Rick Koenig

national

Four women dead in seven days, and the news cycle had room for everything but them

Two women and two girls were allegedly killed by men they knew this week. The country found time for the Reserve Bank, Modi and the oil price, and barely a moment for them.

politics

The businesses “fleeing” Victoria over work from home already let their staff do it

Peak business groups say a two-day work-from-home right will drive investment interstate. Their own numbers say three-quarters of Victorian businesses already offer it.

national

Queensland fined 420 e-scooter riders in a fortnight. One lasted seven minutes.

Queensland's new e-mobility laws have seized more than 100 devices and issued 420 fines in twelve days while Melbourne, which embraced share scooters then binned them, threw most of them in the river.

technology

Police allege a teenager had AI plan a mass shooting for him. It wouldn't be the first time.

Court documents describe a 13-year-old prompting a chatbot for first-person massacre content as lawsuits mount against AI firms overseas

politics

Federal Labor members push for AI-labelling law on music and art

Federal Labor's membership wants the party to commit to labelling AI-generated music and art as artists warn over a flood of machine-made work.

technology

We made the world's most powerful AI model draw Melbourne — the results were, unexpected.

We benchmarked Claude Fable Max against ChatGPT and Gemini on three drawing prompts before the model went offline.

Sport

Relax, the keeper swap was normal. The rest of Popovic's shootout wasn't

Australia crashed out to Egypt on penalties. The keeper substitution made sense — sending two defenders up including the youngest player we've ever fielded didn't.

Melbourne

The Victorian Liberals have finally figured out the internet — and Canberra is taking note

From Jess Wilson's mock-Commonwealth Games stunt to Angus Taylor leaning into the meme that haunted him, the party that lost the youth vote is learning to speak its language.

Sport

Socceroos v Egypt: Everything you need to know as Salah races the clock

Australia face the Pharaohs in Dallas for a place in the last 16 — and Mohamed Salah is racing the clock to be fit.

world

Europe is sweltering through its deadliest heatwave in years — so what does this mean for Australia?

Dozens dead and temperature records falling across the continent while a completely separate climate system takes hold in the Pacific.

News

The ABC has made AI mandatory for every staff member — and quietly weakened its transparency rules at the same time

It follows reports Nine told journalists at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the AFR that AI use is mandatory and their usage is being monitored.

technology

The US government just decided who gets access to the world's most powerful AI — and Australia isn't on the list

The US has partially lifted the ban on Anthropic's Mythos 5 but only for hand-picked American organisations.