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Mapping Australian innovation
Beth Webster | September 30, 2026Productivity can come from numerous sources but one of the most important foundations for long-term growth is to create and commercialise new and improved ways of doing business.
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In praise of Annie Dillard
Amy Cannon | September 30, 2026The American novelist and essayist Annie Dillard, who has died at the age of 81, suffused her prose with poetry and pioneered a mystical form of creative nonfiction the public loved and critics misunderstood.
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Drive to survive
Peter Marshall | September 30, 2026Fears that AI models will evolve beyond human understanding or control and resist any attempt to shut them down fuel many of the fears about AI development, but how realistic are these scenarios?
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What happens when Yellowstone blows its top?
Matthew Blackett | September 29, 2026There’s no shortage of things to worry about at the moment, so here’s a cherry on top. What would happen if the super volcano under America’s Yellowstone National Park erupted in the near future?
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Baking responsible innovation into AI
Craig Donaldson | September 29, 2026As AI systems keep breaching their own safeguards, UNSW research details the capabilities and competencies technology companies need to mitigate risks and innovate responsibly.
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Going down
Charlotte Farrell | September 29, 2026Female employees of a tech company get stuck in an elevator in Eloise Snape’s timely play about AI, corporate culture and the patriarchy.
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The birth of Execution Economics
Peter Fritz | September 28, 2026A discipline in search of its identity, a variable nobody thought to name, and the year that followed.
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The return of great powers
Nitish Kumar | September 28, 2026Brendan Simms’s The Return of the Great Powers arrives with an ambition matched by few recent works in the genre: a single-author sweep of five centuries of great-power competition.
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Governing AI ecosystems
Muhammad Faizan Fakhar | September 28, 2026International AI governance is entering a new phase as geopolitical competition shifts attention from regulating AI systems to securing the infrastructure that makes frontier AI possible.
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Stand up for Taiwan
Lin Chia-lung | September 27, 2026Either we act together to uphold justice, defend the rule of law, and maintain peace and security, or we watch the world order steadily crumble away, taking freedom, self-determination, and democracy with it.
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Who can we trust?
John Coyne | September 27, 2026The old class war asked who controlled the means of production. The emerging epistemic divide asks how democratic societies determine whom to trust.
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A seat at the AI table
Hannah Merchant | September 27, 2026Instead of accepting whatever access arrangements the AI market delivers by default, Australia needs to move to deliberate managed dependence within the US orbit.
