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William Smith

Reporter · AU

Indexed articles, last 90 days
3
Latest publication
Sep 7, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Crikey
Top 500K sites
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Jul 6, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 7, 2026 · William Smith

    Safety will be the collateral as AI companies rush to Wall Street (opens the original)

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    If you like this article, share it with your friends. Two companies founded on the premise that AI is too dangerous to be driven purely by profit are now racing each other to Wall Street. In June, OpenAI and Anthropic both confidentially filed for initial public offerings (IPOs), with investors eyeing valuations around US$1 trillion for OpenAI and as much as US$2 trillion for Anthropic. Their arrival onto public markets will follow Elon Musk’s SpaceX — the owner of frontier lab xAI — which close

  2. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · William Smith

    Artists risk being short-changed by Australia’s AI copyright law (opens the original)

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    If you like this article, share it with your friends. The debate over whether Australia should allow AI to train on scraped creative works has become entangled with a much larger prize: tens of billions of dollars in data centre investment and a strategic foothold in the emerging AI economy. US company Anthropic is reportedly looking to make Australia its “second home” for training AI models, with the associated infrastructure worth around US$15 billion (A$21 billion). But a Treasury briefing re

  3. Article · Jul 6, 2026 · William Smith

    The US and China aren't running the same AI race (opens the original)

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    If you like this article, share it with your friends. Just days after Anthropic released its new frontier AI model, Claude Fable 5, US authorities ordered the company to restrict access to foreign nationals, citing national security concerns. Within hours, Anthropic had suspended access to the model for all its customers. While the restrictions were lifted on June 30, the exchange underscored how quickly AI has become a site of geopolitical competition. This is a reality Silicon Valley’s most ha

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