3+ hour, 26+ min ago   (55+ words) Tech leaders are calling for an urgent global slowdown on artificial intelligence and warning self-training AI is evolving faster than safety guard rails can handle. September 13, 2026 — 6:43pm...

7+ hour, 21+ min ago   (675+ words) September 13, 2026 — 2:48pm Australia’s assistant technology minister has called the behaviour of OpenAI’s rogue AI agents “unquestionably dangerous” after a private briefing from one of the independent investigators looking into a hacking incident in July. Andrew Charlton, assistant minister for science, technology…...

11+ hour, 23+ min ago   (458+ words) September 13, 2026 — 10:46am School students will be limited to as little as 15 minutes of screen time per day in NSW classrooms as the Minns government seeks to arrest the alarming drop in Australia’s global reading and writing standards. The new policy, announced…...

11+ hour, 51+ min ago   (1121+ words) September 13, 2026 — 10:18am Leaders of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence platforms say it’s time to slow the development pace of their most advanced — and most lucrative — models, citing escalating risks of the technology. Anthropic PBC chief executive officer Dario Amodei issued a…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (212+ words) September 12, 2026 — 8:00pm Burbling alongYour correspondent (Letters, 10/9) is right re postcode snobbery. More examples include parts of Moorabbin changing to Hampton East or Bentleigh East (which used to be East Bentleigh), Cheltenham to Pennydale, Gardenvale to Brighton and East Brighton to Brighton…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (624+ words) A hero to the likes of Mac DeMarco and Harry Styles, 79-year-old Japanese pop pioneer Haruomi Hosono returns with a new album. In the studio of the 79-year-old Japanese pop icon Haruomi Hosono is a bust of Ludwig van Beethoven,…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (41+ words) The Age Universities are experimenting with AI avatars delivering lectures. Students say they find it hard to spot the difference. Updated September 11, 2026 — 10:58am,first published 10:17am...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (458+ words) September 10, 2026 — 2:41pm Artificial intelligence will be rolled out on two Brisbane roads to change traffic light sequences in real time and speed up traffic as part of a six-month trial, according to Brisbane council. The AI system will take place on…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (814+ words) Updated September 10, 2026 — 6:41am,first published 4:30am Apple will charge Australians $3499 for its first folding iPhone, unveiled on Thursday morning AEST, making it the most expensive phone the company has released. The company’s new chief executive, John Ternus, who took over from Tim…...