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Star Entertainment auditors warn the casino group may not remain a going concern
The casino operator recorded a $307.3 million statutory net loss for the financial year and holds $267 million in cash to support more than 7,000 workers across New South Wales and Queensland.
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Nvidia buys Hugging Face for US$12.9 billion
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Holdout juror prompts mistrial in Lindsay Clancy murder trial after blocking acquittal
The Massachusetts panel deadlocked 11 to 1 after 38 hours of deliberations, and prosecutors have until a 29 September status conference to decide on a retrial.
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Shell profits double to $9.8bn as Iran war lifts oil prices
Shell posted a quarterly profit of $9.84 billion, more than double the $4.26 billion recorded in the same period a year earlier, making it the company's second-highest quarter on record. The figures came out of Shell's second-quarter results webcast on 30 July 2026.
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European regulators survey publishers on whether Google AI opt-outs reduce standard search traffic
The questionnaire is part of a formal antitrust investigation opened in December 2025 into claims that media outlets cannot refuse artificial intelligence scraping without losing their general online visibility.
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OpenAI makes self-service ChatGPT advertising available to buyers in 52 countries
The sponsored placements appear only for users on the Free and Go plans, and the company has not published pricing data or conversion benchmarks.
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Nvidia buys Hugging Face for US$12.9 billion
Nvidia agreed to pay US$12.9 billion for the open-model hub used by 18 million developers, says its chips will not be required to use it, and expects the deal to close in the first half of 2027.
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OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on the day ChatGPT went dark
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on Thursday. Its president called it a generational leap that might be AGI, and safety researchers say its reasoning method is playing with fire.
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Major AI outage: Are ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok down?
ChatGPT, Claude and Grok failed within the same hour on Thursday US time. OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI confirmed faults on their status pages, Downdetector passed 35,000 reports, and no company has named a cause.
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Draft privacy bill targets AI data use and smart glasses
Australia's privacy framework is due for a meaningful overhaul. The Albanese Government released an exposure draft of the Privacy Amendment (Personal Data Protection) Bill 2026 on 31 August, targeting risks that have outpaced the existing Privacy Act 1988, specifically artificial intelligence and
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Google AI Mode books hotels and tracks flight prices
Google has stopped sending travellers to booking sites and started completing the transaction itself. Flight price tracking in AI Mode is now live in more than 180 countries and territories, Australia included, with EEA markets excluded.
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ChatGPT shows ads to free users in India, starting with 50 brands
Ads are live inside ChatGPT. OpenAI switched them on for Free and Go tier users in India on 27 August 2026, opening with fifty brands through agency partners WPP and Omnicom. If your brand missed that first cohort, a self-serve ad manager opens next month and the floor is roughly $7.60 a day.
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One good GDP number is no case for a September rate rise
Bond markets moved fast on Wednesday. The Australian 10-year government bond yield reached 5.19 per cent, its highest level since July 2011, after the ABS confirmed GDP rose 0.4 per cent in the June quarter. Rate-hike talk got louder almost immediately. It shouldn't have.
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Nobody wears pink for a father who murders his children
Her own lawyers concede Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children. Four hundred people stood outside her trial in pink. Try to picture that crowd for a father.
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Australia has no law against AI lies in federal elections
The Australian Electoral Commission's own submission to the parliamentary committee on artificial intelligence is worth reading carefully.
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Australia is being told to choose between the US and China on AI
Supply chain architecture is not glamorous policy. It is wiring diagrams, export licence schedules and standards bodies most ministers could not name at a press conference.
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Why taxpayers are paying $2.5 billion to keep a Rio Tinto smelter open
There is a particular kind of political announcement that arrives dressed as generosity but is, on closer inspection, a confession. The joint federal and New South Wales commitment of A$2.5 billion to underwrite power costs at Tomago Aluminium is that kind of announcement.
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How China's cheap AI could crash the American AI market
OpenRouter's traffic data does not leave much room for interpretation. Chinese-developed models in OpenRouter's daily top 50 grew from 5 in January 2025 to 20 by May 2026. That is not a blip. That is a structural redistribution of developer attention, across roughly 16 months.
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Canberra part-pays 2,000 journalists and forces tech to pay 2.5% levy
Canberra sets the charge digital platforms must pay Australian publishers, and separately part-pays the wages of more than 2,000 journalists. Both programs are documented in the government's own papers. Neither has been examined as half of the same arrangement.
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