A US congressional committee called on Australia’s internet regulator to testify about the country’s laws governing the internet, calling her a “noted zealot for global takedowns” who “threatens speech...
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Meta is planning to offload under-16s from its platforms and block the creation of new underage accounts up to a week before the teen social media ban comes into...
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South Korea has agreed to work with the United Arab Emirates on the US-backed Stargate project to build a massive new artificial intelligence data campus in the Gulf country....
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AI chip startup Groq has established its first data centre presence in Australia as part of an expected US$300 million investment to bring its technology closer to Asia-Pacific users....
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CyberCX will establish a pilot public cloud environment in a Pacific nation on behalf of the Australian government as Canberra looks for new ways to counter Beijing’s influence in...
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The Albanese government has revived its plan to force Meta back into deals with news publishers with a backstop tax of more than $100 million a year. A year...
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A firsthand account of how Atlassian software was distressing a blind user gave its founders a new understanding of the importance of accessible design and triggered top down changes...
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Microsoft has apologised and offered refunds to millions of Australians allegedly duped into sticking with pricier subscriptions featuring access to its Copilot AI tool. The Australian Competition and Consumer...
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When Australia finally writes its national AI strategy, it must reckon not just with algorithms, but with imported ideology, says Minh Hoang, a youth innovation leader and member of...
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Alphabet’s Google said on Tuesday it has reached a comprehensive US court settlement with “Fortnite” video game maker Epic Games, agreeing to Android and app store reforms aimed at...
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In the short time since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022, generative artificial intelligence products have become increasingly ubiquitous and advanced.These machines aren’t limited to text – they can...
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French judicial authorities have opened an investigation into Chinese social media platform TikTok and the risks of its algorithms pushing young people into suicide. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau on...
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Australia has tumbled out of the top 20 most digitally competitive nations for the first time after a lack of AI policy and complacent companies dragged on global rankings...
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Microsoft has struck a US$9.7 billion deal with data centre operator IREN that includes access to Nvidia’s advanced chips, aiming to ease the computing crunch that has kept the...