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Senate showdown for eConveyancing saga

Two companies locked in a multi-year stoush over electronic conveyancing will front a Senate inquiry on Tuesday, as federal policymakers mull an intervention into the $800 billion property settlement...

Online regulator goes after AI ‘nudify’ services

Australia’s online safety regulator has issued a formal warning to a UK-based company it says is responsible for AI-enabled services being used to create deepfake pornography of Australian school...

Boeing sets sights on Ghost Bat weapons tests

Australia’s Ghost Bat military drone could conduct live firing tests as early as this year, as US aerospace manufacturer Boeing moves forward with the program after a series of...

Queensland backs dual-use defence and mining tech accelerator

Queensland has launched a new accelerator program to support startups and SMEs developing technologies with applications across both the defence and mining equipment, technology and services sectors. The QuantumTX...

OAIC pitches tool to slash data breach notifications

Almost one-fifth of notifications through Australia’s data breaches notification regime could be averted if a self-assessment tool being pitched by the privacy watchdog is taken up by the federal...

Anthropic to pay US$1.5b to settle author class action

Anthropic told a San Francisco federal judge that it has agreed to pay US$1.5 billion (A$2.28 billion) to settle a class-action lawsuit from a group of authors who accused...

NSW govt tips funding into new health robotics centre

A new robotics and health technology centre has opened in Sydney’s western suburbs, bringing together more than 60 scientists to work on medical AI, digital health and remote care...

‘Somebody has to lose’: Why reshaping R&D is so hard

As a generational review of Australia’s research and development system prepares recommendations for wholesale change, the country’s top industry mandarin warns some stakeholders will be left unhappy. Industry department...

The urgency of the SERD review must be a positive sign

The Robyn Denholm-led Strategic Examination of R&D (SERD) review looks like it will be wrapped-up two months early, which can only be taken as a positive sign of the...

Atlassian bets on AI browsers with $610  million deal

Atlassian said on Thursday it will acquire New York-based startup The Browser Company for US$610 million in cash, moving into the fast‑crowding market for AI‑driven browsers. Shares of the...

National Reconstruction Fund chair weighs in on super stoush

The head of the Albanese government’s $15 billion industry fund has questioned why Australia’s superannuation funds aren’t willing to lean into a national innovation drive and suggested mandatory contributions...

New startup, SME streams proposed for RDTI

Startups and SMEs would be treated differently to large enterprises under changes to the R&D Tax Incentive proposed through the Strategic Examination of Research and Development. Tax breaks would...