Author: Joseph Brookes

French ‘revolution’: Macron goes all in on AI

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A $179 billion AI investment has put France “back in the game”, French President Emmanuel Macron has told a global summit in Paris while pitching lighter touch regulation, more...

VC veteran leading Breakthrough Victoria into next stage

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Venture capitalist Rod Bristow is the new head of Breakthrough Victoria, joining the company responsible for the state government’s $2 billion innovation fund on Monday with a pledge to...

Australia’s Top Secret cloud and the battle for sovereignty

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Australia’s $2 billion Top Secret cloud is sorely needed by defence and intelligence agencies that have fallen years behind the private sector, allies and some adversaries. But the government’s...

Bowen’s hydrogen pipedream hits hurdles

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Energy minister Chris Bowen says the government remains committed to building out Australia’s fledgling green hydrogen industry despite a series of project setbacks and a delay to the government’s...

Experts back licensing regime for platform giants

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Social media platforms and service providers like Meta and Google would need a licence to operate in Australia and be forced to fund an independent regulator under a radical...

AUKUS innovators secure $8m in contracts

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The winners of the inaugural AUKUS Innovation Challenge, Canberra firms Advanced Design Technology and Penten, have inked contracts worth $8 million to develop electronic warfare technology for Defence. The...

Services Aus seeks new faces for $1m advisory board

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A recruitment process is underway to replace the highly-paid outside advisers that former Government Services minister Bill Shorten had running the ruler over his agency’s services and myGov app....

Ombudsman investigates jobseeker system after tech stresses

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The Commonwealth Ombudsman is investigating the cancellation of income support payments after advocates warned technology glitches and slowdowns had exposed a broken system and that some cancellations were unlawful....