Minister Murray Watt Consolidates Browse CCS Project Assessment Wholly Under the EPBC Act
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Offshore carbon capture and storage projects will no longer face fragmented environmental approvals following a recent federal decision.
Michael Nicholls
US Government Restricts Frontier AI Access: OpenAI GPT-5.6 and Claude Mythos 5 Releases Gated
🤖 “Bad news: at the request of the US government, it is launching today in limited preview instead of the open access launch we were planning on.”
That was OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, commenting on the reportedly restricted release of the new GPT-5.6 series.
New Carbon Credits Amendment Bill 2026 targets Great Koala National Park to enforce strict additionality rules for ACCUs
💬 “The ACCU scheme is not intended to pay government, businesses, or individuals for doing something that they had already decided to do.”
Federal Member for Lyne Alison Penfold MP introduced the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Amendment Bill 2026 to the House of Representatives on 22 Ju
US Lawmaker Introduces AI Incident Reporting Act Mandating 7-Day Disclosures
🤖 “Private sector companies are really the canaries in the coal mine, they will see it before anybody else does.”
US Congressman Nathaniel Moran used these words to introduce the AI Incident Reporting Act.
Mantis Robotics Launches MR-X Fenceless Dual-Arm Robot
🤖 “Don’t mistake this for another humanoid robot.”
That is how Gerry Vannuffelen, CEO of Mantis Robotics, introduced the new MR-X dual-arm industrial robot at the Automate 2025 conference.
Federal Government registers new Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) method to award carbon credits for halting public timber harvesting.
🌲 State governments and approved commercial partners can now monetise public forest conservation under a newly registered federal carbon method.
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of massive distillation attack to clone Claude AI
🤖 “These distillation attacks are carried out illicitly, systematically, and at industrial scale to harvest US AI capabilities across frontier labs and repackage them as their own.”
This is the stark warning from Anthropic in a formal complaint to the US Senate.
Federal Government Releases New Local Government Climate Risk Guide to Standardise Council Assessment and Planning
💬 “The Albanese Government’s new Local Government Climate Risk Guide brings together integrated, accurate, timely, and accessible information that underpins expert advice.”
This statement from Assistant Minister Josh Wilson MP marks a notable change in how Australian councils will evaluate climate
California Launches First-in-Nation AI-Unemployment Tracker to Monitor Real-Time Workforce Impacts
📊 “This new tracker helps replace speculation with evidence, giving us a clearer understanding of what is changing and how to best support affected workers.” – Till von Wachter, Faculty Director of the California Policy Lab at UCLA.
Liquid AI launches ultra-compact LFM2.5-230M model running entirely on-device
🤖 “Why context management has become a primary bottleneck, more than GPU availability or compute efficiency, is the question of 2026.”
Jeff Harthorn of Solidigm recently highlighted this shift.