On 12 June, every Australian quietly lost access to Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5, the most capable AI model on earth. No warning. No negotiation. The model simply went dark. And the cut didn’t come from …
Remoteness from conflict is emerging as a key advantage for Australia in the competition to host AI data centres. The country already enjoys great advantages including prospectively abundant and cheap energy from renewable sources. Israeli …
In January, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told the World Economic Forum something that Western democracies have long known but rarely said in public. The rules-based international order, he observed, was always a pleasant fiction. …
AI development is often imagined as a race for scale in which competitive edge is gained by harnessing enough energy to operate AI technology. Tech billionaires such as Elon Musk have stoked this narrative, suggesting …
If you were a tech giant that had set up data centres in the Middle East because of the cheap fossil-fuel power and permissive regulatory environment, you might now be looking wistfully at Australia. Right …




