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Labor accused of throwing creatives ‘under the bus’ with proposal to ease copyright protections for AI giants

Compromise revealed as senior personnel from OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, meets Albanese ministersFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastThe Albanese government is considering giving AI companies access to Australian creatives’ works by default as it pursues a compromise with US tech giants.The proposals

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Datacentre giant accused of using AI while lobbying for Victorian minister’s support for hyperscale factory

Exclusive: Correspondence requests state MP Melissa Horne to lobby on NextDC’s behalf – but contains alleged AI-created errorsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Victorian jobs minister has accused one of Australia’s largest datacentre companies of using artificial intelligence while requesting she lobby her colleague to approve a massive expansion of

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The tussle over Australian datacentres is just beginning – and it’s been far from easy so far | Tom McIlroy

As he negotiates Australia’s AI future, the prime minister is under pressure from leaders of conservative states and territoriesAustralian Politics podcast: Who actually benefits from new datacentres in Australia?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTucked away at the end of a media release from the Australian Energy Market Operator this week

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What will we get out of the AI boom? The data suggests lots of noisy, energy-hungry datacentres and not much else

Booms in investment usually lead to economic growth. But this one looks unlikely to translate into better living standards for AustraliansGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe debate around AI and datacentres is such that, to paraphrase Paul Keating, if you walked into any pet shop in Australia, the resident galah

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Albanese backs down on states powering AI datacentres using sustainable energy

Shift comes after Chris Bowen said Labor would use constitutional powers to override states resisting renewable rulesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has backed down on demands that states must power new AI datacentres entirely using sustainable energy, with Wednesday’s meeting of national cabinet flagging carve outs for jurisdictions

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