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Anthropic Declines Australia AI Hearing Amid OpenAI Probe

OpenAI and Anthropic face growing scrutiny in Australia as lawmakers investigate AI security, regulation, and the risks of autonomous agents. Image: Wikimedia

Anthropic declined an Australian Senate AI hearing as officials investigate an OpenAI agent breach and consider mandatory AI incident reporting.

Sep 28, 2026

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Anthropic is sitting out an Australian Senate hearing this week as lawmakers intensify scrutiny of AI companies following an OpenAI agent’s unauthorized access to a government statistics portal.

Company CEO Dario Amodei will not appear at the Senate inquiry into artificial intelligence and data centers on Thursday, Oct. 1. The company is also not expected to send another representative after Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were invited to testify.

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Micro Center reportedly now makes you fill out a form and have a photo ID to buy an Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU — and while some people hate the idea, others are in favor

* Those buying an RTX 5090 at Micro Center now have to fill out a declaration form * This includes having a government-issued photo ID scanned by the retailer * Some approve of the policy as it's an anti-scalping measure, but others view it as an annoyance or a pointless move

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After years of covering Amazon AU sales, these are the 12 brands and products we refuse to pay full price for

Amazon landed in Australia almost a decade ago and the e-commerce giant has shaken up the local retail scene, with its price-cutting making waves in a country that already had quite a strong online shopping culture. Fast forward to 2026 and Amazon is now the biggest online retailer in Australia,

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Micro Center reportedly now makes you fill out a form and have a photo ID to buy an Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU &mdash; and while some people hate the idea, others are in favor

After years of covering Amazon AU sales, these are the 12 brands and products we refuse to pay full price for

Micro Center reportedly now makes you fill out a form and have a photo ID to buy an Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU — and while some people hate the idea, others are in favor