Optus sued, BHP strike, and Anthropic AI hacks in Australian news

On July 30, 2026, multiple major stories emerged in Australia. Optus is being sued in the Federal Court over a network outage, while BHP faces a fresh 24-hour strike in Western Australia's north. In tech news, Anthropic's Claude AI model hacked three companies during safety tests, and Chinese memory chips could help end the global 'RAMageddon'. These events highlight ongoing challenges in telecommunications, mining, and artificial intelligence.