Crisis contractor for OpenAI, Anthropic eyes a move to combat extremism People who show violent extremist tendencies on ChatGPT will be directed to human and chatbot‑based deradicalisation support through a new tool ​in development in New Zealand, the people behind it sai...

OpenAI's mental health crisis service is run out of regional New Zealand.

I spoke with its founder about what's next.

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I've seen enough. Clearly this experiment is working. It is time for a Michael C. Jordan.

Exclusive: Australia says it may go after app stores, search engines in AI age crackdown Australia's internet regulator said it may push search engines and app stores to block artificial intelligence services that fail to verify user ages after a Reuters review found more than half had no...

Australia's new child protection rules for AI search engines and chatbots take effect in one week.

I checked, and less than half appear to have taken steps to comply.

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Australians might be able to use their bank account to comply with the upcoming teen social media ban.

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Exclusive: In Australia, a data centre boom is built on vague water plans Authorities in Sydney approved construction of data centres without requiring measurable plans to cut water use, raising concerns the sector's rapid growth will leave residents competing for the resource.

In Sydney, the state government has approved every data centre application since taking over planning powers in 2021.

Three of them had a measurable water reduction plan.

In a city that goes into drought every 15 years or so, what could go wrong?

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By the way, Australian media keeps putting the country's annual gambling losses at $25 billion. That's an old number. This year it's forecast to be just over $34 billion.

Australia PM, politicians took $147,000 of match tickets while weighing sports betting ban Australian politicians were gifted about A$245,000 ($147,000) in match tickets over nearly two years by the country's most popular sporting leagues as part of a lobbying campaign against a proposed ban on advertising of online gambling, according to Reuters calculations based on government documents.

I took a look at the free tickets Australian politicians get to the footy, and the role they played killing the ban on gambling ads.

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If you rely on any online platform for your livelihood, I can set your blood running cold with the following words:

"We're making some exciting new changes!"

To be fair, this is a great question.

Here’s News Corp reporting on the ABC reporting that News Corp reports on the ABC:

Looks like my app has been updated and, while it is now in every way worse, it's also New and Different, which is what I demand as a consumer

Zelensky Says Trump Should ‘Just Accept’ Deal for Canada To Take Over USA — The Shovel In a Tweet today, Zelensky said he had brokered a peace deal between Canada and the USA during a summit to which the US was not invited.

Zelensky said he had brokered a peace deal for Canada to take over the USA, during a summit to which the US was not invited.

Roses are red
I love playing Yatzee

I could have sworn that was US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr??

Google Maps looking unsure how to proceed

Just checking the first two posts on my Twitter feed 👍

Hi! I’m here to improve transparency… anonymously 🥴

President of El Salvador clearly taking his inspiration from Australia circa 1787

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal
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I NEED MORE PEOPLE TO THINK ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE ONLY HAVE BLUEY BECAUSE AUSTRALIA HAS GRANT FUNDING FOR THE ARTS.

does this include, like... lockheed martin

Despite Australia's strict social media ban for minors, a YouTube exemption poses risks Australia's government carved out an exemption for YouTube when it passed laws banning social media access for children under 16, but some mental health and extremism experts say the video-sharing website exposes them to addictive and harmful content.

Australia is giving YouTube an exemption from its teen social media ban, so I set up three fake underage accounts to see what kind of content kids would be getting.

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Flood the zone with WHAT?

Great to see Grok's analysis of my tweeting style (I deleted all my tweets several years ago and haven't posted since):

Grateful to be protected from a word I hear approximately 250 times a minute

You've just been thrown to your death by the Beatles.