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ARC flags AI disclosure requirements across all projects

The agency controlling university research grants has flagged potential future requirements for researchers to disclose their use of artificial intelligence in post project reviews. Currently the Australian Research Council...

Salesforce bags another $4m for its $124m NDIS platform

Salesforce has been handed another $4 million for the customer relationship management system that will serve the National Disability Insurance Scheme from late October, bringing the cost of its...

DUG digs deep to solve supercomputing disruptions

Perth-based company DUG was on the hunt for a way to make its supercomputers more environmentally-friendly and efficient. The company had designed and operated a network of some of...

The next wave of cyber-crime scams will be devastating

Australia is not prepared for the next wave of cyber-crime. Government has yet to implement regulations that would reduce the impact of what is coming. And Australian businesses and...

Cow-free milk company brews up $25m

A company that produces dairy free milk has landed backing from the Victorian government and Main Sequence Ventures in a $25 million Series A round announced on Tuesday. Eden...

Tech giants keep local market share a secret

Tech giants are unwilling or unable to provide lawmakers with figures on their local market share despite facing new codes of conduct designed to protect competition and consumers. Representatives...

VR stroke training rolled out in regional NSW hospitals

A virtual reality training program will be rolled out across dozens of hospitals in New South Wales to provide hands-on experience to emergency department nurses responding to people presenting...

Voting opens for People’s Choice Award 2023

Voting is now open for the prestigious People’s Choice Award at the InnovationAus Awards for Excellence with some of Australia’s most innovative and fastest-growing companies vying for the honour....

Jacinta Allen shuffles innovation out of Victorian cabinet

Freshly-minted Victorian Premier Jacinta Allen has named her first ministry, shifting deputy Premier Ben Carroll from the Industry and Innovation portfolio to the dual responsibilities as Minister for Education...

Toby Walsh calls for investment push on sovereign AI

Australia is ill-prepared to take advantage of the opportunities being created by artificial intelligence and is not investing sufficiently in sovereign capability to adequately safeguard the national interest, according...

SMEs locked out of govt marketplace for six more months

Startups and smaller tech firms wanting to break into the federal government market will have to wait another six months to do so after the Digital Transformation Agency pushed...

Innovation Leader of the Year: Award finalists

A medical research translation expert, a digital health accelerator chief executive and the CEO of an entrepreneurship school are our finalists in the Innovation Leadership category of the 2023...

Gig Guide: Innovation leader Woodthorpe to chair Cicada

Science and innovation leader Dr Katherine Woodthorpe has been appointed as the new chair of deep tech incubator Cicada Innovations. Dr Woodthorpe replaces outgoing chair Andrew Rothery, who has...

Legacy ‘tech debt’ is strangling govt digital budgets

Citizens rightly expect governments to deliver seamless services, with digital the preferred mode for ease of accessibility and convenience. This is the case whether its for digital drivers’ licenses,...