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Australia news live: shadow arts minister Angie Bell, a former musician, says AI giants must pay for content
Follow the day's latest updates Court approves $23.5m fine and costs order against ASX Shadow arts minister says AI companies need to do what everyone else does: 'ask permission and pay for it' Albanese defends gambling reforms, says he's'not against someone having a punt' Pocock says it's'tragic' gambling reforms don't go nearly far enough Shadow arts minister says AI companies need to do what everyone else does: 'ask permission and pay for it' If AI companies want to use Australian creative work, they should do what everyone else does: ask permission and pay for it. Australian creativity is one of our greatest national assets - not a free resource for multinational tech companies. The Coalition will always back the right of artists to control their work and be fairly compensated when others profit from it. This is about consent, fairness and respect for Australian creativity. Court approves $23.5m fine and costs order against ASX Shadow arts minister says AI companies need to do what everyone else does: 'ask permission and pay for it' Albanese defends gambling reforms, says he's'not against someone having a punt' Pocock says it's'tragic' gambling reforms don't go nearly far enough Court approves $23.5m fine and costs order against ASX A federal court judge has ordered the ASX operator to pay $23.5m in penalties and costs after the company admitted to making a misleading statement about a troubled upgrade for technology required to run the stock exchange.
Meta has released an app for making generative AI games
Meta appears to have soft-launched a new app called Pocket that's aimed at getting people to vibe-code their own minigames. Mobile developer and reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi spotted Pocket and posted about it to X today, but reporting platform AppFigures told TechCrunch that the app has been available on both iOS and Android since June 29. Though the app is listed publicly, it's not available in the US on any of the half dozen phone models associated with our Google accounts, and a help page on Meta's site says the Pocket app is not yet available everywhere. The company has not made any public announcement yet about the launch or where the app is being trialed. We've reached out for comment and will update this post if we receive a response.
How Big Is 'Love Island USA'? More Than 10 Million People Are Already on Its App
"We have more people voting on the app than we do in many political elections taking place across the country," says the show's executive producer. Walls of cameras so millions of Americans can watch your spicy summer flings happen in real time? The app, where levels of viewer engagement are so high that it crashed during the first vote. Fans of the real-time dating show relish controlling the action through their in-app votes, helping decide who couples up and who gets dumped. Fan votes happen around five times during each season.
Achieving operational excellence with AI
As AI reshapes how work gets done, organizations with strong process frameworks are best positioned to lead and maintain operational rigor at scale. Frameworks like Lean Six Sigma and business process management (BPM) first gained traction because they promised clarity in the chaos--a structured way to bring order to messy, sprawling operations. Lean Six Sigma emphasized statistical rigor and quality control; BPM created end-to-end maps of how work should flow across departments. Both offered a repeatable way to embed habits of measurement, analysis, and accountability into day-to-day company culture. But today, those time-tested playbooks are evolving as companies seek to embed AI into established process excellence methodologies. By some estimates, the market for AI-powered process optimization is projected to exceed $113 billion within the next decade.
The best new popular science books of July 2026
From friendship in a world of chatbots to what it means to be alive, this month's new popular science books are asking some big questions. Australia's tiger quoll - as featured in Dan Werb's Our Wild Familiars, out this month Life, being alive and death are big themes in the new popular science books out in July, not to mention that small thing of being a human and all the messy feelings and sensory stuff that goes with it. Then there's also AI filling the future - in ways that worry one of the world's leading forensic scientists, as well as ethicists who are paid to think about this sort of thing. I'm looking forward to delving into the worlds of volcanoes and pharmacology, which look positively safe and stable in comparison Can friendship with a chatbot ever be as good as friendship with a gang of flesh-and-blood besties? Is there still and will there - can there - always be something about human friendships that will elude the smartest of simulations?
Urevo CyberPad Office walking pad review: Get your steps in without stopping work
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