Near the end of October, a company most people have never heard of, Firmus, is expected to float on the ASX for about A$43 billion, bigger than Coles. It rents out AI computing power, and it's listing while the rules for data centres are still being written: proposed federal rules,…
Someone in the meeting says "alignment", or "RSI", and everyone nods along. This video gives you seven of the big AI words, so you can hold your own in that conversation and not feel stupid, because you aren't. For each word: where it came from, what it means in plain…
In 2025 a Sydney radiology AI startup took $32 million in public money to keep its operations in Australia. This year it restructured. Every manager became a player-coach, every team member an agent orchestrator — the job is now supervising a fleet of AI agents rather than doing the work.…
Bloomberg reported this month that Australia is attracting hyperscaler investment partly because there are fewer objections here than in the United States — easier to deal with than fighting moratoriums in New York State. Australia is chasing up to $150 billion of data centre investment by 2030, and the usual…
Three weeks ago one Melbourne council had asked for a pause on data centres. Now eight have, the Environment Protection Authority has lodged its first ever objection, and Hume has gone from "pause" to "reject Campbellfield outright". Meanwhile Geelong's CEO has asked a different question entirely: not whether they get…
Here's what that looks like in practice. The City of Casey was asked whether the planning rules stopped it from telling residents about a $1.1 billion data centre proposed at Clyde North. Its answer was that nothing stopped it, and that it chose not to, because telling them would create…
Victoria has plans for 9 gigawatts of AI data centres — about four coal-fired power stations' worth of electricity. The industry's own estimate says roughly 0.7 will actually be running by 2030. That gap, between what gets announced and what gets built, is the most useful thing you can learn…
Why couldn't the restaurant open its own data centre? …it didn't have enough servers. We're sorry. Lauren is not. 🎧 Full episode — The AI Transition, "Two Data Centres" — link in bio #Shorts
A frontier AI model just got pulled under government export controls. Not the hardware — the model itself. Overnight, people outside the US could no longer work on it. Which raises a question nobody's asking about the trillion-dollar data centre boom: you can own the building, the land, the power…
While the industry chases humanoid robots doing backflips for the cameras, the most quietly remarkable robot in the world has no face, no legs — just an arm on a wheeled base, the kind of thing the industry barely counts as a robot at all. It belongs to Henry Evans,…
This is the good-news episode — and energy is where the wins get almost invisible. No new hardware, just intelligence layered on what we've already built: wind farms squeezing out more power without a single new turbine, solar farms patrolled by robots in 44-degree heat, whole neighbourhoods scanned from the…
This is the good-news episode — and the health stories are the ones that lifted our spirits most. While the headlines panic about AI, here's what it's quietly doing in medicine: catching cancers a GP would have missed, finding brain lesions the size of a blueberry, and handing overstretched doctors…
Lauren ends every episode of The AI Transition Podcast with a gloriously bad dad joke. This week's is a crime against comedy. 😂 Subscribe so you don't miss the next one.
This is the good news episode — the AI that's quietly changing lives while the doom headlines suck up all the oxygen. Cancer caught early by a GP tool that reads between the lines. Radiologists getting a second pair of (artificial) eyes. Kids with epilepsy going seizure-free after AI spots…
He woke up, got himself a glass of water, and closed the blinds against the afternoon sun. None of it should be remarkable — except he can't move his arms, his legs, or speak. And the thing that gave him his independence back isn't one of those backflipping humanoid robots…
The mood has turned. A Yale-educated VC takes the stand and admits she had four secret children with one of the most powerful men in AI. ChatGPT loses a third of its market in months. Molotov cocktails get thrown at Sam Altman's gate. And 140 million workers form an alliance…
Secret IVF children. NDAs. A kill list. A Molotov cocktail. And 30,000 Oracle workers who trained the AI that replaced them. The backlash is here. Topics Discussed & Source References for Further Reading: • The OpenAI Lawsuit: Musk sues OpenAI, revealing secret IVF twins and hostile text messages. • https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/tech/musk-trial-shivon-zilis-testimony…
Muhammad Ali didn't win in Kinshasa by being passive. He had a plan. George Foreman didn't. So — is that what's playing out between the two biggest AI labs right now? Anthropic tripled its revenue in four months. OpenAI killed Sora with less than an hour's notice to Disney. Ads…
Atlassian just cut 1,600 people — including the teams building their own AI. What does that signal for the rest of us? Stephen and Lauren dig into the hidden coordination tax bleeding most teams dry, why the number five keeps showing up as the sweet spot for high-performing teams, and…
Here you go: The Pentagon wanted Claude for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Anthropic said no. Trump said fire them like dogs. Then it got weird. This week we're unpacking the biggest AI story of the year — the full-blown collision between the US government and the company that dared…
What happens when the most powerful government in the world tells an AI company to remove its ethics — and the company says no? In our Season 2 opener, Stephen and Lauren dig into Claude's Constitution: a 23,000-word document — three times longer than the US Constitution — that Anthropic…
What happens next in AI may be less exciting — and far more confronting — than what just happened. In this episode of The AI Transition Podcast, Stephen and Lauren make five bold predictions about what AI could trigger in 2026, looking beyond product launches to the system-level consequences for…
In this episode of The AI Transition, we step away from the weekly headlines and look ahead to 2026. What are the most likely AI shocks coming next, and how prepared are we for their human impact? We avoid the speculative hype or techno-optimism but focus instead on how AI…
2025 didn’t just advance AI — it reshaped how we live, work, and understand ourselves. In this episode of The AI Transition Podcast, Stephen and Lauren count down the five defining AI moments of 2025, focusing not on the tech hype, but on the human consequences: identity, power, mental health,…
