One of the key proponents of Victoria’s data centre push, Danny Pearson, is among a trio of Allen government ministers to announce their retirement ahead of the upcoming state...
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Two of Australia’s largest data centre developers have come back from the Easter break to announce a cumulative $1.7 billion finance raise, as artificial intelligence-driven demand for domestic compute...
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Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google have each recently abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centres over community opposition and now the companies are coming under shareholder pressure over the environmental...
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It has been a busy couple of weeks for the Industry portfolio. The Strategic Examination of R&D landed, the government announced it would join the $155 billion Horizon Europe...
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Australia has just two years to lock in the policy settings and investment capital it will need to reap transformational economic benefits from an international artificial intelligence boom, a...
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Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20 per cent or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset...
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Australia’s encryption-busting laws have been used against terrorism for the first time, with federal police forcing a tech company to provide technical assistance for an investigation. The first use...
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Ukraine is opening up access to its battlefield data for its allies to train drone AI software, the defence minister has said, as Kyiv seeks to harness the experience...
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It is not enough for Australia to rely on the business sector to drive AI investment, according to UNSW scientia professor Toby Walsh. For Australia to take full advantage...
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A tiny silicon chip that uses light instead of electricity could mark the beginning of a revolution in new energy-efficient artificial intelligence hardware and bring down energy costs for...
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An independent review has uncovered “fundamental flaws” in the federal government’s data sharing scheme, paving the way for a sweeping overhaul of laws introduced just four years ago to...
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OpenAI said on Saturday that the agreement it struck a day ago with the Pentagon to deploy technology on the US defense department’s classified network includes additional safeguards to...
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Australia’s largest data centre operators recorded their steepest rise in carbon emissions since the end of the pandemic last year, with three companies driving a near 16 per cent...
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The federal government must act to regulate artificial intelligence “in the next year” to avoid generational harms posed by chatbots and lock in the technology’s productivity benefits, top AI...