Author: Justin Hendry

How Google’s AI is losing touch with reality

Posted on   |  by Professor Toby Walsh
Google has rolled out its latest experimental search feature on Chrome, Firefox and the Google app browser to hundreds of millions of users. “AI Overviews” saves you clicking on...

Home Affairs tech at ‘significant risk of failure’

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Home Affairs’ technology environment is at “significant risk of failure”, according to an independent review that says there is no plan to fix the more than 190 IT systems...

Govt tech projects dodge trainee, gender targets

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government has stopped short of setting national targets for the participation of women and apprentices in major outsourced technology projects, even as similar quotas are set for...

FOAK manufacturing: Australia’s $22.7bn blind spot

Posted on   |  by Camilla Roberts
The federal Budget’s announcement of $22.7 billion for A Future Made in Australia, still leaves us with a valley of death funding gap for first-of-a-kind (FOAK) manufacturing facilities, particularly...

Services Aus finally enlists in APS Copilot trial

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Services Australia has begun piloting Microsoft Copilot with staff just weeks before the federal government is slated to wrap up its six-month trial of the generative artificial intelligence tool....

NSW to get separate digital inclusion strategy

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The New South Wales government will create a separate digital inclusion strategy to complement the state’s forthcoming digital strategy, with work now underway on a framework to help bridge...

Incubator opens $50m funding round to focus the mind

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A national BioTech incubator backed by the Medical Research Future Fund has launched its first funding round for innovative health technologies that promise to improve the lives of people...

How trusted enterprise AI can drive the next economic boom 

Posted on   |  by Sassoon Grigorian
There’s a significant body of research which predicts the Australian economy will be boosted by artificial intelligence. The Kingston AI Group predict the economy will grow by more than...