Good morning. It's Wednesday. Nelli Saarinen here with your AM NewsMail. 

Two Australian universities are being taken to the Supreme Court in class actions that accuse them of failing to accredit their degrees, leaving students with HECS debt in the tens of thousands of dollars, but unable to pursue their career dreams.

In other news, the new police chief has warned Australia's hate crime laws may need to be tightened again, and AI is eating into news websites just like ours.

"Just the pain of realising that my future career is pretty much non-existent. I just feel so much helplessness." After graduation, Othniel Antwi only learned his masters degree in health was not accredited when a recruiter raised a red flag.

Completing the course left the 25-year-old with a $55,000 debt, but unable to be registered with APHRA.

Mr Antwi is the lead plaintiff in a class action against Western Sydney University, one of two Australian top universities facing class actions due to allegations of misleading and deceptive conduct .

Students at the University of Newcastle and Western Sydney University say they racked up tens of thousands of dollars of HECS debt, only to find their degrees in health and engineering were not recognised.

Hate crime laws: New AFP commissioner Krissy Barrett says Australia's newly written hate crime laws may need to be strengthened further. In her first interview as police chief, Ms Barrett also announced the creation of a new sub-terror strike force.

AI: Google is morphing from a "search engine" to an "answer engine", and news sites are on the front line of the change. One year on from the Australian rollout of Google's "AI overviews" — AI-generated answers appearing above the standard blue links — news websites are facing steep declines in readership, exclusive data shows.

Telco "stress test": The adequacy of Australia's emergency call network will be stress tested with a surprise drill ahead of bushfire season. The drill was agreed to during a meeting between Communications Minister Anika Wells and the heads of Optus, TPG and Telstra, following a fatal triple-0 outage three weeks ago.

• Oil and gas: Australia's biggest manufacturers have warned the nation's "broken" east coast gas market could cost thousands of jobs and derail the government's Future Made in Australia policy.
• Trump and the Nobel peace prize: US President Donald Trump believes he "deserves" the Nobel Peace Prize. But how likely is he to win the prestigious award? This is what the experts have to say on it.
• Social housing: A housing charity awarded more than $200m in taxpayer funds for a proposed 17-storey community and affordable housing tower is controlled by a for-profit investment firm, the ABC can reveal. The project illustrates how some financial firms and super funds are shifting towards Australia's social housing market.

- That's Mikaila Crotty, who lives with severe arthritis.

She applied to spend some of her National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) funds on a $2,600 Thermomix, but was rejected and told she could instead spend $10,500 on a support worker to cook for her.

Advocates are concerned that "counterintuitive" funding decisions such as Mikaila's are reducing NDIS participants' independence.

Up to 3,000 flood victims' details have been given to ChatGPT as part of a NSW government data breach, raising questions about the risks of artificial intelligence to personal security. 

A contractor for the NSW Reconstruction Authority uploaded the names, contact details and personal information, including health information, of people connected to a flood recovery program to ChatGPT in March.

So can private information uploaded to artificial intelligence platforms be found by other users? We asked experts in AI, data and cybersecurity to explain.

And that's it for today. Thanks for reading. We'll be back at the same time tomorrow with more.

Nelli and the ABC News Digital team.

Students have been left with HECS debts and careers that are "non-existent" after completing degrees that were not accredited. Class actions have been launched against two Australian universities.

In a wide-ranging interview as she begins as AFP commissioner, Krissy Barrett announces a new sub-terror strike force, and flags that newly written hate crime laws may need to be strengthened further.