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Australian universities clash over how to handle AI cheating, as one expert warns of a national brain drain

An ANU academic calls campus crackdowns 'hysterical', while a colleague says weak assessment standards could hand Australia's intellectual talent to tech giants in California and China.

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Australia's AI moment: why a good speech is only the beginning

Prime Minister Albanese has started the conversation on artificial intelligence. Researchers and commentators say the harder questions, about capability, security and who actually benefits, still need answers.

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Australia's PM outlined an AI vision. Creatives cheered, but a big question went unanswered

Anthony Albanese promised new laws to protect Australian artists and writers from AI. Critics say the speech was long on mood and short on detail, and one issue was missing entirely.

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Australia's AI Plan Is Bold. The Tech Giants It Must Deal With Are Bigger Than Most Governments

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised to get ahead of artificial intelligence. The companies he will need to negotiate with have revenues larger than many national economies.

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Australia's Prime Minister vows to protect artists from AI copyright theft and clamps down on data centres

Anthony Albanese has pledged that writers and musicians will keep control of their work and get paid when AI companies use it. New rules will also govern where giant data centres can be built and how much power they consume.

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Australia's PM Promises Fast-Track Approvals for AI Data Centres. Critics Say That's Not Enough.

Anthony Albanese wants to speed up permits for the giant computer facilities that power AI. But policy experts warn Australia needs accountability guardrails first.

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Australia Plans a Single Office to Oversee All of AI's Risks and Rewards

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Australia will be the first country to bring economic, security, social and environmental AI concerns under one national roof, while fast-tracking approvals for data centres.

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Australian Labor MP warns colleagues: let AI companies write their own rules and you will fail

Ed Husic is pushing his own party to get tougher on big tech, as the country's creative workers union demands that AI firms stop using artists' work without permission.

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Australia's Government Faces a Deadline on AI: Jobs, Copyright and a Prime Minister's Speech

A landmark address this Wednesday could shape how Australia regulates AI. Workers, artists and investors are all watching.

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Albanese to call AI a turning point as big as renewable energy, but artists get no copyright answers

Australia's prime minister will address AI policy in a Sydney speech this week, comparing the technology's rise to the renewable energy shift. Creative industries hoping for copyright protection news will have to keep waiting.

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Australia's creatives versus AI companies: the copyright fight heading to Canberra

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is set to address artificial intelligence this week as Australian artists demand their work stops being used to train AI without permission or pay.

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An Australian song hit No 1 on radio. Now people are asking if AI made it.

Josh Fawaz's cover of 'Like a Prayer' climbed to the top of Australia's national airplay chart. Music experts say it sounds like generative AI produced it, not a human.

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