11+ hour, 36+ min ago   (41+ words) The Age Tech leaders are calling for an urgent global slowdown on artificial intelligence and warning self-training AI is evolving faster than safety guard rails can handle. September 13, 2026 — 6:43pm...

9+ hour, 20+ min ago   (400+ words) September 13, 2026 — 9:00pm “Reading this morning of the predicted demise of the world by AI, I wonder what the world would look like,” ponders Garry Thomas from Oatlands. “No work, little hope and continual breadlines where one would get bread, soup and…...

12+ hour, 32+ min ago   (679+ words) September 13, 2026 — 5:47pm Tlaola, Mexico: Few people had reason to wander close enough to hear the loud, mechanical whirring of a clandestine cryptocurrency farm nestled in the lush green mountains of central Mexico, next to a sparsely travelled gravel road. What led…...

14+ hour, 35+ min ago   (25+ words) Europe correspondent David Crowe on the ground in Kyiv, Ukraine. September 13, 2026 — 3:44pm...

14+ hour, 38+ min ago   (725+ words) September 13, 2026 — 3:42pm There was widespread surprise when NAZA, an Israeli documentary that had a record-breaking 25-minute standing ovation at the 83rd Venice Film Festival, won the special jury prize at the awards ceremony on Saturday. That early award meant Israeli filmmakers Yuval…...

15+ hour, 31+ min ago   (675+ words) September 13, 2026 — 2:48pm Australia’s assistant technology minister has called the behaviour of OpenAI’s rogue AI agents “unquestionably dangerous” after a private briefing from one of the independent investigators looking into a hacking incident in July. Andrew Charlton, assistant minister for science, technology…...

17+ hour, 13+ min ago   (909+ words) September 13, 2026 — 1:06pm They are feature films you will almost certainly never see. Made for comically small budgets. Starring no-one you know. Yet at a time when even well-funded Australian films regularly struggle to find an audience, young filmmakers keep making ultra-low…...

19+ hour, 33+ min ago   (458+ words) September 13, 2026 — 10:46am School students will be limited to as little as 15 minutes of screen time per day in NSW classrooms as the Minns government seeks to arrest the alarming drop in Australia’s global reading and writing standards. The new policy, announced…...

20+ hour, 1+ min ago   (1121+ words) September 13, 2026 — 10:18am Leaders of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence platforms say it’s time to slow the development pace of their most advanced — and most lucrative — models, citing escalating risks of the technology. Anthropic PBC chief executive officer Dario Amodei issued a…...

1+ day, 50+ min ago   (647+ words) The story of how Coyote vs Acme came back from the dead is crazier than a Looney Tunes cartoon. So it’s safe to say that its inexplicable axing in 2023 sent Forte into a head-spin. “This was a movie that I…...