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Australians ‘uneasy’ about NDIS cuts amid $53bn in new defence spending, Mark Butler concedes Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Thanks for staying with us today. We’ll leave our live coverage of the day’s news there for this evening. Here were Thursday’s top stories: Microsoft has announced a $25bn AI investment in Australia but wouldn’t detail where, how numerous or how expensive its new datacentres would be. The CEO of Westpac said people shouldn’t be so “negative” about AI and the CEO of Telstra revealed the company was using AI to handle 30% of customer queries. Anthony Albanese has said Donald Trump “would always be welcome” in Australia. Albanese also said his mother would have been among those eligible for his trimmed-down NDIS, as people on the scheme wait to learn whether they will be cut off. The NSW premier, Chris Minns, has predicted about a third of those expected to be cut from the NDIS would be in his state. Queensland’s parliament has passed new “adult crime, adult time” laws Radio station Kiis FM saw its ratings in Melbourne after Kyle & Jackie O’s show came to an end. Ben Roberts-Smith won a variation to his