Unfortunately not a great article, it's just sourced from AAP, the ABC at the moment is too busy doing live coverage of an American shooting for some reason

From Bloomberg:

Australia will ban supermarket price gouging from July 1 under a new law the government says would protect shoppers from excessive grocery prices charged by major retailers.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Assistant Minister for Competition Andrew Leigh said the changes would make it illegal for “very large” grocery chains to charge prices deemed “excessive” relative to their cost of supply plus a reasonable margin.

Penalties would be steep: as much as A$10 million ($6.7 million) per violation, or three times the value of any benefit gained, or 10% of annual turnover if that figure can’t be determined.

I don't know what "excessive" means and what the rate would be.

For those who want the back story on how it all came about

Ripped from the other site for posterity

It’s supposed to work like this: There’s 5 rounds of debate. First round they are supposed to give a hot take. Rounds 2 and 3 they’re supposed to react to each other (shared chat history). Rounds 4 and 5 they’re supposed to vote.

This was meant to be a demo of the parallel models capability, but people seem interested in the debate idea itself… I think the actual debate performance could be improved significantly!

Source code is in this PR here if anyone wants to hack on it: https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/lemonade/pull/648

https://www.reddit.com/user/jfowers_amd/

Today, we announce Mistral 3, the next generation of Mistral models. Mistral 3 includes three state-of-the-art small, dense models (14B, 8B, and 3B) and Mistral Large 3 – our most capable model to date – a sparse mixture-of-experts trained with 41B active and 675B total parameters. All models are released under the Apache 2.0 license. Open-sourcing our models in a variety of compressed formats empowers the developer community and puts AI in people’s hands through distributed intelligence.

The Ministral models represent the best performance-to-cost ratio in their category. At the same time, Mistral Large 3 joins the ranks of frontier instruction-fine-tuned open-source models.

wow if true

https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/29757 https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/42498

I like the interactive graph because it shows something I've been saying for a while, some of the biggest jumps in house prices were during covid when the immigration tap was turned off: