Trump's press ban overturned + The price of a Grand Final pop star
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Hey Chris Beer with you. Happy Friday and welcome to the briefing. Kylie Minogue takes to the stage at the AFL Grand Final tomorrow, and the NRL was in talks with Tone Denai for its one next Sunday, but that's no longer happening. Instead, the league says it'll spend the money on kids who can't afford to play, and its boss reckons nobody cares about the pregame shows anyway. So, does he have a point?
There's a lot of things we do in the world just because they become established norms and then we perpetuate those norms. So I think this is a really good opportunity to see what this can look like without a headline. Will it change audiences?
What headlines are covered at the start of the episode?
Audiences are measured minute by minute, so we'll be able to see how the composition changes.
That look inside the business of Grand Final Entertainment in Australia and whether it still has a place is coming up in the second half of this episode. First though, let's get into the headlines with Sasha Barbagat. It's Friday, the 25th of September.
President Chi Madame Punk. And the members of the Chinese delegation, I'm delighted to welcome you to the beautiful White House. Such a great honor.
Yes, we're starting in Washington this morning, where Donald Trump has, as you heard, rolled out the red carpet to welcome Xi Jinping to the White House. It's the Chinese president's first trip to the US since 2023, but his first time at the White House since 2016, with trade and artificial intelligence topping the agenda. And both sides have already agreed to extend their trade truce by another two months. That is what is keeping tariffs down at the moment. And keeps China's rare earth minerals flowing to the US.
Zhi also came bearing gifts. He's inviting a hundred thousand Americans to study in China and sending two giant pandas to Zoo Atlanta. So you know that panda diplomacy thing is continuing. Trump, for his part, says decisions are coming on security technology and what he now calls super intelligence.
The decisions we make in these areas today can promote peace and prosperity for decades and decades.
And that last category is really the space to watch superintelligence, as he likes to call it, or AI, as the rest of the world calls it.
How did a federal judge overturn Trump’s White House press ban?
Trump sees AI as a race that the US must win against China. And this week he told the UN that he rejects any global scheme to control it. A reminder that's the scheme that Albanese has floated with a bunch of other middle powers. You know, they're saying that AI needs to be regulated and we need a UN body to police. He said. Interestingly, after the bilateral talks today between Trump and G, they're off to a state dinner at which some of the US's biggest chip providers and tech companies will be in attendance. Um names like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, the chiefs of Google and Apple, um, as well as OpenAI's Sam Altman.
Mm, and speaking of Altman, his company is in hot water here at home and that's of course after Anthony Albanese yesterday revealed that a Medicare platform had been breached by an open AI agent back in June.
Today I spoke with the CEO of Open AI, Sam Altman, to express Australia's extreme concern. about this incident and I also expressed my disappointment that it took the company way too long to inform the government uh what had occurred.
Now, just to clarify, an AI agent is a bot that can carry out tasks online on its own. And this one was told to research how much the government spends on medicines. It hit security blocks on an old Medicare statistics portal and found a way around them. It then accessed non public files and even wrote files to a government server. The government says no personal health records were touched.
Open AI only noticed in August, then told the government on September 10 via a public inbox. It was then moved up the chain to Finance Minister Katie Gallagher, who was told last Thursday the PM was then briefed a few days later.
Why is Australia’s Prime Minister concerned about an OpenAI‑mediated Medicare breach?
Now experts have come out to say that, you know, this is more proof that we need AI regulation and AI laws now, not later. But they do say that the timing of ALBO's announcement is very convenient and some
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–0:44
2
What headlines are covered at the start of the episode?
0:44–2:24
3
How did a federal judge overturn Trump’s White House press ban?
2:24–4:06
4
Why is Australia’s Prime Minister concerned about an OpenAI‑mediated Medicare breach?
4:06–6:51
5
What is the NRL’s rationale for cancelling the Grand Final pre‑match show?
6:51–10:09
6
How does Kylie Minogue’s AFL Grand Final performance compare to past entertainment acts?
10:09–11:51
7
What historical lessons do the AFL and NRL draw from previous pre‑game shows?
11:51–12:42
8
Is scrapping the NRL’s headline act a risky move for audiences and broadcasters?
12:42–29:51
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