Michael Nicholls 
♻️ Great to see Moira Shire Council securing EPA Victoria approval for the next stage of the Cobram Landfill while closing the loop on local organic waste.
💧 Can your project survive a regulatory threshold set at just 0.5 nanograms per litre?
🤖 “These systems are no longer tools awaiting instruction, they are writing code, acting online and making choices with less and less human oversight.”
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivered this warning, and a joint study by the Oxford Internet Institute and the Hasso Plattner Institute s
⚠️ Assessing physical climate risk is no longer a voluntary corporate social responsibility goal in Victoria. EPA Victoria has released its final guidance on minimising pollution and waste risks in a changing climate.
🤖 A score of 52.38 percent on the ProtocolQA benchmark, approaching the human expert level of 54 percent. This is the benchmark result achieved by ProtoPilot, a new Physical AI system developed by MGI Tech and the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
🤖 “There is no distinction in our world between weapons that are defensive or offensive.”
This blunt warning from the US Department of Defence to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has been made public in newly unsealed court documents.
🌿 Almost two million hectares of land has just been added to Australia’s National Reserve System. The federal government has formally dedicated two new Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs).
📈 Un-rehabilitated mined land in Queensland has grown by 12 per cent between 2019 and 2024. Against this backdrop, the Queensland Government has launched a targeted review of the state Financial Provisioning Scheme.
🤖 “While American tech giants are valued for the anticipation of perfect prototypes, Chinese manufacturers are winning the robotics race by getting paid for delivery.”
This sharp observation from AI pioneer Oren Etzioni highlights a significant divergence in the physical AI market.
🏗️ Is a 0.001% threshold the key to unlocking the NSW circular economy? The NSW Government has formally released its Asbestos Plan of Action, responding directly to the final recommendations on recycled materials from the Office of the NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer.