New FOI docs obtained by @cameronwilson.bsky.social show how OpenAI lobbied the Australian government. They also show the government knew many of OpenAI's claims were overhyped. Still, OpenAI got a massive win when the AU government dropped plans for mandatory guardrails for high-risk AI.

In a case of me having to update my priors, Streem's state of the sector report shows that Australian news outlets still overwhelmingly draw social media stories from Twitter over all over apps. A big of this will be the dominance of Twitter in contemporary US politics.

New: Internal gov documents show how OpenAI lobbied Australia's top public servants & politicians — and how they responded, including: - Treasury pouring cold water on OpenAI's claims of AI's economic benefits - meeting with the prime minister's intelligence agency - & more www.crikey.com.au/20...

On the Cut Through pod today with my pal @cameronwilson.bsky.social talking about the all-seeing eye of Palantir 👁️ a key pillar of the "tech right" which Aus currently holds a $100m stake in. Fun #auspol Watch on YouTube. Listen on Spotify, Apple podcasts, and all the other places.

imagine... a thousand years from now... being able to use Copilot... thank you Microsoft!

Revealed: How OpenAI lobbied to change Australia’s laws — and got some of what it wanted by @cameronwilson.bsky.social www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/19/o...

i'm glad the queen isn't alive to see this

New: Internal gov documents show how OpenAI lobbied Australia's top public servants & politicians — and how they responded, including: - Treasury pouring cold water on OpenAI's claims of AI's economic benefits - meeting with the prime minister's intelligence agency - & more www.crikey.com.au/20...

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i'm less worried about this and more about the endless output of "stuff that appears close enough to journalism but is actually at best regurgitation and at worse incorrect" which threatens to devalue the hard work of journalism (because once you get a scoop, everyone just immediately copies)

counter prediction: the rise of LLMs makes it harder for journalism than ever before because it's even more difficult to tell what is good quality journalism and what is imitation slop

ok question for the hive mind: you're not supposed to sweep on the first day of lunar new year, but my robovac did a clean. have i lost my good luck? or does this just mean poor fortunes for my lubluelu sl60d? important context: it was an scheduled clean, i didn't ask it

HELL YEAH

NEW: Australia's Department of Defence Cyber Warfare division has quietly signed the agency's biggest ever contract with controversial tech company Palantir. www.crikey.com.au/20...

NEW: Australia's Department of Defence Cyber Warfare division has quietly signed the agency's biggest ever contract with controversial tech company Palantir. www.crikey.com.au/20...

new nominee for the "dudes rock" hall of fame:

good MORNING!

lol

sometimes i wonder where some of my Twitter mutuals ended up. I particularly miss the ordinary people (aka non professional sickos) who were just posting for the love of the game and just went "fuck this" when elon took over and presumably just went on with their lives

hmm... probably nothing!

cam wilson was DISCORDMAXXING when he had his CORTISOL VISIBLY SPIKED by nick evershed BLOOSKIMOGGING him

@grok is this good?

my "best telecom" t-shirt has ACMA asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

hey man, i thought they did such a nice profile on you

NEW: Australia's sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, says it wasn't responsible for buying $100m of Palantir shares A Future Fund exec told Estimates blamed external fund managers for purchasing the stake in the Trump-linked company accused of powering ICE's deportations www.crikey.com.au/20...

say what you want about the US legal system, their lawyers are operating on a whole different dimension to ours

i would support the entire world's economy being wagered on debt to build out data centres to support the widespread adoption of a 1996 turn-based strategy game

you ever look at someone's posts and be like ... damn you really need a group chat

NEW: A Queensland software engineer has been in a four-and-a-half year long battle with Services Australia to get a look at a MyGov app's source code. He says we should be able to scrutinise it to make sure it's secure. Services Australia says it's a national security risk. www.crikey.com.au/20...

wait what da...

NEW: A Queensland software engineer has been in a four-and-a-half year long battle with Services Australia to get a look at a MyGov app's source code. He says we should be able to scrutinise it to make sure it's secure. Services Australia says it's a national security risk. www.crikey.com.au/20...

Remembering Job Kudelka, his greatest one line single panel

this sucks so much. rest in piece king

for all the complaints of how television and movies portrays journalism wrong, I think this season of Industry really nails at least one part (reporters being huge weirdos, not in cute way)

Australian Social Media Ban: we must not let ‘perfect’ be the enemy of ‘incomplete, self-defeating, trivially circumventable & pointless’ | @CameronWilson at Crikey https://alecmuffett.com/article/135326

Scoop: Australia's online gambling watchdog has ruled that using "prediction markets" like Polymarket is gambling. It's a landmark decision that's at odds odds with the US where Polymarket has sidestepped gambling regulation by arguing it offers financial services www.crikey.com.au/20...

Exclusive: Israel's President is set to make an official trip to Australian Parliament next week. It has not been publicised by the Australian or Israeli governments. www.lamestream.com.au/exclusive-is...

In the DOJ's Epstein documents, Lawrence Krauss, facing a complaint of sexual misconduct, noted Australia's plaintiff friendly defamation laws: "We may need to initiate a lawsuit (and against Gizmodo in Australia, where basically anyone can sue and win)"

The reasoning here is interesting (and I think correct) that the distinction between this and financial derivatives are that there's no real products no risk management involved. Whilst you /can/ gamble with, say, wheat futures, that contract both involves actual wheat (if not ever delivered) and

Scoop: Australia's online gambling watchdog has ruled that using "prediction markets" like Polymarket is gambling. It's a landmark decision that's at odds odds with the US where Polymarket has sidestepped gambling regulation by arguing it offers financial services www.crikey.com.au/20...

the US Justice department's Epstein files portal is NOT compliant with Australia's teen social media ban age check requirements

goof morning!

Coda to yesterday's story: Elon Musk's X has now removed the accounts belonging to the Chinese propaganda-promoting network of AI-powered accounts pretending to be Australians. More details in the article: www.crikey.com.au/20...

The robot apocalypse hasn't happened yet, but still I can't escape the feeling that something has gone horribly wrong... Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl. More of my work for Trouw: www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tje... #ArtificialIntelligence #creativity #work #GenerativeAI

x is the racist pedophile platform and threads is twitter for dummies and bluesky is exclusively for talking about will stancil

me buzzed after two crisp IPAs: ooooh i'm feeling the agi now!!!

just for noting that OpenAI Australia has told Australia's corporate watchdog about the change to its international holding company, marking its transition to a for-profit entity

sam altman 1 year ago: we have built god. money will soon be worthless. say good bye to loved ones then take your spot in the queue for the human-combustion compute engine today: like, what is "intelligence" anyway?? it's really more of vibe... a sort of je ne sais quoi