Opinion

Treasury should help curb demand from public spending, which higher interest rates barely touch even as they squeeze household budgets.

Wilson Asset Management estimates $8 billion to $13.3 billion in advice and restructuring costs for family businesses. Coalition opposition threatens passage.

The Australian Human Rights Commission supports a duty of care but wants narrower rule-making powers and clearer harm definitions to protect freedom of expression.

Whenever an AI system does something alarming, the temptation is to reach for the language of rogue machines. That frame is comfortable because it shifts responsibility away from the companies that built and deployed the system, toward the spectre of unpredictable sentience.

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei told the UN that AI threatens humanity while plugging models into DNA databases and bank accounts. The doomsday sermon is a regulatory grift that protects incumbents.

Dario Amodei and Sam Altman published their pacing arguments on September 12. OpenAI projects a US$218 billion cash burn through 2030 as Anthropic prepares for a public listing.

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.

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.