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A Trump impersonator and opera singers: CPAC was a spectacle, but the right still can’t agree how to take down Labor

Preferences proved the sticking point at the conference as conservatives face the prospect of a third successive election defeatGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastMany mainstream Australians would feel as if they’d been dropped …

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OpenAI delivers a mea culpa to the Australian government in person – but answers still elude

Jason Kwon’s answers were provided in a helpful, quiet and calm manner. For a company under intense scrutiny, there were no missteps Open AI’s Jason Kwon flew 15 hours from San Francisco to Sydney to give the company’s first in-person mea culpa after i…

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Anthropic pushes for opt-out model for Australian content as ABC warns of ‘cannibalisation’ of news

Maker of Claude claims AI could transform economy but ABC and SBS say the technology should be subject to media regulationsGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastAI giant Anthropic has urged the Albanese government to consider givin…

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Anika Wells named on Time100 list as one of ‘world’s most influential rising stars’ after social media ban

Time magazine list includes Australian communications minister after her efforts to take on big techThe federal communications minister, Anika Wells, has been named as one of Time magazine’s “world’s most influential rising stars” in recognition of her…

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