Michael Nicholls 
Relying on historic agricultural land use as a blanket defence against native vegetation clearing rules is no longer valid. Australia’s newly established National Environmental Protection Agency has released its inaugural sector guidance, Agriculture and the EPBC Act.
Mechanical processing of flexible post-consumer film usually downgrades polymers to low-grade plastic lumber. Chemical recycling is starting to challenge that limit.
OpenAI has reportedly halted internal development on an upcoming frontier model after safety evaluations triggered internal red lines around autonomous cyber capabilities.
Great to see the Australian Government formally renew the Bluelink ocean forecasting partnership between @CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology, and the Department of Defence.
“Models are not consumed in chatbots anymore. They are really consumed through agentic harnesses.”
Maxime Labonne, Head of Post-Training at Liquid AI, highlighted this shift with the release of LFM2.5-2.6B, a 2.6-billion-parameter open-weight model designed for local, autonomous agent execution.
What do you do with 11.36 hectares of capped municipal landfill that cannot be redeveloped for standard commercial or residential use?
How hard will industrial facility emissions baselines fall once Australia passes its 2030 climate target? The Federal Government has formally opened public consultation on the statutory 2026-27 Safeguard Mechanism Review.
“The reliance of most financial firms on a relatively small set of foundation AI model and cloud computing providers risks creating a systemic dependency.”
Moody’s has issued a warning to global financial institutions and enterprise leaders: over-reliance on a handful of Silicon Valley tech giants
Can linear infrastructure buffers double as functional, high-value ecological corridors for threatened species?
“The deployment of untethered, autonomous or semi-autonomous humanoid robots in commercial environments introduces novel public safety and health challenges.”
Ray Mueller, San Mateo County Supervisor. Local governments are stepping in where federal AI governance moves slowly.