Saturday 3 October · 532 items from 62 sources
Australia and Queensland
The scarce layer. Thin is accurate, not a defect.
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Whitepaper: Infrastructure planning for Australia’s energy transition
Download this whitepaper to explore Jemena’s view of the infrastructure, investment and policy considerations shaping Australia’s implementation decade. The post Whitepaper: Infrastructure planning…
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Why don’t governments just pull the lever and ‘do it’?
OPINION | The build-up of policy detritus, half measures, and past compromises makes any change incalculably difficult. Unpick one problem, and you've unleashed another. The post Why don’t…
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ATO deletes credit cards, takes lead in government payments crackdown
ATO to stop accepting credit card payments from November, with Australia’s card surcharge ban reshaping government payments. The post ATO deletes credit cards, takes lead in government payments…
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When democracy is threatened, should media and government rethink their relationship?
Media advocate Peter Greste has urged public servants to back the free press and brace for the discomfort that is part of a healthy Fourth Estate. The post When democracy is threatened, should media…
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The undercurrents of flat public service numbers
APS moves and departures over the 12 months to June largely reflect budget forecasts and machinery of government changes. The post The undercurrents of flat public service numbers appeared first on…
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NSW Health uses AI to help map staff access to digital patient record system
Runs Amazon Bedrock.
The writers
What it means, and whether the claim survives contact with reality.
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Friday Squid Blogging: EU is Trying to Fight Unregulated Squid Fishing
The EU is recommending import controls to combat unregulated squid fishing in the Southwest Atlantic. I’m not optimistic. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security…
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Supply is elastic, installment #1637
For taxes too: Using administrative data from Scandinavian countries, we provide evidence on international migration responses to wealth taxes and evaluate their aggregate economic implications. We…
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2026.40: Dots and Question Marks
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This Week in AI: Agents Are Outrunning the Systems Around Them
On the latest episode of This Week in AI, host Vicki Reyzelman, a senior solutions engineer at Akamai, traced a common problem across cybersecurity, energy, model releases, consumer hardware, and…
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Friday assorted links
1. How rich was Anglo-Saxon England? 2. New game theory paper on AI races. 3. Scott Sumner movie reviews, please note he is always correct and thus the greatest film critic in the world, at least by…
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Unidentified Flock Cameras in Florida
St. Lucie County in Florida discovered ( alt link ) a dozen Flock cameras whose ownership it can’t identify, and that the county government had not permitted. I am reminded of the decade-old story…
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Inside-Out AI: Rebuilding Airbnb Behind the Scenes and Across the Guest Experience
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A Normal Debate?
Computer scientists Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor wrote AI as Normal Technology The statement “AI is normal technology” is three things: a description of current AI, a prediction about the…
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How American Political Campaigns Are Using AI—and What They’re Spending on the Tools
This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian . New campaign finance disclosure data shines a light on which US political campaigns are using AI tools and…
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Coding Agents Love Decision Records
The following article originally appeared on Duncan Davidson’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Decision records give coding agents durable project context—as long as…
Frontier
What actually shipped.
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A model guide for the GPT-6 family
Learn how startups can choose GPT-6 models, tune reasoning effort, improve prompts and skills, coordinate tools, and prepare workflows for production.
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Toward provably private learning from federated data
Mobile Systems
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NVIDIA DGX Spark 64GB Gives Developers More Ways to Build and Scale Local AI
Local AI is becoming more useful by the token. As AI agents move from experiments into everyday development, increasingly capable open models are shrinking to fit on more devices, giving builders…
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Chatham scales its capital markets expertise with OpenAI
Chatham Financial uses Codex and GPT-5.6 to build technology and redesign workflows, cutting trade validation from 30 minutes to under 4.
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Language Discrimination Improves Linguistic Learning in Multilingual Speech Models
Multilingual self-supervised speech models can benefit from sharing information across languages, but under a matched total pretraining data budget they still fall short of monolingual models. We…
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Limits of Confidence in Diffusion
Discrete diffusion, including remasking and uniform-state samplers, generate a sequence by writing multiple token positions per step, drawing each from a per-position distribution and choosing which…
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How NVIDIA GPUs Help Accelerate OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast
GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast, running on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, is available now in the OpenAI API and to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users. Accelerated by inference optimizations through OpenAI’s…
Governance
Regulators, standards, security.
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NIST Provides Updates on National Construction Safety Team Activities
The presentations highlighted the importance of NIST applying its own expertise and the expertise of others through collaborations and contracts.
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NIST Awards More Than $1.7 Million to Support Cybersecurity Workforce Development Across 8 States
Projects will address local cybersecurity workforce needs and will offer practical learning opportunities including internships, apprenticeships and hands-on projects.
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NIST Awards More Than $30 Million for MEP Centers in 11 States and Puerto Rico
The awards will help small and medium-sized manufacturers increase the adoption of advanced manufacturing technology.
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NIST Finalizes Guidelines on Protecting Online Identity and Access Tokens From Misuse
The finalized publication is designed to help organizations take effective steps to avoid exposing tokens to attackers.
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Targeted consultation to support a better copyright environment for creativity and innovation
Targeted consultation to support a better copyright environment for creativity and innovation Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 09/29/2026 - 10:15 Opening: 29 September 2026 Closing: 03 November 2026…
Adoption
What organisations are doing, with money attached.
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Your business is growing. Is your workplace culture keeping up?
Workplace culture is often judged by the most visible things: flexible Fridays, catered lunches, wellness initiatives and polished office spaces. But perks only tell part of the story. The real test…
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“Unfair”: Opposition calls on government to reverse ATO credit payment ban
The ATO plan to stop accepting credit card payments after November 30 has critics in Canberra, but finding an alternative may prove difficult. The post “Unfair”: Opposition calls on government to…
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How AI detectors identify GPT content
Schools, publishers, and marketing teams are all running AI detection checks. Here is what the tools are actually measuring. The post How AI detectors identify GPT content appeared first on…
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The Memo brings mum-dedicated pop-up to Chadstone
The Memo is putting mums ahead of cots and prams with a new 12 month Chadstone pop-up dedicated to a curated range of maternity, postpartum and feeding products. The post The Memo brings…
Research
Titles only, for scanning.
Build
For the making side.
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AI21 achieves an 83% reduction in time-to-start for AI workloads with AI Hypercomputer
Editor’s note : AI21 Labs is a leading global AI lab with a long track record of building foundation models, most notably the Jamba family, and today focuses on specialized LLMs and agent…
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Sweep thousands of leases for compliance using Amazon Quick and the Adjudicated Query pattern
The Adjudicated Query pattern pairs the Amazon Quick chat agent with a bounded MCP server over a deterministic rules engine to deliver provably complete, defensible compliance answers. This post…
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Add secure Web Search to Claude Desktop with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Claude Desktop on Amazon Bedrock is limited to the model's knowledge cutoff without web search. In this post, we walk through connecting Claude Desktop to Web Search using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore…
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Fine-tune a search agent with multi-turn RL on Amazon SageMaker AI
Fine-tuning teaches a small search agent your tools and environment, giving it the reliability of a frontier model at lower latency and cost. In this post, we fine-tune an LLM-powered search agent…
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What’s new with Google Cloud
Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip :…
Press
Last, deliberately. It reports what the layers above have usually already explained.
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Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music
Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.
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Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents
Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history…
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It’s not AI anymore, it’s ‘super intelligence’ (according to the White House)
This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump…
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Blackstone’s Jas Khaira on building the next generation of AI giants
Blackstone's Jas Khaira will take the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on building next-gen AI. Register for your pass and get 50% off a second.
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Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you)
With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people psychologically. Circuit Breaker Labs has created "crash-test dummies" to solve…
Open
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