Digital and AI Frontier

Updated 30 Sept 2026, 9:24 am AEST  

Australia and Queensland

The scarce layer. Thin is accurate, not a defect.

  • A 40-year vision built on a tax ceiling

    OPINION | Tax is vital to Australia's future as a civilised society in which public servants can deliver services to a standard that fosters faith in the system. The post A 40-year vision built on a…

    The Mandarin4mAustralia

  • Intergenerational Report: Three implications for the public sector

    OPINION | Unfortunately, the government has not published a 40-year outlook for the public sector. Nevertheless, there are plenty of implications to be drawn. The post Intergenerational Report:…

    The Mandarin3hAustralia

  • Thinking about democracy: A tale of two presidents

    SERIES PRELUDE | What Woodrow Wilson and Abraham Lincoln reveal about democracy, public service, ambition, leadership, and the unpredictable power of 'events'. The post Thinking about democracy: A…

    The Mandarin3hAustralia

  • ‘Every lever possible’: Moves to repurpose Defence sites to boost SA housing supply

    Australia’s political leaders at the Commonwealth and state levels have unveiled a new plan to build more houses in SA. The post ‘Every lever possible’: Moves to repurpose Defence sites to boost SA…

    The Mandarin3hAustralia

  • Top ACT bureaucrat Kathy Leigh to step down

    After 12 years as the most senior public servant in the ACT, Kathy Leigh has announced she will retire. The post Top ACT bureaucrat Kathy Leigh to step down appeared first on The Mandarin .

    The Mandarin3hAustralia

  • Government pushes dumping fixes onto new body

    The Australian Trade Remedies Commission will take responsibility for dumping and subsidy investigations, as well as safeguard inquiries. The post Government pushes dumping fixes onto new body…

    The Mandarin3hAustralia

The writers

What it means, and whether the claim survives contact with reality.

  • Quoting Anthropic Frontier Red Team

    We evaluate several models on 100 tasks from the [internal Binary Exploitation benchmark] (selected at random), and find that GLM-5.3 develops full control flow hijacks in 4% of the trials; Claude…

    Simon Willison1h

  • Superpowers for Humans

    I’ve known Jesse Vincent for more than 20 years, since the days when I was still editing and publishing Perl books and organizing the Perl Conference and he was the chief maintainer of Perl 5 and…

    O'Reilly Radar5h

  • Shipping to America

    The vulnerability of our shipping routes remains underdiscussed, perhaps that is in some ways a good thing: We study the macroeconomic and trade-policy implications of disruptions to U.S.-bound…

    Marginal Revolution6h

  • OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog

    I'm at OpenAI DevDay today, in Fort Mason, San Francisco. Same as last year I'll be live blogging the keynote and some other notes during the day. OpenAI gave me a free ticket and a seat in the…

    Simon Willison8h

  • 🚨 The first existential IPO

    Exponential View8hSubscription

  • Tuesday assorted links

    1. Comment section arbitrage. This is what the AIs do too, right? 2. Claims about New Zealand. 3. Good Bryan Caplan post on Effective Altruism. 4. Reported female bisexuality is in retreat? 5.…

    Marginal Revolution8h

  • Not About Navier-Stokes

    This post isn’t about OpenAI’s use of AI to solve the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the Millennium Prize problems, at least not directly. I’m not a mathematician; I have a vague understanding of the…

    O'Reilly Radar9h

  • Using Device Linking to Eavesdrop on WhatsApp and Signal

    Modern messaging apps allow users to link their phone accounts to their computer desktop. Eavesdroppers are taking advantage of this capability: Apps such as WhatsApp Web and Signal Desktop allow…

    Schneier on Security12h

  • A Data Center Is a Dependency Graph Before It Is a Building

    The buildings and physical infrastructure for a new hyperscale data-center region are complete. Power is live and redundant, the cooling loops are balanced, the network fabric is up, and tens of…

    O'Reilly Radar12h

  • One More Note on Agents, Meta Connect, Meta Enterprise Platform

    Stratechery13hSubscription

Frontier

What actually shipped.

Governance

Regulators, standards, security.

Adoption

What organisations are doing, with money attached.

Build

For the making side.

Press

Last, deliberately. It reports what the layers above have usually already explained.

Open

The sources that refuse ingestion, one tap away.

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