Accenture will be paid more than half a million dollars a day for another two years to supply IT contractors for the federal government’s aged care technology overhaul. The...
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Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg approved allowing minors to access AI chatbot companions that safety staffers warned were capable of sexual interactions, according to internal Meta documents filed in...
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France’s National Assembly has backed legislation to ban children under 15 years old from social media, amid growing concerns about online bullying and mental health risks. The bill proposes...
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The Department of Home Affairs is creating a new deputy secretary-level group to centralise its fragmented data and technology functions and boost its AI capabilities. The new Technology, Data...
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OpenAI rival Anthropic is set to open an Australian office and build a substantial local team as part of an aggressive global expansion, with a former US Ambassador to...
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Social media companies have collectively deactivated nearly five million accounts belonging to Australian teenagers just a month after a world-first ban on under‑16s took effect, the country’s internet regulator said,...
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Workers will have a larger say in Microsoft Australia’s development and use of artificial intelligence after the peak union body struck a first of its kind agreement with the...
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US President Donald Trump has imposed a 25 per cent tariff on certain AI chips, such as the Nvidia H200 AI processor and a similar semiconductor from AMD called...
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American technology journalist and author Jacob Ward says AI is accelerating faster than our understanding of human behaviour – and the business incentives behind it risk “flattening” human choice,...
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Britain’s media regulator has launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over concerns its Grok AI chatbot was creating sexually intimate deepfake images in violation of its duty to...
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More than half a million accounts belonging to children under 16 were blocked across Meta platforms in the lead-up to Australia’s world-leading ban on teen social media use. New...
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Reddit has launched a High Court bid to overturn Australia’s teen social media ban on privacy and free speech grounds, just days after the world-first laws took effect on...
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Apple has persuaded a US appeals court to reverse parts of a court order requiring the iPhone maker to make changes to its lucrative App Store to promote greater...
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Victoria has become the latest state to greenlight virtual fencing and herding technologies for farmers, with new regulations coming into effect after consultation with industry, researchers and animal welfare...