Glyn Davis, secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, has resigned after serving the last three years as Australia’s top public servant. Professor Davis’s resignation will...
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AI and the digital skills deficit are the most pressing policy priorities for the federal and state governments in 2025, a survey of some of Australia’s biggest tech companies...
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NSW Health will move to diversify and re-balance its portfolio of research and innovation investments under a more risk-averse approach that creates “lasting impact and value”. The new approach...
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Industry and Science minister Ed Husic is set to be dropped from federal Cabinet, a casualty of post-election factional jostling for positions in Anthony Albanese’s second ministry. But regardless...
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One of the world’s largest cryoplants ever commissioned for a quantum computer will be built and tested offshore before being installed at PsiQuantum’s mammoth manufacturing facility in Brisbane later...
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Microsoft and other AI market leaders will on Thursday urge US lawmakers to streamline federal permitting for artificial intelligence energy needs and open more government data sets for AI...
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The parent company of Sydney manufacturer Rode Microphones, The Freedman Group, has acquired Lectrosonics, a 54-year-old US maker of high-end wireless audio equipment, making it one of the largest...
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The Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator will work with industry to prove up and potentially acquire sovereign technologies that can protect against drone swarm attacks as part of its latest...
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US tech giant Apple has been “unresponsive” to the Albanese government’s trial of age assurance technologies ahead of a ban on young Australians accessing social media later this year....
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US President Donald Trump’s administration plans to rescind and modify a Biden-era rule that curbed the export of sophisticated AI chips, a spokeswoman for the Department of Commerce said...
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Calling all entrepreneurs, researchers and deep tech pioneers! The search has begun for Australia’s most innovative technology-driven companies of 2025 through the fifth annual InnovationAus Awards for Excellence. Entries...
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Thousands of pre-loved devices could be donated to vulnerable and disadvantaged communities every year to boost digital connectivity under NSW’s first-ever digital inclusion strategy. The strategy, which has been...
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Meta Platforms won a US$168 million ($259 million) verdict against the Israeli surveillance firm NSO, the company said on Tuesday, capping a six-year arm wrestling match between America’s biggest...
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The NSW government has moved to enshrine its ID support service in law and add a new state register of compromised documents, with a new bill introduced this week...