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Generative AI tools can now produce sophisticated music complete with fake lyrics, a fake singer and fake instruments. 

With the right prompt and training, artificial intelligence tools can even be used to produce cheap new songs that almost sound like they’re from your favourite artist. 

AI has some of Australia’s biggest artists worried and a study from the industry suggests nearly a quarter of their revenue is at risk.

Today, singer, songwriter Ben Lee joins Sam Hawley with his take on AI music and the future of human creativity. 

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Ben Lee, musician

NASA doesn’t like to phrase it this way, but right now a couple of astronauts are stuck in space.

Their mission was meant to take eight days, but might last into next year because the Boeing spacecraft they were testing has experienced some technical difficulties. 

Today, space expert Rebecca Allen on how NASA plans to get them back to Earth.  

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Dr Rebecca Allen, Co-Director of the Space Technology and Industry Institute at Swinburne University of Technology

The debate over whether Australia should be granting visas to Palestinians from Gaza has been getting pretty heated. 

In part it’s turned into a row over what is and isn’t racist. 

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says we need a ban because of a security risk posed by people from that war zone. 

But with 1300 people having already managed to reach Australia and others being granted permission to come, is there really any danger? 

Today, the ABC’s Patricia Karvelas discusses the policy and the politics.

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Patricia Karvelas, host of Radio National Breakfast and the Party Room podcast 

Thirty months into a gruelling war, Ukraine surprised its enemy by invading Russia. 

It’s the first major foreign incursion there since World War II and a deep embarrassment for Russian president Vladimir Putin. 

Today, Rajan Menon, an international relations expert from The City College of New York on whether Ukraine’s major shift in tactics will pay off. 

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Rajan Menon, international relations professor at The City College of New York

Forget the great Australian dream, we’re a nation with a growing number of forever renters. 

It’s just too politically difficult to do anything that would improve the affordability of buying a home. 

The situation bolsters the case for strengthening renters’ rights, ensuring longer leases with more checks on the power of landlords.

Today, ABC finance expert Alan Kohler shares his ideas on how to save renters. 

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Alan Kohler, ABC finance presenter

Kamala Harris was barely more popular than Joe Biden when she replaced him as the Democratic presidential nominee. 

But new polling shows she is gaining significant ground against Donald Trump. 

Today, Molly Ball, senior political correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, on the re-energised Democratic campaign and how Trump’s struggling to keep things on track. 

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Molly Ball, senior political correspondent for the Wall Street Journal

Former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins lives in France now, but she’s expected back in Australia very soon to face yet another court hearing.

She’s being sued for defamation by her former boss and once defence minister Linda Reynolds. 

Today, author and co-host of the Not Stupid podcast, Julia Baird,on the huge financial and emotional cost the case brings for both women.

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Julia Baird, co-host of Not Stupid podcast

Australia’s defence alliance with the United States seems to be a given. 

But do we really need the Americans to protect us? The former Prime Minister Paul Keating doesn’t think so. 

He insists we can defend ourselves and he wants us to tear up the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal. 

Paul Keating also dismisses Taiwan as ‘Chinese real estate’, a characterisation that veteran US politician, house speaker Nancy Pelosi describes as a ‘stupid statement’. 

Today, Richard McGregor from the Lowy Institute on what walking away from the US would mean for our security. 

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Richard McGregor, senior fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute

Allegations of sexism and bullying have been uncovered at Channel Seven, one of the nation’s top media groups, where a so-called second chance club for senior men has thrived. 

Today, Louise Milligan discusses her Four Corners investigation and why a newsroom’s culture matters to us all. 

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Louise Milligan, Four Corners reporter

When you go to look something up on the internet, more often than not you’re Googling. 

The search engine’s ubiquity has earned Google billions and billions of dollars, but now a US judge has ruled that Google became a monopoly illegally. 

How you search the internet might change as a result, with the forced break-up of the firm one of the options on the table to ensure more competition in the market. 

So, how did Google rise to the top and stay there? 

Today, we dissect the biggest tech competition ruling in decades with Leah Nylen, Bloomberg’s anti-trust reporter. 

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Leah Nylen, Bloomberg anti-trust reporter