“It feels as though the ground beneath our feet is shifting. AI is beginning to cause tectonic movements in markets, industries and workplaces. We can hear the low rumbling of a new technological revolution, but we don’t yet know what course it will take.” tinyurl.com/3hekzzr4

Why the ‘overnight success’ of AI was a long time in the making www.independent.ie/business/tec...

"Stan Grant makes the case for attentive silence in When Words Fail Us (NewSouth, May), while the techno-commentator Toby Walsh considers the force reshaping everything else in God AI (Black Inc, September)." www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

"Claude 3.7 Sonnet outputs entire books near-verbatim...our work highlights that, even with model- and system-level safeguards, extraction of (in-copyright) training data remains a risk for production LLMs" arxiv.org/abs/2601.026...

In this episode of The Briefing, Helen Smith is joined by Toby Walsh, Chief Scientist at the UNSW AI Institute, to break down what to expect from the tech in 2026. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/p...

AI in 2026 youtu.be/gaQsnndwW0E?...

The state of AI today (interview) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc7Z...

The harms never end ... sadly www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Watchdog warns agentic AI is straining consumer laws www.innovationaus.com/watchdog-war...

Australia’s planned AI Advisory Body has been dumped www.smartcompany.com.au/artificial-i...

King of Cannibal Island www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘Basically a free for all’: Robodebt expert’s warning on AI rules vacuum www.innovationaus.com/basically-a-...

Australia’s productivity future hinges on AI workforce transition www.innovationaus.com/australias-p...

Australia joins US-led AI supply chain alliance www.innovationaus.com/australia-jo...

He’s the Godfather of Modern Robotics. He Says the Field Has Lost Its Way. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/b...

Australia’s digital capability moment lies in the shift to ‘AI agency’ www.innovationaus.com/australias-d...

"The Shortest History of AI – Toby Walsh Brilliant thinkers take massive topics and distil them into lively, digestible reads. Toby Walsh’s take on AI does exactly that. A perfect primer for all of us as we build our intelligent futures." www.agileaus.com.au/summer-reads...

2062: Where is AI taking us? Toby Walsh. TAO journal 2025. doi.org/10.1016/j.ta...

This is your regular reminder that 10% of Meta' income ($16 billion/year) is fraud, . Can you name any other legitimate business that promotes crime as much as this? www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Manias, Panics, and AI by Simon Johnson, et al @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/fkFTLU3

Google’s AI model is getting really good at spoofing phone photos. Pretty irresponsible if you ask me .... www.theverge.com/report/83797...

This plan is bereft of real ambition for Australian industry www.innovationaus.com/this-plan-is...

Australians must become ‘AI makers, not AI takers’, chief scientist warns. VERY TRUE! www.innovationaus.com/australians-...

Sycophancy of AI chatbots reaching new heights ... Elon Musk’s Grok AI tells users he is fitter than LeBron James and smarter than Leonardo da Vinci www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Poets will be the new hackers .... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“But, at the end of the day, they will have to explain to a jury why countless people have died by suicide or at the hands of ChatGPT users urged on by the artificial intelligence OpenAI and Sam Altman designed.” openai.com/index/mental...

The Ministry of AI. Worth a listen. Fun ending to surprise you. www.unswcentreforideas.com/article/toby...

The “Genesis Mission” is a dedicated, coordinated effort to unleash a new age of AI‑accelerated innovation and discovery that can solve the most challenging problems of this century. [Aside: unfortunate name, sounds like a bad science fiction story!] www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Must act now to shape AI future www.innovationaus.com/must-act-now...

Pleased to support Women in AI's flagship event to celebrate National AI Week 2025. Please join us tomorrow at ACS in Sydney. linkedin.com/posts/womeni...

Bravo! Australia to establish AI safety institute www.innovationaus.com/australia-to...

Meta buried ‘causal’ evidence of social media harm, court filings allege www.innovationaus.com/meta-buried-...

UNSW, CSE seminar, 10:30am, 25th November 2025, by Wolfgang Reif. AI in Production: Something Special? Is AI in industrial production just another application of foundation models, or is production something special?

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been urged by the International Monetary Fund to focus on lifting research and development expenditure and leverage technologies like artificial intelligence to drive innovation and productivity. www.innovationaus.com/fix-rd-fall-...

An easy way to lift our miserable R&D investment which are falling behind terribly and yet the government is, as ever, dithering .... Far Horizons: European research deal still a long way off www.innovationaus.com/far-horizons...

Join me on Friday www.centralwesterndaily.com.au/notice-board...

“Cutting methane is the single most important strategy to slow near-term warming,” www.theguardian.com/environment/...