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...
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AI agents unleashed by OpenAI used more than 10 previously undisclosed websites for unsanctioned communications earlier this year, according to six sets of independent investigators and data reviewed by Reuters,...
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Data centre and AI investment is driving a “once-in-a-generation shift” in business spending, with growth now back at levels last seen at the tail end of the early 2010s...
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Australia has proposed giving social media users greater control over the content they see as part of sweeping new powers designed to purge harmful online content and manipulative platform...
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The Greens’ new spokesperson on artificial intelligence David Shoebridge has flagged new policies from the party on sovereign AI capability development and a tougher stance on digital protections for...
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Australia has been offered a pragmatic new definition of AI sovereignty. A recent report from the United States Studies Centre argues that, because Australia cannot reproduce America’s frontier AI...