Amazon Web Services says it will spend $20 billion in Australia over the next five years on business operations, including on a significant expansion of its data centre infrastructure....
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Facebook owner Meta’s $14.8 billion (A$22.8 billion) investment in Scale AI and hiring of the data-labeling startup’s chief executive will test how the Trump administration views so-called ‘acquihire’ deals,...
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Tech sector professionals are pushing for private sector access to the government’s fledgling data sharing scheme, telling a review their admission under tighter controls could start delivering the promised...
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Nvidia will build its first artificial intelligence cloud platform for industrial applications in Germany, chief executive Jensen Huang said at the VivaTech conference in Paris on Wednesday. The technology,...
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Britain lacks the computing infrastructure to deliver the full potential of its leading artificial intelligence research base, Nvidia’s chief executive said on Monday, as the UK partners with the...
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Indirect carbon emissions from the operations of four of the leading AI-focused tech companies rose on average by 150 per cent from 2020-2023, due to the demands of power-hungry...
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Meta Platforms on Tuesday said it has struck an agreement with Constellation Energy to keep one of the utility’s reactors in Illinois operating for 20 years, in the Big...
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University researchers are still unable to access the government’s data sharing regime three years in, warning “opaque and time-consuming” access rules are slowing their work. Non-university medical research institutions...
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Major data centre players have distanced themselves from startling claims by the Property Council of Australia that NSW risked missing out on billions of dollars in infrastructure investment if...
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A higher education sector effort to align data standards across institutions and global borders will take a step forward on Thursday with the addition of Australia’s largest enterprise software...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...