Advanced Braking: $23.5m Revenue and CAS9 Certification
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Suno Spark offers grants but demands broad rights
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70 NSW beaches to get year-round shark drones
NSW adds $34m to expand its shark drone programme to about 70 ocean beaches. All Sydney beaches covered from July 1, with AI detection trials this summer.
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AI music: human briefs beat low-latency models
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Amazon pulls Sam Altman biopic after roughly US$50bn OpenAI tie-up
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Battery boom trims 1,500 km from transmission plan
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HP OmniBook 3 gives day-long battery and 2K OLED for about $500
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Prime Day moves to June, big discounts on smart home gear
Prime Day 2026 runs June 23-27 after Amazon moved it to avoid clashes. Expect daily drops and steep discounts on smart-home gear, audio, TVs and vacuums.
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Google March 2026 update hit 79.5% of lifestyle sites, developer checklist maps fixes
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Brazil emergency alerts offline after 'misantropi4' message
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AusAlert trial sounds sirens, exposes patchy delivery in regional towns
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OpenAI loses senior enterprise sales lead as Barret Zoph departs
Barret Zoph's exit has left OpenAI's enterprise sales team in flux and raised questions about customer deals and leadership as the company nears an IPO.
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Data centre boom: A$300bn reshapes NSW and Victoria
About A$300bn flowed into data centres in NSW and Victoria, boosting AI and cloud hosting while exposing gaps in energy, water and climate planning.
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55-inch Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED discounted ahead of Prime Day
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AI erases classic phishing warning signs, attacks rise
Generative AI erases classic phishing warnings, making scams harder to spot. Use multi-factor authentication and report suspicious messages to platforms.
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Election breach and $300,000 legal bill pressure minister
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New York subpoena sparks multi-state probe of OpenAI
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Google sues to halt AI-powered SMS scam that hit hundreds of thousands
Google sued to dismantle an alleged China-based group that used AI to create phishing sites and send millions of fraudulent SMS to mobile users worldwide.
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Deezer launches free scanner after spotting about 75,000 AI uploads a day
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Warner Music buys Sureel AI, gains millions of music assets
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Apple delays Siri AI launch in EU after DMA dispute
Apple will not launch Siri AI in the EU at rollout after the European Commission rejected its DMA interoperability plan, and Apple gave no timetable for EU availability.
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Siri AI brings context-aware replies, regional limits
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