AI policy heats up

By the Orchestra editors · 4 min read

TL;DR

Anthropic's Claude Tag embeds an always-on AI teammate in Slack, capturing company knowledge
Five Eyes agencies flag urgent cyber risk from frontier AI models
SA unveils Australia's first data centre legislation with energy and water standards
NSW budget drops $39m on AI scribes for clinicians

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Anthropic ships Claude Tag, an always-on Slack AI teammate

Claude Tag brings a persistent AI presence into Slack workspaces, learning organisational context from messages and workflows. Beyond the productivity pitch, it's Anthropic's play to lock in enterprise customers by hoovering up institutional knowledge.

Five Eyes warn frontier AI models supercharge offensive hacking

Cyber agencies from Australia, the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand issued a joint statement warning that cutting-edge AI is closing the gap between vulnerability discovery and exploitation, and urging urgent defensive action.

Australian Tech

SA rolls out Australia's first data centre legislation

South Australia's new strategy will impose mandatory energy, water and national interest standards on data centres in exchange for streamlined approvals. It's already drawing moratorium calls from critics worried about resource use.

NSW budget puts $39m toward AI scribes for 6,000 clinicians

The Minns government is funding AI documentation tools for thousands of NSW health workers and the Building Commission, aiming to cut admin burden across the public service.

Minister Ayres pushes back on AI copyright carve-out claims

After Senator Pocock aired concerns the government may let AI companies sidestep copyright for local model training, industry minister Tim Ayres insisted existing protections won't be undermined.