The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has signaled that government is weighing options on how to embrace artificial intelligence, and that he will make major policy announcements in the next...
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Australia’s stock exchange operator has admitted it made misleading comments on the status of a critical tech project, and will pay more than $23 million in fines and costs...
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Anthropic said on Friday it would “abruptly disable” its most advanced AI models for all users after the US government ordered it to suspend access to the models for...
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Britain has imposed new conduct requirements on Google’s search services, including allowing publishers to stop their content being used to power the US tech giant’s AI features, as the...
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Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would...
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Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science Tim Ayres has defended the meeting record of the government’s top science council while teasing the lineup of the new advisory body set...
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The architect of Australia’s R&D reset Robyn Denholm says local innovators need to stop “whinging” about unpopular government policy and get on with seizing generational opportunities like AI and...
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The Trump administration will ask leading AI developers to voluntarily submit their most capable models for government cybersecurity tests before releasing them to the public, according to an executive...
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The European Union plans to propose strict criteria for cloud computing services in highly critical state tenders that could exclude Amazon, Microsoft and Google from such projects, according to...
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Andrew Yates has resigned as chief executive of KPMG Australia after months of scrutiny over the consultancy giant’s handling of whistleblower allegations it misused confidential data. Mr Yates and...
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European leaders are divided on how far to go in curbing Big Tech as they weigh momentous decisions over giving EU firms preferential access to mobile satellite spectrum and...
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Tasmania will attempt to offset broad public sector staff and spending cuts with an ongoing $61 million digital uplift, including a $4 million artificial intelligence sandbox, announced in an...
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CSIRO has told staff it will cut 92 positions in its environment unit, just days after the Australian government boosted funding to the national science agency by $387 million....
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The pre-print website arXiv has announced that researchers who put their names to papers which included errors clearly generated by artificial intelligence (AI) will face a year-long ban and...