Australia
Assorted links for 14 September 2026
Five links: at least 39 submissions to Australian parliamentary inquiries carrying apparently hallucinated references, a retrieval system whose recall falls from 84 to 16 per cent when a benefits question is asked in plain English, federal AI obligations reaching $7.2 billion, 300,000 hours saved by bots at the Defense Logistics Agency, and Brazil's open platform for reusable public-sector AI.
Assorted links for 6 September 2026
Five links: why the OpenAI and Hugging Face incident was configuration rather than emergence, the biggest year on record for UK public sector AI contracts, a WhatsApp chatbot that ran participatory budgeting in Bogota, Korean smart-city pilots in Brunei and the Philippines, and the governance frameworks that miss Shadow AI.
An AI exposure estimate was checked against vacancy data, and it moved the same way
AI exposure scores are hypotheses, and their value lies in predicting correctly. Here is one that was checked against vacancy data, and moved the same way.