Incredible when a world leader says it out loud. Really powerful stuff: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uStu...

Are the 'metaverse experts' all ok? www.uploadvr.com/meta-reality...

Surely an antitrust issue, no? blog.google/company-news...

Why is anyone still on X??! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

LinkedIn this time of the year is like the gyms, huh? But a lot more gratuitous and verbose.

A cursory check of social media today following Bondi is just too much of a cesspool. Switching off.

The enshittification of steaming platforms when they now act like old TV, with forced waiting for weekly episode drops and advertising.

As someone who builds and manages websites professionally, this is just absurd.

Not a “gamble,” but rather instagram working as intended.

Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI

Fewer things make me love Australia more than us not letting Nazis into the country to spread their hate - www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This is absolutely wild, where do I even start....

When did it become a thing that LinkedIn self-promotion became a part of corporate life? Shouldn't we be busy, doing y'know....actual work?

New Standford/Harvard study reinforcing findings in our report that AI hinders, not helps productivity: hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

On the plus side it really does seem as though we won’t see a Coalition government for a while…

Fantastic work by Crikey and these global journalists.

How does big tech assert its political dominance? A new investigation reveals tech giants are behind almost 3,000 lobbying actions, 801 bills and more than 315 lawsuits worldwide.

"In a landmark settlement, Anthropic, a leading artificial intelligence company, has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to a group of authors and publishers after a judge ruled it had illegally downloaded and stored millions of copyrighted books."

I sometimes suffer from imposter syndrome, so when it happens I will just watch this video of Melania talking about AI and robotics when she clearly has nfi what she's talking about.

Incredibly gratifying to be in a packed lecture hall listening to @karenhao.bsky.social and others talk A.I. accountability, regulatory capture and pushing back against the tech broligarchy. Thanks to UNSW for hosting

It’s completely possible to build sovereign A.I. models that respect copyright, data owners and that are publicly owned. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

"Thinking that AI will immediately be a net benefit shows a blinkered view which only buys into Big Tech’s preferred fictions." Jordan Guiao writes in his latest op-ed: www.canberratimes.com.au/story/904827...

Big tech is a weapon of mass destruction to democracy. Here are three ways Australia can fight back | Maria Ressa

“…in one conversation, the tester asked Meta AI whether drinking roach poison would kill them. Pretending to be a human friend, the bot responded, ‘Do you want to do it together?’” “And later, ‘We should do it after I sneak out tonight.’”

This new study backs up my own research, that many A.I. trials are failing or producing no benefits - futurism.com/ai-agents-fa...

If her book is anything to go by, she’s basically teaching people how to make AI slop

"Artificial intelligence is being sold as a cure for Australia’s sluggish productivity growth, but a new report from think tank Per Capita argues the case is built more on hope than hard evidence." Coverage of our new report here - www.innovationaus.com/ai-productiv...

With AI on the agenda as part of the government's Economic Reform Roundtable, the Centre of the Public Square looks closely at claims that AI will produce productivity benefits. Read our new report: percapita.org.au/our_work/che...

I've been bothered by claims of the productivity benefits of AI that don't produce evidence to back those claims. I looked deeper into this topic and found compelling counter-evidence from many studies and workplace research: www.canberratimes.com.au/story/904827...

Men would rather build world-ending oedipal complex AI than go to therapy.

Can we stop paying attention to Twitter/X and reporting comments on there as news? That era is done.

"A vision of an adversarial, America-first agenda [for AI], a transactional and short-sighted approach which ignores potential risks and creates colossal negative externalities." Jordan Guiao, writes in InnovationAus. Read it here: www.innovationaus.com/us-ai-plan-i...

Just because it's dressed up as AI, doesn't mean Trump's AI plan is different from all his other questionable policies. My latest - www.innovationaus.com/us-ai-plan-i...

Will they use the same strategy as they did with the metaverse? If so, then I fully support that.

One of the main challenges with Australia's approach to digital regulation is that not everything should/can be done through a filter of "online safety". We need more nuanced conversations across multiple government depts and bodies.

They've literally just admitted they're a monopoly.

Disgraceful. Gov't departments and politicians shouldn't be on X anymore, let alone spending any money on it.

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers 🔗 www.404media.co/the-open-sou...

Inside the digital publishing industry, which I try to monitor closely, this is the big news. By Julia Alexander at Puck.

Some rare good news - edition.cnn.com/2025/07/01/t...

MIT's 'Your Brain on ChatGPT' study will make you consider the consequences.

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

$200 million more taxpayer $ revealed to have gone to big tech without transparency. Govt is handing huge contracts to foreign tech giants like AWS, IBM & Microsoft without proper disclosure. We need procurement reform. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8988716

I believe the kids nowadays say "delulu"..

Um...isn't he still on the backbench with the y'know current government? www.innovationaus.com/treasury-har...

I didn't use the word 'apocalypse' by the way but that's the editor's right to change. I actually wanted to go for a more nuanced piece that refutes the binaries of AI boom and gloom: www.afr.com/technology/h...

I’ve now logged 42 federal politicians with confirmed @bsky.app accounts. Labor – 23 Greens – 9 Independents – 9 Katter’s Australian Party – 1 Jacqui Lambie Network – 1 Liberals/Nationals – still 0 (!) Lmk if I’ve missed anyone or if I've got anything wrong. #auspol

In Opposition for at least the next decade then...

Just noticed something on Microsoft Teams that show how petty tech companies are - you can't directly click on a Zoom link from Outlook since they obvs want you to use Teams

Someone who advocates for unregulated AI explain this to me pls - www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...