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Senate to probe youth social media ban

Liberal and Nationals senators have sided with the Greens to set up a parliamentary probe into the federal government’s social media ban for under-16s and search engine age verification....

Leidos to lead Defence’s $1.3bn counter-drone project

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
American military contractor Leidos has secured the key role of systems integration partner on Defence’s counter-drone project, beating local defence tech darling DroneShield and others to the deal. Defence...

OpenAI to open first Australian outpost

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI will open its first Australian office in Sydney before the year is out, in a move the artificial intelligence giant says reflects the country’s rapidly growing user...

Australia’s space ‘MacGyver’ sees uptick in demand

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australian startup Space Machines Company only debuted its first rapid-response spacecraft designed to protect satellites eight months ago, but it already has its sights set on the next 100....

Beyond absorption: Building ecosystems that deliver impact

Posted on   |  by Professor Cori Stewart
Victor Pantano is right to point out that much of Australian industry struggles to engage with research. The problem is well rehearsed – businesses have too few R&D skilled...

Trump threatens more tariffs for countries with digital taxes

Posted on   |  by Kanishka Singh
US President Donald Trump has ramped up threats against countries that have digital taxes, promising “subsequent additional tariffs” on their goods if those nations do not remove such legislation....

US voids Biden’s semiconductor research grant deal

Posted on   |  by David Shepardson
The US Commerce Department said on Monday that one of its agencies will take over operational responsibility to oversee US$7.4 billion in semiconductor research funds, saying that the private...

ResetData spins up its first sovereign ‘AI factory’

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
An AI supercomputer more powerful than Australia’s leading research compute clusters has come online, offering a new platform for businesses and governments to access sovereign AI compute infrastructure. ResetData...

Defence buys quantum processor from SQC

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Silicon Quantum Computing has entered a multimillion-dollar contract with Defence that will see it provide an Australian-made quantum machine learning processor to make sense of large datasets. The Sydney-based...

Telstra Health lands $33m My Health Record deal

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Telstra Health has won a $33 million contract with the federal government to replace the My Health Record’s clunky PDF format with a new open-source health data sharing standard....