Australia Backs Mandatory Tests for Frontier AI

Australia joins an international push for mandatory pre-deployment testing and independent evaluation of frontier AI, but the agreement is not yet law. Also: Alibaba maps out a full-stack AI strategy, Microsoft disrupts an AI-assisted phishing service, AWS reshapes its runtime for long-running agents, NVIDIA makes robotics workflows easier for coding agents, Check Point patches two exploited flaws, GitHub adds two GPT-6 options to Copilot, and Claude Opus 5.5 arrives with lower list prices. Full transcript: https://www.owenonthenet.com/podcast/2026-09-23/ Sources: https://www.government.nl/documents/2026/09/22/a-call-for-control-of-frontier-ai-models https://www.pm.gov.au/media/doorstop-new-york-22-september-2026 https://www.alibabacloud.com/en/press-room/alibaba-unveils-roadmap-on-full-stack-ai-strategy?_p_lc=1 https://apnews.com/article/alibaba-ai-chip-qwen-zhenwu-china-us-b29908e516faff9f5a82b201ba954aab https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/09/22/unmasking-eviltokens-getting-to-the-root-of-device-code-phishing https://www.axios.com/2026/09/22/microsoft-eviltokens-court-takedown https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/new-agentcore-runtime-generally-available https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/isaac-ros-5-0-agentic-open-source-robotics https://blog.checkpoint.com/security/security-advisory-action-required-active-exploitation-of-cve-2026-85102-and-a-management-pre-authentication-vulnerability-cve-2026-93616 https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-22-openais-gpt-6-sol-and-gpt-6-luna-now-available https://claude.com/blog/what-a-task-costs-on-opus-5-5 https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-22-claude-opus-5-5-is-now-available-in-github-copilot