Apple has submitted a legal challenge to an EU order to open up its closed ecosystem to rivals such as Meta and Alphabet’s Google, saying the demands are unreasonable...
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink said on Monday that it had raised US$650 million (A$1 billion) in its latest funding round as its brain implant device enters clinical trials. “This funding...
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Telstra customers will be able to send and receive text messages outside mobile coverage areas after the telco partnered with Elon Musk-owned SpaceX to send the texts via its...
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While governments around the world equivocate about holding powerful AI providers accountable, it falls to ordinary citizens to defend their rights. To do this, we need to be creative,...
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University researchers are still unable to access the government’s data sharing regime three years in, warning “opaque and time-consuming” access rules are slowing their work. Non-university medical research institutions...
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It is worth digging a little deeper into the important contribution that Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt and UNSW Scientia Professor of Economics Richard Holden made in their National Press...
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Federal government agencies have struck contracts worth almost $300 million with Amazon Web Services following the arrival of the renegotiated whole of government agreement. Amid transparency concerns over the...
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Australian quantum computing startup Quantum Brilliance has expanded its footprint to Japan after being selected for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s foreign business subsidy program. With the support of Kiraboshi...
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Australia’s peak business lobby has called on government to accelerate national efforts to bake productivity-enhancing artificial intelligence systems into the economy. The Business Council of Australia has released a...
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US President Donald Trump would have the power to retaliate against countries that impose special digital service taxes on large US technology companies like Amazon and Alphabet, under a...
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Alphabet’s Google on Saturday said it will appeal an antitrust decision under which a federal judge proposed less aggressive ways to restore online search competition than the 10-year regime...
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The federal Health department has been locked in a year-and-a-half long legal battle over whether it owns software developed by subcontractors, after the consultancy that sat in the middle...
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Western Australian independent Wilson Tucker has farewelled the Legislative Council after a four-year term that saw him pushing for smarter innovation and tech policy. A former software engineer, Mr...
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Australian startup Heatseeker AI has raised US$1.5 million (A$2.3 million) in pre-seed funding from US investors at a “pivotal moment” in the multi-billion dollar market research industry. The oversubscribed...