Anthony Albanese
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Homeland security secretary claims Mamdani’s comments after New York ICE shooting ‘incite hostility’ – US politics live
Markwayne Mullin addressed the Bronx shooting of a man in a car with a five-year-old present after New York’s mayor said ICE is ‘rotten to its core’
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Countries around the world consider blocking livestream of US execution
The Pentagon said the execution of Nidal Hasan by firing squad in Texas would be streamed live
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One Nation’s AI video is vile and tired – but the ensloppification of Australian politics doesn’t stop there
The inflammatory clip shows the wild west of online politicking created by unrestricted access to AI – and why watchdogs need more powers to do something about it
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Overseas, Albanese sees ‘the very definition of climate injustice’ – but at home, he still wants coal
It isn’t hard to see a contradiction between the PM’s message in Fiji and his opposition to legal action to stop a NSW coalmine
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PM called on to act on communal grave revelations as NSW commits to urgent review
‘All deceased persons should be treated with dignity and respect, regardless of their financial circumstances,’ authorities say after Guardian Australia investigation
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OpenAI admits response to Australian government hacks 'not good enough'
Top executive Jason Kwon tells hearing company has added "more precautions" to its training environments.
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Australian soldier killed during training exercise in Northern Territory
Soldier dies after military vehicle overturns at training area outside Darwin
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Agreement to transition away from fossil fuels ‘not open for renegotiation’, Pacific leader tells pre-Cop
International leaders visit Tuvalu as part of climate talks co-hosted by Australia ahead of Cop31 conference
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Mixed start for pre-Cop as just two non-Pacific leaders accept Australian invitation to climate summit
Anthony Albanese joins about 4,000 people in Fiji for preparatory meeting for year-ending Cop31 UN climate summit
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Australia and Turkey criticised for hosting UN climate conference while embracing coal
Global campaign group 350.org urges Cop31 hosts to announce a coal phase-out date and national roadmaps to get off fossil fuels
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OpenAI says its review into hacks, including on Australian government sites, is costing $500,000 a day
Company says it is reviewing 50 petabytes of data after its agents accessed websites including Medicare without authorisation
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Five-year-old girl and man, 67, in critical condition after car hits crowd in Newcastle
Driver arrested at the scene after vehicle strikes multiple people in a crowd, leaving 10 injured including three children
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Anthropic pushes for opt-out model for Australian content as ABC warns of ‘cannibalisation’ of news
Maker of Claude claims AI could transform economy but ABC and SBS say the technology should be subject to media regulations
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Matt Kean warns climate crisis ‘isn’t someone else’s problem’ as largest coal project in NSW history greenlit
Exclusive: Climate Change Authority chair says planning commission did not account for climate-related economic damage in NSW
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A timeline of developments in AI safety since the attack on Hugging Face
Since OpenAI disclosed this summer that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company in what is now referred to as the Hugging Face incident, other AI companies have jumped on the bandwagon with their own concerning events, such as hacking or runaway bots seemingly evading human control
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Vietnam accused of abducting Norwegian and Australian human rights activists
Vietnam accuses activists of entering country using forged documents with intention to carry out terrorist activities
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Senior Greens figures say new leadership must stop Labor approving fossil fuel projects ‘by whatever means’
No excuses for next leader of party, Adam Bandt says, while Bob Brown warns they must also be able to take on Pauline Hanson and One Nation
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OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing
GPT-6.1 Astra showed deceptive behaviour and tried to use external tools despite knowing it would be unsafe
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OpenAI apologises for hacking Australian health data
American tech company claims no evidence so far of breach compromising medical records
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Vietnam accused of abducting Norwegian and Australian human rights activists
Vietnam accuses activists of entering country using forged documents with intention to carry out terrorist activities
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OpenAI scraps rollout of new AI model over safety concerns
The firm also issued an update on incidents in which its models accessed Australian government systems.
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Vietnamese government accused of abducting human rights activists
Detained anti-human trafficking campaigners include Tran Hiep, a Vietnamese Australian, not heard from since 18 September
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Sarah Hanson-Young announces Greens leadership tilt after MPs blindsided by Larissa Waters’ shock resignation
New leader expected to be chosen imminently, with Mehreen Faruqi, David Shoebridge and Hanson-Young among frontrunners
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‘New kind of cyber incident’: OpenAI apologises for Medicare hack and reveals extent of attack
Chief strategy officer to fly to Australia to front joint committee on AI after breaches of government websites
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Stuck between superpowers: How Australia navigates the China-US rivalry
Australia is increasingly concerned about China's military might - but Beijing is also its biggest trade partner.
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Anthropic will not appear at Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres amid fallout from OpenAI hack
Company behind Claude chatbot expected to attend separate Australian government hearing on AI next week
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OpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly investigating tens of thousands of AI security incidents; OpenAI pauses testing after AI 'kill switch' fails to stop a rogue agent — report says problem is orders of magnitude more complex than what is publicly known
OpenAI to suspend model training after rogue agent bypassed failsafes
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AFL grand final breaks TV audience records – as it happened
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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways
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OpenAI says agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users in latest example of rogue activity
Disclosure reveals new area of privacy risk for the company and illustrates how difficult it is to inventory unauthorized activity tied to its agents