The clash between the Pentagon and AI giant Anthropic reflects a deeper fear about the future — could the AI tools built for defence and intelligence be used for mass surveillance of citizens and for kill operations in far-flung lands? Anthropic says that’s a red line for them, but President Trump says: you’re fired.

The red carpet is being rolled out ahead of the Oscars this Sunday in La La Land. Australia has five nominees including Rose Byrne in the best actress category, Jacob Elordi as best supporting actor and Nick Cave for best original song. The New Yorker's film critic Justin Chang makes his predictions. 

And in the 18th century, Italian composer Giuseppe Tartini made a pact with the devil in a fevered dream. When he awoke he composed an extraordinary sonata which is still being performed three hundred years later. And this month in Australia by renowned violinist Ilya Gringolts.

The Pentagon and AI company Anthropic are embroiled in an intense legal stoush over how powerful artificial intelligence should be used by the military. 

It all started when Italian composer Giuseppe Tartini had a bad dream 300 years ago and turned it into his most famous piece of music.

If the real world is getting you down, let Hollywood cheer you up, yes, folks, it's that time of year, the starlets and movie titans are counting down to the Oscars, this Sunday in tinsel town. 

Australia is well represented this year, with nominations for Jacob Elordi, Nick Cave and friend of the show Rose Byrne. 

Guest: 

Justin Chang, New Yorker film critic

Bill Shorten took some big risks in his political career and he’s continued in that spirit in latest  his role as Vice Chancellor of the University of Canberra, proposing a levy on corporate profits to help fund higher education. 

It's the holy grail of CO2 abatement, and the government has spent billions trying to make it so. But carbon capture and storage or CCS has yet to live up to its promise in Australia. In Norwa, it's a different story, with a number of large scale projects up and running and carbon being imported in from all over Europe and stored under the ocean floor. 

Super-recognisers are hired by police and security agencies for their unique ability to spot a face in the crowd, but when it comes to picking an AI generated face from the crowd, their intuition fails them. 

Vice Chancellor of the University of Canberra, Bill Shorten has proposed introducing a levy on big business to help fund higher education. 

Carbon capture and storage has long been described as both a climate necessity and a scientific illusion. 

Reading faces is rather like looking at the stars? None of them are the same, and there’s a whole universe to choose from. 

With the US and the Gulf states being forced to use multi-million dollar interceptor missiles to combat Iran’s cheap and plentiful drone army, is the US in a war of attrition it can’t afford — where Iran’s cheapest weapons steadily drain America’s most advanced ones?

Man up, and get out. As more young men are drawn into the online ‘manosphere’ with its messages of male superiority and victimhood, a new study by Australia’s Institute of Criminology explains the reasons that some ultimately abandon these violent and hate filled communities.  

It was once the largest iceberg in the world - twice the size of London - 40 years ago it broke free from Antarctica and started drifting north. Now scientists say it will complete melt within weeks. Professor Mike Meredith is an oceanographer and Science Leader at the British Antarctic Survey, he's been following it for his entire career and says it's like losing a friend. 

Some boys and young men spend years immersed in toxic online communities, known collectively as the 'manosphere'. But many also leave, disillusioned and, sometimes, reformed.