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Cyber spy chief lends weight to onshore AI push

Australia stands to gain a first-mover defence advantage if it can secure frontier AI companies to train models onshore, the head of the country’s cyber spy agency Abigail Bradshaw...

Ten days that changed the course of AI development

20 September 2026 | by Greg Bensinger and Deepa Seetharaman

For years, the race to build ever-more powerful artificial intelligence followed a well-worn Silicon Valley principle: move fast and break things. But in a series of cascading events over...

Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program

19 September 2026 | by Jeffrey Dastin

Anthropic has quietly set up a laboratory to do physical biology work as it pushes its artificial-intelligence ambitions into the world of drug science. At a time when fears...

Canberra reveals early thinking on how to capture AI gains

18 September 2026 | by Justin Hendry

A public-interest research payment and a compute reservation scheme are among the options being considered by the federal government to capture the economic gains from frontier AI training in...

NewsWrap: PMs AI policy sprint gets underway

18 September 2026 | by James Riley

The thing about performative bipartisanship is that someone always gets squeezed. And so it was with the composition of the Joint Select Committee on AI. Artificial intelligence and the...

King Charles warns tech leaders of ‘existential dangers’ from AI

18 September 2026 | by Gerhard Mey

Britain’s King Charles has warned AI leaders of the “existential dangers” posed by the technology falling into the wrong hands, saying safeguards were needed before it was too late. King...

AI labs to face safety, local capability rules under new standards

17 September 2026 | by Justin Hendry

AI labs training frontier models in Australia will be required to meet legislated safety, security and transparency standards and invest in local capability under a set of proposed national...

AI consumer benefits are missing from reporting

17 September 2026 | by James Riley

Mainstream media coverage of artificial intelligence in Australia has grown from a trickle to a torrent in the past year. But while reporting over that period makes clear the...

Microsoft AI chief calls out Anthropic on AI consciousness

17 September 2026 | by Jeffrey Dastin

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman said he shared Anthropic’s focus on safely managing AI, but flagged risks in the way it trains its Claude chatbot on ideas related to...

Zuckerberg says AI labs have enough incentive to build safely

16 September 2026 | by Chris Thomas

Meta Platforms chief executive Mark Zuckerberg says that competition and liability give AI companies enough reason to act individually on safety, appearing to break from calls by leaders of...

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Cyber spy chief lends weight to onshore AI push

Ten days that changed the course of AI development

Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program

Canberra reveals early thinking on how to capture AI gains

NewsWrap: PMs AI policy sprint gets underway

King Charles warns tech leaders of ‘existential dangers’ from AI

AI labs to face safety, local capability rules under new standards

AI consumer benefits are missing from reporting

Microsoft AI chief calls out Anthropic on AI consciousness

Zuckerberg says AI labs have enough incentive to build safely

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