Assistant technology minister Andrew Charlton has called on the private sector to choose Australian AI solutions over foreign alternatives, warning that government policy alone cannot sustain the sector. In...
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German technology company INIT has wrested the NSW government’s Opal contract from incumbent Cubic, winning a decade-long deal to overhaul and operate the transport ticketing system. NSW Premier Chris...
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The tax office is returning to the market for the first time in five years for a ‘liveliness’ solution and other biometric technology to build out the government’s digital...
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Ethics must remain at the heart of Australia’s artificial intelligence policies, the nation’s top scientist has warned, and should be considered a way to fast-track innovation and build a...
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Microsoft on Thursday said it has signed on to the Albanese government’s data centre expectations and will spend $25 billion on digital infrastructure in Australia by 2029 while training...
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A coalition of Queensland councils is pushing for a bigger slice of the booming data centre market, with plans for a coordinated strategy to attract investment across Brisbane and...
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Meta Platforms said it is pulling ads from Facebook and Instagram aimed at recruiting new plaintiffs for ongoing litigation accusing it and other social media companies of designing their...
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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is pausing its main data centre project in Britain over an unfavourable regulatory environment and high energy costs, dealing a blow to the UK government’s push to...
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A Washington DC federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to block the Pentagon’s national security blacklisting of AI company Anthropic for now, a win for the Trump administration that...
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Social media platforms would be forced to reveal closely guarded algorithms and risk assessment data, and allow users to opt out of algorithm-driven feeds under far-reaching digital duty of...
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) isn’t just another technological shift. It is a fundamental reimagining of human potential that mirrors the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries. Both...
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Communications minister Anika Wells has accused the social media giants of making a mockery of Australia’s world-leading age ban, after the eSafety Commissioner found under-16s remain widespread on the...
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Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has launched investigations into five social media platforms for suspected breaches of landmark laws designed to keep teens off their sites as it prepares to step...
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A Los Angeles jury has found Meta and Alphabet’s Google negligent for designing social media platforms that are harmful to young people, in a US$6 million verdict that will...