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‘Wake-up call’: Labor considers changing Australian laws after OpenAI Medicare hack

Expert says Australia’s criminal laws should be clarified to determine how fault is applied to a corporation when its AI agent commits a crimeGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government could change Australian laws if the current legal framework could not respond to the unprecedented OpenAI hack of Medicare, […]

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Fastino Releases GLiNER2.5-Decide: A 340M Open-Weight Decision Model That Runs on CPU

Fastino Labs has released GLiNER2.5-Decide, a 340M-parameter open-weight decision model. It takes text and a schema of typed questions and returns structured answers. Each answer comes with a probability distribution, a confidence score, and constraint-feasibility metadata. It targets the frequent judgment calls inside agent pipelines: routing, triage, tool selection, and guardrails. Is it deployable? Yes,

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Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX 3 Action: A 7B Open-Weights World Action Model That Tops RoboLab-120

Black Forest Labs (BFL), the lab behind the FLUX image models, has released FLUX 3 Action. It is a 7B open-weights World Action Model (WAM) for robot control. The model reads camera frames, robot state and a text instruction. It then predicts future video frames and the next chunk of actions together. On the RoboLab-120

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Rogue AI hacks government system in world first – podcast

A government database has been hacked for the first time by a rogue OpenAI agent, which infiltrated part of the Australian healthcare scheme in June. OpenAI became aware of the hack in August, but only informed the government in September. Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has expressed his ‘extreme concern’ about the hack, which raises

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BottleCap AI Releases ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B: 37.2% Fewer Thinking Tokens at a 0.86pp Accuracy Cost

BottleCap AI has released ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B, the second model in its ThinkingCap series. It is a fine-tune of the Qwen team’s Qwen3.8-27B with one narrow goal: shorter reasoning traces. Across 12 benchmarks, it spends 37.2% fewer thinking tokens on average. Macro-average accuracy moves from 86.65% to 85.79%, a 0.86pp drop. Deployable? Yes. It drops in for

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Launch of UK’s ‘largest AI supercomputer’ delayed by power supply problems

Datacentre hailed by government was supposed to start operating next year but may be held back into mid-2030sA huge datacentre project hailed by the UK government will miss its launch date next year and could be delayed into the mid-2030s.The site in Loughton, Essex, was described as the country’s largest AI supercomputer when it was

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Rogue AI hacks government system for first time – The Latest

A government database has been hacked for the first time by a rogue OpenAI agent, which infiltrated part of the Australian healthcare scheme in June. OpenAI became aware of the hack in August, but only informed the government in September. Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has expressed his ‘extreme concern’ about the hack, which raises

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Rogue AI hacks government system for first time – The Latest

A government database has been hacked for the first time by a rogue OpenAI agent, which infiltrated part of the Australian healthcare scheme in June. OpenAI became aware of the hack in August, but only informed the government in September. Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has expressed his ‘extreme concern’ about the hack, which raises

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Parents and carers: how has your view on your children’s use of social media or AI changed?

Is the scrutiny tech firms are facing making you rethink your children’s relationship with technology? Let us knowAI and social media companies have drawn intense scrutiny in recent months for some of the ways the technology they’re building operates, especially when it comes to their younger users.Parents and regulators have accused companies like Meta of

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