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Australian carrier announces agreement with Accenture amid ‘unprecedented’ technological disruption, CEO Vanessa Hudson says Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Qantas is preparing to cut 850 local jobs and outsource work offshore under an AI-driven overhaul, marking a growing wave of disruption to the Australian workforce. The chang
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Government flags criminal law changes to ensure companies can’t argue in future ‘that someone didn’t know the computer was loaded’ Get our daily political email , free app or daily news podcast OpenAI will not face criminal penalties over the Medicare data breach , but the prime minister has flagged changes to Australia’s criminal law to crack down on future
Australia's prime minister said its government would set up a new AI safety regulator and Labor would consider six key obligations on AI companies. The review made 18 recommendations. Anthony Albanese said: 'We accept all of the recommendations, and we’ve commenced work to implement them.' Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to comba
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24 Feb 2026
California's new law targets AI-generated deepfake pornography - and xAI's Grok is the first major model caught in the crosshairs.
22 Feb 2026
Elon Musk merges SpaceX and xAI to embed Grok into spacecraft operations - but this is really about corporate structure and narrative control.
20 Feb 2026
NASA's latest Mars rover can navigate autonomously using AI - making decisions faster than mission control could ever respond.
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