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Canva overtakes CSIRO for number of patent applications

Australia’s most valuable tech unicorn surpassed the national science agency as the country’s second most active patent applicant for the first time last year, new data reveals. The number...

Just how sovereign does our tech sector need to be?

Australian policymakers face a very particular challenge in relation to the artificial intelligence and its contribution to productivity, according to Vault Cloud chief executive Rupert Taylor-Price. That is how...

Australia’s clean fuels opportunity upgraded to $36bn

Australia has a $36 billion opportunity to build a sovereign low-carbon liquid fuels industry by 2050, according to a new report commissioned by the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC)....

Vocus gets FIRB approval for TPG Telecom deal

Australia’s TPG Telecom said on Monday that Macquarie-backed Vocus Group has secured the final approval for its A$5.25 billion ($3.42 billion) acquisition of TPG’s enterprise, government and wholesale fixed-line...

AI in Australia will ‘create jobs, not take them’: Albanese

Anthony Albanese says artificial intelligence will deliver “secure and fulfilling jobs”, not threaten them, as the government looks to create a more productivity-focused economy. The Prime Minister made the...

AI’s productivity promise: Everything old is new again

There is a saying that everything old is new again. Avron Barr and Edward Feigenbaum edited The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence in 1981; Newell’s Intellectual Issues in the history...

Economic Accelerator backs $93m in research projects

Almost $100 million has been allocated to 39 university-led projects through the Innovate stream of the Australian Economic Accelerator program, with the highest-funded initiatives focused on commercialising research in...

$432m boost for NSW hydrogen hub after Origin exit

Chemicals and explosive maker Orica will go it alone on a large-scale green hydrogen project in New South Wales after securing $432 million in backing from the Albanese government....

US lifts chip design software curbs on China

The United States has lifted restrictions on exports to China for chip design software developers and ethane producers, a further sign of de-escalating US-Sino trade tensions including concessions from...