Michael Nicholls 
Standard leaching tests suggest soil sorbents bind over 99 per cent of PFOS, but human gastrointestinal absorption tells a different story.
Four smaller AI models communicating in real time just outperformed a single top-tier frontier model on complex enterprise tasks.
Extracting battery-grade lithium directly from industrial liquid waste without intensive chemical reagents or pyrometallurgical smelting is moving from laboratory theory to pilot testing in Western Australia.
What happens when you put 24 isolated groups of AI agents into a system with limited access to resources and zero instructions on how to trade? They spontaneously invent loans, vote trading, credit agreements, and political deals to secure execution rights.
Are your groundwater risk models and due diligence assessments in Central Australia still relying on the old 12-zone framework? Northern Territory Minister for Water Resources Joshua Burgoyne has declared the Alice Springs Water Allocation Plan 2026-2036.
“The ability to compose viral genomes using generative AI now exists; the governance to safely steer it does not.”
That warning from the Johns Hopkins Centre for Health Security follows a major milestone published in Science this week.
Congratulations to Tony Chappel on his appointment as Chair and Chief Executive Officer of the federal Clean Energy Regulator.
Classical game theory assumed that autonomous AI agents interacting in a single encounter would always choose cutthroat defection over cooperation.
“However advanced the Assistant currently is, it is a tool, not a person for statutory purposes.”
When Circuit Judge Milan D. Smith Jr. issued that ruling in the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, it established a clear legal boundary for software tools.
Six statutory charges in the Darwin Local Court show that self-disclosing an emissions accounting error will not automatically shield major industrial operators from EPA prosecution.