• The arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov
• Musicians count the cost of AI; and
• What next for the News Media Bargaining Code?

In this week's episode if Burning Platforms, the panel dives into the product liability of companion apps with consumer law academia, Jeannie Peterson.

Also this week, they touch on: * the UK riots and platform responsibility * Musk’s X-rated presidential dalliance * and the People’s bid for TiKTok

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Forget intelligent machines waging war on humans, the real threat could be the amount of energy and water data processing centres are sucking up in the service of AI.

Gordon Noble from UTS’s Institute of Sustainable Futures has been crunching the numbers and it makes for alarming reading.

He joins our regular panel of Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Centre of the Public Square convenor Peter Lewis.

Also this week:

• Has the US Supreme Court just granted Big Tech a giant leave pass?
• Why is Google still addicted to Cookies?
• And could Mark Zuckerberg by right, for once

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This week on Burning Platforms, our regular panel of Essential's Peter Lewis and Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea share a special extended interview with Taiwan’s inaugural Minister of Digital Affairs Audrey Tang and Radical xChange founder Glen Weyl about their new collaborative book, ‘Plurality.’

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• What does Apple’s deal with open AI mean?
• Is Google capturing more of you than you realise?
• Can Australian ban election deep fakes?

On this week’s Burning Platforms, host Peter Lewis, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea and Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton are joined by media and tech commentator Ricky Sutton to dive deep into his analysis of Google’s growing dominance and how it might be its own Achilles Heel.

Plus they also ponder whether: Can Scarlett Johansson save the internet? Should we impose age limits on social media? And if should Australia have sovereign AI capability?

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