TSMC said on Monday that its newly built domestic fab would add 7,000 tech jobs to the island’s economy and that it will continue to expand in Taiwan, following...
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As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) reshapes everything from healthcare to productivity, it’s triggering a global scramble – not just for data and chips, but for electricity. Can Australia’s renewable...
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A ten-year plan for NSW has set lofty goals to add an additional 1,800 innovation intensive firms and $27 billion to the economy, while cementing the state as Australia’s...
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Fleet Space Technologies says a sovereign satellite communications system for Australia’s military is still feasible, after delivering a low-Earth orbit satellite project to Defence. As Australia explores a militarised...
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Elon Musk’s xAI has acquired X in a deal that values the social media platform at US$33 billion (A$52.5 billion) and allows the value of his artificial intelligence firm...
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A Melbourne AgTech spinout that can dynamically space growing vegetables to increase leafy green yields by 40 per cent has secured $1 million in seed funding from La Trobe...
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Australia will follow the United States and set up a new office dedicated to selling sovereign defence capabilities, including high-tech combat drones and radar technology, to international security partners....
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The federal government’s in-house consulting unit’s new funding is only for one year and the total amount of that funding will remain undisclosed, officials revealed Thursday after Budget papers...
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Australian government officials were banned from using Kaspersky after at least one agency was found to be using the antivirus software seven years after an informal ban came into...
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The Commonwealth Bank is heading offshore to get closer to the world leading technology developments – particularly in artificial intelligence – unveiling plans for a dedicated tech hub in...
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US efforts to sway Australia’s research direction through thematic cuts to funding fall outside the remit of a federal government taskforce set up to counter foreign interference in universities,...
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Government suppliers that fail to start closing their gender pay gaps face new barriers in winning federal contracts worth billions of dollars, after gender equality laws passed parliament on...
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Australia’s equity stake in PsiQuantum could represent as much as a third of the Californian startup’s latest capital raise, which values the company at twice what it was worth...
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A CSIRO trial of Microsoft’s artificial intelligence tool revealed it can save time by automating low level activities, but its difficulties in more complex tasks and missing domain knowledge...