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Machine learning, generative AI, and what it means for work, culture, and power.
OpenAI and Anthropic asked a parliamentary inquiry to relax Australia’s ban on using copyrighted creative works to train AI models, proposing limited exemptions that would let labs invest locally without gutting artist royalties.
Canva rolled out stricter Enterprise domain verification and publishing controls after ASIC’s 26-195MR warning on AI deepfake investment scams, targeting teams whose designs could be mistaken for regulated financial marketing.
CSIRO opened a Canberra red-team lab to stress-test generative AI vendors before they enter procurement panels, extending PGPA assurance with adversarial prompts aimed at science and enterprise buyers.
CSIRO released open-source weighting tables for multi-model flood ensembles tuned to Queensland catchments, giving councils a reproducible way to blend radar, gauge, and satellite inputs before summer cyclone season.
Services Australia selected Accenture to refresh identity and consent APIs backing myGov sign-in flows, with phased cutovers that keep legacy OAuth clients running while new scopes roll out for state welfare portals.
TAFE Queensland is piloting trades-apprentice chatbots that answer tool and safety questions around the clock but hard-block document uploads during formal exam blocks to keep block training assessments offline.
