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The growing impact of SaaS on shared services

The just-created federal ERP marketplace is a generational re-write of the government’s enterprise software strategy, giving departments and agencies a broader choice and new opportunities for tailored deployments.  Established...

ACS booked a $7m loss last year – its first in a decade

The Australian Computer Society reported an almost $7 million loss last financial year, marking its first deficit in more than a decade and forcing the organisation to eat into...

IGP backs local battery tech in latest grants round

Battery storage manufacturer Allegro Energy is one of five local scaleups to share in the latest allocation of funds from the federal government’s flagship innovation pipeline program. Allegro Energy,...

Services Australia inks $226m data centre deal

Services Australia will pay the largest provider of data centre services to the federal government almost $4 million per month over the next five years under a new hosting...

Committee calls for sweeping changes to workplace AI rules

A Parliamentary inquiry that heard evidence of rising worker surveillance, excessive data collection and unfair automated decision tools has called for artificial intelligence in the workplace to be classified...

Govt drops $272m on local radar tech for ADF

Australia will buy as many as 14 muti-mission phased array radars from CEA Technologies, the defence tech manufacturer acquired by the federal governments in 2023. Defence minister Richard Marles...

Harrison.ai banks $179m in mammoth Series C

AI MedTech pioneer Harrison.ai is eyeing global expansion into new markets like the United States after closing one of the largest ever Series C funding rounds for an Australian...

Defence brews up $16m mystery cloud platform

Defence has inked its biggest cloud deal with Amazon Web Services to build a new mystery platform on the American hyperscaler’s infrastructure. The department declined to say exactly what...

Wollongong hydrogen pioneer links with Saudi energy giant

Wollongong manufacturer Hysata will build a commercial-scale demonstration hydrogen production system with its ultra efficient electrolysers in Saudi Arabia in a tie up with an energy giant powering the...

French ‘revolution’: Macron goes all in on AI

A $179 billion AI investment has put France “back in the game”, French President Emmanuel Macron has told a global summit in Paris while pitching lighter touch regulation, more...

Tech and AI: ‘The politics of this is not straightforward’

The Prime Minister’s special envoy for cybersecurity and digital resilience Andrew Charlton says the path to prosperity lies in digitising the national economy, and that Australia’s “meal ticket” will...