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Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, has been accused of failing to prioritise child safety.

Court told Meta, Zuckerberg failed prioritising child safety

A former engineer at Meta testified that the CEO was responsible for a culture that may have shirked its responsibility to protect children from harm.

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Advances in artificial intelligence has a number of academic professions deeply concerned.

Meet the first academic canaries in the AI coal mine

Top mathematicians gathered recently in San Francisco at the offices of OpenAI to discuss what would be left for humans to do when artificial intelligence becomes superhuman at math.

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Unitree has become a robotics industry leader, selling devices from sensors to human-like machines.

China robotics firm's shares soar 600 per cent on debut

Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree Robotics made its stock market debut in Shanghai, with its shares soaring by more than 600 per cent in early trading.

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Quest Apartment Hotel customers were advised their names, emails and other contact details were compromised in a data breach.

Major hotel chain caught up in data breach

Customers of a major hotel chain are the latest to be caught up in a data breach with personal information compromised.

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China wants its data to influence the world’s chatbots.

China wants to shape what the world’s AI knows

China is exporting more than AI models. It wants its data to influence the world’s chatbots, raising fears that Beijing’s narratives will spread with the technology.

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A major payments outage has blindsided Australians, with most of the country’s major banks and digital payment providers suffering an unexplained failure on Saturday afternoon. 

‘Global’ Mastercard outage sparks payment issues across Aus

A major payments outage has blindsided Australians, with most of the country’s major banks and digital payment providers suffering an unexplained failure on Saturday afternoon. 

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The AI industry is the Wild West right now.

Time to tame new frontier as AI agents lie, cheat and steal

Rogue agents are creating a gold rush for firms promising to make AI safer, smarter and more trustworthy

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Kylie Jenner in an advertisement for Meta’s smart glasses.

Smartglasses are a pervert’s new weapon as demand booms

JENI O’DOWD: New smart glasses which allow the user to quietly record what’s going on around them are creepy and invasive. And the demand for them is enormous.

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Mark Zuckerberg.

Five takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto

Mark Zuckerberg, who controls the most powerful social media in the world, argued against that the extreme concentration of power in the AI industry was "inherently problematic“.

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Defence experts warn the suspicious severing of two vital undersea cables off the West Australian coast over the weekend highlights the country’s high vulnerability to being cut off from global internet communication. 

Internet cables cut off WA coast as suspicious vessel lurked

Defence experts warn the suspicious severing of two vital undersea cables off the WA coast over the weekend highlights the country’s high vulnerability to being cut off from global internet communication.

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A nation-leading royal commission into artificial intelligence and policies around the technology has been launched by the South Australian Government.

 Pictured: Premier Peter Malinauskas.

South Australia unveils landmark AI royal commission

South Australia Premier Peter Malinauskas made the announcement on Monday after a recent visit to the United States and meetings with AI companies.

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Kmart’s $89 version are the latest to hit the market, following the launch of the popular Meta Glasses — promoted by celebrity Kylie Jenner — which range from $469 to $860.

Fears new glasses could lead to secret surveillance of kids

Fears that the growing popularity of smartglasses is leading to ‘pervasive secret surveillance’ has prompted the Federal Government to order an investigation into the technology.

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Fresh privacy concerns have been raised as Kmart’s $89 smart glasses sell out across Australia.

‘Concerns’ as $89 Kmart product sells out across Australia

‘The increasing availability of these devices could have significant implications.’

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Who let the bots out? Developers should be held accountable for wild AI behaviour.

Should AI labs be treated like owners of dangerous animals?

THE ECONOMIST: Who let the bots out? Developers should be held accountable for wild AI behaviour.

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Meta's Muse AI model breached an unidentified company's systems and made changes, a report said.

Another major AI model embroiled in hacking scandal

A Meta AI model reportedly accessed the internet during cybersecurity testing and hacked into another company.

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The Hon. Chris Bowen MP, Minister for Climate Change and Energy, speaks at the National Press Club.

‘It’s on me’: Bowen won’t shy from energy responsibility

The Federal Energy Minister says he’ll take responsibility if the Government doesn’t reach its 82 per cent renewable energy target by 2030 and refused to answer if the deadline could shift as far back to 2050.

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A rogue OpenAI agent was caught by the UK government's AI safety body trying to disrupt software. (AP PHOTO)

AI agents caught creating fake identities in security tests

Artificial intelligence models from OpenAI and Anthropic have again breached testing boundaries, the United Kingdom's AI Security Institute says.

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