OpenAI Writes Its Own Shopping List, Spectator Carries the Bags

Spectator Australia · Will Bennett · Thursday 16 April 2026

OpenAI Writes Its Own Shopping List, Spectator Carries the Bags

The Spectator Australia covers OpenAI's white paper on AI industrial policy, presenting its five-point framework as a blueprint for Australian AI strategy.

OpenAI publishes a white paper saying governments should build infrastructure for OpenAI, and the Spectator runs it up the flagpole like it's Bismarck's telegram. Five points, none of them 'fund public universities doing the research these companies commercialise for free.' The intelligence age arrives and the first thing it does is lobby.

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