Silicon Quantum Computing has entered a multimillion-dollar contract with Defence that will see it provide an Australian-made quantum machine learning processor to make sense of large datasets. The Sydney-based...
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Independent Tasmanian MP Andrew Wilkie on Monday accused the Prime Minister of paying lip service to Robodebt reforms while introducing his own legislation to act on two-year old recommendations....
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Telstra Health has won a $33 million contract with the federal government to replace the My Health Record’s clunky PDF format with a new open-source health data sharing standard....
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An urgent review of the federal government’s automated welfare compliance system shows Australia’s punitive scheme is a global outlier, adding to doubts about the capability and accountability of senior...
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US President Donald Trump’s new design chief said on Saturday that he aims to improve government services to make them as satisfying to use as the Apple App Store....
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The Productivity Commission sets out in detail the massive upside for Australia in introducing AI tools across the economy in its interim report ‘harnessing data and digital technology’. But...
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It’s not often a ‘tell us once’ digital strategy rates a mention by a federal Treasurer, let alone in the wake of a much-hyped economic roundtable aimed at fixing...
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Australian and New Zealand universities are teaming up to strike better open access deals with research publishers, in one of the first tests of how an alliance model could...
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Lawyer and former chief counsel Alice Linacre has been appointed as Australia’s new permanent Freedom of Information Commissioner, replacing Toni Pirani. Ms Linacre, who will take up the role...
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The National Reconstruction Fund has unlocked a new pipeline of potential investment opportunities as part of a new partnership with the NSW government’s manufacturing incubator. Unveiled on Friday, the...
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In these turbulent times there seems to be one certainty: AI is here to disrupt, and we had better prepare quickly to maximise benefit and mitigate the risk. It...
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It has been strangely quiet at Parliament House in Canberra this week, considering a national economic summit was being hosted by Treasurer Jim Chalmers. All the action was taking...
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Dedicated industry and government plans to harness artificial intelligence will be developed with urgency after the Albanese government and stakeholders agreed to elevate the frontier technology to a “national...
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Australia’s peak tech industry lobby has urged the federal government to adopt an R&D investment target of 2 per cent of GDP by 2035, putting it at odds with...