Australia is backing a small Pacific nation to set up a pilot public cloud environment, as the federal government looks to deepen ties in the region and head off...
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Shadow industry and innovation minister Alex Hawke says the government must intervene to address AI challenges, including putting guardrails around high-risk use, to avoid a “regulatory wild west”. But...
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Huawei outlined its long-term chip plans for the first time on Thursday and said it would launch the world’s most powerful computing clusters – underscoring China’s drive to wean...
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The Albanese government has unveiled a $5 billion Net Zero Fund to accelerate industrial decarbonisation and scale up low-emissions technologies across heavy industries, backing up an ambitious emissions target...
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A three year probe into Kmart’s use of facial recognition across dozens of stores has found the retailer breached privacy law when it captured and analysed customers’ faces without...
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Australia’s $4.2 trillion superannuation pool has been highlighted as a potential source of much-needed capital for early-stage innovation, with a new government issues paper pointing to the current system’s...
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UNSW has signed an agreement with OpenAI for 10,000 ChatGPT Edu licences for staff to use in research, teaching and operations. Financial terms were not disclosed. The agreement with...
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Australia should be ambitious about creating local AI models and building the tools and applications that will run on them, assistant minister for Science, Technology and the Digital Economy...
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The NSW government’s keenly awaited plan for Tech Central sets a long-term vision and outcomes for Australia’s biggest innovation district, but offers no hard targets and few details on...
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Australia’s fintech industry is entering what its leaders describe as a pivotal moment, as new Deloitte research putting the sector’s contribution at more than $22 billion annually — around...
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ASX-listed counter-drone company DroneShield on Wednesday announced two new contracts worth A$7.9 million with the US Department of Defense, pushing its global deployment past 4,000 systems. The orders cover...
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Software owned by Australia’s biggest banks is being tested as a way to comply with a teen social media ban that begins in December, people involved in the process said,...
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Each year an estimated 20 million metric tons of plastic ends up in the environment, and this is expected to increase substantially in the coming decades. This is on...
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Australia’s emerging low carbon liquid fuels industry is set to start producing ‘drop in’ alternatives to fossil fuels like sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel by the end of...