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Some Chinese AI will go closed-source, but not all
1+ hour, 54+ min ago (200+ words) A debate is raging among close observers of Chinese AI: will it stay open-source, or will it close off? The most likely answer is that there’ll be a bit of both. President Xi Jinping seemed to answer the question last…...
Obvious but not easy: uncrewed systems should surveil Indonesia’s seas
7+ hour, 4+ min ago (147+ words) Closing the surveillance gap is a problem of persistence, endurance and coverage, not platform numbers alone. The maritime surveillance environment around Indonesia is changing. The contest below the surface is no longer hypothetical, and the gap admitted by the navy…...
A critique of middle power strategy shows why we need it
19+ hour, 5+ min ago (561+ words) In his dismissal of middle power strategy on 15 June, US Under Secretary of Defense Elbridge Colby may have made the strategy’s importance clearer. In a series of posts on X, Colby criticised the emergence of ‘middle power strategy’, dismissing it…...
Colby’s critique of middle power strategy shows why we need it
21+ hour, 11+ min ago (547+ words) In his dismissal of middle power strategy on 15 June, US Under Secretary of Defense Elbridge Colby may have made the strategy’s importance clearer. In a series of posts on X, Colby criticised the emergence of ‘middle power strategy’, dismissing it…...
Chinese models are on track to win the agentic AI price war
1+ day, 6+ min ago (272+ words) Chinese AI labs have stunned the world, again. In the space of about a month, Chinese AI start-up labs Z.ai and Moonshot have each launched a model that is nearly as intelligent as competitors from OpenAI and Anthropic but far…...
To China, a beef tariff is for national security. Australia can learn from that
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (695+ words) China is telling us what to do and, for once, our complying would be rather helpful. In fact, China is telling us to do what it does. With its new tariff on Australian beef, which took effect on 20 June, China…...
Someone is showing a lot of underwater interest in Indonesia’s straits
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (350+ words) Indonesian fishers recovered three curious unidentified underwater objects from the country’s waters in April. First, on 6 April, fishers found a 3.7-metre, torpedo-shaped device north of Gili Trawangan in the Lombok Strait. It bore the logo of the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation....
Australia should narrow its critical-minerals focus – starting with antimony
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (429+ words) Australia needs to talk less about critical-mineral supply chains and more about specific minerals. Generic discussions about supply-chain resilience have become a substitute for strategic thinking. They encourage governments to speak in broad concepts while avoiding harder questions about where…...
As Australia prepares for the AI future, its plan for sovereign capability is unclear
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (851+ words) Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s first major speech on artificial intelligence on Wednesday emphatically, if belatedly, elevated AI to where it belongs as a national priority. In particular, he made the crucial declaration that the government is serious about bringing frontier…...
Religious motivation needs to stay in our terrorism laws
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (446+ words) Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke is right to reject the proposed removal of religious motivation from Australia’s terrorism laws. The proposal by the nation’s special envoy to combat Islamophobia, Aftab Malik, rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of what those laws…...