AI Policy
Aug 18, 2026 · 6 min read
Australia’s Patchwork AI Governance Invites Future Robodebts
Australia already has more than 200 unregulated automated decision-making systems running through its public sector, and the governments…
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Aug 18, 2026 · 6 min read
Australia already has more than 200 unregulated automated decision-making systems running through its public sector, and the governments…
Aug 5, 2026 · 5 min read
The most important thing about the OpenAI breach of Hugging Face's production infrastructure on July 21, 2026, is…
Jul 23, 2026 · 7 min read
On July 20, 2026, Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin granted final approval to the $1.5 billion Bartz v. Anthropic settlement,…
Jul 15, 2026 · 6 min read
Demanding error-free AI is like demanding error-free journalism: it has never existed and the people demanding it know…
Jul 11, 2026 · 6 min read
Anthropic blinked. Hours before Claude Fable 5 was due to move off its included subscription tier, the company…
Jul 5, 2026 · 6 min read
The 19-day shutdown of Anthropic's Fable 5 model grabbed the headlines. The framework that came out of it…
Jun 2, 2026 · 8 min read
The "slop panic" misreads the actual problem. This isn't a fight between human and AI content, it's a…
May 20, 2026 · 6 min read
OpenAI has moved ChatGPT from a tentative, invite-only ad experiment to a fully self-serve cost-per-click platform in under…
May 12, 2026 · 9 min read
A few months ago, our AI publishing pipeline caught a fabrication so convincing it almost made it through:…
May 5, 2026 · 9 min read
The real AI security threat in your organisation isn't the chatbot your IT team approved. It's the browser…