Sigh. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

The loss of expertise is staggering. The US is sacrificing its future under the Trump administration. 🧪

So Alex Honnold is free climbing Taipei 101 and my mum wants to know why he is not wearing socks.

Australian businesses are throwing money at heavily hyped artificial intelligence solutions but just one in seven companies is seeing revenue gains as a result, new surveys have shown as CEOs worry they are not keeping up with AI’s risk and complexity. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

The AI boom is driving major price hikes for consumer electronics as AI chipmakers take first dibs on critical memory hardware. 📈 Read more, including thoughts from RMIT University's @olegzendel.bsky.social and UNSW's @suekeay.bsky.social: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Merry Christmas. Enjoy!

This should set off alarms. China didn’t just catch up in AI- it scaled faster, trained younger, and plugged itself into global research networks, including ours. This isn’t hype- ignoring it would be a strategic mistake. #AI #China #NationalSecurity www.nextgov.com/ideas/2025/0...

Proposal to allow use of Australian copyrighted material to train AI abandoned after backlash

🤖Do yourself a favour and listen to this podcast from Matt Bevan (ABC). In this episode Matt tackles the humanoid robot hype, the inherent technical challenges, and how our dreams for useful robot helpers has a long history of attracting grifters of all sorts. ❤️🦾 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/i...

Data Dreams at MCA Sydney. Hard not to be enchanted by Anicka Yi’s Radiolaria, an otherworldly installation that felt alive with speculative intelligence. I could watch these all day.

Join us in Sydney www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-ai-wor...

Crikey's Anton Nilsson was one of several dozen journalists who traveled to Bogotá, Colombia to plan a global investigative series into the lobbying tactis of big tech. Here's how the project took shape.

I had fun moderating the Emerging Technologies panel at #CAETS2025 in Brisbane, hosted by ATSE. 🌏 Inspiring insights from Sir Peter Gluckman, Dr Yuko Harayama, Dr Liang Zheng & Chandrakant Patel on shaping a sustainable future in 50 years. #AI #Sustainability #Engineering

And the winner of 2025 Australian Museum Eureka Prize outstanding mentor of researchers is …. Michael Milford! Eureka prizes @eurekaprizes.bsky.social

Enjoying the anticipation at the 2025 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes for Science and Innovation #eurekaPrizes with finalist for outstanding mentor of researchers Michael Milford with Therese Milford @eurekaprizes.bsky.social

Someone working at the Qantas Club has OCD

How about we develop AI with integrity. www.linkedin.com/pulse/produc...

As @waltmossberg.bsky.social always said: The tech leaders are rapacious information thieves.

The moment you realise it was a mistake to get up early and go to the gym

You know it’s a rough day when you turn up to the airport and can’t figure out which boarding pass to use as you are not sure what city you are in…

So there's a petition going around to hold Meta to account... might not get anywhere but if you've been banned it's a place to start: chng.it/KLKTP4BXrG

Found myself standing up reading this: YES @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, absolutely my rural experience, all around us. The rhetoric, the shutting out. ‘The real conflict is not town v country, but money & power v people.’ ‘Never let powerful people tell you who you are.’ @righttoroam.bsky.social

Exploring life without Meta www.linkedin.com/pulse/digita...

On Channel 10 re AI and the federal election m.youtube.com/watch?v=T8rV...

Talking AI and the Australian election with Karl Stefanovic and Sarah Abo on Channel 9’s Today Show. Should people be turning to AI tools like ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote? #AI #AIPolicy #DemocracyAndAI #AustraliaVotes2025 #ElectionIntegrity #DigitalLiteracy #UNSWAI #AIandPolitics

“We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.” - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“The Great Dunny Hunt is on!” Win 1 of 3 $500 vouchers. www.continence.org.au/great-dunny-... This updates one of the Australian government’s greatest achievements, the National Public Toilet Map and the app. toiletmap.gov.au You have until 11 May. Please repost.

I was interviewed by ABC news radio about the latest Grattan Institute report on #mathematics #education this afternoon 👉🏼 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

bsky.app/profile/call... perhaps we can longer rely on the security promises made by the free world

Our keynote speaker @suekeay.bsky.social takes the stage, talking about emerging trends in robotics and AI! #DDDMelb

When you have Ubirr all to yourself #kakadu #Australia #sunset

As I have somehow surpassed 7k followers on here I thought it might be nice to do a giveaway: All 7 of my books to one lovely winner. Just share and like to be in with a chance! 😁📚