When Anna Funder stood before a pack of journalists at Parliament House this month, she presented herself not just as a writer but also a "victim of crime". The Stasiland author was using the analogy to illustrate how technology companies have flagrantly "hoovered up" her literary works for their own profit. Authors, artists, musicians and media organisations were last year assured those laws wouldn't be watered down when the federal government ruled out granting a legal exemption for artificial intelligence companies to mine content to train their large language models, which include ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. But continual lobbying from tech giants and a whistleblower's tipoff to the independent senator David Pocock have ignited fears that the Albanese government might go back on its word - even as it continues to insist that it won't. The stoush has exposed splits within Labor about how to respond to AI and raised questions about how far the government should bend - if at all - to big tech to capture the supposed riches of the datacentre boom.

Some view solely AI as a threat - but experts say there are jobs that can help offer a more secure future (and even get ahead). Some view solely AI as a threat - but experts say there are jobs that can help offer a more secure future (and even get ahead). Safe from AI: which jobs will help you thrive in the future? Entering the world of work often brings some uncertainty, but now there is another question: how can I AI-proof my career? We asked people from across various industries what they think the impact of AI will be on careers, and which jobs may be less affected.

Image caption, Apple CEO Tim cook is leaving the role later this year. Apple has accused OpenAI of gaining access to valuable inside information through the hiring of its former employees. In a federal lawsuit filed on Friday, Apple sued the artificial intelligence (AI) company, two of its employees, as well as io Products, claiming it has engaged in a pattern of theft of Apple's confidential product development and related work. At least two long-time Apple workers who left the company to join OpenAI allegedly took part in this pattern by, in part, emailing themselves internal Apple information. Drew Pusateri, a spokesman for OpenAI, told the BBC: We have no interest in other companies' trade secrets.

What could new rights for unmarried couples mean for your money? When Amelia's fiance died suddenly in his 20s, just months before their wedding, she never imagined the legal and financial turmoil that would follow. I lost him, she says, and then I lost everything we'd ever built together. The couple had been together more than seven years and shared a business. But they were not married and Simon did not have a will, so his mother and father inherited all of his assets - apart from the couple's house - and Amelia was unable to stop them.

We propose a scaling law that takes into account model size and training data while explicitly splitting the latter into training steps and batch size (called three-term law). Fitting the proposed law on a large set of training runs, we find that it correctly recovers the scaling of the optimal batch size. Moreover, because it makes use of training runs with suboptimal batch size, our proposed law can be robustly fit with a significantly smaller amount of training runs. We further show that the three-term law can be used to derive scaling laws for suboptimal batch sizes, and that it matches previous empirical findings related to the critical batch size.

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Plus: The US House has passed new youth online safety legislation. AI agents are not your "coworkers" Imagine coming in to work to learn that a new underling will report to you. The worker is not a person but an AI tool--one that your company nonetheless calls Alex, an "employee" with a title and defined responsibilities. How well do you think you would work with Alex? If you're anything like the managers studied by Boston University professor Emma Wiles, treating that AI as a coworker would lead you to do a worse job. They caught 18% fewer errors when the work was attributed to an agentic AI employee rather than a chatbot. This is an alarming glimpse of the future Silicon Valley is hurling us toward.

C'mon, you don't need an AI to check your spelling C'mon, you don't need an AI to check your spelling Florida Republican claimed to use Claude as a proofreader, nothing else. If there's one thing we love more than catching a politician doing something silly, it's the excuse they confect to try and get out of it. The latest involves Florida Republican Anna Paulina Luna, who was caught using AI in a draft amendment to a bill because the text included the phrase Claude responded:. Which might hint that someone pasted in a conversation with the Anthropic chatbot of the same name and forgot to hide it. Luna was quick to shut down the accusation, posting on X (as reported by Gizmodo), that her staff used AI to correct a draft text and didn't edit, adding that it's not a shocker as most staff use it.

A campaign event in Los Angeles, California, for a proposed'billionaires tax', on 18 February. A campaign event in Los Angeles, California, for a proposed'billionaires tax', on 18 February. Despite more than double the needed number of signatures to qualify for ballot, there's uncertainty it'll make it to voters Nick Robins-Early and Dara Kerr here, filling in for your usual host Blake Montgomery who is out on vacation. We'll be talking about the fight over a proposed billionaire tax in California, the UK's social media ban and SpaceX making a big buy in the AI arms race. The California wealth tax showdown comes to a head this week.

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says Australia can't allow tech firms to'drain our power and water'. Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says Australia can't allow tech firms to'drain our power and water'. Australia'sleepwalking' into AI crisis and'tech bro free-for-all', says Greens senator Sarah Hanson Young's warning comes as David Pocock urges government to prevent firms using Australian content to train AI models Tue 23 Jun 2026 06.21 EDTFirst published on Tue 23 Jun 2026 05.16 EDT His call came as the Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young called for a moratorium on the building and approval of new datacentres in Australia until "we get the regulations right". She said the nation was "sleepwalking" into an AI crisis and could hand tech companies a greenlight "to drain our power and water". Pocock used Senate question time on Tuesday to ask the government about intense lobbying from AI proprietors over possible new rules and regulations for Australian-made content - including suggestions Labor would create a new "carve out" or extend existing licensing arrangements.