Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Kristin Amiot with
Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Australian artists, writers, journalists and creatives
Speaker 1: will be protected from artificial intelligence giants who want to
Speaker 1: use their work to train large language models without compensation
Speaker 1: or credit. Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi announced on Wednesday he'll
Speaker 1: establish a new Office of AI within his own department
Speaker 1: to consolidate his government's response to AI's meteoric rise.
Speaker 2: Australia will be the first country in the world to
Speaker 2: bring these issues into a single national framework, the PM said.
Speaker 1: Australian creatives will maintain ownership of their work even as
Speaker 1: the AI giants push for a text and data mining
Speaker 1: exemption from Australian copyright laws.
Speaker 2: Our laws will spell that out plain as day. An
Speaker 2: artist's creative endeavor is their work and their property. No
Speaker 2: company should use Australian books, music, art or news to
Speaker 2: build or train AI without the artist's control, and that
Speaker 2: includes the artist's control of the price and value of
Speaker 2: their work. Anything less is theft. No country has got
Speaker 2: this right yet.
Speaker 1: Addressing concerns about the energy requirements and environmental impacts of
Speaker 1: data centers. Albanezi said the huge facilities will be required
Speaker 1: to put as much energy back into the grid as
Speaker 1: they take out.
Speaker 2: Will create a legal obligation for the next generation of
Speaker 2: large scale data centers to underwrite new power supply, to
Speaker 2: pay their full share of grid connection so no costs
Speaker 2: are passed on to homes or businesses, and to put
Speaker 2: at least as much energy into our grid as they
Speaker 2: take out of it, to be net generators, not net users.
Speaker 2: To build new renewable generation and firming, to strengthen our
Speaker 2: national energy resilience and ensure that data centers do not
Speaker 2: increase power prices for Austravans.
Speaker 1: The Prime Minister said the National Cabinet will convene to
Speaker 1: discuss new AI laws soon, with a view to new
Speaker 1: legislation being introduced to the Parliament early next year, but
Speaker 1: Opposition leader Angus Taylor said on Wednesday more bureaucracy by
Speaker 1: the government doesn't address the issues central to the AI revolution.
Speaker 1: Quantus will test a new aircraft specially designed for ultra
Speaker 1: long haul journeys during an historic test flight on July
Speaker 1: twenty four. The Airbus A three fifty one thousand ULR
Speaker 1: will flight NonStop from Sydney to London from late twenty
Speaker 1: twenty seven, but it'll be put through its paces on
Speaker 1: the test flight from Toulouse to Melbourne at the end
Speaker 1: of the month. It's been developed to fly for up
Speaker 1: to twenty two hours non stop with a full payload.
Speaker 1: At the moment, the longest commercial flight is operated by
Speaker 1: Singapore Airlines out of Singapore to New York. Conscious is
Speaker 1: so called Project Sunrise. Flight to London pips it by
Speaker 1: just over an hour, coming in at twenty hours duration.
Speaker 1: The American football player at the center of a World
Speaker 1: Cup controversy has broken his silence after his team was
Speaker 1: knocked out of the competition. Fluren Bellagan admitted the decision
Speaker 1: by FIFA to suspend his one match red card band
Speaker 1: following a phone call from President Donald Trump, heaped pressure
Speaker 1: on the co host team ahead of a crucial match.
Speaker 3: My initial reaction was, you know, I was happy to
Speaker 3: be back in a team. But when I kind of
Speaker 3: started to reflect, I knew it was going to cause
Speaker 3: a lot of controversy, and I could almost see within
Speaker 3: my teammates a bit of nerves because it was something
Speaker 3: that's so unique. The closer we got to the game,
Speaker 3: I tried to just focus as best as I could.
Speaker 1: Check out those stories live right now at the Australian
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Speaker 1: first thing in the morning for our look at the
Speaker 1: vaunted national gun buyback scheme announced by Prime Minister Anthony
Speaker 1: Albanesi following the Bondai Beach massacre. That's right here, Thursday morning.