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Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite focusing on agentic efficiency

July 25, 2026 by Michael Nicholls
Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite focusing on agentic efficiency

🤖 “Gemini 3.6 Flash scores below Gemini 3.5 Flash! So this seems worse than their last generation, more expensive than Grok and Luna. Very strange model release,” says Bindu Reddy, CEO of Abacus AI.

Categories AI & Innovation

Tech Giants Unite in Open Letter Defending Open-Weight AI and Distillation

July 25, 2026 by Michael Nicholls
Tech Giants Unite in Open Letter Defending Open-Weight AI and Distillation

🤖 “The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.”

This quote, attributed to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, captures what is shaping up to be a defining debate over the future of artificial intelligence.

Categories AI & Innovation

AMD partners with Anthropic in $5B deal, deploying 2GW of Helios GPUs to challenge NVIDIA

July 25, 2026 by Michael Nicholls
AMD partners with Anthropic in $5B deal, deploying 2GW of Helios GPUs to challenge NVIDIA

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“Together, we will accelerate AI adoption at scale and establish Helios as a major platform for the next generation of AI infrastructure.”

This statement from AMD Chair and CEO Dr Lisa Su marks a significant shift in the global computing market.

Categories AI & Innovation

Australia Rejects AI Copyright Exemptions in New Mandatory AI Framework

July 25, 2026 by Michael Nicholls
Australia Rejects AI Copyright Exemptions in New Mandatory AI Framework

🤖 “Australian writers, musicians, artists and journalists must retain ownership and control of their work. Our laws will spell that out, plain as day. An artist’s creative endeavour is their work and their property…

Categories AI & Innovation

Humanoid raises $152M Series A at $1.35B valuation to become Europe’s first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn

July 25, 2026 by Michael Nicholls
Humanoid raises $152M Series A at $1.35B valuation to become Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn

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“Humanoid robotics is rapidly moving from a visionary concept to an industrial reality.”

Klaus Rosenfeld, CEO of Schaeffler, made this observation following a major investment announcement in the physical artificial intelligence space.

Categories AI & Innovation

OpenAI Launches Presence Platform and Pivots to Managed Enterprise Agent Deployments

July 25, 2026 by Michael Nicholls
OpenAI Launches Presence Platform and Pivots to Managed Enterprise Agent Deployments

🤖 “The challenge is no longer proving AI agents can work, it is making them reliable enough to do high-value work in production.”

This statement from OpenAI’s recent launch marks a significant shift in the artificial intelligence sector.

Categories AI & Innovation

Landowner hit with record $60,000 fine and million-dollar asbestos clean-up order

July 25, 2026 by Michael Nicholls
Landowner hit with record $60,000 fine and million-dollar asbestos clean-up order

💰 A $60,000 fine, but the real sting is the clean-up order expected to exceed $1 million. EPA Victoria has secured a landmark ruling in the Heidelberg Magistrates Court against an individual landowner.

Categories Enviro News

Federal and WA Governments award $3.7M in Recycling Modernisation Fund grants to 16 regional councils

July 25, 2026 by Michael Nicholls
Federal and WA Governments award $3.7M in Recycling Modernisation Fund grants to 16 regional councils

♻️ Congratulations to the sixteen regional and remote Western Australian local governments securing over $3.7 million in joint funding to modernise local resource recovery infrastructure.

Categories Enviro News

New TNFD guidance forces reporting on upstream biodiversity and land-use impacts for alternative fuels

July 25, 2026 by Michael Nicholls
New TNFD guidance forces reporting on upstream biodiversity and land-use impacts for alternative fuels

📊 Decarbonisation alone is no longer enough to support your sustainability claims.

Categories Enviro News

NSW launches $472,000 Sutherland-Kirrawee Groundwater Investigation Pilot to streamline housing approvals

July 25, 2026 by Michael Nicholls
NSW launches $472,000 Sutherland-Kirrawee Groundwater Investigation Pilot to streamline housing approvals

🏗️ A three-month planning bottleneck for Sydney residential developments is about to be dismantled. The NSW Government has launched a $472,000 pilot programme in Sutherland and Kirrawee to eliminate the need for site-by-site pre-construction groundwater baseline monitoring.

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