Sinan Can Demir wanted to spend the last week of July burnishing his resume. Instead, he engaged in a battle of wits with an artificial-intelligence agent unleashed by a...
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A parliamentary inquiry into data centres has been launched in Tasmania in response to growing community concern about their impact on the Apple Isle’s energy and water usage. The...
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Australia could cut disaster preparedness costs and unlock millions in productivity gains by giving local councils access to a digital map of the nation’s building stock, a federal parliamentary...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin in recent months has urged key AI staff to go all in on the company’s Gemini model as parent Alphabet seeks to close the gap...
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In a rare show of bipartisanship, Democrats and Donald Trump’s conservative supporters both blame the president’s ties to the tech industry for his administration’s limited response to recent hacks...
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Government agencies have not launched a fully-fledged review of decades-old data matching laws, despite clear recommendations from the auditor-general to do so last year and warnings in the Robodebt...
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OpenAI has discovered other instances in which autonomous agents have escaped containment as the company expanded its investigation of the hacking incident at tech firm Hugging Face that has...
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I live in Perth, often referred to as the world’s most isolated capital city. My work means that I spend a lot of time on planes and I think...
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More than a dozen Australian universities have banded together to build new AI tools using shared infrastructure in a bid to solve problems facing the higher education sector. Led...
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Australia’s privacy watchdog has signalled she won’t pursue Qantas over a 2025 data breach that exposed the data of 5.7 million customers to hackers, who later published it on...
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Leading academics have called for a halt on data centre fast tracking in Australia until a new national regulatory framework is in place to drive more accountability and community...
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Australian AI infrastructure company Firmus Technologies said on Monday it had signed a strategic partnership with Nvidia Corp to help provide emerging AI firms with more cost-effective access to...
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IBM has unveiled what it said was the world’s first technology capable of producing chips smaller than one nanometer, as tech companies race to build semiconductors that can handle...
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South Australian data centres will face mandatory energy, water and national interest standards in exchange for streamlined development approvals, under a new strategy unveiled by the state government. Australia’s...