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Is Labor going to roll over for big tech – or will it protect the rights of everyday Australians? | Holly Rankin

Every family photo you ever posted would be fair game for AI companies unless you choose to opt outLeaked documents from a government proposal show that the Albanese government is considering reversing the fundamental rights of Australians under copyright law.The proposal refers to an “opt-out model”. This would give AI companies permission to train on […]

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Why the real AI apocalypse is already here – Stateside with Kai and Carter

A former Anthropic researcher’s apocalyptic declaration about artificial intelligence has led to a global panic that the technology might be the end of us all. At an event in Washington today to warn about the dangers of AI, US senator Bernie Sanders said that Congress has been ‘asleep at the wheel’. Oddly, Steve Bannon appeared

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Inside NVIDIA’s cuDNN Graph API: Fusion, Autotuning, and Plan Reuse with cuDNN Frontend

In this tutorial, we work through the cuDNN Frontend‘s graph API from below the framework: we describe a computation as a graph of operations, let cuDNN pick an engine to run it, and then take control of that choice ourselves. Every kernel we build here is expressed the same way: we declare tensors by their

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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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Anthropic’s CEO calls for AI slowdown as Nvidia’s urges acceleration

At San Francisco conference Dario Amodei reiterates need for AI slowdown as Jensen Huang argued against itAnthropic’s CEO took to the stage at a conference in San Francisco on Tuesday to reiterate his call for a slowdown of AI development. Following shortly after, Nvidia’s CEO argued against such deceleration. Dario Amodei used an automotive analogy

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Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking for Production Grade Voice Agents

Google has introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its most advanced live dialogue models to date. Both are native speech to speech models built for real time voice agents. They extend the Gemini Audio family that Google expanded last month with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe. The release targets a specific gap: voice

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Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon call for curbs on AI at ‘pro-human’ summit

Leftwing senator and far-right strategist rail against tech oligarchs but offer competing visions on Chinese ‘cold war’The progressive senator Bernie Sanders and rightwing strategist Steve Bannon have called for restrictions on artificial intelligence (AI) but offered competing visions for what they termed a “cold war” with China.Speaking at the “Pro-Human Assembly” in Washington on Tuesday,

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Could AI really wipe out humanity and hijack the internet?

We examine claims and counterclaims about the risks and calls to slow down the pace of AI developmentThere have been some shocking claims in recent days about AI safety: we face a 10% chance of doom; AIs are worse than nukes; a “botnet” threatens the entire internet; it’s all a big tech psyop. We look

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As the politicians play catchup the tech bros agree: we may only have a decade left | John Crace

AI probably thinks a world that can elect Trump as president is so messed up it deserves to be put out of its miseryWe can all sleep easy. In a post on his Truth Social account, Donald Trump has declared that fears over artificial intelligence were all a hoax dreamed up by conspiracy theorists. Obviously

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