Author: Justin Hendry

Rowland escalates smart glasses as privacy priority

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Cheap smart glasses from Kmart have forced Australia’s stalled privacy law reforms back into focus, with the federal government pressing the national regulator to urgently assess whether further intervention...

NSW to send licence photos to national facial ID system

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Millions of driver’s licence photos from Australia’s most populous state are set to be uploaded to a national facial biometrics matching database, nearly a decade after the system was...

NRF surges past $1.5bn investment target in year-end rush

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The National Reconstruction Fund has blown past its $1.5 billion investment target, helped by two sizeable, still-undisclosed loans that were struck on the last day of the financial year....

Anthropic names global affairs chief to tackle AI policy

Posted on   |  by Jeffrey Dastin
Anthropic has named Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar its first chief global affairs officer, as the developer of artificial intelligence models called Claude navigates vast policy challenges and changing regulation around its...

Denholm-led panel hits back at SERD criticism

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Robyn Denholm-led panel that reviewed Australia’s R&D system has hit back at criticisms that its landmark report is too university-centric, insisting universities are far from its “centre of...

UK open to AI regulation if voluntary safeguards fall short

Posted on   |  by Paul Sandle
Britain would consider regulating advanced AI models if its current voluntary system for testing them before deployment no longer proved sufficient to protect the public, according to AI minister...

Search for first Defence research centre begins at last

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Almost two years after promising a network of university-based research centres to accelerate research and development, Defence has only just begun the process of establishing the first. Defence Research...