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Data centre operator AirTrunk has secured access to documents from competitor Zerra DC -- including the complete set of design documents for a Victorian data centre -- as it weighs a potential lawsuit.

A judge has hit the liquidators of failed construction giant Ralan with costs following an adjourned hearing, but declined to find the use of AI was cause for an adverse costs order.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday said an OpenAI agent hacked into Medicare's statistics reporting portal and accessed non public files in June but the company failed to notify the givernment until this month.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission says it will make changes aimed at strengthening safeguards for automated and AI-enabled trading, warning AI technology could behave in unpredictable ways.

Former infrastructure minister Jacinta Allan was warned about the alleged involvement of criminals on Big Build work sites, a royal commission into the state's construction sector has heard.

The Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration wants to make submissions in a High Court challenge to an arbitration ruling in a dispute with Esso over Bass Strait hydrocarbon royalties.

New rules announced by the Victorian Labor government will require data centre developers to generate their own renewable energy supply, invest in local jobs and stay out of residential areas. 

Telecommunications company Subco will build three new hypercables in the Indo-Pacific region, with its CEO warning AI factories will be "dead" without subsea connectivity. 

MinterEllison and Clayton Utz have confirmed cuts to the number of business operations jobs at the firms but deny the increasing adoption of AI tools was a factor.

Investment manager Macquarie has been hit with a second class action by investors who sank over $320 million of their superannuation into Keystone's collapsed Shield Master Fund.