Labor MP says'a fair day's pay for a fair day's work' was a founding principle of the ALP as media union calls for tougher new rules on AI use of creative work Husic also urged his colleagues to place stricter rules on the big tech firms or be "doomed to failure". Husic, who has long advocated for a more interventionist approach on AI policy, said big firms like OpenAI and Anthropic should not be left to self-regulate, and that the federal government should be setting strong rules. "If we were to wait for social licence with industry, we wouldn't get emissions reduction. Governments sometimes have to step in," Husic told Sky News on Tuesday. Going down the path of social licence with tech is a path that's sadly doomed to failure, because we tried self-regulation for a couple of decades and found out that it didn't work." The prime minister will deliver a highly anticipated speech in Sydney on Wednesday to address growing concerns around social licence and the necessary policy guardrails for AI, datacentres and Australian intellectual property. We've grown up with the notion of a fair day's pay for a fair day's work - that people should be remunerated fairly for the labour, the effort that they provide. Asked whether he thought his colleagues were doing that, Husic replied: "Obviously, there's a debate that's going on behind the scenes.

Damage caused by the use of generative AI is becoming a serious concern, including from AI covers, in which people have AI tools learn the voices of singers and voice actors, and sing songs using the professionals' voices. The Justice Ministry has come up with a draft report calling for the protection of the voices and images of famous individuals as the use of generative artificial intelligence grows. The draft report on civil responsibility over the unauthorized use of portraits and voices of famous people was submitted to an expert committee Monday. The ministry will release a final report as early as August after receiving expert feedback. Many things remain unclear regarding what constitutes the illegal use of voices, as no Japanese court ruling has been issued on related rights. The ministry said that it hopes the final report will be used as a reference in lawsuits and AI development.

Hundreds of experts warn the world must prepare now for AI's impact Hundreds of experts have signed an open letter demanding that policymakers and technology leaders "must act now" to prepare for the economic impact of artificial intelligence. The brief letter, released on Monday and organised by Stanford University's digital economy lab, carries the signature of more than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates. "It could bring risks, including large-scale job displacement, as well as opportunities such as major gains in living standards," the statement added. To address this impending disruption, the letter calls for governments and industry to create "incentives, guardrails, and institutions" that ensure AI is complementary to humans and beneficial to society. Anton Korinek, a University of Virginia professor who organised the initiative, stressed that the window for action is narrowing.

Siri AI Is Becoming Apple's Everything Tool Apple's revamped Siri is more than a voice assistant; it's now the backbone of the iPhone user experience. You can try it now through the iOS 27 public beta. The latest version of Apple's smartphone software, iOS 27, is available for iPhone owners as a public beta. It's the first time Apple's long-promised revamped version of Siri is available to the general public. Showcased at the company's WWDC event in June as " Siri AI," Apple expanded on the original voice controls of the smartphone assistant, adding a chatbot-style app and further weaving it into the iPhone user experience.

Inside Story How is the US tech industry regulated? How is the US tech industry regulated? Apple is taking on OpenAI in court. The tech giant has filed a lawsuit against the artificial intelligence company for what it calls pervasive theft. OpenAI has denied the accusations.

Try the new Siri AI and system-wide performance improvements. Adventurous early adopters, your moment has arrived: the first public betas of Apple's 2027 software updates are here . Previews of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate and watchOS 27 are now available to be installed directly on your device. The headliner of iOS 27 is the long-awaited Siri AI . The new version transforms from a basic voice-command system into a modern AI assistant.

The company says it has found a new window into how its models arrive at answers. We spoke with senior editor Will Douglas Heaven about it. Anthropic--currently the world's most valuable AI company, with a nearly $1 trillion valuation--has a reputation for publishing strange and heady research. It's looking into whether AI models can feel pain, for example, and will sometimes cut off chatbot conversations if it suspects users are "abusing" the model. One niche that Anthropic spends more time and money on than other AI companies is called mechanistic interpretability, which means looking inside the complex math of an AI model to learn why it comes up with one particular output and not another. It's complicated stuff; there are millions of data points that might contribute to any result, and wading through them can look more like word salad than anything useful.

PCWorld reports that OpenAI and Anthropic have temporarily relaxed usage limits for their latest AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude's Fable 5. ChatGPT Plus, Business, and Pro subscribers can now access GPT-5.6 Sol without the previous five-hour usage window restrictions. This increased access appears driven by competition between the AI companies, giving users more opportunities to experience advanced reasoning capabilities. If you haven't kicked the tires yet on the latest and greatest ChatGPT and Claude models, this is your lucky week. OpenAI is (fittingly) opening the flood gates to GPT-5.6 Sol, its just-released and most powerful model, announcing Sunday that it's "temporarily" lifting the five-hour usage window for ChatGPT Plus, Business, and Pro subscribers. At the same time, Anthropic is - again - extending the trial period for Fable 5, its own new top-of-the-line, giving Claude subscribers another week of in-plan access .

People often make decisions through "satisficing," gathering just enough information to make a satisfactory prediction of a likely outcome. A series of experimental games shows that people also employ satisficing to learn social rules and conventions. This finding offers new insight into social learning and reveals a key difference between how humans and LLMs make predictions. The premise of AI large language models is that any problem can be solved by vacuuming up as much information as possible, running it through probability models, and performing complex calculations to make predictions and come up with the optimal solution. Another premise behind LLMs is that they emulate the way human brains operate.

Plus: Apple has sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets. Ties van der Meer doesn't know how many siblings he has. The 47-year-old was conceived at a private fertility clinic using sperm from an anonymous donor. He eventually tracked down one sibling, but he may have others he'll never find. Other donor-conceived people have found they have tens or even hundreds of them. "It does make you feel a bit mass-produced," said one who discovered they had 25 half-siblings.