Month: July 2025
Home affairs minister says antisemitism envoy is not responsible for giving money to Advance; murder investigation under way after discovery in Balcatta
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Tony Burke, the minister for home affairs, went on ABC’s 7.30 last night to defend the antisemitism envoy, Jillian Segal, after it was revealed her husband had funded the rightwing lobby group Advance Australia. Segal said she had no involvement in it. More details on his comments soon.
Defense department also inked contracts with other leading AI firms including Google, Anthropic and OpenAI
The week after its Grok chatbot identified itself as “MechaHitler” and generated antisemitic posts, Elon Musk’s xAI firm announced a contract with the US Department of Defense worth nearly $200m. The deal is for developing and implementing artificial intelligence tools for the agency.
The DoD on Monday also announced similar contracts with $200m ceilings with several other major US-based artificial intelligence developers, including Google, Anthropic and OpenAI. The agency is partnering with the General Services Administration to make these companies’ AI tools available for use throughout the federal government.
