BotW: Surrendering to AI; reframing the DAB+ problem; ARN’s Jonesy & Amanda ego problem

Welcome to Best of the Week, written on a relatively mild morning in Evandale, Tasmania, interrupted by a couple of random power outages.

Today: Another day of AI ups and downs; and how ARN can turn its DAB+ Achilles heel into an advantage; and will Amanda Keller and Brendan Jones buckle down to give Christian O’Connell a clean handover?

Happy Gay Uncles Day for tomorrow.

We’ve announced the schedule for this year’s Compass series. Our panel-in-the-pub, end-of-year tour kicks off in Sydney on November 3 and concludes in Hobart a fortnight later. Reflecting on 2025 and projecting into 2026, hold the date for your city: