Michael Nicholls 
💰 A $3.84 million funding allocation is heading to regional South Australia to target urgent ecological restoration and climate resilience projects. The South Australian Government has announced this allocation under the sixth year of the Landscape Priorities Fund.
💰 Forty million dollars to bring a single regional drinking water bore back online. This is the reality facing Narrabri Shire Council as it struggles to meet the strict Australian Drinking Water Guidelines updated in June 2025.
🏗️ Great to see Property and Development NSW and the Waste Assets Management Corporation complete the $19 million remediation of the former Truegain site in Rutherford.
⚠️ Regulators do not need to be physically on your site to catch an environmental breach. The Western Australian Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DEMIRS) has issued an immediate Stop Work Order to a mining operation in the Phillips River region.
🤖 “Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models.”
These words from Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei add a significant contribution to the global AI regulation debate.
🤖 “The one thing an organisation cannot simply restore.”
Michael Clark, Director of Threat Research at Sysdig, used these words to describe the payload of a new ransomware strain called ENCFORGE.
🤖 “AI factories are the infrastructure nations need to compete and innovate in the intelligence era.”
NVIDIA co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang shared this vision as his company joined South Korean internet giant NAVER and global asset manager Brookfield in a ten billion dollar strategic alliance.
🤖 “Let me state it clearly so that there is no doubt: Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models.”
Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei has publicly clarified his stance on open-source artificial intelligence, steering the regulatory conversation away from blanket bans and tow
“Attackers have frontier AI. Defenders need a frontier AI ecosystem, blending the best of open and closed models.”
— from the open letter to Washington
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang joined over 75 technology leaders signing a joint letter to Washington defending open-weight AI models.
💰 Great to see South Australian regional landscape boards securing a $3.84 million funding boost to drive climate resilience and ecological recovery. The Department for Environment and Water has allocated these funds through the Landscape Priorities Fund for the 2026 to 2027 financial year.