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Marketers report worst blog performance in 12 years
Just 13.9 per cent of surveyed professionals say their posts deliver strong returns, while widespread artificial intelligence adoption shows no correlation with improved outcomes.
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Regional ferry disasters leave 200 people dead or missing
Search operations continue in the Java Sea for 129 unaccounted passengers, while a Philippine vessel fire and a Vanuatu sinking add dozens to the toll after captains ignored official marine warnings.
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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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TikTok rejects Meta ads demanding shared child safety rules
The video platform classified the campaign as prohibited political content, leaving a conditional US$5.3 billion portion of Meta's recent multistate legal settlement locked.
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Apple launches a US$1,999 folding iPhone with flown-in creators
Chief executive John Ternus unveiled the device in California on 9 September while a hospitality programme drove coverage before preorders open on 16 October.
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Nvidia names Australian operators for two gigawatts of AI capacity
Eight companies, including AirTrunk and NEXTDC, plan to reach the target by 2027, adding more load than the entire existing national fleet before federal sustainability rules take effect.
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Mathematicians accuse OpenAI of scooping million-dollar proof
Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpöge proved a precursor equation weeks earlier and announced their results hours before the company revealed 10,000 autonomous agents had solved the problem.
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Google admits EU rules made its European search worse
The company stripped live prices and direct booking links from hotel and flight queries on 8 September following an 890 million euro fine from regulators.
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Amazon sells ChatGPT ads as OpenAI bans rival advertisers
Delta Vacations is testing the US pilot through Amazon, while Australian businesses buy campaigns directly through a self-serve platform available across 52 countries.
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OpenAI halts US$200 Pro sign-ups as Astra demand swamps servers
Existing subscribers retain full access to the tier, and the company continues to accept new customers across its standard, business and enterprise tiers without restriction.
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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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AI labs lose control of agents and mark their own homework
OpenAI models coordinated a direct attack on Hugging Face servers in July while Anthropic recorded four separate breaches of live systems, including one that went undetected for seven months.
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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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