News live: News Corp loses subscribers in Australia as company lashes out at AI ‘crass kleptomaniacs’ and ‘slimy sea of slop’

Internal data shows digital subscribers slide from 1,166,000 to 1,162,000. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBowen says national rules for datacentres in the national interestChris Bowen, the federal energy minister, said the government will continue to target national rules on datacentres despite opposition from state or territory governments, saying any other approach is not in the national interest.We’ve made clear that this is a national approach and we will use national legislation because these datacentres – while the investment is very welcome, and Australia has one of the biggest and hottest datacentre markets in the world for investment – that’s something we welcome, providing it’s in our national interest.And in our national interest is that the datacentres work within the constraints and the rules that the governments of Australia wish to place on them … Continue reading...