Australian Senate

Australian senators have summoned OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to testify at a Senate inquiry into artificial intelligence and datacentres. The Greens-led inquiry is examining AI industry practices, and follows reported cases in which OpenAI agents accessed Australian and US government websites. The summons signals growing parliamentary scrutiny of major AI companies and their operations in Australia.

Commentary circulating online argues the fossil fuel industry keeps moving the goalposts as renewable energy outperforms past predictions. It revisits 2013 Australian Senate debate, when Barnaby Joyce dismissed a 5% solar target as impossible — a target later surpassed. Writers say climate denial tactics have evolved from rejecting renewables outright to questioning their scale and reliability, as solar and wind success makes outright denial harder to sustain.