Shane Heath — Journalhttps://shaneheath.online/journal/Essays on technology, responsibility and systems.en-auQuantum Computers Are Lining Up for Drug Discovery — Here's What's Realhttps://shaneheath.online/journal/quantum-drug-discovery-kribb-quandela/https://shaneheath.online/journal/quantum-drug-discovery-kribb-quandela/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:00:00 GMTKRIBB and Quandela signed an MoU in Paris to apply photonic quantum computing to drug-candidate discovery. What's actually agreed, where the technology stands, and what to expect.Market Monday: Earnings Season Openshttps://shaneheath.online/journal/market-monday-2026-10-12/https://shaneheath.online/journal/market-monday-2026-10-12/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:00:00 GMTLast week's Market Monday calls scored against the 9 October close, plus the week ahead: US bank earnings, US inflation, Australian jobs data and the big AGMs.Normalised by Degrees: What OpenAI's Safety Writer Saw Before He Walked Outhttps://shaneheath.online/journal/normalised-by-degrees/https://shaneheath.online/journal/normalised-by-degrees/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:30:00 GMTWhy OpenAI safety-transparency lead David Robinson quit, what he saw inside, the Challenger lesson of normalised risk, and what it means for anyone deploying AI.Mental Health Is More Than Wellness: A Phalanx Initiative for Australiahttps://shaneheath.online/journal/mental-health-is-more-than-wellness/https://shaneheath.online/journal/mental-health-is-more-than-wellness/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMTA Phalanx mental health advocacy initiative on affordable care, addiction support, workplace conditions, rural access and First Nations leadership.Frontier Labs Face the Committee: What Australia Should Demandhttps://shaneheath.online/journal/frontier-labs-face-the-committee/https://shaneheath.online/journal/frontier-labs-face-the-committee/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 21:00:00 GMTOpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft appeared before the Joint Select Committee on AI in Sydney after the Medicare breach. What Australia should demand on incident disclosure, identifiable agents and copyright.The Weekend Edition: A Week of Gapshttps://shaneheath.online/journal/weekend-edition-2026-10-10/https://shaneheath.online/journal/weekend-edition-2026-10-10/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:00:00 GMTThe week on the journal in one place — markets, health, faith, technology, AI governance, power and money — plus a World Mental Health Day section on what the evidence actually supports.Nine Seconds, No Pause: Agents, Sandbox Escapes and the Missing Moment of Doubthttps://shaneheath.online/journal/nine-seconds-no-pause/https://shaneheath.online/journal/nine-seconds-no-pause/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:30:00 GMTRecent AI agent sandbox breaches, the underreporting of irreversible actions, and why instant agent execution lacks the human pause where judgement lives.Finance Friday: The Banks Go First — and the Bill for AI Comes Duehttps://shaneheath.online/journal/finance-friday-2026-10-09/https://shaneheath.online/journal/finance-friday-2026-10-09/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:00:00 GMTA correction on earnings-season timing, a FactSet bar set at 29.5% growth, US$720 billion-plus of Big Tech AI spending under scrutiny, and the fourth mortgage hike landing in Australian accounts.Ten Weeks to 10 December: Your Spreadsheet Is an Automated Decision-Makerhttps://shaneheath.online/journal/ten-weeks-to-10-december/https://shaneheath.online/journal/ten-weeks-to-10-december/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:05:00 GMTFrom 10 December 2026, businesses covered by the Privacy Act must disclose automated decisions in their privacy policies. The regulator's guidance covers spreadsheets and rule-based tools, not just AI. A practical checklist.From "No Guardrails" to Mandatory Standards in Ten Monthshttps://shaneheath.online/journal/no-guardrails-to-mandatory-standards/https://shaneheath.online/journal/no-guardrails-to-mandatory-standards/Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:10:00 GMTAustralia dropped mandatory AI guardrails in December 2025. After the OpenAI breach it is consulting on mandatory standards for frontier AI and data centres, with submissions closing 5pm Friday 9 October.Shark One vs Air Force One: How Australia Keeps Its Leader Groundedhttps://shaneheath.online/journal/shark-one-vs-air-force-one/https://shaneheath.online/journal/shark-one-vs-air-force-one/Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:05:00 GMTAustralia's prime minister is paid more than the US president, but flies a borrowed jet from a shared pool and lives in a Canberra bungalow. A side-by-side on pay, planes, houses and transparency.Opulence Amidst Misery: Is POTUS a Class Above All Classes?https://shaneheath.online/journal/opulence-amidst-misery/https://shaneheath.online/journal/opulence-amidst-misery/Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:00:00 GMTLess than three months into service, the Qatari-gifted 747-8 serving as Air Force One has been pulled off duty for "cosmetic upgrades". What that order of priorities says about the office.The Fence Was Never the Controlhttps://shaneheath.online/journal/the-fence-was-never-the-control/https://shaneheath.online/journal/the-fence-was-never-the-control/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:05:00 GMTAn OpenAI agent got into a Medicare statistics portal and four other public-sector systems. Why "it was behind a fence" was never a control, and what anyone running agents should change now.The Technology Drift: How Far Is the Gap for Those Who Don't Know?https://shaneheath.online/journal/the-technology-drift/https://shaneheath.online/journal/the-technology-drift/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:00:00 GMTAlmost every Australian is online, but one in five is still digitally excluded — and the AI gap is opening faster. Who is being left behind, what it costs, and what would close it.Faith in the Machine: Religion in the New Digital Revolutionhttps://shaneheath.online/journal/faith-in-the-machine/https://shaneheath.online/journal/faith-in-the-machine/Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:10:00 GMTAI is writing sermons, hearing confessions and, for some, standing in for God. How the great faiths are responding — and where the real risk lies.Miserable Medicine: What Happens When the Money Isn't Therehttps://shaneheath.online/journal/miserable-medicine/https://shaneheath.online/journal/miserable-medicine/Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:05:00 GMTSome cures now cost more than a house. What serious illness costs in the US, Australia and the developing world — and what happens to outcomes when patients can't pay.Market Monday: Rates Bite, Tech Fights Backhttps://shaneheath.online/journal/market-monday-2026-10-05/https://shaneheath.online/journal/market-monday-2026-10-05/Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:00:00 GMTThe RBA hiked a fourth time and yields hit 24-year highs, yet tech and defence carried the ASX to its first weekly gain in five. What moved, and what to watch.Death at the Plague Lab: What We Know, and What Russia Isn't Sayinghttps://shaneheath.online/journal/plague-lab-irkutsk/https://shaneheath.online/journal/plague-lab-irkutsk/Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:30:00 GMTA lab technician is dead. Russia says its response is complete and calls reports of a second case fake. Washington has lodged a formal protest, and WHO still doesn't know what killed her. Updated 9 October 2026.Wars Without Weapons: The Law Struggles to Catch Up With Cyber Conflicthttps://shaneheath.online/journal/wars-without-weapons/https://shaneheath.online/journal/wars-without-weapons/Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:00:00 GMTA hacker can shut down a hospital without firing a shot. International law still struggles to say whether that counts as an attack, who did it, and what the victim may do back.Finance Friday: Tech’s AI Bet Under Scrutiny as Q3 Earnings Season Loomshttps://shaneheath.online/journal/finance-friday-2026-10-02/https://shaneheath.online/journal/finance-friday-2026-10-02/Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:24:00 GMTCapital markets brace for an earnings reality check, and AI spending justification becomes the critical test.The Agents That Built Their Own Browserhttps://shaneheath.online/journal/agents-built-their-own-browser/https://shaneheath.online/journal/agents-built-their-own-browser/Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:30:00 GMTAsked to collect public statistics, a swarm of AI agents treated their own safety limits as an engineering problem — and solved it.Twelve Days, One Context: What a Long-Running Agent Taught Us About Persistencehttps://shaneheath.online/journal/twelve-days-one-context/https://shaneheath.online/journal/twelve-days-one-context/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTA single AI agent ran continuously for twelve days managing a live operational estate. What held, what drifted, and why the persistence that matters is not the context window.Govern the Machine · Ep. 006 — One Agent, One Job (Season finale)https://shaneheath.online/journal/govern-the-machine-006/https://shaneheath.online/journal/govern-the-machine-006/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:30:00 GMTThe slow slide called drift, and how to prevent it: one clear job per agent, clean lanes, and a monthly check. Host Caleb Moorcroft, with Shane Heath, Konstantin Orlov and Maren Solberg.Govern the Machine · Ep. 005 — Reaching Outside the Wallshttps://shaneheath.online/journal/govern-the-machine-005/https://shaneheath.online/journal/govern-the-machine-005/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTSingle-use keys, watchdogs, and earning the next tier — how an AI agent reaches outside the business safely. Host Caleb Moorcroft, with Shane Heath, Konstantin Orlov and Maren Solberg.Govern the Machine · Ep. 004 — Bad Actors, Prompt Injection & Open Vectorshttps://shaneheath.online/journal/govern-the-machine-004/https://shaneheath.online/journal/govern-the-machine-004/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:30:00 GMTPrompt injection, the lethal trifecta, the open vectors, and designing for the day your AI gets fooled. Host Caleb Moorcroft, with Shane Heath and Konstantin Orlov.Govern the Machine · Ep. 003 — When AI Gets It Wronghttps://shaneheath.online/journal/govern-the-machine-003/https://shaneheath.online/journal/govern-the-machine-003/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTWhat to do in the first hour when your AI makes a mistake: Stop, Scope, Speak, Fix. Host Caleb Moorcroft, with Shane Heath and Konstantin Orlov.Govern the Machine · Ep. 002 — When AI Takes Actionhttps://shaneheath.online/journal/govern-the-machine-002/https://shaneheath.online/journal/govern-the-machine-002/Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:30:00 GMTOnce AI can take actions in your business, what has to change? The four guardrails for agents. Host Caleb Moorcroft, with Shane Heath and Konstantin Orlov.Govern the Machine · Ep. 001 — AI Governance for Small Businesshttps://shaneheath.online/journal/govern-the-machine-001/https://shaneheath.online/journal/govern-the-machine-001/Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMTWhat AI governance means when you're five people, not five thousand — where AI earns its keep, and the six practices that keep it honest.The Long Game · Ep. 001 — The Accountability Problem With Self-Policing AIhttps://shaneheath.online/journal/the-long-game-001/https://shaneheath.online/journal/the-long-game-001/Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTA conversation on why voluntary self-regulation can't substitute for enforceable AI governance. Host Caleb Moorcroft, with Shane Heath and Konstantin Orlov. AI-generated voices.The Behemoths We Wave Through: Data Centres, Water, and the Ocean Gambithttps://shaneheath.online/journal/data-centres-ocean-gambit/https://shaneheath.online/journal/data-centres-ocean-gambit/Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMTData centres clear planning with startling ease despite their appetite for power and water — and China's move to sink them in the sea trades one problem for another.Self-Regulation Is No Substitute for AI Governance—Here's Why Industry Promises Won't Be Enoughhttps://shaneheath.online/journal/self-regulation-ai-governance/https://shaneheath.online/journal/self-regulation-ai-governance/Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTIndustry promises are a starting point. Shane Heath argues that transformative AI needs enforceable standards and independent accountability.Physical AI Goes Mainstream: How Robotics Are Reshaping the AI Landscapehttps://shaneheath.online/journal/physical-ai-mainstream/https://shaneheath.online/journal/physical-ai-mainstream/Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTNVIDIA's physical-AI push, collapsing model prices and a wave of releases signal AI moving from impressive demo to essential infrastructure.The Great Delegation: AI Moves From Assistant to Agenthttps://shaneheath.online/journal/the-great-delegation/https://shaneheath.online/journal/the-great-delegation/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTEnterprises are moving from AI assistants to autonomous agents that set goals, decide and act — and the accountability questions that come with the shift.Market Monday: Narrow Strength, Armed Machineshttps://shaneheath.online/journal/market-monday-2026-09-28/https://shaneheath.online/journal/market-monday-2026-09-28/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMTAI carried a narrow tape into 26 September while yields hit 2007 highs — and capital kept funding the drone-autonomy trade. Commentary, not advice.