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Morning Mail: AI tipping point warning; concerns about aged care scheme; and a US rate hike

Tech godfather Yoshua Bengio is ‘optimistic’ about action on AI because the ‘public is moving’; US Fed defies Trump to raise borrowing costs

The Guardian - AU · Sep 16

Queensland to create outback boot camps for youth offenders – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · Sep 16

Mascots, merchandise and Mixue: the new wave of Asian fast food chains in Australia

Since 2023, a slew of fast food and quick service restaurants from east and south-east Asia have debuted in Australia, capturing the youth market and ‘little treat’ culture

The Guardian - AU · Sep 16

Everything Australians put online could be scraped for AI under proposed new rules. How will you be affected?

The Albanese government is considering reforms that give US big tech unrestricted access to Australian content

The Guardian - AU · Sep 16

Aboriginal land councils fear new NSW law will cut amount of land open to traditional owners’ claims

Chair of Indigenous land group says his organisation was not consulted before the bill was introduced in parliament

The Guardian - AU · Sep 16

In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty

Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives

The Guardian - AU · Sep 16

From the Pocket: Nick Watson makes his case as AFL’s best small forward – just when Hawthorn need him most

Small forwards terrorise the opposition, and the Hawks’ Wizard is well on his way to doing it better than anyone ever has

The Guardian - AU · Sep 16

Anthropic lands deal in $31bn datacentre in western Queensland, David Crisafulli says

Premier describes deal as ‘major win’ that will deliver more jobs for the state and put more energy into its grid

The Guardian - AU · Sep 16

‘Anywhere, anytime’: Victoria police and PSOs to get random stop and search powers after Labor backflip

Premier Ben Carroll adopts Coalition’s stance on Jack’s Law, which gives police and PSOs power to randomly search people for knives with metal detectors

The Guardian - AU · Sep 16

‘Made a mistake’: One Nation’s NSW leader says party wants to restrict abortions, not stop them

Mark Newman clarifies comments made at rally where he said ‘we want to make sure that … abortion is stopped’

The Guardian - AU · Sep 16