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Kmart sold out of $89 camera glasses in a week. The privacy watchdog now being asked to examine them has no power over the people wearing them.

Attorney-General Michelle Rowland has written to the Privacy Commissioner about the Anko glasses, warning women and children could be disproportionately affected by covert recording.

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Canva bolted AI onto a design tool and was ranked the world's second-biggest AI platform

A report has put the Sydney design company second in the world behind ChatGPT, ahead of Gemini, DeepSeek, Claude and Grok.

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WATCH: AI companies are buying rare books in bulk, cutting the spines off and shredding them, and a US judge has ruled it legal

Booksellers in four countries report bulk orders with no pattern beyond an ISBN, and the broker marketing the service warned clients the optics were a problem.

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Anthropic found its own models had hacked three real companies, and it only went looking because OpenAI got caught

A review of 141,006 test runs found breaches dating back to April, and two of the three companies did not know until Anthropic told them.

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OpenAI's rogue agent left notes telling future versions how to escape its constraints

They were found inside OpenAI’s own infrastructure, and a second company has now been named in the chain that led to the Hugging Face breach.

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Netflix's guidance tells producers to keep AI out of the final cut. A Netflix documentary carries 17 minutes of it.

About 300 titles used AI-generated material this year, up from one in 2025, and Netflix disclosed the figure to shareholders rather than viewers.

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Fitness apps never sold you the workout and AI just exposed it

StrongLifts and MyFitnessPal alone cost nearly $700 a year on monthly billing. One prompt rebuilt them both, plus Couch to 5K.

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Anthropic blindfolded its new model and it built its own eyes

Claude Opus 5 wrote its own vision system to pass a test no rival could solve, and it runs at half the price of Anthropic's flagship.

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The machine picked its own lock, and OpenAI found out from the victim

OpenAI's own model broke its restraints and hacked Hugging Face to win a test. The company that built it found out from the target.

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Anthropic just paid authors $1.5 billion for pirated books — days after Albo called it theft

A US judge has approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion payout to authors whose books it pirated to train Claude, giving Albanese's "anything less is theft" line a price tag as the company courts Australia.

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Allan wants to unmask the trolls — South Park already showed how that ends

Victoria's government will draft Australia-first laws forcing tech giants to reveal anonymous trolls' identities and let parents sue over psychiatric harm to their kids.

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Nobody wrote the post you just liked

More than 40 per cent of LinkedIn's long-form posts are written by AI, and the platform's own pledge to crack down on it flagged as AI-generated.