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AIIA chief Simon Bush steps down

The head of the Australian Information Industry Association Simon Bush will step down next month, leaving the peak representative body for another role in the IT industry. The AIIA...

Farmers warn R&D crunch risks blue sky work

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Farmers are urging an Albanese government in the search of better R&D outcomes not to tinker with their 30-year-old model of public-private co-investment in agricultural innovation and instead address...

Tech service giants carve $67m more from aged care systems

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Multinational tech service suppliers for the government’s $1.2 billion aged care digital uplift booked lucrative extensions worth at least $67 million just months out from the planned go live...

Call for AI inventories as tech sprawls across universities

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Artificial intelligence is being deployed across NSW universities without central oversight, policies or strategies, leaving several institutions without a “complete understanding” of their use, a new audit has revealed....

Big tech’s misinformation takedowns plummet in Australia

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US tech giants’ removal of misinformation in Australia plummeted last year, new transparency data shows, with platforms like Facebook and YouTube taking down tens of thousands less posts and...

Treasury ‘hard heads’ holding back tech sector: Husic

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Former Industry Minister Ed Husic on Tuesday blamed Treasury “hard heads” for limiting Australia’s technology development, and revealed he wants artificial intelligence governed by an AI Act to instill...