A series of AI factories, each featuring tens of thousands of powerful Nvidia chips, will spin up across Australia under a new strategic partnership that could cost up to...
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The Australian Energy Market Operator estimates data centres will consume 6 per cent of Australia’s grid-supplied electricity by 2030. To put that in context, that’s more than the current...
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OpenAI and Sur Energy have signed a letter of intent for a data center project in Argentina requiring an investment of up to US$25 billion (A$38.6 billion), the Argentinian...
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Australia’s privacy watchdog has warned digital platforms and age assurance providers not to over collect personal data as part of the upcoming teen social media ban. In new regulatory...
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Australian Clinical Labs has been fined $5.8 million over a 2022 data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 223,000 people and saw the Office of the...
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The recent debut of an AI-generated “actress” dubbed Tilly Norwood, and its producer’s boasts of interest from studio executives, sparked a backlash on Tuesday from the SAG-AFTRA actors union,...
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The Productivity Commission has come under heavy fire in a Senate hearing over its interim report on artificial intelligence and copyright, with senators accusing the agency of abandoning Australia’s...
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AI firms are making a business decision not to pay creators when their work is used to train large language models, according to Maincode chief executive Dave Lemphers, who...
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In the rush to cash in on the generative artificial intelligence gold rush, one possible outcome of AI’s future rarely gets discussed: what if the technology never works well...
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At the White House this year, OpenAI outlined its lofty ‘Stargate’ infrastructure project that would cost half a trillion US dollars and be developed with partners including SoftBank and...
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Australia’s data centre opportunity is bigger than a one-off hit of foreign investment, but rather provides the digital infrastructure and expertise to help drive a new wave of local...
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Chinese AI developer DeepSeek said it spent $294,000 on training its R1 model, much lower than figures reported for US rivals, in a paper that is likely to reignite...
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Atlassian said on Thursday it has agreed to acquire developer intelligence platform DX for about US$1 billion ($1.5 billion) in cash and restricted stock, aiming to improve customer experience...
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Australia’s fintech industry is entering what its leaders describe as a pivotal moment, as new Deloitte research putting the sector’s contribution at more than $22 billion annually — around...