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Companies are hyping AI the same way they talked up sustainability, but there are ways to fix that

Across corporate earnings calls, investor presentations and marketing pitches, “artificial intelligence” has become the buzzword of choice. Yet a troubling pattern lies under the hype. Many claims vastly overstate actual AI sophistication, misleading people about true capabilities, future outcomes and potential harms.

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Cricket nuggets? Caterpillar cookies? Canadians would consider eating insects if they can’t see them

Lobster had one of the greatest reputation makeovers in food history. Once treated as “food for the poor,” it is now served in expensive restaurants, dipped in butter and presented as a delicacy.

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Why the Iran war is breaking the US-European strategic alliance

Days after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran began on Feb. 28, 2026, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez denied American forces the use of the Naval Station Rota and the Morón Air Base – installations that had hosted U.S. troops for more than 70 years.

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Xi warned Trump against the ‘Thucydides Trap’ – here’s what ancient Greece can tell us about US-China relations

In his opening remarks at his summit with Donald Trump on May 15, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, invoked the fifth-century BC Greek historian Thucydides to issue a veiled warning to the US president.

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Ebola outbreak declared a global health emergency – what you need to know

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a “public health emergency of international concern”, with cases now confirmed in neighbouring Uganda. Here is what you need to know.

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The Pennine hills are full of holes – here’s how they’re helping fight climate change

Thousands of holes are appearing in the Pennine hills, as part of efforts to improve carbon storage by restoring damaged peatland.

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Why European households throw away so much food – and how to curb the waste mountain

Europe is wasting huge amounts of food while millions of people globally experience hunger. Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have squeezed supply chains. The cost of living crisis has pushed many families to the edge.

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Raghu Rai: the trailblazing photographer who documented the vast diversity of a changing India

In April, as India’s governing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ran elections in parts of the country, a visionary Indian passed away. He went quietly, much as he had lived, and left behind a vast photographic archive of the world’s most populous nation.

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Ebola survivors struggle to return to normal lives: what I found out in Sierra Leone and Liberia

During the Ebola epidemic of 2014 to 2016, Musu, a resident of Monrovia, Liberia contracted the Ebola virus along with her husband, five sons and daughter.

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What you need to know about the Ebola outbreak that has the WHO concerned

The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak in Africa a public health emergency of international concern.

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Businesses need more than generic chatbots to benefit from AI. Will this budget help?

This month’s federal budget made a familiar promise: artificial intelligence (AI) will help lift Australia’s productivity.

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Meta’s new tools allow parents to better supervise their kids’ social media accounts. Will they work?

Tech giant Meta recently announced a set of new features to give parents greater oversight of how their children use Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Horizon.

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Eurovision 2026: a win for Bulgaria, fourth for Australia, and continued controversy for broadcasters

In a surprising turn of events, Bulgaria have taken home the crystal microphone trophy for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 with Dara’s infectious dance hit Bangaranga.

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Kathryn Heyman’s novel about dying and difficult families resists easy consolations

Michel de Montaigne advised that we dull death’s novelty and strangeness by imagining it daily. Kathryn Heyman’s Circle of Wonders takes that counsel seriously, returning again and again to the ordinary, awkward, sometimes comic ways people live alongside the experience of dying.

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Not homeless, not homeowners: what does the budget mean for Australia’s squeezed renters?

There is a large group in Australia’s housing crisis that often gets less attention. They are not homeless. They are not homeowners. They are renters in the middle.

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Brain implants allow us to move and talk. But they could also be hacked

The human brain is remarkably complex, with trillions of connections that control how you move, think and feel.

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Nature is good for business – and we now have numbers to show it

When rivers degrade, pests spread or drought hits crops, nature sends a bill.

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One Nation gains in polls as budget is poorly received in Newspoll

In three credible post-budget polls, One Nation is up one to three points, with their victory at the May 9 Farrer byelection probably also contributing. Labor took a hit in Freshwater and Resolve, but not Newspoll.

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When we took 37 strangers into the urban bush, their loneliness began to ease

One in three Australians says they are lonely. To be lonely is to feel a lack of adequate social connection. Loneliness is about feeling disconnected from others or unable to form the kinds of relationships people need to feel seen and supported.

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Every day, we publish a selection of your emails in our newsletter. We’d love to hear from you, you can email us at yoursay@theconversation.edu.au.

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Foreign-trained doctors sustain NZ’s health system – we weren’t always so welcoming

Without immigrant doctors, one expert quoted in a recent report said, New Zealand’s health system “would be more on our knees than we already are”.

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Indonesia says its giant sea wall will stop flooding. Is this climate adaptation or a costly folly?

Indonesia plans to build a “giant sea wall”, more than 500 kilometres long, to defend Java’s north coast from rising sea levels.

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How looking through static can help people with a common degenerative disease see better

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So your Year 12 student hasn’t decided what’s next. Here’s what to say – and what not to – about career planning

For Year 12 students, final exams are getting closer and applications for university and other courses are opening. So naturally, conversations at home and with wider family and friends are turning to what’s going to happen next year.

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Australia has had ‘game-changer’ budgets before. How does Chalmers’ stack up?

Of the many budgets delivered since the Second World War, four stand out as having ushered in or consolidated significant economic reform.

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