Michael Nicholls 
📊 “We are continuing to see rises in spending towards environmental-related R&D.”
Tom Lay, Australian Bureau of Statistics Head of Business Statistics, commenting on a historic shift in public funding.
🤖 “The cycle from dream, to manufacturing at rate, to having it out in the world can be very long.”
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos used this friction to explain his new venture, Prometheus, which has just raised US$12 billion at a US$41 billion valuation.
🏗️ A development licence is not an operating licence, and the gap between the two is growing wider under Victoria’s modern environmental laws. EPA Victoria has approved a Development Licence for JBS Pork Australia to construct a new rendering plant in Laverton North.
🤖 “This looks like a classic example of a foreign influence operation, jumping onto the bandwagon of a genuine pre-existing domestic debate, and trying to manipulate it by using fake accounts…”
Ben Nimmo, OpenAI principal investigator, recently highlighted this irony after the platform disrupted
⚖️ How can you prove ‘net gain’ on a development site if the law cannot actually define what it means? The Law Council of Australia has issued a strong warning regarding critical legal and operational gaps in the federal government’s proposed National Environmental Standards.
🤖 Is your team ready to move from writing AI prompts to overseeing autonomous agents? Anthropic has reportedly released a new generation of Claude models with autonomous, multi-step execution capabilities.
🤖 “We made the wrong trade-off and we apologise for not getting the balance right.”
Anthropic has executed a swift forty-eight-hour U-turn, reversing a highly controversial safeguard policy introduced with its latest Claude models.
Congratulations to John Bradley PSM on his appointment as the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of Australia’s first National Environmental Protection Agency. This appointment transitions the National EPA from a policy concept into an active regulatory body, scheduled to formally
📊 Port Phillip Bay water quality has reached its highest standard in four decades, defying massive regional population growth. EPA Victoria has released the findings from its 40-year coastal water monitoring programme.
🤖 Apple is reportedly preparing to raise the hardware bar for on-device AI in a significant way.