News Summary

• The two broadcasters made the call in submissions to Parliament’s Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence.
• The ABC also wants AI companies to follow the same copyright, defamation and privacy rules as media outlets.
• “This unequal treatment will accelerate the cannibalisation of the Australian news industry,” the ABC said in its submission.
• Anthropic said there was ‘light and shade’ to AI.
• The company pointed to its plans to invest billions in Australia, including large new data centres.