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AI models & labs
StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn't top Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot. On Friday…
Almost one-third of Australian allied health practitioners surveyed by practice management software company Zanda are using AI every day, with more than half of Australian AI users reporting significant reductions in documentation time. Zanda’s State of AI Adoption in Allied…
Policy, safety & society
The president named his national intelligence chief as the taskforce's head as worries over AI grow.
An ACT parliamentary committee has warned that problems with payments for the territory’s Digital Health Record could point to broader mismanagement of the project, calling for tighter oversight of contracts including the $140 million Epic deal. The ACT Legislative Assembly’s…
Researchers from La Trobe University and St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne are developing explainable AI models to support clinical decision-making in hospital emergency departments. The models use information available at triage to predict whether a patient is likely to be…
AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.
Victoria’s Eastern Health has selected Magentus’s Conductor interoperability platform to connect systems across its pathology service and give its pathology team greater control over integrations. Conductor is set to act as an interoperability hub connecting Eastern Health’s…
On Equity, we discussed the Trump administration's attempts to rebrand AI.
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being introduced into healthcare workflows, but questions remain about where it can deliver practical benefits for frontline workers and where the technology is still being overhyped. Yogesh Kulkarni. Pulse+IT spoke with Yogesh Kulkarni…
Clayton had said AI was a ‘gamechanger’ but also posed ‘a threat’ during his confirmation hearing Donald Trump on Sunday named Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligence, to also serve as the new White House AI czar. Clayton, who leads the US’s 18 intelligence agencies…
Donald Trump has established a "Super Intelligence Force." "Superintelligence" is his term for artificial intelligence. The unit is led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton and other government officials, coordinates with AI companies, critical infrastructure…
Well, if AI said it, it must be true. | Bloomberg via Getty Images New Jersey's lieutenant governor Dale Caldwell was forced to resign on September 25th after an investigation found he had sexually harassed a staffer and repeatedly violated ethics rules. The now-former Lt.…
This new task force is Trump's latest response to the debate over AI safety.
Residents of Dalby may soon live beside a $31bn datacentre. The premier sees ‘opportunity’ for the state – but others fear AI’s global creep From the veranda on his bush block, Denver Kanowski has watched resources companies come and go from rural Queensland for 70 years. The…
Women hold just a fraction of new AI jobs but are overrepresented in roles with high risk of AI disruption There’s a common fear among people who work in Silicon Valley: snag one of the fast-growing, high-paying jobs in artificial intelligence, or get trapped in the “permanent…
At a recent symposium on privacy, experts discussed how AI supports a faster and oftentimes more insightful approach to data security, while identifying which privacy risks healthcare organizations must monitor.
Self-improving AI agents tend to memorize their test tasks, so their gains shrink or disappear on new ones. RRSI, a new method from Google researchers, reins in this effect and lifts scores on unseen benchmarks by up to 4.7 points while using about 30 percent fewer tokens than…
NASA and IBM have released the Lunar Foundation Model, one of the first open-source AI models for lunar science. Trained on nearly 2 million tile bundles, mostly from 17 years of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data, it cuts the error in predicting polar ice deposits. The article…
Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, data center projects in rural areas could be eligible for major tax benefits starting next year. Some hyperscalers do not seem eager to take the free cash.
Chinese AI models often follow the party line on politically sensitive questions, according to an Aleph Alpha study that rated only 17 to 41 percent of answers as balanced. Aleph Alpha sells "sovereign AI" to governments, giving it a commercial interest in distinguishing its…
David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology A safety leader at OpenAI has quit the company, warning that its culture was broken and that AI firms were not “being nearly careful enough” about developing the…
Starting in October 2026, Google will cut free access to its Gemini models. Users without a subscription will only get the smallest model, Flash-Lite, while Flash and Pro will be reserved for paying customers. The move could also set the stage for the more resource-hungry Gemini…
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