Joseph Brookes, Author at InnovationAus.com

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AI safety priorities bring govt policy back to the future

Most of the Albanese government’s AI safety priorities look like simple reheats work started years earlier, leaving Sunday’s announcement – via a six-minister press release – as a veneer...

New trial of AI‑powered traffic lights will be a test for who gets priority on public roads

20 July 2026 | by Seyedali Mirjalili

Later this year, a Queensland council will trial Australia’s first traffic light system powered by artificial intelligence (AI). The new traffic technology will be trialled by the City of...

Expert organisations dumped from govt’s flagship startup program

17 July 2026 | by Joseph Brookes

The organisations contracted to provide startups with specialist technical advice in areas like robotics, MedTech and manufacturing will not feature in a redesigned version of the federal government’s flagship...

Govt could force AI giants to share compute power with local startups

16 July 2026 | by Joseph Brookes

Tech giants could be forced to guarantee local startup access to computing power under legislated AI standards, Innovation minister Tim Ayres confirmed on Thursday, opening the door to a...

Qantas escapes regulator over Salesforce data breach

16 July 2026 | by Joseph Brookes

Australia’s privacy watchdog has signalled she won’t pursue Qantas over a 2025 data breach that exposed the data of 5.7 million customers to hackers, who later published it on...

Full of promise, light on detail: Experts on PM’s AI pivot

15 July 2026 | by Joseph Brookes

Australia’s leading artificial intelligence experts say the the Albanese government’s AI policy refresh is a welcome step, but still needs details and funding to achieve its goals of influencing...

WA critical minerals plant greenlit with backing of Aus, US, Japan govts

15 July 2026 | by Joseph Brookes

US firm Alcoa on Wednesday greenlit a critical minerals project in Western Australia that could produce up to 10 per cent of the world’s Gallium supply after receiving Australian...

Gas driven data centres reshape energy tech market: CSIRO

15 July 2026 | by Joseph Brookes

A wave of gas-powered data centres in the US are driving up the price of gas-based energy technologies, making battery alternatives more attractive, CSIRO economists have found in their...

Australians in global warning on AI guardrails: ‘We must act now’

14 July 2026 | by Joseph Brookes

Australian experts joined more than a dozen Nobel Prize winners and hundreds of top economists in an open letter on Tuesday that warns leaders must “act now” to understand...

Fish de-stressing tech backed in latest NSW MVP round

14 July 2026 | by Joseph Brookes

Startups developing technology to de-stress fish, de-carbonise boating and accelerate housing construction are among 22 firms sharing in $1 million from the NSW government’s MVP Ventures program, announced on...

Author: Joseph Brookes

AI safety priorities bring govt policy back to the future

New trial of AI‑powered traffic lights will be a test for who gets priority on public roads

Expert organisations dumped from govt’s flagship startup program

Govt could force AI giants to share compute power with local startups

Qantas escapes regulator over Salesforce data breach

Full of promise, light on detail: Experts on PM’s AI pivot

WA critical minerals plant greenlit with backing of Aus, US, Japan govts

Gas driven data centres reshape energy tech market: CSIRO

Australians in global warning on AI guardrails: ‘We must act now’

Fish de-stressing tech backed in latest NSW MVP round

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