Platform companies like Meta and TikTok will not be required to participate in the government’s trial of age assurance technologies, leaving the regulator reliant on the companies’ willingness to...
Policy
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Commonwealth tech procurement rules must be re-written to match the rhetoric of the Future Made in Australia agenda, a Senate inquiry has found, after widespread warnings that too much...
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Wars are bloody, wild and noisy things, and in the amped up battle for global AI supremacy, June has been cacophonous. Apple finally made the leap into the fray...
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The national audit office will probe the rapid increase in the cost of the federal government’s main due diligence contract for its controversial investment in Californian quantum startup PsiQuantum. Auditor-General...
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Apple is in breach of new European competition laws, regulators alleged this week, setting up the first test of the Big Tech ‘gatekeeper’ regime that Australia’s competition watchdog wants...
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Australia is being urged to follow Canada’s lead and create a sovereign fund to stimulate private investment in domestic AI capabilities, with one of the world’s largest consulting firms...
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The Western Australian government’s flagship innovation funding program delivered an outsized economic return in its first round, according to two independent reviews, with another review to be finalised in...
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Who are we? Where are we going? And can we keep the lights on and the carbon emissions down as we kick and scream all the way there? These...
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The Queensland government’s $465 million investment in PsiQuantum includes a US$125 million (A$188 million) convertible note, offering the state a potentially valuable share in the US firm vying to...
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A new set of guardrails that lays out clear human rights expectations for the use of artificial intelligence across federal, state and territory government for the first time has...
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The federal government has been accused of running a misleading quantum computing EoI that baited information from local players while commercial discussions with PsiQuantum were already well advanced. Current...
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The Future Made in Australia Act will mandate Treasury analysis of private investment barriers to promising sectors to ensure private capital is following taxpayers’ support for industries like green...
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In 1971 on a family holiday, my father drove us to look at a huge concrete slab at Jervis Bay, on the South Coast of New South Wales. Still...
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Australian government tech suppliers are celebrating the Albanese government’s procurement rule changes, which will see more consideration of a seller’s broader economic benefit like intellectual property transfer and taxes....