Exclusive: The Albanese government offered to pay pro-teen social media ban group 36 Months to promote policy.
Weeks before the ban began, 36 Months answered a selective departmental invitation to pitch "communications services" to promote the ban, but was unsuccessful.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is expected to visit Australia next week, 2 sources say, as the company tries to expand amid Trump administration standoff.
Exec travel plans are subject to change, but it would be the 1st time that a major AI CEO visited since ChatGPT came out.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/25/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-expected-to-visit-australia/
NEW: Assistant Minister Andrew Charlton said the "status quo" of copyright & AI isn't working. Artists & copy holder groups say the system works fine, tech is just ignoring it.
It's been a point of discussion in Charlton's office's meetings with groups in the past few weeks
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/24/copyright-laws-ai-artists-rights-groups-andrew-charlton/
Artists and rights holder groups have been defiant about the need to change copyright law in meetings with the office of Assistant Minister Andrew Charlton, who has been spearheading the government's push to bring AI investment to Australia.
I wrote in today's Sizzle about why it makes sense for Australia to create — and enforce! — rules around what data centre operators do for the local community and the country.
NEW: Adelaide Festival board minutes obtained by me and Anton Nilsson show how the board initially stood behind controversial academic Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah — until a letter from the South Australian premier.
Here's the inside story of how Adelaide Writers Week crumbled:
YouGov has put out some polling on Australians' reactions to the teen social media ban a month in that shows that people broadly believe it is having a positive effects on cyberbullying, exposure to harm content and mental health:
NEW: Three years after Musk declared removing child exploitation on X ‘priority #1’, Australia's eSafety office says CSEM is more accessible on X than any other mainstream service — and has launched two investigations into it.
