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What an AI deal could mean for Australian culture – podcast

The Albanese government is considering giving AI companies unrestricted access to Australian content. The sweeping copyright reforms could give AI companies – like Anthropic and Open AI – permission to train on the open internet here in Australia.Host Reged Ahmad speaks to musician and communications strategist Holly Rankin on what an AI deal could mean […]

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Google fined more than €400m by Irish regulator over its use of location data

Watchdog says users may have been unaware their information was used to target adverts or infer their interestsGoogle has been fined more than €400m (£345m) over the way it processed users’ location data, following claims that the tech giant had manipulated users into agreeing to be constantly tracked on their mobile phones.The fine, imposed by

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Best Voice Cloning APIs in 2026: Speaker Similarity, Consent Checks, and Price per 1M Characters

A stock voice only needs to sound good. A cloned voice must sound like one specific person. That is a harder test, and the 7 Voice cloning providers here handle it very differently. We recorded one 10-second reference clip and cloned it on every platform. The results sit side by side below, unlabeled, so you

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Nvidia boss says there is ‘0% chance’ AI destroys the world by 2030

Jensen Huang dismisses warnings from former Anthropic researcher and others as ‘doomsday narratives’Business live – latest updatesThe boss of the chipmaker Nvidia has said AI will not develop to a point that will lead to the extinction of the human race within a few years, rejecting such assertions as overblown “doomsday narratives”.Jensen Huang, the co-founder

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StepFun Launches Step 5 Preview: A 600B-Total, 27B-Active MoE Model With 1M Context for Long-Horizon Agentic Work

StepFun has released Step 5 Preview, its new flagship model for agentic work. The target workloads are software engineering, professional knowledge work, and finance. The main pitch is cost. StepFun team states the model delivers comparable intelligence at a substantially lower task cost. That is the ‘Pareto frontier’ framing in the launch title. Is it

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‘RAMageddon’: tech crunch hikes the price of your next iPhone by £100

Shortage of memory chips and other critical components reverses trend of electronics becoming cheaperApple’s recent product launch caused headlines around the world as it unveiled its first folding phone. But hidden in the slick technology showcase was a nasty surprise: a £100 increase in the price of all iPhones, including older models.It is blamed on

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Flet 1.0 Released: Build Production Web, Desktop and Mobile Apps in Python Only

Flet is an open source Python framework that renders its UI with Flutter. You write Python, and Flet draws Material and Cupertino widgets on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux and the browser. No Dart, Swift, Kotlin or JavaScript required. Last week, the Flet team released Flet 1.0 and declared it ready for building production apps.

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The Guardian view on AI v mathematicians: humans are still vital to the field, but tech firms refuse to see that | Editorial

OpenAI claims its agents have solved the Navier-Stokes problem. But questions remain about how useful and independent its work really isOn 8 September, OpenAI claimed that its AI agents had solved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the most famous and difficult challenges in mathematics. Had a human solved it, they would have collected both prize

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Trump’s ‘biggest miscalculation’? How one adviser steered the great AI freakout

David Sacks convinced Trump against any restrictions on AI – putting the White House out of step with its own partyAs lawmakers from both sides of the aisle in the US have joined together calling for the regulation of powerful artificial intelligence models, one of the few vocal naysayers has been Donald Trump. He’s called

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