News Corp using AI to produce 3000 Australian local news stories a week - The Guardian

News Corp Australia is producing 3,000 articles a week using generative artificial intelligence, executive chair Michael Miller has revealed.

Miller told the World News Media Congress in Taipei that a team of four staff use the technology to generate thousands of local stories each week on weather, fuel prices and traffic conditions, according to a report in Mediaweek.

The unit, Data Local, is led by News Corp’s data journalism editor Peter Judd and many of the stories carry his byline.

The unit supplements the copy written by reporters for the companies’ 75 “hyperlocal” mastheads across the country including in Penrith, Lismore, Fairfield, Bundaberg and Cairns.

Stories such as “Where to find the cheapest fuel in Penrith” are created using AI but overseen by journalists, according to a spokesperson from News Corp. There is no disclosure on the page that the reports are compiled using AI.

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The spokesperson confirmed Miller had made the comments at a conference last month and said it would be more accurate to describe the “3,000 articles” as providing service information.

“For example, for some years now we have used automation to update local fuel prices several times daily as well as daily court lists, traffic and weather, death and funeral notices,” the spokesperson said.

“I’d stress that all such information and decisions are overseen by working journalists from the Data Local team.”

Miller told the conference most new subscribers buy a subscription for the local news, and they stay for national and world news as well as lifestyle information, according to the report by the World Association of News Publishers.

The executive also revealed that 55% of all subscriptions are driven by the hyperlocal mastheads – of which News has launched 24 in recent years.

In 2020, a total of 112 of Rupert Murdoch’s print newspapers stopped printing, including 36 which closed altogether. But many remained digital only and the company has launched several new local digital-only titles since then.

The titles are staffed by a single journalist and are typically in regions with a population of 15,000 or more.

“If that single journalist can generate seven new subscriptions a week, then their salary is covered,” Miller said.

“They are in progressive communities with active sporting, political, business and tourism interests and lower social media engagement.”

News Corp recently advertised for a data journalist whose tasks include creating “automated content to build a proposition and pipeline for revenue”.

Most newsrooms in Australia are examining how they can use AI.

The ABC told Guardian Australia it was focused on AI applications that have the potential to enhance content accessibility. “This includes transcription of our audio content, text-to-speech delivery of articles using AI voice and translation, as well as recommendations and personalisation.

“The ABC has been carefully evaluating the possible uses of AI for some time,” a spokesperson said. “As we would with any tool, the ABC has been testing ways AI might enhance our public interest journalism and make our content accessible to more Australians.” Nine Entertainment said it did not have an AI policy to share yet.

The Guardian’s approach to generative AI can be read here.

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‘She found peace here’: local people tell of Sinéad O’Connor’s last years in Ireland - The Guardian

In the end it didn’t save her but Sinéad O’Connor lived most of her of final years in Ireland behind a “protective ring” that offered, for a while, the chance of a normal life.

After all the triumphs and agonies that had marked her public life, the singer was able to blend into communities that accepted and to some extent shielded her.

In the seaside town of Bray in County Wicklow, the village of Rooskey in County Roscommon and the village of Dalkey in County Dublin O’Connor found sanctuary from the fame, if not her mental health problems.

Only now, after the announcement of her death at the age of 56, and amid a wave of tributes, residents have shared some of their stories.

Tom Dalton, a musician who ran acoustic singing sessions in a Bray pub, at first did not recognise O’Connor when she joined an eight-strong group one evening in 2019. She wore a hijab and used her Muslim name, Shuhada’ Sadaqat.

O’Connor lived nearby and had spotted a sign advertising the session. Strumming a guitar, she sang a song solo, then a verse of Amazing Grace.

By then Dalton had cottoned on to who she was. “But I treated her the same as everybody else,” he said. “Nobody asked her for photographs. I didn’t upload the video at the time because it was just us, and it was beautiful. And she had retired from music.”

When O’Connor settled in Bray, the community formed a “protective ring” around her, Erika Doyle, a town councillor, told the Irish Independent.

“Quite by chance, I met her and we became friendly for a period. One day I was walking along the seafront and saw a paparazzo start to set up in a shelter across from her house. I called her to let her know. She laughed and said three or four locals had already been in touch.”

There have been unverified reports that O’Connor paid medical bills for impoverished Bray residents. This week local residents left flowers, candles and poems at the front of her former house, which she sold in 2021, and there were calls for a mural or statue of the singer.

O’Connor quietly moved to a house overlooking a lake in the remote Kilglass area of Roscommon, in the centre of Ireland.

Half the community knew of her presence, the other half did not, Eugene Murphy, a senator, told the Shannonside Northern Sound radio. The area offered a retreat – local residents spotted her in cafes and supermarkets but did not bother her, he said.

“I think she found that peace here, she walked the roads here, she shopped locally. So she led a very ordinary down to earth life.”

O’Connor moved to a small cottage in Dalkey, a coastal Dublin suburb that is home to Bono and other celebrities, and even there found anonymity.

The film director Neil Jordan told the public broadcaster RTÉ: “I was walking down there and she was sitting outside on the bench, just smoking cigarettes and all these tourists were passing by and had no clue who she was.”

No amount of privacy could protect O’Connor when her 17-year-old son Shane disappeared on 6 January 2022 after leaving a hospital where he had been on suicide watch.

“My world would collapse without you,” she wrote on social media. “You are my heart. Please don’t stop it from beating. Please don’t harm yourself.” Police found his body the next day.

O’Connor’s grief was partly played out on social media but she found the will to continue. In March she accepted an award for her second album, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, released in 1990, at the Choice music awards in Dublin. She received a standing ovation and dedicated the award to refugees.

This month she moved to London, a city she loved, to complete a new album, No Veteran Dies Alone. There was talk of an Australia tour. She looked forward to writing new tunes, she said in a Twitter video post.

Neighbours said she spent long periods looking down from her balcony and left lights on and windows open all night. In separate social media posts, O’Connor said she had lost the love of her life and lamp of her soul. She likened her grief to purgatory.

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Review: This Enmore local is the perfect definition of an Australian restaurant - Sydney Morning Herald

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Patriarch Pino Russo pours his homemade limoncello for regular guests, while son Marc opens bottles of new-wave, natural wine. Korean-born chef Jowoon Oh leads a kitchen fond of fermentation, native limes and big, buttery sauces, and candles flicker as massive slabs of tiramisu are served.

About halfway through dinner, I begin to think that Russo & Russo might be the perfect definition of an Australian restaurant in 2023.

Locals love it because they love Pino and they don’t have to dress up too much on a Tuesday night. Couples love it because it’s dark and romantic, and the old fishing village prints remind them of that little trattoria near Palermo – or Leichhardt Vinnies.

I’m a fan because the Russos have long provided young-gun chefs with an opportunity to hone their own style of cooking, authenticity be damned.

Jason Saxby was on the pans when the osteria opened at the top end of Enmore Road in 2013, creating a menu of Italian classics rejigged with native ingredients and natural umami enhancers. He left a few years ago to put Raes at Byron Bay back on the food map.

Alex Wong was in charge when COVID-19 hit, before moving to Lana at Circular Quay where he continues to blend modern European and traditional Chinese; Oh took over 18 months ago with a menu of punchy snacks and generous share plates.

Go-to dish: Grilled duck breast with pomegranate and marsala.Jennifer Soo

Grilled duck breast ($39) is one of Oh’s few constants, although everything else on the plate is in flux, depending on what Pino likes the look of at the market or how the house-made vinegars and ferments are tasting.

You could find the duck served with pickled leek and spinach or maybe a handful of lightly cured muntrie berries. Recently I enjoyed the crisp-skinned, rose-pink meat scattered with pomegranate arils and a marsala sauce of great rib-sticking depth. Make that duck your go-to dish and build the rest of the meal around it.

Chilli-salted zucchini flowers stuffed with goat’s ricotta ($6 each) are another mainstay, but I’m more interested in the taralli ($6): a dense little pretzel-esque curl of bread that Oh turbo-charges with fermented black garlic and drapes with anchovies. Brilliant.

Wagyu tartare is spooned across crisp Sardinian flatbread pane carasau and sharpened by sweet-sour blood lime and tempered with macadamia cream. Another smashing three-bite snack for $6 a pop.

Reginette pasta with mussel butter, Yamba prawns and pangrattato.Jennifer Soo

An $80 bottle of Podere Pradarolo 2021 “Vej”, made with white malvasia grapes in Emilia-Romagna, has enough zest and drive to keep up with the bold cooking. We use it to cut through a mussel and sake-spiked butter reginette pasta (the ruffled ribbon one, also known as mafaldine) that comes tangled with Yamba prawns and crunchy pangrattato ($35).

Meanwhile, pretty, bellflower-shaped gigli pasta ($33) harnesses crumbled lamb sausage, peas and fermented chilli to create a steadying hotchpotch that teams the flavours of Italy, Korea and shepherd’s pie.

From the specials board, coal-grilled wagyu rump ($58) has the right ratio of gnarly char to marbled fat and comes glossed with an indecently silky sauce of rosemary, anchovy and garlic. Ideal, naturally, with a side of craggy, duck fat-roasted potatoes ($14).

Chestnut cake topped with truffle ice-cream.Jennifer Soo

Steamed Tuscan chestnut flour cake – castagnaccio – is another feel-good hit of the winter, crowned with a lavish scoop of truffle gelato and browned hazelnuts ($18).

One major gripe: a condensed menu is also offered through Uber Eats. Great for couples keen for a few tarallis on the couch; not so tops if you’re seated near the entrance and there’s a steady procession of blokes in motorbike helmets collecting takeaway gigli. At least the red-wine glasses are always full, and Pino’s nocino, a green walnut liqueur ($9), is on hand to keep you warm every time a delivery rider opens the door.

Everyone has their own idea of what the perfect Australian restaurant looks and tastes like. Maybe it’s a bowling club with beef and blackbean sauce; maybe it’s the beach view and roast chook at Sean’s in Bondi.

Uber Eats aside, Russo & Russo is mine with its mixed bag of cultures and tradition, more concerned with deliciousness than “authentic” cuisine. Neil Perry and Kylie Kwong have been doing this kind of thing for decades. If it’s been a while between rounds of Pino’s limoncello, now is a cracking time to become reacquainted.

The low-down

Vibe: Old-school hospitality with young-gun talent in the kitchen

Go-to dish: Grilled duck breast with pomegranate and marsala ($39)

Drinks: Thoughtful, concise list of Italian bottles, plus plenty of bittersweet digestifs and liqueurs

Cost: About $160 for two, excluding drinks

This review was originally published in Good Weekend magazine

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Watch a Local Wrangle a Massive King Cobra Hiding in a Garden - AZ Animals

Imagine going outside in your garden one afternoon to do the typical things you would do, like gardening, pun absolutely intended. And during your gardening, you find a snake. Now you might think that’s not such an unusual occurrence. And while finding a small snake of some kind is not unusual, finding a king cobra is absolutely an unusual occurrence. 

We see a family in Vietnam that found such a snake in their garden. The King Cobra Hunter posted this video found below. He finds videos and king cobra snakes worldwide and posts them for his viewers.

 The video starts off with a scene of a man running toward the garden. Likely a family member that heard that they were in trouble and he was coming to their rescue. Once he gets up to the garden patio, we see a woman with a broom who is trying to get the snake to come out.

Once the guy comes along a metal pole to try to pull the snake out, we are able to see just how long this venomous snake is finally. Oh yeah, did we forget to mention that this is one of the most venomous snakes in the world? This makes that video that much more incredible.

What looks to be a 13-foot-long king cobra is curled up with his head held high. He clearly feels threatened. As the locals try to pull the snake out, we see them going back and forth with the snake for several minutes. The guy is smart enough to know he can’t rush in, grab the snake, and stick it in a bag. He has to be careful not to be struck by its venom.

If you can jump to nine minutes and 25 seconds, this is the most replayed section of this YouTube video. This is the point where the man is actually able to grab the snake and pick it up, which is just incredible to think of. After a few minutes of doing that, he puts it down again as he realizes he doesn’t have the grip he needs to put it in the bag safely.

The video below ends with him getting the head of the snake into the bag and then picking the rest of the body up to stick it in this large bag and close it up so he can safely get it away from his family. 

What Can a King Cobra’s Venom Kill?

King cobras can reach up to 12 miles per hour.

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As we said at the blog’s beginning, the king cobra is one of the most venomous snakes out there. It is actually known as one of the longest, most venomous snakes in the world. The king cobra can reach up to 13 feet long and can weigh up to 20 pounds.

Its venom is strong enough to kill an elephant. An elephant is able to reach up to 12,000 pounds and is 12 feet tall. 

Shockingly, not only does the king cobra have enough venom to kill an adult male elephant, but it also can kill 20 people. So we can only imagine that in this video below, this is the reason why the guy was so careful. 

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351 Autumn St, Newtown has sold to local buyers.

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Newtown vendors will soon be calling last drinks at their home’s “private tavern” after a buyer emerged for the property.

The impressive entertainer’s paradise at 351 Autumn St has sold for $1.105m.

The three-bedroom, Art Deco style home comes with a purpose-built man cave featuring a recycled timber bar with stools for half a dozen mates.

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It was passed in at auction earlier this month, but Barry Plant, Highton agent Matthew Hunt said a local buyer had since stepped forward.

The sale price is within the $1.05m-$1.15m asking range.

“They saw it after the auction, didn’t buy it until a week after the auction,” Mr Hunt.

“They certainly loved the house and just really loved the location. It just ticked the boxes for their family.”

The weatherboard home in on a 602sq m block.

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The outdoor bar is one of many options for entertaining.

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The vendors built the tavern to recreate the pub vibe at home during the Covid pandemic when lockdowns prevented them from going out.

The upscaled garage includes a full kitchen, bi-fold servery windows onto an adjoining deck, a wood heater, bathroom and, of course, room for a billiard table.

During the campaign Mr Hunt said the owners spent more time out in the space than they did in the main house.

The lounge has Art Deco features.

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There’s a monochromatic theme in the kitchen.

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He said there was scope to add a bit more value to the inside of the home, where two further living areas showcase period features including beautiful Art Deco style ceiling roses, decorative cornices and picture rails.

The property also has rear lane access to a double garage that adjoins the man cave.

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In a little over three years, EQT has gone from zero to some $8 billion in deals around the country. Now the Swedish private equity firm is growing again, launching its first private wealth fund in Australia.

Street Talk can reveal Zurich-based EQT managing director and head of fund strategy, William Vettorato, arrived in Sydney in recent weeks and is expected to start meeting with a broad range of financial institutions and distribution partners ahead of the launch of the fund, known as Nexus.

It is believed EQT has appointed Channel Capital as its local service provider to operate the Australian unit trust.

EQT managing director, William Vettorato, will lead the Swedish buyout fund’s private wealth strategy in Australia.  

Nexus has already been rolled out in Sweden as EQT moves to provide access for high net worth individuals and family offices to its portfolio. The fund started with assets worth some €350 million ($579 million) and EQT has made commitments of about €700 million, it told investors this year.

The pitch to investors, sources said, is that through a single investment, EQT can provide them with access to a global, diverse platform of strategies and asset classes from early-stage venture capital and life sciences to massive private equity buyouts and infrastructure deals. Nexus will also co-invest in companies alongside EQT’s funds, those sources said.

But EQT appears to be more selective in the investors it will bring onboard locally. In Europe, Nexus is targeting individuals with a minimum investment of €25,000. In Australia, it is expected to make Nexus available to wholesale investors at a minimum allocation of around $500,000. But wealthy investors will also be able to access the fund at lower ticket sizes through local aggregators.

In an update to investors earlier this year, EQT managing partner Christian Sinding said Nexus was “part of a strategic priority to grow and, over time,
scale [the firm’s] efforts across private wealth”. “Whilst the private
wealth segment represents a $US135 trillion ($200 trillion) capital pool, today, just two percent of global allocations to private markets come from private wealth,” Sinding wrote to shareholders at the time.

EQT is, itself, a spin-off from a family office owned by the Wallenbergs, the wealthy Swedish industrialists who now own large stakes in companies ranging from AstraZeneca to Ericsson. They still own 15 per cent of EQT.

The private equity firm earlier this month closed its fourth industrial real estate fund at $7.2bn. Last year the firm closed an Asia-focused private equity fund at $16.5bn. In Australia, it teamed up with Phil King’s Regal Partners to make a $1.1 billion play for Perpetual and last year splashed $530 through its Baring Private Equity Asia arm to buy the Hilton Sydney.

Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones. Email Sarah at sarah.thompson@afr.com

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During its first month of trade in 1995, Hurricane’s Bondi Beach sold a single burger. “It was so scary,” founder Tony Teixeira tells Broadsheet. “We had maybe 10 customers a day and we had to pay rent, cover our overheads, make an income. But over time, it picked up and we got more confident.”

Since then, that confidence has seen him part ways with his co-founder and open five locations across Sydney and Surfers Paradise, the newest of which is in Cronulla. His ex-business partner also runs three separate Hurricane’s restaurants.

Like all Hurricane’s venues, the Cronulla eatery has a core menu of lamb and pork ribs in house-made sauces, plus steaks and burgers. Dry-ageing is unique to Cronulla, with a 1.5-kilogram tomahawk, a Tajima Wagyu sirloin and a Great Southern Pinnacle Scotch fillet all on the menu. Seafood is also in the spotlight.

“We really wanted to focus on local seafood at Cronulla,” says Teixeira. “On the raw bar we’ve got Sydney rock oysters, kingfish ceviche and scallops crudo, and for entrees there are Hervey Bay scallops with lime, miso and garlic burnt butter; grilled king prawns; and a beautiful seafood platter that comes with a whole lobster.”

The beachside 300-seater is the first restaurant Teixeira has opened since the pandemic. The fit-out nods to the Mediterranean, specifically Teixeira’s home country, Portugal. The colour palette is muted, with shades of olive, blush and cream, and timber seating that accents the curved sandstone and natural plaster on the walls. “We wanted our customers to feel like they’re sitting in a restaurant in Spain or Portugal,” says Teixeira. The Mediterranean is well-represented on the wine list as well, with a solid list of European drops, as well as Australian and Californian varietals.

Hurricane’s Bondi restaurant just celebrated its 28th birthday, and as the new Cronulla team finds its feet, Teixeira is philosophical. “I was a lot younger when we opened – opening that first venue was so exciting. I didn’t know what was going to happen next, and I never expected to be where I am today.”

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Kununurra-born Lawford Benning says Aboriginal clean energy is about celebrating beautiful country without hurting it.

He is a key voice in a $3 billion proposal to produce hydrogen and ammonia in Western Australia's majestic East Kimberley from abundant sunshine and an existing reservoir of fresh water.

Under the plan, Australia's largest solar farm would be built beside a hydrogen plant on country near the town of Kununurra, close to Lake Argyle.

Part of the Ord River irrigation scheme that dates back to the 1960s, the lake - Australia's second-largest containing fresh water and WA's largest such reservoir - could become a crucial source for water-intensive green hydrogen production.

"We're not always opposed to development, just the right type of project," Trisha Birch of Indigenous organisation Balangarra Ventures says.

"This is our choice. For once, it's about choice."

Mr Benning, executive chair at Yawoorroong Miriuwung Gajerrong Yirrgeb Noong Dawang Aboriginal Corporation, or MG Corporation for short, says there is power in determining how and where their products are showcased.

In the past, they have rejected the "historic, passive engagement model" of receiving royalties in return for relinquishing control of the land, he says.

This project makes native title holders active shareholders, changing the way corporate Australia and billionaire landowners have previously worked with Indigenous communities.

The new partnership combines the deep knowledge of Balangarra Ventures, MG Corporation and the Kimberley Land Council with the expertise of leading climate change investment and advisory firm Pollination.

Under the banner of the Aboriginal Clean Energy (ACE) Partnership, the new company gives the four organisations equal 25 per cent shares.

Cissy Gore-Birch, CEO of Balangarra Aboriginal Corporation, says the suite of skills required to deliver the ambitious project on traditional lands exists only within the consortium, with people working together.

The proponents believe it could be a model replicated throughout Australia and the world, working with Aboriginal people.

"The way this project is being done, the equitable approach and the ethics involved, are very important to me and very important to Pollination," says project director Erica Lampropoulos.

Solar energy along with power from an existing hydro plant would be combined with fresh water to produce green hydrogen piped to Balanggarra country around Wyndham and converted to green ammonia.

Ammonia is a feedstock for industry, including the production of fertiliser for agriculture, which needs ways to be produced with fewer emissions.

Helping to decarbonise global food production, the ammonia would be used locally and exported through the Wyndham port to future customers in Asia and Europe.

The partners say their approach reduces risk and development time, with shareholders involved in genuine co-design and decision-making for speedier heritage, native title, environmental and engineering approval.

The co-owners also have an opportunity to influence a $2 billion federal program that will back two or three major green hydrogen projects.

Consultation on Hydrogen Headstart is still open, so final guidelines and specifications of the design on what would and would not qualify are yet to be decided.

Stage one of the ACE project would be the construction of a 900 megawatt solar farm on 2000 hectares and a 50,000 tonne per annum hydrogen production facility.

Using clean energy, the process of electrolysis will extract green hydrogen from fresh water sourced from Lake Argyle, which would be transported to Balanggara country in Wyndham through a 120km pipeline.

The project will connect to the Ord Hydro plant and electricity transmission network - a rare asset in remote WA - and use existing roads and airport facilities for production and distribution.

Hydro generation would power the ammonia production plant in Wyndham, producing about 250,000 tonnes per year to be used by the mining industry and agriculture as well as international customers.

The partners say this would be Australia's first and only 100 per cent renewable green hydrogen and ammonia operation.

Indigenous ranger Anthony Johnson would like to see this type of project for his community,

"It will change Wyndham ... giving them a future, changing their lives," he says.

A recent Melbourne and Queensland University net-zero Australia report found at least 45 per cent of the renewable energy needed to decarbonise the domestic and export energy supply will be on land subject to native title.

"We've seen the impacts of what the dirty energy revolution has done, not only to our own country but more broadly to the world," Tyronne Gartsone, CEO of the Kimberley Land Council says.

"The clean energy movement is aligned to traditional owners' values and core responsibilities to looking after country."

Pending the completion of feasibility studies and capital raising, construction could begin as early as 2025 with first production by the end of 2028.

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