# AI the Australian way - Albanese announces plan to regulate tech future

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Podcast: [The Radio National Hour](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-radio-national-hour-7176627)
Published: 2026-07-15T08:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-radio-national-hour/the-radio-national-hour/106843602
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has opened the Office of Artificial Intelligence, tasked with creating new standards governing the technology. Johanna Weaver, executive director of the Tech Policy Design Institute, says its an important step towards determining what our AI future looks like and who gets to build it. The words discounts and diamonds don’t usually go together but the world’s largest miner De Beers is slashing prices for their precious gems as demand for cheaper, lab grown versions takes off. Diamond expert Edahn Golan says the decline in demand is a combination of shifting demographics and cost of living pressures. And Australia’s ‘sorceress of percussion’; the prodigiously talented, award winning percussionist Claire Edwards

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