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On Aird - Tasmanian Politics Show
Hosted by former Tasmanian Treasurer Michael Aird and former Tasmanian Labor Political Adviser Kate Rainbird, the duo explores what's happening in Tasmania...
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Anthropic details how it improved Claude's safety training after finding agentic misalignment in older models, such as Opus 4 blackmailing engineers (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/teaching-claude-why

Teaching Claude why
New research on how we've reduced agentic misalignment

A livestream of Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote (Apple on YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF8swzNR1-o
http://www.tec…

Elon Musk says SpaceX reserves "the right to reclaim the compute" from Anthropic if its "AI engages in actions that harm humanity" (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2052076315306864756

Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on X
@MobofJoggers @nottombrown Just as SpaceX launches hundreds of satellites for competitors with fair terms and pricing, we will provide compute to AI companies that are taking the right steps to ensure it is good for humanity. We reserve the right to reclaim the compute if their AI engages in actions that

Israeli startup Alta, which develops an AI agent platform for marketing, sales, and business development teams, raised a $25M Series A led by IN Venture (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/byylhojqze

Alta raises $25 million Series A: “We’re doing for marketing and sales what AWS did for cloud infrastructure”
The AI agent platform founded by monday.com alumni has reached $15 million in new revenue run rate after 800% revenue growth. CEO Stav Levi-Neumark tells Calcalist the company is moving beyond SaaS toward a services model that manages the entire sales lifecycle and enables one account manager to oversee 80 customers instead of 20.

OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models built on a full-duplex architecture, meaning they can listen and speak at the same time (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live

OpenAI Chief Futurist Joshua Achiam is leaving the company later this month after nearly nine years (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chief-futurist-joshua-achiam-is-leaving-the-company/

OpenAI’s Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company
Joshua Achiam spent nearly nine years at OpenAI researching AI safety and made a memorable appearance in the Musk v. Altman trial.

A federal judge blocks President Trump's policy imposing a $100,000 fee for employer H-1B visa applications (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/08/trump-h1b-visa-fee-blocks.html

Judge blocks Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee
Trump had imposed the $100,000 fee in order to restrict the program, arguing that it has undermined U.S. security through the "replacement of American workers."

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.5-Cyber, a security-focused variant of the model, in a limited preview capacity to vetted cybersecurity teams (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/07/openai-gpt-55-cybersecurity-model

OpenAI makes its Mythos rival more widely available to cyber defenders
Recent security testing suggests that GPT-5.5. model is nearly as good at finding and exploiting software bugs as Anthropic's Mythos Preview.

Google announces a Pixel event on August 12 in NYC, where it is expected to launch Pixel 11 series of phones and Pixel Watch 5 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/07/07/made-by-google-2026-invite/

Google announces August 12 event for Pixel 11 and Pixel Watch 5
Made by Google 2026 is officially taking place on Wednesday, August 12. This is a week earlier compared to last year...