A long-awaited online safety bill forcing tech giants to proactively police harmful content on their platforms will enter federal parliament without a controversial ministerial power, as the Albanese government...
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Tasmanian towns that host data centres and major AI factories would get a cut of the gains under a state plan to make developers pay into a government-run community...
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Firmus, a data centre operator backed by Nvidia, shelved its $8 billion initial public offering, citing market volatility and conditions, and said it would opt for a private fundraising...
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OpenAI says the breach of Medicare’s statistics portal by its agents shows governments and companies must lift cybersecurity spending to meet a world in which AI can uncover vulnerabilities...
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The controversial algorithm determining aged care supports could place older Australians in a “mental retardation” category as recently as last year, despite the term being phased out of practice...
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Positive feedback from more than 12,000 public servants across 33 federal agencies trialing a generative artificial intelligence chatbot has built confidence in the use of AI across the public...
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Laws that passed NSW Parliament on Friday will allow state authorities to compel people to hand over and unlock phones, use toll camera photos in face matching for the...
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Australian Missile Corporation has chosen 3D design software from French multinational Dassault Systèmes to support its engineering work on Australia’s multi-billion dollar Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance Enterprise program....
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Australia is entering a period of rapid investment in infrastructure supporting digital services and AI. Data centres are a key part of this infrastructure, storing information and powering online...
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Australia stands to gain a first-mover defence advantage if it can secure frontier AI companies to train models onshore, the head of the country’s cyber spy agency Abigail Bradshaw...
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Mainstream media coverage of artificial intelligence in Australia has grown from a trickle to a torrent in the past year. But while reporting over that period makes clear the...
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Meta Platforms chief executive Mark Zuckerberg says that competition and liability give AI companies enough reason to act individually on safety, appearing to break from calls by leaders of...
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Gartner is urging Australian tech leaders to rein in their artificial intelligence risk with new governance, security and value models, warning AI “prophets” building frontier models can’t be relied...
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Anthony Albanese says warnings from one of the world’s largest AI companies about the pace of development have bolstered the case for the government’s AI agenda, with the technology’s...