An unusual letter from the Joint Select Committee on AI to the Prime Minister with interim recommendations, complete with Track Changes indicating the depth of input from the PM's office, was all it took to put a carefully constructed campaign to 'earn' social licence onto shaky ground.

With four straight days of hearings this week of the Joint Select Committee on AI, the difficulties facing decision makers have become more apparent. How these complexities will be resolved (especially on copyright) is not clear. InnovationAus editor Justin Hendry and James Riley step through the cavalcade of witnesses.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had a lot to say at the United Nations General Assembly this week about artificial intelligence. But the showstopper was his revelation that OpenAI agents had breached a Medicare statistics website - a shocking breach of trust - and the company's tardy and dismissive notification processes. Justin Hendry covered for InnovationAus.

Targets related to growing the number of tech jobs across the economy become less meaningful as the roll out of AI changes workplace roles, the Minister for Skills and Training Andrew Giles says. In this episode of the Commercial Disco, Mr Giles discusses the impact of AI on jobs.

In this episode of the Commercial Disco podcast, Victorian Senator Michelle Ananda-Rajah argues the case for regulation of social media and the AI sector. She tells James Riley that regulation is not at odds with technology - and does not stifle innovation as some opponents claim.

In this episode of the Commercial Disco, Michael Gately, the co-founder and CEO at Canberra-based AI and machine learning startup Trellis Data discusses the company's Australian sovereign AI known as Agentaus, and what the future looks like for AI in this country.

Welcome to the latest episode of Powering What’s Next, brought to you by GE Vernova, where we explore the technologies, infrastructure and partnerships shaping Australia’s energy transition and what it will take to build a more reliable, affordable and sustainable energy future.

In this episode, Corrie McLeod, publisher, InnovationAus.com is joined by Anna Collyer, chair of the Australian Energy Market Commission, and Nigel Went, Asia region leader for Power Conversion at GE Vernova.

Together, they explore the changing role of energy storage as batteries move from simply storing electricity to becoming an increasingly important part of grid stability and security. They discuss advances in grid-forming technology, the role of household and utility-scale batteries, the ongoing need for synchronous technologies, and how storage can help Australia manage growing electricity demand from data centres, AI and other large industrial loads.