Michael Nicholls 
🤖 “Jalapeño is part of our long-term full-stack infrastructure strategy to make compute more abundant, resulting in AI which is faster, more reliable, and more affordable.”
These are the words of Greg Brockman, President of OpenAI, following the unveiling of their first custom-built silicon.
🛰️ An 800-square-metre patch of cleared land is all it takes for satellite surveillance to trigger an EPA Victoria inspection. In partnership with researchers from the University of Melbourne, @EPA Victoria has launched a near real-time tracking tool that analyses satellite imagery every two weeks.
🤖 Sixty-five per cent of a leading AI company’s product code is now written by their own autonomous digital teammate. Anthropic has launched Claude Tag, completely replacing its traditional Slack application.
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Holding an EPA Victoria operating licence without a fully compliant risk management system is about to get much riskier. EPA Victoria has released its updated regulatory guideline for preparing Risk Management and Monitoring Programmes (RMMPs).
🤖 “Physical AI is transforming how factories, warehouses and logistics operations work, and robotics teams need a unified safety architecture to scale autonomous systems.” – Deepu Talla, NVIDIA. Deploying advanced robotics in shared human environments has long faced a major bottleneck.
🔬 Congratulations to the research team at the University of Queensland on a biological remediation result that could reshape how we manage toxic mining tailings.
🤖 “As frontier systems become more capable, every AI lab will make consequential decisions about deployment, safeguards, acceptable uses, and risk tolerance.”
Those remarks from OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane point to a meaningful shift in how AI safety is being approached.
🤖 “The timeline is not years, it is months.”
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance, including the Australian Signals Directorate, has issued a rare joint warning about advanced AI-driven cyber threats.
🐜 Congratulations to the Tiwi Rangers and @CSIRO on achieving a globally significant biosecurity milestone in the Northern Territory. After a painstaking two-decade campaign, Melville Island is now officially declared free of the highly destructive tropical fire ant (Solenopsis geminata).
⚠️ The detection of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in native Australian wild birds has triggered an emergency national response. Commonwealth, state, and territory environment ministers have convened an emergency meeting to coordinate a cross-jurisdictional response.