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The State’s major political parties have outlined different approaches to data centres, as community backlash grows around the proposed $1.1 billion Clyde North data centres. Star News has contacted the four major parties on their policies on data centres. Labor: tighter rules, but no halt to development Cranbourne MP Pauline Richards has released a statement […]

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Will AI Devalue The Real World? Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times, Economic reality embeds many paradoxes, unexpected outcomes that go the opposite direction of what you might intuitively predict. The best example concerns a new innovation that seems to make more efficient use of…

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One of the world’s biggest network service providers has opened a new subsea route between Taipei and Hong Kong to strengthen the system against repeated underwater cable disruptions around the island. Britain-headquartered RETN said the new route would take its total to six serving Taiwan: four connecting Taipei and Hong Kong, and two linking Taipei and Tokyo. “Like many island economies, Taiwan’s international connectivity relies heavily on subsea cables, which creates exposure to risks such...

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A reader has shared concerns about the project slated for Wagga.

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OpenAI on Friday hit back at three former safety researchers who accused the ChatGPT-maker of firing them for warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence.

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Andrew Niccol's 2002 film "S1m0ne" anticipated the creation of AI actresses, a concept now realized with Tilly Norwood. While initially met with skepticism, the recent debut of Norwood in comedy and music videos has sparked controversy and confirmed Niccol's cautionary tale about the dangers of AI in entertainment.

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Home shoppers looking for new construction increasingly start with a question instead of a search filter. They type something like “new-home communities near Myrtle Beach under $400,000… Read the full article on TechBullion.

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Will AI Devalue The Real World? Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times, Economic reality embeds many paradoxes, unexpected outcomes that go the opposite direction of what you might intuitively predict. The best example concerns a new innovation that seems to make more efficient use of existing resources. Intuition might suggest that the result will be less resource use but reality often goes in the other direction. This is called the Jevons Paradox and it is based on a famous debate over the steam engine which made coal power far more effective than ever before, leading to wide predictions that the coal industry would experience a dramatic pullback in production need. Economist Henry Jevons said the opposite: the demand for coal will soar precisely because each unit will become more valuable in the task it serves. He was correct. The lesson applies in many areas of life. Sometimes that very thing we believe is endangered by an innovation that seems to nearly replace it prompts the very opposite: the original resource becomes more valuable than ever before. Consider the problem of counterfeit luxury goods. We are talking about Nike tennis shoes, Gucci accessories, Louis Vuitton luggage and bags, Rolex watches, and so on. There is a massive global economy supported by fakes. There is simply no way that a single brand can possibly stamp them out. I've been to cities in Turkey where the real and fake stores sell identical looking products happily, happily but at wildly divergent prices. Economists have studied this phenomenon for many years and the results of the empirical studies are nearly always the same. The counterfeit good does not diminish the value of the authentic good. In fact, the valuation push goes in the other direction. The prices of the authentic thing rise in price, which is precisely why luxury brands know better than to crack down with a heavy hand. Why might this be? The fake good provides brand advertising in two directions. It gets the name out there. And the very fact that these companies are dedicating time and resources to try to replicate the original only sends a market signal that the original is worthy of being copied. The result is a mad scramble on the part of consumers who can afford the real thing to find it, authenticate it, and brag about it. The end result: the real thing becomes more valuable than ever. The Coca-Cola Company discovered this early in its operations in the late 19th century. There were many imitators, despite the famous secret recipe. The company tried to stop the fake products through crackdowns and new techniques such as the beautiful bottle that other factories at the time could not replicate. All the while the demand for Coke only grew. Their impersonators only fed the legend through the decades. Finally the slogan "the real thing" dominated the marketing pitch. Today there are huge studios of painters in China and elsewhere that specialize in recreating old paintings by the old masters. They only grow and grow and the demand for the product rises ever further without diminishing the valuation of the original at all. Quite the reverse. Imitation and counterfeiting itself is a market signal that causes consumer demand to rally around that which is being imitated. Now we come to the core of why I'm explaining this. It concerns artificial intelligence or super intelligence or whatever you want to call it. (Actually I think AI has already stuck.) In only a few years since deployment, it is likely that a majority of the words you read on an average day are being written by machines not people. The same is true with videos and movies. The AI engines are playing a huge role in advertising and music production too. This has led to an existential panic among creative artists. Are they being replaced entirely? Publishers can no longer tell what is real and what is authentic. News broke last week that a book being considered for an award turned out to be an AI-generated text. That's a humiliation for everyone involved. No question that these innovations are legitimately troubling for the creative community. But keep in mind what AI specializes in. It is amazing at doing routine tasks, automating them, saving time and other resources. The more you use AI this way, the more it feels like a miracle. What took months only a few years ago takes minutes now. What AI cannot do is think creatively, make insightful judgments, access authentic imagination, and exercise moral consciousness. To the extent that it behaves as if it can do these things, it is only impersonating people. But the human mind will always maintain its advantage in the creative spark, the conjuring up of new ideas, and the relaying of deep emotion from the experience of love, fear, terror, jealousy, rage, pathos, and sacrificial empathy. In other words, the authentic products of the human spark will always have value even in a world flooded by AI slop and even its impressive output. We can fully expect that real human achievement will go the direction of all before. Just as coal became more valuable after steam, and just as a genuine Louis Vuitton bag goes ever higher in price. The fakes don't reduce the price and value of the real but just the opposite, they create an even more intense demand for authenticity. This is just as any technology that makes an existing resource more efficient to use will increase the demand for that resource. None of which is to say that AI is not going to destroy plenty of jobs, particularly those that have relied upon routine calculation and tasking. Many of those will mercifully go away. That said, we are already tired of AI-created videos that lack the creative spark and AI imagery, with its distinctive qualities, has already become dull. All of this is going to require adjustment to the new realities. That said, I fully expect the real symphony to make a comeback, the genuine oil painting to achieve new heights of fame, and a truly virtuosic writer to experience an even higher demand. If affordable and available, no one wants fake when the real is an option. Think of the pipe organ in a grand cathedral. It is an all-of-body experience. Nothing else like it. You can listen to recordings at home but they are a pale imitation, a digital file on your phone even less. An AI rendering of a fake Bach piece even less. The more we get away from the foundational form of expression - the genius of the human mind combined with the most physical form of making it real - the less it enraptures the spirit. The market will surely develop increasingly sophisticated mechanisms to certify and signal human authenticity, just as luxury brands developed holograms and blockchain verification to distinguish genuine goods from counterfeits. We are already seeing the emergence of "human-made" certifications and provenance tracking that command premium prices not from nostalgia, but from a deep consumer craving for connection to genuine consciousness. The creative professions will bifurcate: those which use AI merely as a steam engine for the mind, freeing their unique powers for work bearing their unmistakable human signature, and those which surrender entirely to algorithmic production only to find themselves drowned in the very "slop" that markets reject. The economic winners will understand that AI complements rather than replaces creativity, handling routine production while human judgment, moral courage, and imaginative depth become the scarcest and most valuable commodities of all. The Jevons Paradox shows us that efficiency does not diminish value but reveals what is truly scarce. As AI renders mediocrity abundant and costless, it simultaneously illuminates the profound scarcity of genuine human insight, suffering transformed into art, and love made manifest through creative sacrifice. We are not heading toward a future where the real world is devalued by its artificial imitation, but toward one where authenticity becomes the ultimate luxury, the one thing no machine can manufacture, no algorithm can optimize, and no counterfeit can replicate. And that, paradoxically, may be the most hopeful economic signal of all. Tyler Durden Fri, 10/09/2026 - 20:55

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New reporting from Axios reveals that leaders at artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are planning behind the scenes for fallout scenarios should a significant AI cyberattack occur. Axios tech policy reporter Maria Curi has the details.

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Queen guitarist Sir Brian May has cast doubt on the prospect of Queen returning with a virtual Freddie Mercury as he voiced his concerns over AI.

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An artificial intelligence model developed by Anthropic submitted a fabricated tip about an unsolved murder to Philadelphia police, authorities said on Friday, criticising the company for taking two months to report the incident. The Philadelphia Police Department said the false submission was made in July through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com, a public website where people can share information about unsolved killings. According to Anthropic’s account, as relayed by police, the model was running a...

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OpenAI disrupts Russian and Iranian influence operations using ChatGPT to create fake journalists, publish propaganda and undermine Ukraine's reputation

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Nvidia-backed Australian AI data center operator Firmus has withdrawn its planned IPO amid market volatility.

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What's actually inside an AI model? Mikah Sargent opens up the file from last week's episode and finds tokens, billions of numbers, and one surprisingly simple job: guess the

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Nvidia-backed Aussie AI firm Firmus withdraws historic IPO, citing market volatility CNBC Firmus Misfire Casts Shadow on Data Center IPOs in the Pipeline Bloomberg.com Firmus investor stock falls after reports AI data centre operator may cut $5 bln IPO Reuters Nvidia-Backed IPO’s Cratering Demand Sends Warning on AI Funding Yahoo Finance Firmus farce is a tale of hubris and arrogance AFR

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The report shows manufacturers are embracing artificial intelligence

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AI Agents, Security Debt, and Governance: Dave Lewis on the Real Risks of AI in Cybersecurity Host David Shipley interviews Dave Lewis of 1Password about… Read more → The post AI Agents, Security Debt, and Governance: Dave Lewis on the Real Risks of AI appeared first on IT Security News.

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Google seems to be making a strategic play to control the AI infrastructure layer, not just roll out another shiny new agent. At its Gemini at Work 2026 event this week, the tech giant unveiled what it calls a “single, universal agent” and API in Gemini that can be kicked off from a simple prompt box. Like other available agents, it is plugged into skills, tools, and enterprise systems, can answer questions, create media, and write and run code, return finished work via of documents, inboxes, and developer environments, and spin up sub-agents to help it do its job. But Google isn’t just looking to go toe-to-toe with existing offerings, or trying to convince enterprises its models are qualitatively and quantitatively superior, said independent tech analyst Carmi Levy. “Instead, it’s trying to establish itself as the gatekeeper of the new enterprise operating system, powered by whatever underlying model makes the most sense,” he said. ‘Omnipresent access,’ orchestration capabilities Google says its Gemini agent works autonomously from a single interface, and can function as a personal assistant or team member, akin to a project manager or analyst. Coworker agents can perform tasks across days, sessions, and shifting responsibilities; they have dedicated identities, and are given their own @agents.company.com emails and persistent storage. However, Google says, they only have access to specifically-defined data and channels. Enterprise-dictated security, governance, and cost controls are built-in. “You give it objectives, not instructions,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said in his keynote. “Work now starts in the prompt window.” The agent runs in the cloud and has “omnipresent access,” meaning it can work on nearly any device, including iOS and Android phones or Windows and Mac desktops, he said. It can also be accessed through any channel, including command line interfaces (CLIs), Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, or Slack channels, and when integrated into third-party apps. When needed, it also works as a headless agent, or even without a dedicated user interface. Working autonomously, the Gemini agent can spin up temporary or job-specific underlying agents and communicate and coordinate workflows with them to orchestrate multi-step tasks. These include parallel and sequential steps that might run for hours or days, Google said. Notably, the agent is given the flexibility to choose which model should drive different workflows, to improve quality and reduce cost; right now, those models include the Gemini family and Claude, but Google says it will soon expand capabilities to other leading private and open models. This is important because the leading model changes every few months, Kurian noted, and “the best model for the task is not always the largest one.” Choice a ‘unique value proposition’ Mahmoud Ramin, a research director at Info-Tech Research Group, noted that Google’s announcement does not create a whole new category, since OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Meta have already positioned multiagent capabilities in their platforms. What is interesting with Gemini, though, is that not only can it operate directly in multiple Google products like Gmail, Drive, Sheets, and Slides, it also connects to external systems. It is, of course, a good fit for those already using the Google environment, he noted, and the strongest use cases are around repetitive tasks and information synthesis, such as that described in the research performed by project managers, analysts, and marketing specialists. Levy agreed that Google’s unique value proposition revolves around choice. “It separates the agent from the underlying model, and allows enterprises to use whatever model makes sense for a given workload,” he said. Its role-based agents are also “compellingly unique,” because they allow enterprises to create agents optimized for specific roles; meanwhile, more granular permission-setting addresses growing concerns about automated bots going off the rails. While OpenAI and Microsoft have made similar claims, Google is “arguably leading the conversation around identity, audit trails, and who, or what, is ultimately responsible for workflows,” Levy said. Google and others looking to be ‘gatekeepers’ As the AI industry pivots beyond mere chatbots toward its “inevitably agentic future,” the role of companies like Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and others in the role of gatekeepers comes into sharper focus, Levy noted. The defining layer has shifted from operating systems to browsers, apps, cloud platforms, and now large language models (LLMs). In the agentic rush, key players are racing to establish their role in enterprise workflow infrastructure. “The agent layer could be the ultimate prize of the AI era, and it largely explains why every vendor announcement seems to essentially claim the same thing,” Levy said. But Google has to convince IT decision makers that its agentic roadmap is better than the competition’s; this means shifting the AI conversation to autonomy, rather than just basic tasks. Like virtually every other vendor’s agent, Google’s Gemini agent can write an email, tweak a spreadsheet, and build a presentation. “However,” Levy said, “whether CIOs and CISOs can trust it to run mission critical business processes indefinitely without doing something stupid enough to generate damaging headlines is another story altogether.” “Will enterprises care? If they’re already heavily invested in Google’s workplace stack, this could be an easier sell in the C-suite,” he noted. Raising important governance questions Info-Tech’s Ramin noted that whatever platform enterprises choose, the front-and-center focus going forward should be who controls AI agents. “As organizations unleash the power of agent autonomy, it raises the pivotal and non-negotiable requirement of enforcing governance,” he said, noting that with basic AI systems, risk is “much more contained” compared to that of an autonomous agent that has access to multiple business systems and can communicate with other agents. In the latter case, enterprises should significantly enforce guardrails, including permissions, identity, human oversight, and system audits, he said. They should “clearly outline which decisions the agent is allowed to make, what data should be accessed, and how performance will be monitored.” This article originally appeared on Computerworld.

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Your detailing shop's reviews are stellar, but the calls have slowed anyway. Only 1.2% of local businesses get named by ChatGPT - so who's stealing your customers, and why won't more marketing spend fix it?

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Mikita Balesni, one of three OpenAI safety researchers fired last week, says he believes they were sacked for putting safety ahead of the company's short-term corporate interests.

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Anthropic on Oct 8 moved to bar users from treating its Claude AI system with needless cruelty.

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By Krystal Hu and Helen Coster Oct 8 (Reuters) - Flock Safety plans to let go of about 18% of its employees, people with direct knowledge of the plans said on Thursday, as the maker of AI-powered

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