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What is happening in AI and tech across Australia.
Apple Just Launched a $299 Smart Home Screen, and the New Siri Inside It Is the Real Story
Apple's new HomeView hub puts a seven inch screen and a redesigned, Apple Intelligence powered Siri in the middle of the smart home, directly challenging Amazon and Google's long running dominance there. It will not be available in the European Union at launch, for a telling reason. ---
WA's AI Traffic Cameras Kept Fining People for Things They Could Not Control. Now Thousands of Fines Are Being Dropped
Western Australian police have withdrawn thousands of AI generated seatbelt fines after realising the cameras could not prove drivers actually knew a passenger's seatbelt had slipped. It is a clear, real world lesson in the gap between what an AI system can detect and what it can actually prove. ---
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OpenAI and Google Are Rivals. Now They’re Doing Business Together
On 21 October 2026, OpenAI and Google announced a deal to make OpenAI’s advanced models and Codex coding agent available through Google Cloud. The partnership reveals an important shift in the AI industry: companies are competing to build the best models while cooperating to reach more customers.
Google Just Solved a Problem Quantum Computing Has Had for 20 Years. Here Is Why That Actually Matters
Google's Willow quantum chip just demonstrated something called "magic state cultivation," cutting error rates 40-fold on a resource that used to eat up to 95 per cent of a quantum computer's entire capacity just to produce cleanly. It is not a quantum computer you will use next year, but it is the kind of result that decides how many years away a useful one actually is. ---
Rocket Lab Found a Microscopic Gap in Carbon Fibre. It Just Cost Them a Year
Rocket Lab has pushed the first launch of its Neutron rocket from this year to 2027, after a newly manufactured fuel tank dome showed micro-gaps between carbon fibre layers during inspection. CEO Peter Beck says reliability matters more than speed. This is what a serious hardware company looks like when it chooses to be slow on purpose. ---
Wall Street Just Had Its Worst Tech Week Since June. The Word Behind It Is "Debt," Not "Hype
The Nasdaq fell 4.5 per cent this week, its worst since June, and the Kospi had its worst week since 2008. The trigger was not a disappointing product launch, it was a bond market starting to ask whether AI infrastructure companies can actually repay what they borrowed to build it. Here is the specific company at the centre of it, and why the distinction between hype and debt matters. ---
Gartner Just Put a Number on the AI Bubble Question. It Is $3.5 Trillion
Gartner estimates more than $3.5 trillion in AI infrastructure spending could face impairment by the end of 2030 if current investment keeps outpacing actual revenue. The firm expects over 80 per cent of specialised AI cloud providers to stop operating independently by then. Here is the maths behind that number, and what it does and does not prove. ---
Tesla Just Strapped Rocket Thrusters to a Car and Launched It Off an Upside Down Ramp. Elon Musk Calls It a Flying Car
After nine years of delays and a last minute weather postponement, Tesla finally showed the new Roadster on 15 October, and it did something no production car has done before, it drove up an inverted ramp, launched into the air using compressed air thrusters, flipped, and landed on its wheels. The FAA says it is not an aircraft. Here is what was actually shown, and why the skepticism from Tesla's own fans is worth taking seriously. ---
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