Australia’s online platforms are stumbling at the very first step in implementing age checks for users, rendering a world-first teen social media ban ineffective, a study by a team...
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All spending out of the Queensland government’s $1 billion digital fund will be reviewed and monitored by a new whole of government oversight committee in an effort to deduplicate...
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Australia’s AI Safety Institute has swung into action, with its newly established team of experts already probing the “most powerful” frontier models, according to assistant technology minister Andrew Charlton....
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Policy changes introduced last year by tech giant Meta to avoid censorship preceded a 79 per cent reduction in the amount of harmful content being hidden or removed from...
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The Trump administration’s recent decision to block foreign access to advanced artificial intelligence models has reignited AI sovereignty debates – where nations strive to build and maintain their own...
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Accenture will pocket another $47 million to keep Australia’s My Health Record system running for the next year amid a protracted breakup from the tech services giant, which has operated...
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The regulatory sandbox set up in 2020 for unlicenced FinTechs to test innovative finance and credit activities with real customers must be rebuilt alongside a national strategy for financial...
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Export controls on Anthropic’s most advanced Fable and Mythos AI models have been lifted by the US Commerce Department, less than three weeks after the company was ordered to...
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The federal government needs to “get out of the way” and let copyright laws and the licensing market work to ink deals to train artificial intelligence models locally, Australian...
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Digital safety laws under development by Communications minister Anika Wells could make a real difference in stamping out online child sex abuse, advocates say, but the process must be...
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The consumer regulator is taking Amazon to court, alleging the tech giant’s Australian arm relied on unfair contract terms to insert advertisements into its paid video streaming service after...
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US AI company Anthropic accused Alibaba, the Chinese technology and e-commerce giant, of illicitly extracting its Claude AI model capabilities in what it said was the largest known attack...
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has flagged a major policy gear shift on artificial intelligence as soon as next month, adding to speculation the government is weighing a copyright workaround...
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Two healthcare services breached privacy laws handing over “incredibly intimate details” of millions of people accessing their websites to Meta, TikTok and Google for years, the privacy commissioner has...