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Last updated: 29 October 2026
- University Assessment Needs Verifiable Judgment, Not AI Detection
HEPI argues that universities should assess verifiable judgement rather than rely on AI detection alone. - Albanese AI framework faces 2027 wait as Greens push halt
Australia’s proposed national AI rules protect creatives but delay legislation to early 2027, prompting Greens calls to pause hyperscale datacentres. - Software engineers sharpen fundamentals as AI rewrites the profession
Software engineers in the US are retraining, evaluating AI output, organising collectively or leaving, a July 2026 Guardian portrait finds. - Australia's new AI office protects creators from copyright theft
Australia will create an Office of AI, tighten creator copyright rules, and set binding datacentre standards from early 2027. - Do in-person exams stop AI cheating? A Brown professor's grades say the take-home scores were the problem
A Brown University class moved its final exam into a proctored room. The average score fell from 96 to 48.6, undercutting the take-home midterm before it. - Is GPTZero accurate? What the peer-reviewed research actually shows
GPTZero advertises a false positive rate under one per cent. Peer-reviewed testing on real student writing tells a very different story. - Illinois just signed a landmark AI law: what it actually regulates
Illinois' new AI Safety Measures Act makes the biggest AI developers publish risk frameworks and pass annual audits, though it does not take effect until 2028. - What does AI actually mean for the classroom in 2026?
Student AI use has outpaced school policy worldwide, while early efforts to redesign teaching around it are only just getting organised. - Inside Australia's AI Safety Institute: what testing for cheating and deceiving means
Australia's AI Safety Institute has begun testing frontier AI models after a minister warned they are already cheating, deceiving and pursuing unintended goals. - ChatGPT 5.6 rollout shows a new AI clearance regime taking shape
OpenAI released ChatGPT 5.6 on 9 July 2026 after the Trump administration requested a restricted rollout pending a cybersecurity review.