Doesn't matter. We are going to get so rich putting AI into everything. Stock will go up because we can fire everyone (except CEOs, they have inherent magical abilities not based on intelligence) and then we will have all the money. We just need to find new markets for our products because nobody (except us) has any money.
The default being work-from-home seems sensible to me. The benefits for workers are significant, so hopefully Labor gets this through.
It's very strange that in NSW Chris Minns has recently mandated government staff to return to the office, when on the other hand in Sydney he's trying to find sites for housing and holding together a stretched transport system, which would both be alleviated by WFH.
Depends what you mean by fusion energy, but fairly recently ignition has been achieved and breakeven surpassed.
In December 2022, the National Ignition Facility, or NIF, an inertial confinement facility, reached Q = 1.54 with a 3.15 MJ output from a 2.05 MJ laser heating. NIF achieved ignition seven times. The highest gain as of 2025 of Q = 4.13 yielded 8.6 MJ from 2.08 MJ of laser energy.
TIL the claimed Australian Antarctic Territory is six times the size of Texas.