Catherine Livingstone has one of the best business brains in the country, and ahead of the economic roundtable in Canberra next week she has called for a bold, system-level...
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Australia’s AI future is uncertain, because Anthony Albanese’s government cannot provide regulatory clarity on our nation’s AI path forward. We know AI presents the single greatest opportunity in a...
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Doctors want more input on the regulation of artificial intelligence to ensure ethical use in health care, as the Albanese government weights two models that have split the Labor...
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Australia’s privacy commissioner says walking back long-overdue privacy reforms and loosening existing laws after a years-long push to strengthen them would be like “throwing out the baby with the...
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The gambling lobby is demanding firms like Sportsbet and bet365 be eligible for Australia’s innovation tax breaks again, six months after the companies were locked out by the Albanese...
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Authorities overseeing the development of AI in Indonesia have proposed a “sovereign AI fund” to finance the archipelago’s ambitions to become a regional hub for the fast-growing technology, a...
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Meagre funding and a lack of clarity over the direction of the advanced technologies component of AUKUS is threatening the success of the all-important ‘Pillar II’ initiative, according to...
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Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the US government 15 per cent of revenue from sales to China of advanced computer chips like Nvidia’s H20 that are used...
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Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood has dashed hopes of early reforms to R&D settings through the productivity roundtable process, declaring it a matter for the Strategic Examination of R&D....
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New South Wales has become the latest state to move to prohibit the creation and distribution of sexually explicit deepfakes in response to the significant increase in image-based abuse....
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Industry minister Tim Ayres says there are no immediate plans to rework copyright rules to allow tech giants like Google and OpenAI to mine text and data to train...
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The government’s fragmented artificial intelligence efforts like business adoption, regulation and productivity would be unified in a national AI strategy and overseen by Cabinet ministers under a proposal being...
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The government is under mounting pressure to halt its punitive welfare compliance system and the technology automating it after the Commonwealth Ombudsman confirmed unlawful support payment cancellations. Commonwealth Ombudsman...
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Australia’s internet watchdog has said the world’s biggest social media firms are still “turning a blind eye” to online child sex abuse material on their platforms, and said YouTube...