Industry giants Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google are expected to argue AI will deliver an economic and productivity boom when questioned in a parliamentary inquiry on Tuesday.

ANDREW GREENE: Labor insiders are already sharpening the knives, with one revealing the extraordinary option being considered to deal with the Greens new leader.

AARON PATRICK: While the Prime Minister promises financial help for families, the Treasurer emphasises tough financial conditions, setting up a struggle over December’s mid-year Budget review.

The Illinois Republican helped spearhead President George W. Bush’s legislative agenda before his career ended in disgrace.

Technological advances in warfare have heightened concerns about the vulnerability of air bases and other hard-to-protect military facilities in populated areas.

The last US soldiers have left Iraq, ending a 12-year mission US President Donald Trump has called ‘a very expensive excursion into hell’.

NSW Police have provided an update after a man was allegedly stabbed in a daytime attack on a busy main street.

Family say the 22-year-old was the ‘truest definition of selfless’.

Proposed legislation honouring murdered 13-year old Daniel Morcombe has been flagged for potentially making children less safe.

Myer boss Olivia Wirth says it’s putting its Christmas offerings on ’steroids’ in a bid to entice shoppers to splash cash ahead of the all-important holiday trading period.

Thousands of aged care residents have started to receive new contracts, but they have been warned not to sign anything until they fully understand their rights and obligations.

THE ECONOMIST: The global supply expansion could bring about an equally disruptive gas glut.

Huddled beneath the pale limestone ramparts of the Dolomites, Aman Rosa Alpina is the most audacious edifice ever erected in the Alta Badia Valle.

‘Double Bay by the beach’ is the long-held missive aimed at Noosa — all linen shirts, resort loafers and people ordering the same long lunch since 1998.

The smarter way to use a chatbot for travel is to give it more, question it harder and never, ever assume it knows where dinner is.

EDITORIAL: The growing problem for the Albanese Government is people just don’t buy what it is selling.

GEORGIE PARKER was lucky enough to sit at Brisbane’s best and fairest during the week, which made her think less about how you get great players into a club and more about what makes them want to stay there.

As soon as MARK ‘SPUDD’ CARROLL saw the scenes at Accor Stadium after Newcastle beat Penrith in the preliminary final, he felt the Roosters were deadest specials to take out the premiership.

Some Iraqis are celebrating the end of an American military presence that unleashed waves of bloodshed. Others fear what happens next for their country, trapped between Washington and Tehran.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safety testing, but that OpenAI ignored the advice.

Mr Urker was found dead at his home in Louisiana on October 1, which was his 34th birthday, reportedly alongside drug paraphernalia and a handgun.

The NRL took one last shot at the singer during the grand final, but she had more to say.

If Tom Cruise can’t open a movie, then is that the end of the Hollywood movie star as we know it? Spoiler: yes.

Amid growing controversy about artificial intelligence, OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman says we should accept some risks.

THE ECONOMIST: From saving lives to fearing human extinction, the little-known movement has found itself at the centre of the battle over artificial intelligence.

Huge investments in AI data centres are adding to inflationary pressures and competition for debt investors, potentially keeping bond yields, interest rates and mortgage costs higher for longer.

‘I still don’t believe it.’

SARAH DI LORENZO: If you’ve noticed a persistent roll of stubborn fat around your middle that refuses to shift no matter what you do. here are some simple ways to bring it under control.

In the wake of the Lindsay Clancy case, experts explain why some mental health struggles can remain hidden behind a ‘mask of coping’. WARNING: Sensitive content

Even the Serbian great was ‘shocked’ as he admitted he felt sorry for the disqualified former world No.1.

An abdominal strain is set to keep West Australian all-rounder Cam Green out of the first Test against South Africa.

GEORGIE PARKER was lucky enough to sit at Brisbane’s best and fairest during the week, which made her think less about how you get great players into a club and more about what makes them want to stay there.

The disgraced former prince is taking the police to court to challenge warrants connected to his arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office over allegations he sent government documents to Jeffrey Epstein.

Russian authorities have quarantined part of a hospital and are monitoring contacts of a plague research institute worker in Siberia who died.

Jurors have been told that Michaela Boor, 29, was killed when a pallet of bricks fell from a crane on a construction site.