-fuelled big tech disrupts the

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Concerns ‘AI slop’ used by Sydney University-based institute to lobby for $20m gambling education funding

‘Evidence review’ sent by OurFutures Institute to David Pocock and other politicians references studies which do not exist or make opposing findingsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIndependent senator David Pocock says he is “deeply concerned” a report sent to politicians by a University of Sydney-based institute to support a $20m

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‘Disturbing’: Australian government demands review of Roblox’s PG rating after reports of child grooming

Communications minister Anika Wells points to media reports alleging children can access spaces meant for adults which include explicit sexual contentFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastReports of child grooming and vile content on popular game service Roblox has “alarmed” the communications minister,

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Coalition chaos has handed Albanese a gift, but he’ll need much more for the testing times ahead

Labor can afford a few moments of glee now, but spending, emissions, AI and Aukus are just some of the challenges on the road to the next electionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor MPs could hardly contain their delight on Monday. Even before today’s start of parliament, the Nationals had

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Snapchat blocks more than 400,000 Australian accounts but warns of ‘significant gaps’ in under-16s social media ban

Social media platform says there are still ‘real technical limitations to accurate and dependable age verification’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe accounts of more than 415,000 users in Australia identified as being under 16 were locked or disabled by Snapchat as part

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Donald Trump trashed global economic orthodoxy. A year on, did he leave Australia a winner or loser?

While tariffs have been ‘all show and no substance’, economists fear an AI investment bubble and tensions in the South China Sea, along with Trump’s attacks on the Federal Reserve’s independenceGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOne year into Donald Trump’s presidency and experts in Australia and around the world can

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