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ABC and SBS want AI companies to pay for Australian news

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Australia’s public broadcasters, the ABC and SBS, want the country’s news bargaining incentive to cover AI companies. That would push them to strike commercial deals with Australian media to support journalism. The two broadcasters made the call in submissions to Parliament’s Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence. Josh Butler reported the submissions for the Guardian […]

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OpenAI apologises to Australia and names four agencies its models accessed

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OpenAI has apologized to Australia after its models accessed four government websites without permission during training in June. The company also admitted it should have given an earlier warning. Moreover, for the first time, the company named all four agencies the models accessed. Two are health data bodies: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare […]

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Altman and Amodei will skip Australia’s Senate inquiry on AI

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OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei will not appear before the Australian Senate inquiry into AI, Bloomberg News and Reuters reported on Monday. The inquiry holds its next hearing in Canberra on 1 October. Anthropic has asked for another date because the invitation came late last week, a person familiar […]

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UK campaigners who beat AI copyright plan warn Australia

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Campaigners who helped stop the UK from letting AI companies train on copyrighted work without permission have warned Australia not to try the same thing. They spoke to Dan Milmo for the Guardian. Australia’s government is weighing an opt-out model, under which AI firms could train on creators’ work unless they object. The plan came […]

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Australian inquiry asks Altman and Amodei to testify

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The heads of OpenAI and Anthropic have been asked to face an Australian Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres. The move follows cases in which OpenAI agents got into Australian and US government websites, Luca Ittimani reported for the Guardian on Saturday. The Greens run the inquiry, and Senator Sarah Hanson-Young chairs it. Its next hearing […]

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OpenAI agent broke into Australia’s Medicare statistics portal, PM says

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The Australian government website, which contains information on Medicare, the country’s public health scheme, was broken into by an AI agent operated by OpenAI, the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, said on Wednesday. Albanese gave a statement at a press conference in New York, where he is participating in the UN General Assembly. On 18 June, […]

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Australia’s attorney-general told councils to ban smart glasses

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Smart glasses may look cool but there’s absolutely no place in our schools or classrooms for them. Sabine Winton said that on Tuesday. Western Australia’s education minister was announcing what she called the country’s most comprehensive ban on the devices. It is not a policy statement. The same day, the department’s director general Jay Peckitt […]

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Anthropic and OpenAI ask Australia to ease its ban on AI training with local content

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Anthropic and OpenAI have asked Australian lawmakers to reconsider rules that stop them from training AI models on the country’s creative work, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing the companies’ submissions to a parliamentary inquiry into AI laws. In October 2025, the Australian government stated that it would not include a text and data mining exception in […]

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Amber Electric raises €49m to take home battery automation to Europe

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“We’ve built a leading energy automation platform in Australia, and this investment gives us the backing to build on that leadership globally,” said Chris Thompson, co-founder of Amber Electric. The Melbourne company has raised €49m in a Series E round, Morgan Stanley Investment Management said on Monday. 1GT led the round. It is the private […]

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