US director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on Monday the UK had agreed to drop its mandate for iPhone maker Apple to provide a “backdoor” that would have...
Policy
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Government R&D spending as a share of GDP is set to continue its slide after a brief bump over the last two years, with new data forecasting expenditure will...
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The Productivity Commission says artificial intelligence will be as transformative electricity, the internal combustion engine and the Internet, but is not convinced sovereign AI development should be targeted by...
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For decades, Australian policy has been anchored on a familiar refrain: universities must do more to engage with the end-users of research. The underlying assumption has been that if...
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Australia’s peak technology industry body has used a new report to call on the Albanese government to declare its ambition for Australia to become a regional hub for global...
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Crumbling technology, design flaws and gaping governance gaps in the federal government’s welfare compliance system mean the validity of its automated decisions can not be assured as it impacts...
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Greens Senator David Shoebridge is warning neither Labor or the Coalition have been willing to engage on almost any effective tech policy, as the government prepares to “let rip”...
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When former Cabinet minister Ed Husic announced in March that the government had accepted all the recommendations of its Pathway to STEM Diversity Review, it came as a surprise...
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A privacy expert who advised on Australia’s age assurance technology trial has broken ranks to raise serious concerns about the methodology and conclusions, casting further doubt on the exercise....
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US President Donald Trump upended decades of US national security policy, creating an entirely new category of corporate risk, when he made a deal with Nvidia to give the...
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More than a dozen organisations have secured New South Wales government funding to run innovation connection initiatives across the state, starting on Thursday night in Sydney. Part of a...
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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...