AI Deals, Labels, Policy

By the Orchestra editors · 4 min read

TL;DR

Anthropic scores its first Australian federal government contract with Fair Work
YouTube starts auto-labelling AI-generated videos — no more relying on creator honesty
PsiQuantum opens its first southern-hemisphere quantum lab in Brisbane
Cognition's $1B raise signals AI coding tools are mainstream infrastructure now

AI · Worldwide

YouTube auto-labels AI videos

YouTube will now automatically detect and label photorealistic AI-generated content rather than trusting creators to self-disclose. Labels are moving to more prominent positions on both Shorts and long-form videos.

Cognition raises $1B at $25B valuation

AI coding startup Cognition (maker of Devin) has raised a billion-dollar round, more than doubling its valuation in eight months as annualised revenue approaches $500M. The round underlines just how much capital is flowing into developer tooling.

Critical vuln hits millions of AI agents

A host-header injection bug dubbed "BadHost" was found in Starlette, an open source Python package with 325 million weekly downloads that underpins a huge number of AI agent deployments. Worth checking your dependency tree.

Australian Tech

Anthropic lands first federal govt deal

Anthropic has signed its first direct contract with the Australian government, giving the Fair Work Commission access to its top-tier Claude Opus models. OpenAI is simultaneously deepening an existing deal with another Canberra agency.

PsiQuantum opens Brisbane quantum lab

PsiQuantum has opened an Asia-Pacific Test & Validation Lab at Griffith University in Brisbane — its first facility outside the northern hemisphere — to prove out technologies for its planned utility-scale quantum computer.