AI Giants Threaten Investment Pullout as Australia's Copyright Laws Hit Crisis Point

Anthropic has thrown down the gauntlet to Canberra, confirming it will not train its Claude AI models in Australia unless Attorney-General Michelle Rowland finds a way to overhaul copyright laws. The US tech giant's ultimatum marks the most explicit threat yet in an escalating standoff with OpenAI that could cost Australia billions in data centre investment and position the country as a laggard in the global AI race. The impasse: tech companies want a licensing...