The federal government must use its generational review of the R&D system to link it to industry policy, according to robotics and artificial intelligence groups, which say the coordination...
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Industry minister Ed Husic says the federal government is committed to finalising its risk-based model for regulating AI despite pull-back in the United States and the European Union. In...
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Quantum clock maker QuantX Labs is preparing to launch a key component of its optical atomic clock into space for the first time to test the reliability and performance...
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The global trade war triggered by US President Donald Trump earlier this month shows no signs of ending anytime soon. In recent days, China suspended exports of a wide...
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The Australian Computer Society has urged the next federal government to take a “unified, national approach” towards reforming digital skills and research commercialisation, warning that the country’s future prosperity...
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TAFE institutes are demanding a bigger role in the national R&D system, proposing a Canadian-style approach of direct applied research funding to leverage their industry connections and nation-wide network....
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Facial recognition technology used within a system for identifying potential suspects for more than a decade has been deactivated by NSW Police amid concerns over its accuracy. The country’s...
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A critical minerals reserve proposed for Australia in the wake of sweeping US tariffs on global exports is “not intervention, it’s support”, Resources minister Madeleine King has declared. “…...
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Meta Platforms chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has taken the stand at a high-stakes trial in Washington over US antitrust enforcers’ claims that the company spent billions of dollars to...
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The South Korea government has increased its support package for the country’s semiconductor industry to ₩33 trillion (US$23.25 billion), up about 25 per cent from a ₩26 trillion package...
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Independent senator David Pocock would throw his weight behind lifting R&D investment, startup support and responsible innovation in a second term, saying politicians need to do more to back...
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Seven Republican US senators have sent a letter to US Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, urging him to scrap a Biden administration rule restricting global access to AI chips before...
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Quantum technology startup Q-CTRL says it has achieved commercial quantum advantage with a new quantum magnetic navigation system that outperformed the best of conventional GPS back up systems in...
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Defence has contracted AWS and Microsoft to help with its migration and multi-cloud environment, inking fresh limited tender deals with the US hyperscalers worth more than $12 million. The...