News Corporation executive Robert Thomson is the latest big cheese to take Google to task over its approach to combating Internet piracy, TorrentFreak reports. Thomson cited instances of widespread piracy in Australia, where many allegedly swipe episodes of Game of Thrones, instead of paying for subscriptions to Foxtel, a cable and TV service provider based in that country.
“For a company to have a sophisticated algorithm that knows exactly where you are and what you’re doing and maintains ignorance on piracy is an untenable contradiction,” Thomson said. “There’s no doubt that search giants need to be held to account. It’s obvious that it is illegal content or content accessed illegally.”
Back in March, Google made a recommendation to the Australian government, arguing that online piracy is an issue that stems from problems relating to the availability and price of content.
“We would be disappointed if the Government decided to go down the route of overly harsh regulation to combat piracy without considering the evidence from around the world that this would likely be costly for businesses to implement and with little effect,” Google reportedly said.
Despite Google’s statements on the matter, Foxtel CEO Richard Freudenstein says that current piracy levels are simply unacceptable.
“We made Game of Thrones available at a good price on Foxtel Play and yet it was still heavily illegally downloaded,” Freudenstein says. “The longer this goes on, the more people don’t seem to think of it as theft, which is what it is.”
However, according to TorrentFreak, it costs $500 USD to get access to season 4 of Game of Thrones via Foxtel Play, with a per-episode rate of $50.
If those prices are accurate, it’s no wonder that high levels of piracy are occurring in Australia, and around the world as well.
Nearly a month after announcing the GPT-6.1 Sol model, OpenAI unveiled GPT-6.1 Terra today. The latest addition to the family focuses on computer use, visual reasoning, coding, and professional work, while costing 50% less through the API than GPT-5.6 Terra.
OpenAI says Terra can handle everything from filling out browser forms and working inside spreadsheets to interpreting technical drawings and editing videos. The company says it can also complete computer-based tasks more than three times faster than GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol.
ASUS has started selling its UGen Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics card in Europe, bringing its take on Intel’s workstation GPU to customers with a hefty €1,799 recommended price. The card is available in Germany and Austria, while ASUS lists it at CHF 1,799 in Switzerland.
Intel first introduced the Arc Pro B70 in March 2026, with its own branded model starting at $949. ASUS’s version arrives several months later with the same core GPU architecture but a different cooling design and a higher power rating. The price also places it well above Intel’s original starting point, although the two prices are not directly comparable because ASUS’s European figure includes VAT.
Anthropic has officially filed to go public, and buried inside its S-1 is a blunt warning about the technology at the center of its business. The maker of Claude AI says advanced AI could cause everything from large-scale cyberattacks and geopolitical instability to catastrophic or even existential risks for humanity.
The warnings take up a surprisingly large part of the filing. Axios notes that more than 90 pages, or roughly a third of the prospectus, focus on risk factors. Many of them warn about what could happen as AI systems become more capable and autonomous.