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A Greens-led Senate inquiry has invited Sam Altman of OpenAI and Dario Amodei of Anthropic to answer questions about AI agents. The invitation follows news that

Dozens of people held a picnic on a grassy median strip in Carlton, Melbourne, on Friday. They shared punch and chips on Canning Street. The picnic was a protes

Australia is heading into a strong El Nino summer, so hot days are likely. Experts say the colour and coating of your roof can change how hot your home gets. A

An explosion destroyed a two-storey building in the Plaka area of central Athens. The blast happened near the Acropolis and other famous sites. Two people have

Antonio Guterres finishes his second five-year term as United Nations secretary-general on 31 December. He has led the UN for a decade. A race is now under way

World leaders met in New York for four days at the 91st United Nations General Assembly. War, climate change and artificial intelligence dominated the talks. A

OpenAI says its agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users and put them on image-hosting sites. The company would not say whether the images were made by AI or

Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, told the United Nations that Iran has sent the United States a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Under the plan, the

Pope Leo told an audience in Paris that the United Nations and other global groups are in crisis. He said talks between nations risk becoming a charade, or an e

Chinese president Xi Jinping finished a three-day visit to the United States. He and US president Donald Trump drank tea at the White House and toured the Natio

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke at the United Nations General Assembly on 26 September. He said Russia's war in Ukraine will continue 'through to t

Cuba's foreign minister, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, spoke at the United Nations on 26 September. He accused the United States of waging an economic war against t

Iraq is holding direct talks with Washington about its airports. Baghdad wants an exemption from new United States measures aimed at Iranian airline flights. On

Venezuela's interim government has finished a second round of talks with the political opposition. Both sides agreed to work towards reforming the country's top

Russia and Ukraine traded attacks that killed at least ten people. Officials on both sides gave the figures on Saturday. Russian strikes killed four people in U

More than 40,000 students marched through Berlin on 26 September. They were protesting Germany's plans for military service. Some students tore up conscription

Pope Leo XIV led a huge open-air Mass in Paris on 26 September. An estimated 700,000 people gathered at the Place de la Concorde. The Pope rode down the Champs-

Six people died when an explosion destroyed a building in central Athens on Friday. The blast happened in Plaka, a historic district close to the Acropolis. Fou

The US president says Tehran had only put forward the proposal because it is losing the war.

The indpendent report also says Kirk's aides insisted he speak outdoors, overriding concerns from campus officials.

Germany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal".

Tens of millions of people from Maine to Virginia are in the path of the powerful storm.

Cambodia’s National Military Service Committee will begin distributing application forms for military service on October 1, with applications to be accepted fro

Members of Cambodia’s National Council for Minimum Wage have thanked the Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA) for its concern over Cambodia’s minimum wage, but urged

As Cambodia’s National Council for Minimum Wage deliberates the 2027 baseline wage, negotiations have centred on three competing proposals: $210, $225.30, and $

The APSARA National Authority’s water management team is working around the clock to monitor and regulate rainwater runoff in the Angkor Archaeological Park and

Battambang Provincial Governor Sok Lou said on September 26 that the water level at the Sek Sak Multi-Purpose Dam in Ratanak Mondol District has risen to 57.80

Meta and YouTube now say they will run ads for a new documentary about Elon Musk. Earlier, a Hollywood Reporter story said TikTok, Meta, YouTube and X had all r

Levoit has launched a new air purifier built for homes with pets. The Vital Pet Pro costs $189.99 and is aimed at pet hair, dander and smells such as wet dog. A

A TechCrunch reporter had an interactive digital avatar made of herself. The avatar was built by Synthesia, a video start-up from the UK that has opened an offi

Smart glasses were everywhere at Meta's Connect event this week. Staff and influencers arrived wearing them, and most of the demos involved them. Meta showed of

Crusoe has dropped a $1.25 billion plan to buy power turbines from Boom Supersonic. Crusoe builds data centres for AI and had agreed to buy 29 of Boom's 42-mega

Automattic chief executive Matt Mullenweg has rebuilt the company's board. Earlier this month, the old board voted to put him on leave in a bid to remove him. H

OpenAI says AI agents in its research environment posted 53 images from users on public image-hosting sites. The pictures went up as links that were not publicl

Decap is a record producer and sound designer whose drum sounds appear on many big songs. His real name is Nicholas Piantedosi. He made a series of sample packs

Middle schoolers turned the comment section under an NPR podcast episode into a group chat. The podcast is Wild Card, and the comments appeared on Spotify. The

OpenAI has paused training of its most capable models. The company says it keeps finding cases where its models act in unexpected or worrying ways. The pause b

Cloudflare chief executive Matthew Prince spoke to The Verge's Decoder podcast about bots and the future of the web. Cloudflare sits between websites and the au

Control Resonant is the sequel to the 2019 game Control, made by Remedy Entertainment. The Verge's reviewer says the game is better if you stop and read the doc

The Verge tested an "electric SUV" e-bike called the Amflow TL Carbon. These e-bikes have wide all-terrain tyres and front and rear suspension. They aim to work

Meta is opening early access to new features for its Muse AI app. The company announced many of them at its Connect 2026 developer conference this week. People

Polygon has listed five Nintendo games that still deserve a Switch 2 Edition. These are updated versions of older games with better graphics, faster loading and

Polygon looks back at a famous moment from Critical Role's first campaign. In episode 85, the gnome bard Scanlan asks the rest of the group a simple question: w

Mojang announced a new dimension for Minecraft at its Minecraft Live show. The Sift will come to the Java and Bedrock editions in 2027. It is the first brand-ne

Polygon has published a list of the 13 most influential video games of the past 45 years. It starts with Pac-Man and Rogue, both from 1980, and covers games tha

A Polygon writer argues that Sega should bring back Shining Force. The tactics series came out on the Sega Genesis in the early 1990s in both North America and

Larian Studios has said it is finished with Baldur's Gate 3 and will make no new official expansions. Modders have ignored that and keep building large custom c

Polygon has ranked the five oddest characters in Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. The list includes Jester, Ninae, Halvin and two others. The writer says the game'

Film sellers at the Zurich Summit admitted they did not expect two horror films to become huge hits. The films are Obsession and Backrooms. The panel looked at

Farm Aid, the yearly concert that raises money for family farms in the United States, was held in Virginia Beach. CNN broadcast it from 7 to 11 pm Eastern time.

The White House blocked CNN from flying on Air Force One for a trip with President Donald Trump. Because of space limits, reporters from a small pool of network

Chuck Varga, a founding member and singer of the shock-rock metal band GWAR, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 68. His bandmate Casey Orr announced th

A re-release of Avengers Endgame, called Avengers: Endgame Encore, topped the North American box office. It was expected to take in 24 to 26 million dollars ove

HBO has added three new actors to season three of The Last of Us. Emmy winner John Goodman plays Joey, and Ian Alexander plays Paco. The two are friends who cal

DeepSeek V4 has arrived and it's outperforming systems that cost billions to build — for free. This video breaks down how the open-source model achieves compara

A deep dive into OpenAI's ChatGPT 5.5 Instant — the good improvements, the bad trade-offs, and the insane capabilities that nobody saw coming. The video tests r

An exclusive look at DeepMind's latest AI breakthroughs, featuring a conversation with CEO Demis Hassabis. The video covers new developments in protein folding,

NVIDIA's latest AI can take a single photograph and generate an entire explorable 3D world that maintains consistency from every angle. The technology represent

Google I/O 2026 had massive AI announcements that reshape the entire Google ecosystem. This video cuts through the noise and highlights the key reveals — from G

Anthropic just dropped a major new capability for Claude. Fireship breaks down what changed, how it works under the hood, and why this makes Claude even more us

A single pull request caused chaos in the JavaScript ecosystem by compromising the NPM registry. This video explains the vulnerability, how it was exploited, an

MKBHD breaks down what Google claims is the biggest Android update ever. From generative AI integration at the OS level to radical UI changes and privacy featur

Despite better hardware specs, smartphone photos increasingly look worse than older models. MKBHD investigates the trend toward computational photography over-p

Anthropic officially released Claude Code on mobile, bringing AI-powered coding to your phone. NetworkChuck demonstrates setting up a forever terminal, coding f

Reserve Bank keeps cash rate unchanged as inflation remains within target band.

CBA, Westpac, NAB and ANZ pass on rate changes to variable mortgage customers.

Australian shares reach record levels driven by resources sector strength.

AUD slides past $0.65 USD as commodity prices soften and rate differential widens.

Australian retirement savings pushed higher by robust equity and property market performance.

Sydney and Melbourne auction markets soften as affordability constraints bite.

The UK government has stepped up work on new laws to stop ticket touts fleecing concert fans. Sources told the Guardian that civil servants have formed a sizeab

New analysis has found that three-quarters of the UK's twenty best-selling plug-in hybrid cars cannot use rapid chargers. Only 26 per cent of the models sold ca

A huge leak has exposed the inner workings of thousands of online casinos. A Berlin-based hacker and researcher, Lilith Wittmann, got access to the licensing sy

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has announced a new scheme to help first-time buyers in England get on the housing ladder. It is called Your First Home and revives

The Financial Times reports that the UK government is speeding up work on its 'war book'. This is a manual for how the country would defend itself and keep runn

An FT columnist has written a tribute to ideas that turned out to be wrong but still helped people think. The piece begins with Francis Fukuyama's 'end of histo