Platforms, product launches, enterprise software and the startups trying to unseat them.
Communications Minister Anika Wells will release draft legislation this week forcing social media platforms to offer algorithmic opt-outs and actively prevent illegal content reaching users.
Communications Minister Anika Wells will release draft legislation this week forcing social media platforms to offer algorithmic opt-outs and actively prevent illegal content reaching users.
ChatGPT, Claude and Grok failed within the same hour on Thursday US time. OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI confirmed faults on their status pages, Downdetector passed 35,000 reports, and no company has named a cause.
Australia's privacy framework is due for a meaningful overhaul. The Albanese Government released an exposure draft of the Privacy Amendment (Personal Data Protection) Bill 2026 on 31 August, targeting risks that have outpaced the existing Privacy Act 1988, specifically artificial intelligence and
Google has stopped sending travellers to booking sites and started completing the transaction itself. Flight price tracking in AI Mode is now live in more than 180 countries and territories, Australia included, with EEA markets excluded.
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has ruled out exemptions for any state or territory from the federal government's renewable energy rules for data centres, rejecting overtures from Queensland and the Northern Territory to use existing fossil-fuel assets to attract AI infrastructure
More than 100 organisations, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, signed a joint open letter on 27 August titled "A call for collective action on cyber defense". The signatories are direct about the timeline: "We have a limited window to strengthen cyber defences.
Most users will enable this without reading the fine print, and that is the problem. OpenAI released the Apple Messages plugin for the ChatGPT desktop app on 20 August 2026, giving the AI the ability to read, search and send iMessages, SMS and RCS conversations on Apple silicon Macs.
