A new national ABS account and survey are needed to capture the impact of a wave of data centres around Australia, according to a leading environmental data expert, who...
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Sydney Uni deep tech spinout Emergence Quantum has established a toe-hold in the United States with the hiring of acclaimed cryogenic electronics engineer Troy England, the first of many...
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Meta Platforms has lobbied the US Congress for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to social media products such as Instagram, as it faces thousands of lawsuits from young...
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Just days after the US artificial intelligence giant Anthropic stunned the world by cutting-off foreign access to its most powerful models – on the orders of the US government...
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US President Donald Trump says that he expects top artificial intelligence companies to agree to “giving back” to the public, an apparent reference to a possible government stake in the...
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The federal government should lock in its data centre expectations with “strong enforceable requirements” around energy, water and transparency, setting national minimum standards for state governments to adhere to...
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Anthropic is calling on major artificial intelligence labs to consider a coordinated and verifiable pause in development, warning that rapid advances in the technology could soon allow AI systems...
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Britain has imposed new conduct requirements on Google’s search services, including allowing publishers to stop their content being used to power the US tech giant’s AI features, as the...
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Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would...
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Record capital expenditure across Australia’s booming data centre sector has offset declines clocked by other major industries, tripling the national private sector investment average for the March quarter. New...
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A decade on from the 2016 Census debacle, new audit findings show preparations for the next national survey in August have been rocked by cybersecurity vulnerabilities and a rush...
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Data centres in NSW would need to fund enough new renewable energy generation to fully offset their soaring energy demand and pay for their connection costs and network upgrades,...
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The CSIRO on Monday unveiled its Australian-first edge infrastructure for artificial intelligence, offering users in Brisbane faster on site processing for real world testing of robotics and “a different...
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The impact of Australia’s data centre boom and the regulation of the artificial intelligence companies driving it will be examined by a parliamentary inquiry established on Wednesday. The six...