Anthropic's Australian ambitions

AI giant Anthropic is circling Australia, with reports suggesting it is looking to secure a massive amount of data centre capacity Down Under. That has kicked off a cycle of debate about what companies will build those data centres, whether copyright reform will be needed, and the biggest question of all: is this good for Australia?We discuss:The leaked request for proposal which revealed Anthropic's Australian plansThe shares that popped on the newsThe uncertainty over whether Anthropic plans to train new models hereA counterintuitive take on the copyright reform debateWhy former industry minister Ed Husic is a skeptical voiceThe growing data centre backlash in AustraliaHow the global markets are feeling about the AI boomOn The Call is a weekly live conversation with the Capital Brief newsroom on the stories driving the agenda in Australia's centres of power.Host Harshdeep Kaur sits down with Capital Brief's best journalists to dissect what we're watching and why it matters, and answer questions from our subscribers live.Subscribe to join our weekly live discussion on Thursdays at 12pm AEST: ⁠https://www.capitalbrief.com/on-the-call/Sign up to our free weekday newsletter, The Edition: ⁠https://www.capitalbrief.com/newsletters/the-edition/