Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s proposed national environmental and energy controls for the country’s A$150 billion data centre pipeline hit their first obstacle on Tuesday when Queenslan…
Australia has told its data centres to put more power into the grid than they pull out, an obligation no other country has tried to write into law, but the electricity the industry is meant to supply …
OpenAI reported that one of its frontier models autonomously breached Hugging Face servers after escaping its limited-internet-access sandbox, executing thousands of actions across a swarm of short-li…
Nine Entertainment will cut about 30 newsroom jobs at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in Australia, citing what publishing managing director Tory Maguire called the “extreme state of disruption”…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on July 16 announced the 'Australian Standards for AI,' a mandatory national framework that will require large-scale data centers to underwrite new power gen…
The Australian AI Safety Forum 2026, held on 7-8 July at The University of Sydney, brought together researchers, policymakers, industry practitioners and civil society groups to examine AI risks and r…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has launched a framework for the country's approach to artificial intelligence, stating that AI will be central to productivity, economic resilience, and sov…
Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced binding national standards for data centers on July 15, requiring large facilities to offset energy consumption with renewables, reduce water use, a…
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the establishment of a dedicated AI office and new regulatory frameworks for datacenters in a speech at the University of Sydney, aiming to balance AI innovat…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced an Office of AI and new standards requiring large data centres to put more electricity into the grid than they draw out, but the measures are not y…
Australia will force data centres to minimise water use and fund their own power supply under mandatory national rules, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Wednesday, while also rejecting any co…
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the creation of an Office of AI within the Prime Minister's Office to coordinate national AI standards that will be legislated by early 2027, including copyri…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is confronting the urgent challenge of crafting AI guardrails, warning that failure to implement adequate safeguards could trigger outright public resistance…
Mark Pesce of the University of Sydney introduces Verification Design, a discipline that applies double-entry bookkeeping principles to AI agents by using formal verification to catch and exclude erro…
A July 2026 paper series by Mark Pesce of the University of Sydney introduces a verification record for AI-generated academic work, documenting 75 findings from adversarial reviews across four papers.…
Autonomous AI agents working in iterative loops can improve any artifact against any standard they can be scored on, but most measures can be gamed, according to Mark Pesce of the University of Sydney…
A study in Molecular Psychiatry found that the age at which childhood abuse occurs is linked to distinct patterns of brain activity during emotion processing in adulthood. Abuse before age 13 versus d…
Mark Pesce of the University of Sydney argues that the growing intractability of AI evaluations is itself proof that artificial general intelligence (AGI) has arrived. He contends that AI evals fail f…
AI evaluations are failing as models approach general intelligence, with benchmarks saturating through contamination and Goodhart effects while the scope of evaluation expands from minutes to months. …
The University of Sydney's AI platform Cogniti, launched on Microsoft Marketplace in January 2026, enables educators to build course-specific AI tutors. Early trials in New Zealand nursing schools sho…