Australia stands at a pivotal moment in shaping its digital future. As global competition in AI accelerates, Australia must act decisively to secure its digital sovereignty. Investing in sovereign...
Data
Posted on
| by Jeffrey Dastin and Alexandra Alper
Billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok in the US federal government to analyse data, said three people familiar with the matter,...
Posted on
| by Kate Holton
Elton John has accused the British government of “committing theft” by proposing that tech firms could train artificial intelligence models on the UK’s music and creative output without guaranteeing...
Posted on
| by Douglas Gillison
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is scrapping a proposal issued under former President Joe Biden that would have sharply limited the sale of Americans’ private information by “data...
Posted on
| by Joseph Brookes
Victorian workers should be protected under law from intrusive workplace surveillance, a state inquiry has found after hearing of a surge in pervasive technologies like keylogging, tracking devices and...
Posted on
| by Max Cherney and Stephen Nellis
A number of US technology firms including chip makers announced artificial intelligence deals in the Middle East as President Donald Trump secured $600 billion in commitments from Saudi Arabia...
Posted on
| by David Shepardson
Microsoft and other AI market leaders will on Thursday urge US lawmakers to streamline federal permitting for artificial intelligence energy needs and open more government data sets for AI...
Posted on
| by Raphael Satter
Meta Platforms won a US$168 million ($259 million) verdict against the Israeli surveillance firm NSO, the company said on Tuesday, capping a six-year arm wrestling match between America’s biggest...
Posted on
| by Joseph Brookes
A review of the national public sector data sharing scheme has put the inclusion of the private sector, law enforcement and compliance activity back on the table, three years...
Posted on
| by Joseph Brookes
The federal Health department will continue migrating on-premise systems to Amazon Web Services after striking a new $22 million three-year hosting deal with the US hyperscaler through its opaque...
Posted on
| by Marcela Ayres
Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad will travel to the US this week with a plan to lure big tech data centres to his country by exempting the related technology...
Posted on
| by Joseph Brookes
Google has backflipped on a promise to allow users to easily opt out of third-party cookies in its market leading browser, announcing overnight it will not introduce the standalone...
Posted on
| by Justin Hendry
Facial recognition technology used within a system for identifying potential suspects for more than a decade has been deactivated by NSW Police amid concerns over its accuracy. The country’s...
Posted on
| by Joseph Brookes
Defence has contracted AWS and Microsoft to help with its migration and multi-cloud environment, inking fresh limited tender deals with the US hyperscalers worth more than $12 million. The...