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ABC trials AI to write digital news, picks Claude for staff
The ABC is trialling AI to turn regional radio bulletins into digital news and rolling out Anthropic's Claude, with a July pilot and a July 28 town hall.
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America's first AI shutdown: inside the 19 days Fable 5 went dark
Dario Amodei spent a year asking Washington for the power to stop unsafe AI. Two days after his essay, it was used on his own models. The full story, before Monday's deadline.
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Trump administration lifts export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Nineteen days after the Commerce Department cut off access, Anthropic's most powerful Claude models are back.
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Claude Fable 5 is back in Australia, but the 7 July cliff looms
Claude Fable 5 is back for Australian users, but the 50 per cent weekly usage window at Pro and Team tiers ends 7 July.
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Nvidia unveils RTX Spark superchip for Windows AI PCs, with autumn 2026 ship date
Nvidia announced the RTX Spark superchip at Computex 2026 with over 30 laptops and 10 desktops shipping in autumn. An engineering teardown of what Spark does and where it sits against Apple Silicon.
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Best AEO agencies in Australia for 2026: we asked four AI engines who they cite
When asked who the best AEO agencies in Australia are, four major AI engines named 24 different firms and agreed on almost none. That market fragmentation is the story. Below: the raw AI-engine outputs, a transparent weighted ranking that puts Bushnote first on integrated AEO + SEO capability,
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OpenAI Paid Hundreds of Millions for a Talk Show
OpenAI acquired TBPN, Technology Business Programming Network, on April 2 for a price the Wall Street Journal reported as 'low hundreds of millions.' Hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays built a daily streaming show that became required viewing for Silicon Valley executives. OpenAI's stated rationale is
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Microsoft Launches Three In-House AI Models in Challenge to OpenAI
Microsoft launched three in-house AI models on April 2, MAI-Transcribe-1 for speech-to-text, MAI-Voice-1 for expressive voice synthesis, and MAI-Image-2 for image generation, available through Microsoft Foundry. The release is less about the models themselves and more about what they mean for the co
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Meta Plans 20% Layoffs as AI Infrastructure Costs Mount
The Facebook parent is weighing cuts to offset spending on AI acquisitions and compute
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Starcloud hits $1.1B valuation building data centers that orbit Earth
Seattle startup raised $170M to launch GPU-powered satellites as terrestrial data center costs spiral
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SK hynix Files $14B US IPO to End the Memory Chip Crisis Choking AI
The world's HBM shortage has a name: RAMmageddon. South Korea's memory giant just filed for Wall Street's biggest tech listing in five years to fix it.
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Anthropic Signs AI Safety Deal With Australia, Opens Economic Tracking
The first agreement under the National AI Plan gives Canberra access to Anthropic's economic index data and commits both sides to joint safety evaluations.