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23 Oct 2026 · Digital Platforms · Explainer

Apple's Edge-First AI Bet: All the Upside of Open-Weight Models, None of the Frontier Bill

Apple and Meta have confirmed a collaboration bringing Meta’s Muse Spark Open - an 816-billion-parameter, US-developed open-weight model - to run locally across Apple Silicon Mac Studios via Apple’s MLX framework. The deal ends years of public friction between the two companies and is a proof point…

6 Oct 2026 · Digital Regulation · Explainer

How Open-Weight AI Is Redrawing the Frontier - and What China's DeepSeek Moment Means for Australia

The artificial intelligence industry is cleaving into two structurally distinct camps. On one side stand the closed frontier models - proprietary systems from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind, accessed exclusively via metered APIs, with weights that never leave vendor-controlled infrastructur…

23 Sept 2026 · Digital Regulation · Explainer

Is Big Tech Weaponising AI Safety to Crush Open-Source Rivals?

Between 2023 and 2026, the world's AI oligopoly shifted from publishing abstract ethical declarations to submitting comprehensive legislative blueprints to global policymakers. This explainer analyses the AI governance doctrines of Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, IBM, Amazon Web Service…

1 July 2026 · Media · Explainer

Digital News Report Australia 2026 Report - Key findings

Last week saw the publication of the Digital News Report: Australia 2026 by the University of Canberra. This survey report, part of an international effort to track the evolution of news consumption, reveals a news landscape defined by a recovery in audience interest set against a backdrop of deep…

14 Nov 2025 · Media · Explainer

Australia’s Social Media Minimum Age Scheme

This explainer details the legislative framework of the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024. It examines the core 'reasonable steps' obligation, the technical requirements for age assurance, and the dual-regulatory roles of the eSafety Commissioner and the OAIC. The report h…

26 July 2025 · Media · Explainer

The End of Search - Navigating the Transition to an AI-Centric Information Ecosystem

The digital information landscape is on the precipice of a fundamental and irreversible transformation, moving away from the keyword-driven model that has dominated for a quarter-century. As artificial intelligence progresses toward an agentic paradigm and eventually artificial general intelligence…

2 May 2025 · Media · Explainer

The Evolution of Media - From Broadcast to AI Interaction

The media industry has undergone three major structural transformations, moving from Media 1.0 (1950s–2000), dominated by regional broadcast and print media, to Media 2.0 (2000–2025), where the internet, search, and social media created a global digital landscape. Now, a third phase—AI-Driven Media…

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