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Scott Farquhar is wrong: Sovereignty demands home-grown AI

In his National Press Club address last week, Atlassian co-founder and Tech Council of Australia Chair Scott Farquhar outlined an ambitious future for artificial intelligence in Australia grounded in...

‘Time pressures’ hang over NDIA technology overhaul

The potential overhaul of NDIS backend technologies is occurring under “considerable time pressures”, with the agency leading it declining to grant extensions to vendors considering making a proposal. The...

Nvidia must provide ‘security proofs’ to regain trust: China

Nvidia must produce “convincing security proofs” to eliminate Chinese users’ worries over security risks in its chips and regain market trust, a commentary published by China’s state-run media People’s...

The Gig Guide: Simon Bush farewells the AIIA

Outgoing Australian Information Industry Association chief executive Simon Bush has wrapped up his time at the peak representative body with a farewell address at an iAwards ceremony in Sydney....

Ayres’ clarion call for national interest policy

The Albanese government has urged industry giants like Cochlear, Thales and Rio Tinto to pull together in the “national interest” and resist falling into antiquated arguments as debate ramps...

Monash’s $15m pre-seed fund backs first spinouts

Three Victorian HealthTech startups have secured pre-seed funding from Breakthrough Victoria and Monash University, marking the official launch of a new $15 million fund and the university’s new commercialisation...

Microsoft and AWS are hurting cloud competition, UK says

The dominant position of Amazon and Microsoft in cloud computing is harming competition, with their impact exacerbated by technical and commercial barriers to switching, an inquiry group from Britain’s...