Aussies Avoiding US Travel, Dinosaur Skeleton Auction, Time's Person Of The Year | 10 News+

Donald Trump’s administration has proposed collecting five years of social media history and bio-metric data from travellers entering the United States, including from Australian citizens. Graham Turner, the founder of Flight Centre, says the short-term effect will likely be an even steeper fall in Australians travelling to America. Over the past year, Australian visits to the US have already fallen 6.4%, while travel to elsewhere is up 6.9%.

US President Donald Trump has made a shocking new move amid his nation’s race for dominance in artificial intelligence. The commander-in-chief has issued an executive order restricting US states from passing AI regulations. It stands in stark contrast to calls from members of Congress demanding more government control over the technology. Professor Toby Walsh, the Chief Scientist at UNSW’s AI Institute, joined 10 News+ to talk about this new development.

Time has named its Person of the Year as the ‘Architects of AI’, with the cover featuring the major brains behind the rise of artificial intelligence, including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and OpenAI’s Sam Altman. The magazine says they chose the tech moguls, which also include Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, as they are “delivering the age of thinking machines” which are “wowing and worrying humanity”.

Dinosaur fossils are no longer just museum treasures - they've become prehistoric trophies for billionaires and Hollywood celebrities. There has been a boom in dinosaur fossil auctions, helped by a lack of laws surrounding the field. In 2024, hedge fund manager Kenneth Griffin spent $60 million for a 150 million-year-old stegosaurus. Actors Russell Crowe, Nicholas Cage and Leonardo DiCaprio are also among high-profile figures who collect dinosaurs. Museums often can’t compete financially, which means rare, scientifically valuable fossils sometimes appear briefly for public display, before being privately sold and never seen again.

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