A nationwide Telstra outage has caused chaos for commuters and businesses and prompted Communications Minister Anika Wells to return early from leave.

And artificial intelligence is back in the spotlight, with Assistant Minister Andrew Charlton suggesting now is the time to embed safety into AI. It comes ahead of the Labor Conference where an internal debate over AI is set to get "messy".

Meanwhile, a stoush is brewing between drug-makers and the Federal Government.

Patricia Karvelas and Clare Armstrong break it all down on Politics Now.

Read Clare's piece here — Critical Drugs could be pulled from PBS amid pricing stoush

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