Author: Joseph Brookes

Govt takes another swing at misinformation law

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New misinformation legislation will insert a bigger regulatory backstop into the struggling industry-led model and set a “high threshold” for the type of mis- and disinformation that digital platforms...

Govt hunts more contractors for budding scaleup program

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The Industry department has issued a call out for more external advisers for its $392 million commercialisation program to meet strong demand from startups in Victoria and NSW, eight...

Meta admits scraping Australian users’ posts to train AI

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Australian Facebook users’ posts from as far back as 2007 are being used to train Meta’s artificial intelligence models, the company conceded on Wednesday at a tense Senate inquiry...

Growing calls for Defence to seed a dual-use tech fund

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Australian and US Defence departments must forge closer innovation ties to counter China’s technology growth, including jointly backing dual-use breakthroughs with a new venture capital fund, according to a...

‘It’s really easy to waste money’: AI cost trap set

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Australian organisations are struggling to get value out of early AI deployments and could be walking into a cost trap, Gartner analysts warned on Monday, urging CIOs to study...

BoM’s $886m consultant ‘gravy train’ wraps up

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The bill for the Bureau of Meteorology’s seven-year tech overhaul is $866 million and there are fears it could rise further, despite the agency’s CEO declaring the project complete...

Quantum classical integration ahead for Aussie startup

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ANU spinout Quantum Brilliance will try and integrate its small accelerators into some of the world’s most powerful supercomputing systems in a new tie up with a US government...