Hanson’s daughter faces scrutiny, Alzheimer’s anxieties, and AI’s ‘surreal’ Joycean dialect

Exclusive | The Victorian jobs minister has accused one of Australia’s largest datacentre companies of using artificial intelligence while requesting she lobby her colleague to approve a massive expansion of its “hyperscale AI factory”.

Exclusive | Pauline Hanson’s daughter, Lee Hanson, has been working in Tasmania as a senior adviser to a New South Wales One Nation senator without the required ministerial approval, Guardian Australia can reveal. The One Nation leader made a qualified apology after describing Indigenous Australians as the “most primitive race on Earth”. And our political editor asks whether the disdain for experts on show as One Nation rolls out policy proposals means that she is pushing Australia towards a Brexit-style political culture.

‘Catastrophe’ | The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia before colonisation has been dramatically underestimated, according to new research that suggests the number was around 2.2 million before hundreds of thousands died in the “demographic catastrophe”.

Alzheimer’s anxiety | Researchers have warned that social media may be misleading healthy people into taking Alzheimer’s blood tests, causing severe anxiety over biological markers that may never actually cause dementia.

‘Pervert glasses’ ban | One of Sydney’s largest councils has joined the Brisbane and Yarra councils in issuing a ban on AI smartglasses at public pools as concerns mount over the potential for predators to exploit the new technology.

AI warnings | AI models have begun communicating in a strange new version of English that reads like a cross between James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and tech bro jargon, new research has found. It will fan concerns over oversight and monitoring as US senator Bernie Sanders said Congress was “asleep at the wheel” over threats the technology poses to humans.

Hegseth impeachment threat | A Republican congressman has proposed impeaching Pete Hegseth over his handling of the war with Iran, while FBI director Kash Patel defended his agency’s decision to roll back restrictions on agent applicants who have previously engaged in bestiality.

Macklemore comments | Singer Ed Sheeran has responded to the backlash over the removal of Macklemore from his North American Loop tour, following the rapper’s “Free Palestine” speech on stage in New Jersey.

Saudi threat | Saudi cities faced the threat of a second day of Houthi attacks as fighting across Yemen has led the UN to warn of a humanitarian crisis with 100,000 Yemenis already displaced.

‘Complete failure’ | Three babies may have survived if hospital bosses and doctors had taken action over concerns about the nurse Lucy Letby, an official inquiry into the killings in Chester in the UK has concluded.