Good morning. In a sign of the times, a Melbourne psychiatrist is refusing to take on new patients who don’t consent to her using AI note-taking tools. Coincidentally, overnight a jury has handed victory to Sam Altman in his high-stakes battle with Elon Musk over the founding of tech giant OpenAI.
Meanwhile, research reveals the under-16s social media ban has had unintended consequences, and activists have criticised proposed Northern Territory laws that would allow police to hold children for days without charge.
Plus: a thousand-year-old dingo burial site in New South Wales tells us about an ancient connection.
Australia
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Archaeological find | A millennium-old dingo burial site in western NSW, including evidence of a “feeding” ritual, has shed new light on the relationship between the canines and First Nations people.
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Computer says no | AI-driven note-taking tools are increasingly popular – and now a Melbourne psychiatrist is refusing new patients unless they agree to allow her to use an AI scribe in their sessions.
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‘Unintended consequences’ | A study has found that Australia’s social media ban is preventing teenagers from accessing news, with half of the teenagers who have been blocked saying they’re now seeing less news.
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Murder charges | A man has been charged with three counts of murder overnight after the bodies of a woman and two boys were found in a Sydney home.
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Detention fears | The NT government has been accused of “funnelling Aboriginal children into prisons” over new laws that would allow police to detain young people for up to 48 hours.
World
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Pandemic threat | The world is becoming less resilient to outbreaks of infectious diseases, experts have warned, as health authorities in the DRC and Uganda scramble to contain an outbreak of Ebola; the US imposes travel screening measures after an American contracts Ebola; the Science Weekly podcast asks: can the Ebola outbreak be contained?
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Middle East crisis | Iran has made a new proposal for a deal to definitively end the war in the Middle East, officials in the region have said; “the clock is ticking,” Donald Trump warns Tehran; a US court case has highlighted how Iran is recruiting agents who may not even be regime supporters, Jason Burke writes.
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OpenAI court battle | A jury in the US has ruled in favour of Sam Altman in a long and bitter legal battle that pitted the richest person in the world, Elon Musk, against a leader of the AI boom.
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Payback time | Spain’s tax authority could pay singer Shakira back more than $90m after a court ruled that it had wrongly imposed huge fines because it had made mistakes over her tax status.
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Cave divers | Rescuers have found the bodies of four Italian divers deep inside an underwater cave in an atoll in the Maldives, four days after their group was reported missing.
Full Story
Patrick Radden Keefe on power and greed in London
In Sydney before his Australian book tour, celebrity investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe speaks with Reged Ahmad about his Australian roots and his new book, London Falling, which examines a mysterious death and a family’s search for truth.
In-depth
Anoulack Chanthivong says he was surprised when Chris Minns asked him to take on the unforgiving portfolio of NSW corrections minister. The 48-year-old has four other portfolios but it is in Corrections that his values and political nous have been most vigorously tested. Chanthivong has found himself, at times, at odds with the premier.
Not the news
In the latest of our My rookie era series, Julia Hollingsworth recounts going for her driver’s licence in her 30s – and failing four times. As she explains, her journey towards getting behind the wheel as an adult felt humiliating because everyone knows how to drive, but also frustrating because (as other drivers ran red lights and failed to stop at pedestrian crossings) no one knows how to drive properly.
Sport
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Football | Arsenal are taking on Burnley as they hunt for the Premier League title; Sam Kerr bids farewell to Chelsea in fitting style after equalling the club’s goalscoring record; Mohamed Salah’s spiky Liverpool departure puts Arne Slot in an awkward spot, Andy Hunter writes.
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Basketball | “That game sucked”: No 1 seed Detroit Pistons rue their NBA playoff exit as the Cleveland Cavaliers advance to the Conference finals.
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Athletics | Eddie Nketia runs 100m in 9.74s but the Australian sprint record stays out of reach.
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Golf | The nice guy who finished first? Why all of golf was glad to see Aaron Rai lift this year’s US PGA Championship.
Media roundup
At least $57bn worth of vital infrastructure in Victoria is at risk from more frequent and severe natural disasters, ABC News reports. Only 3% of clothes bought in Australia are made locally as cheap imports threaten to kill off local textile manufacturing, the Advertiser reports. Tasmania’s first legal test of new rental pet laws has ended in heartbreak for a tenant and Periwinkle the kitten, the Mercury reports.
What’s happening today
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VIC | Richard Marles, the deputy PM and minister for defence, is scheduled to give an address about Aukus to the Lowy Institute in Melbourne.
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NSW | Treasurer Jim Chalmers is due to speak at the Bloomberg Forum for Investment Managers in Sydney.
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NSW | The Police Association of NSW conference is taking place in Wollongong.
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VIC | Michelle Obama is scheduled to speak in Melbourne today as she promotes her latest book.
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