Michael Nicholls 
🤖 “Leadership, once lost, is difficult to reclaim.”
This warning from Trelysa Long at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation points to a significant shift in global technology manufacturing.
⚠️ Who pays for a landfill when it closes early, and what happens to the contamination risk? A major dispute over Perth’s Tamala Park Landfill is intensifying as local governments clash over a delayed regulator decision.
🤖 “As data centre development threatens to hike up utility bills, deplete our natural resources, and create uncertainty for New Yorkers, it is my responsibility to take action and lead.”
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed Executive Order No.
🏗️ More than 2,110 hectares of former Hunter Valley coal mining land is covered by new draft master plans released for public exhibition under a NSW Government trial. Draft master plans for BHP’s Mt Arthur Coal Mine and Glencore’s former Macquarie Coal Complex have been released for public comment.
🤖 “Our collaboration with Highlanders represents a challenge aimed at building a new industrial foundation in which humans and robots work together.”
This statement from Takao Kato, CEO of Mitsubishi Motors, signals a meaningful change in how heavy industry approaches physical automation.
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A tenfold increase in PFAS concentrations in Melbourne sparrows is forcing a rethink of ecological risk pathways. Researchers from Macquarie University and EPA Victoria have tracked per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in urban house sparrows across Melbourne.
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“AI agents will be the largest users of computing.”
This prediction from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang marks a major shift in how professional services interact with data.
🌿 “Today’s assessments show that long-term, strategic and collaborative conservation effort works.”
This statement from Professor John Woinarski of the IUCN SSC Australasian Marsupial and Monotreme Specialist Group marks a major milestone for Australian biodiversity.
📉 “Everyone is asking what we can do to help reduce spend or increase value.”
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, shared this dose of operational sobriety at the Sun Valley Conference. The era of unchecked AI spending is ending, replaced by a strict demand for return on investment.
⚖️ Beyond reasonable doubt. That is the evidentiary burden now placed on proponents of new coal seam gas development in the Darling Downs. The Regional Planning Interests (Condamine Alluvium) and Other Legislation Amendment Act (Qld) has passed.