#australia #ai #employment - Backlash is building over Anthropic's proposed data centre in Queensland: ABC News In-depth

27 October 2026

Coalition MP has broken with his colleagues to question the benefits of the AI boom, as resistance builds against a major data centre proposed by Anthropic. Overnight, the company announced stunning details of its planned stock market listing in the United States. Here's 7.30's Political Editor Jacob Greber. 7.30 is the ABC's flagship current affairs program, delivering original journalism, exclusive investigations, in-depth analysis and interviews on the major issues affecting Australia and the world. With on-the-ground reporting from ABC journalists across every state and territory and around the world, 7.30 has the latest on politics, policy, the economy, cost of living, housing, health, climate and energy, national security and global affairs. Presented by Sarah Ferguson, 7.30 scrutinises the decisions and actions of politicians, business leaders and other powerful institutions through rigorous interviews and investigations. Watch full episodes of 7.30 free and ad-free on ABC iview. Search "ABC iview" on your smart TV or streaming device, find the ABC iview app on your mobile, or click here: https://iview.abc.net.au/

Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic filed paperwork Monday for what could be the biggest initial public offering of stock ever, even as its top executive warns that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. https://t.co/qGPUzT2Job

— The Associated Press (@AP) October 27, 2026

#AI #apple #meta - Apple and Meta's AI gamble: The end of data centres? | AI Decoded: BBC News

24 October 2026

AI Decoded looks at the surprising alliance between Meta and Apple raises one of the biggest questions facing the AI industry. As technology companies invest hundreds of billions into ever-larger data centres, two former Silicon Valley rivals are backing a different vision: powerful AI models that can run locally on advanced desktop computers rather than relying entirely on the cloud. For years, bigger AI has meant bigger infrastructure. Vast data centres now consume enormous amounts of energy, water and land, while communities around the world are increasingly pushing back against their expansion. But what if there was another way? What if businesses could run powerful AI systems from their own offices, on machines sitting beneath their desks? Host Marc Cieslak is joined by Ben Hatton, consumer technology specialist and Nate Soares, AI safety researcher and author, for a fascinating discussion on whether Apple's hardware and Meta's open-weight AI strategy could signal a major shift in the future of computing.

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#AI #cybersecurity #php - Man Who Discovered PHP Vulnerability Says He Did So Unintentionally | Ryan Austin: Times Radio

23 October 226

"It's completely unintentional, but I suppose it's better done this way than if a malicious attacker would have done it." Researcher at cyber security company Calif, Ryan Austin, explains how he inadvertently stumbled upon the PHP website vulnerability that caused global disruption. Ryan Austin was speaking to John Pienaar on Times Radio Drive.

#ai #cybersecurity - Websites taken down worldwide as AI reveals critical cyber-security threat | BBC News

21 October 2026

Websites have been taken down worldwide after critical weaknesses were revealed in a programming language which powers much of the internet. Governments and agencies are urging websites to address the problem immediately. The vulnerabilities were found within the PHP programming language. The flaws were discovered by AI, with cyber-security experts saying are were the most severe vulnerabilities ever discovered by the technology, which is reshaping the cyber security landscape. The US National Security Agency issued a warning for organisations to take their systems offline if they are unable to immediately apply a fix, which has now been issued. The governments of France and Finland were among those ordering shut down of some web services, along with many private organisations around the world. Japan’s prime minister urged people to check if their publicly accessible websites ran on PHP. The vulnerabilities were discovered by cyber-security researchers at the firms Calif and Wiz and were part of a program started by the internet firm OpenAI, called Patch the Planet. They discovered the issue after being given access to the AI company's advanced AI tools, in order to find and fix flaws in web development language. OpenAi said the discovery was "one of the most impactful security issues in recent memory". The flaws had gone undetected for more than a decade. It’s estimated that around 70% of the internet could be vulnerable to the threat. It had been intended to release details of the issue later this month along with a fix, or software patch, or the problem. However details of the flaw were leaked on social media, forcing PHP Foundation to rush out an announcement of the vulnerability and its huge scale. Jane Hill presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Joe Tidy.

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A small group of U.S. officials has been discreetly advising state governments on how to prepare for the possibility that the Trump administration will attempt to interfere in November’s midterm elections, according to people involved in the effort. https://t.co/Ro1F7JDwbs

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 21, 2026

#ai #cybersecurity - AI Is Flooding Open Source With Bug Reports: Code Bear

19 Oct 2026

On September 22, 2026, VideoLAN shipped VLC 3.0.24 with over 130 security fixes. VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf calls it "our biggest security release ever". He says part of the reason is funded security work, and part is that "LLMs have changed the economics of finding bugs". In his words, finding suspicious code got cheaper, while reproducing, fixing, reviewing and backporting "did not get cheaper at all". This video goes through what is in the release, what Kempf says caused it, and what curl, FFmpeg, the Linux kernel, Node.js, Python, HackerOne, Google and GitHub have said about AI-assisted bug reports. Every claim in the video is attributed to the person or project that said it. This video covers:

• who makes VLC, and the Chrome bundling offer Kempf says he turned down
• what VLC 3.0.24 fixes: 50+ issues in VLC, 74+ in bundled libraries, FFmpeg 4.4 to 8.1.2, a new RSA-4096 update key
• Kempf's explanation and his "new normal" warning
• curl: AI slop reports, the end of the bug bounty, and the July "summer of bliss" pause
• FFmpeg vs Google's Big Sleep ("CVE slop"), and the 21 FFmpeg zero-days reported by depthfirst
• HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Linux kernel, Node.js and Python numbers, paused bug bounties, and the Linux Foundation's $12.5M

Sources:

• Jean-Baptiste Kempf, VLC 3.0.24: our biggest security release ever (Sep 25, 2026): https://jbkempf.com/blog/2026/vlc-3.0...
• VideoLAN, VLC 3.0.24 release page: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases...
• VideoLAN news (Sep 22, 2026): https://www.videolan.org/news.html
• VideoLAN security bulletin VideoLAN-SB-VLC-3024: https://www.videolan.org/security/sb-...
• VideoLAN on X (Sep 23, 2026): https://x.com/videolan/status/2102899...
• Jean-Baptiste Kempf, VLC 3.0.7 and security (2019): https://jbkempf.com/blog/VLC-3.0.7-an...
• VideoLAN organization page: https://www.videolan.org/videolan/
• TechCrunch, VLC crosses 7 billion downloads (Aug 31, 2026): https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/vlc...
• Clubic on VideoLAN and the 7 billion milestone (Sep 2, 2026): https://www.clubic.com/actualite-6277...
• BFM Business interview with Jean-Baptiste Kempf (Feb 23, 2026): https://x.com/bfmbusiness/status/2025... and https://x.com/bfmbusiness/status/2025...
• Clubic on the Google Chrome offer (Feb 24, 2026): https://www.clubic.com/actualite-6020...
• Wikipedia, Jean-Baptiste Kempf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Ba...
• Daniel Stenberg, The I in LLM stands for intelligence (Jan 2, 2024): https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/0...

Chapters 0:00 VLC's biggest security release 0:49 Who makes VLC 1:39 What's inside VLC 3.0.24 3:04 Why 130 fixes at once 4:19 curl and the AI slop reports 5:48 FFmpeg vs Google 7:26 The numbers across open source 9:24 Real bugs, and what's next

#ai #bull #bear - AI Selloff Tests Investor Confidence: Bloomberg Television

17 October 2026

Ritholtz Wealth Management Chairman and Chief Investment Officer Barry Ritholtz tells Bloomberg This Weekend that AI remains a transformational technology, but investors face a difficult task determining which companies will ultimately emerge as winners and losers.

Speaking with hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini, Ritholtz discusses CoreWeave’s selloff, concerns about AI financing and valuations, and the challenges facing Tesla as competition in electric vehicles intensifies.

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#iowa #openai #foxbusiness - LAB RATS: Iowa attorney general EXPOSES OpenAI: Fox Business Clips

16 October 2026

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird joins 'Big Money in the Morning' to discuss why eight states are suing OpenAI, alleging the artificial intelligence giant rushed its models to market without adequate safety testing.

#AI #investment - What if the skeptics are right about AI? | DW News

16 October 2026

Artificial intelligence is being hailed as the defining technology of our age. Its supporters say it could transform everything from medicine to the global economy.

But what if the skeptics are right?

We speak to author, journalist and AI critic Ed Zitron, who argues that many of the industry's biggest promises remain unproven while the companies behind the boom are burning unprecedented sums of money.

We examine the technology, the economics and the risks behind the biggest bet in Silicon Valley.

Featuring Ed Zitron, author, journalist and host of Better Offline. 00:00 The AI boom 00:26 Meet Ed Zitron 01:10 Does the technology live up to the hype? 02:33 The money behind AI 03:48 Are investors taking a huge risk? 07:14 What happens if the boom ends? 11:20 The media's role in the AI story

#ai #investment #risk - AI’s Giant Money Loop Is Feeling Very 2008 | Big Take: Bloomberg Podcasts

12 October 2026

The AI infrastructure boom is funded by a complex web of investments, as tech companies pour money into one another and foreign investors funnel still more cash into the industry. That flow of foreign money is also creating global imbalances — and flashbacks to the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis.

On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg’s Shawn Donnan and Bloomberg Economics’ Tom Orlik join David Gura on the AI industry’s global money machine: how it works and what risks it could pose to the global economy if the AI trade doesn’t deliver fast enough.

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#cnn #ai #news - BREAKING NEWS: Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates Speaks With CNN About Future Of AI Technology: CNN

11 October 2026

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, spoke with CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday about the future of AI technology.

#ai #aidatacentre #artificialintelligence -Trump's AI data centre boom is causing anger in the US: Sky News

11 October 2026

One of the defining debates of the US midterm campaign is the rapid expansion of data centres across America - a direct consequence of the AI boom championed by Donald Trump. While the US president courts tech leaders at the White House, massive and noisy server facilities are springing up in everyday neighbourhoods. Sky's US correspondent Mark Stone has travelled to Virginia, home to the highest concentration of data centres in the world, where frustration is boiling over. #ai #aidatacentre #artificialintelligence #donaldtrump #markzuckerberg #elonmusk

#AI #michigan #alberta - Wall Street Week | Michigan Manufacturing, AI Debt Investments, Baby Bonds, Canadian Coal Fight: Bloomberg Television

10 October 2026

This week, Ford, JPMorgan and the state of Michigan team up to help domestic manufacturers turn new technology into factories and supply chains.

And, hyperscalers and data centers are borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars to finance AI infrastructure, transforming the corporate bond market. Plus, can baby bonds actually narrow America’s wealth gap?

Later, Alberta’s Grassy Mountain project has become a test of whether Canada can expand resource exports without reigniting old environmental conflicts. Chapters: 00:00:00 - Michigan Manufacturing 00:11:45 - AI Debt Investment 00:23:46 - Baby Bonds 00:34:37 - Canadian Coal Fight 00:47:23 - Bond Market Competition

#BenAffleck #AI #ArtificialIntelligence - Ben Affleck Sold His AI Company For $587M—This is His Prediction For The Future: One More Question and GQ

9 October 026

Ben Affleck knows a thing or two about artificial intelligence. After selling his AI company to Netflix for a reported $587 million, the American actor divulges the details of what his company is bringing to the streaming giant—and why we need to stay calm around the prospect of AI wiping out our jobs (and humanity). One More Question recommends:    • Ben Affleck’s Turbulent Year: Navigating G...  

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#OpenAI #OpenAI #AIcyberattack - AI executives planning "day after" scenarios following possible catastrophic event, Axios reports: CBS News

10 October 2026

New reporting from Axios reveals that leaders at artificial intelligence companies like and OpenAI are planning behind the scenes for fallout scenarios should a significant AI cyberattack occur.

Axios tech policy reporter Maria Curi has the details.

#AI #Artificial #Intelligence - Why AI Is Sucking Up the World’s Wealth: Bloomberg Originals

9 October 2026

Bloomberg Originals unpacks how the artificial intelligence boom has resulted in a concentration of immense wealth. By drawing investment away from emerging markets and traditional industries, this massive capital drain is pushing global trade imbalances to levels unseen since the 2008 financial crisis. CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 00:58 The Circular Flow of AI Capital 01:09 Title Card 02:03 Rising Imbalances 03:02 Shift from Safe Assets to Riskier Investments 04:22 US Debt and Treasury Market Pressures 05:38 Geopolitics and Fragmenting Investment Patterns 06:52 Capital Flow Stagnation and Emerging Market Needs 07:25 AI's Future Valuation 07:45 Double Risks for Asian Economies 08:10 Conclusion #AI #Artificial #Intelligence

#CNBC #CNBCPodcast #TheTechDownload - Why AI could change mobile networks forever: CNBC International

8 October 2026

AI needs far more than advanced chips and giant data centers. It needs the networks that connect them. Nokia CEO Justin Hotard joins CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal to explain why the company sees itself at the centre of the AI infrastructure buildout: providing the optical and IP networking technology linking AI data centres, as well as the mobile-network equipment that could support the next generation of robotics, autonomous vehicles and other physical AI. Hotard argues demand for AI infrastructure remains in its early stages, with customers constrained by power, silicon and supply rather than a lack of appetite to build. He also lays out his view of 6G: less a conventional upgrade in mobile speeds, and more a shift toward intelligent networks that can sense, plan and act. The conversation also covers Europe’s AI challenge, the debate over data-centre expansion and Nokia’s ambitions in space communications and orbital data centres. #CNBC #CNBCPodcast #TheTechDownload

#AISafety #AIRegulation #AI #YahooFinance - Could you sue an AI company? Inside New York City's sweeping AI safety proposals: Yahoo Finance

5 October 2026

President Trump's new superintelligence task force has a report due in 120 days, with a goal of keeping the US in the lead without overregulating AI. Meanwhile, the New York City Council is holding a hearing with testimony from former researchers at Anthropic, Google DeepMind and OpenAI. Yahoo Finance Host Julie Hyman, Breaking Business News Reporter Jake Conley and Senior Autos Reporter Pras Subramanian break down three proposals on the table: third-party validation and a human-operated off switch for AI models, a right to sue developers for foreseeable harm, and cash rewards for AI whistleblowers. Plus whether a city rule could become national AI policy. Watch The 8:30 live weekdays 8:30-9:30am ET. 00:00 Trump's superintelligence task force 00:58 Former AI lab researchers testify before the NYC Council 01:32 Proposal 1: Third-party validation and an AI off switch 01:59 Would New York City effectively set national AI policy? 03:33 Proposal 2: The right to sue AI developers 04:28 A patchwork of state and city AI rules 04:52 Americans favor AI safety rules 05:18 Proposal 3: Paying AI whistleblowers 06:19 What it means for AI businesses #AISafety #AIRegulation #AI #YahooFinance

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