Join me today @ 5.30pm to hear the story of how we got to the AI we have today ... whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/events/the-s...

Way to go Korea ... "it would also create a $71.56 billion fund, jointly with the private sector ... to make the country one of the world’s top three AI powers and boost potential economic growth rates" www.investing.com/news/economy...

Australia’s STEM diversity: A symphony of inaction www.innovationaus.com/australias-s...

A.I. Is Making Death Threats Way More Realistic www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...

Frankly, I expect more from the Government. We need an overarching, whole-of-government long-term strategy and a dedicated Advisory Council. Otherwise we'll have another review in a decade or two's time and wonder why the dial still hasn't moved ... www.industry.gov.au/news/austral...

Aren't there consequences for facilitating crime? observer.co.uk/news/busines...

Our warm thanks to all the authors and illustrators who contributed to our advocacy campaign to push back on this copyright exception, including Anna Funder, Tom Keneally, Caroline Overington, Sally Rippin, and Professor Toby Walsh.

Fun conversation about all things AI on the #VideoMy podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzG_...

AI is transferring opportunity from the young to the old ....

The new Kimi AI model cost $4.6 million to train, according to a source familiar with the matter. Scale is not all you need. Indeed, and I say it here first, scale is a distraction. The fantastical spend from OpenAI will be an albatross around their neck. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/a...

What a terrible company! www.linkedin.com/news/story/m...

How can anyone ethically work for a business like this? Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Join us at NSW Parliament for a fascinating and important conversation on AI. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ais-next-f...

This surely is peak AI ... when we're building AI data centres in space. Madness.

Join me in Bathurst on 21st! library.bathurst.nsw.gov.au/Whats-On/Adu...

AI: the hope and the hype. www.royalsoc.org.au/events/rsnsw...

Madness www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

China’s Security State Sells an A.I. Dream www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/w...

The future of shopping is AI ...

AI policy quagmire drags Australia to its lowest digital rank www.innovationaus.com/ai-policy-qu...

Very handy to nip into Bunnings for some extra parts ....

Not clear if we'll ever get the far too expensive nuclear submarines, but the autonomous ones are starting to roll off the production line here in Sydney already. www.navalnews.com/event-news/i...

Coming soon for my Dutch readers ....

Please join me in Bathurst on 21st! bathurstlocals.com.au/an-evening-w...

Who's winning the AI race?

"No more vague promises that “AI will solve the climate crisis.” Amazon must implement a public plan that includes: 1) powering all data centers with 100% additional, local renewable energy 24/7, 2) ending custom AI solutions for oil & gas companies .." www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter

Time to post a good news AI story ... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/r...

We've got to the madness of autonomous underwater nuclear weapons www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

"If the company really has strong reason to believe it’s ready to bring back erotica on its platforms, it should show its work. People deserve more than just a company’s word that it has addressed safety issues. In other words: Prove it." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...

Does consciousness emerge from feeling and not thinking? www.wired.com/story/ai-sen...

They will be AI powered drones soon. At this point, it is the science fiction dystopia we warned you about. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

“Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.” No way is it safe to relax ChatGPT5's inadequate safeguards, despite what Sam Altman. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

People are worried about the water usage of AWS. It turns out "The wider Amazon group ... has an overall water consumption that is far higher [10x more than AWS], 105bn gallons per year." So it's Amazon, not AWS that we should fix! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Toby Walsh's 'The Shortest History of AI': Your 6-Hour AI Guide queenoftreasures.com/2025/10/01/t...

Bullsh*t. There exist open source data sets for training frontier models on. Just go look in Hugging Face. www.innovationaus.com/australias-a...