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Head of US AI safety agency resigns

US Center for AI Standards and Innovation director Chris Fall has resigned just three months after being appointed to lead the federal AI testing institute at the Department of...

AI safety priorities bring govt policy back to the future

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Most of the Albanese government’s AI safety priorities look like simple reheats work started years earlier, leaving Sunday’s announcement – via a six-minister press release – as a veneer...

Govt targets new consumer protections for AI

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government will investigate new consumer protections for artificial intelligence to address risks such retail surveillance pricing and agentic commerce models. An investigation of potential options for consumer...

Xi pitches China as leader of new global AI order

Posted on   |  by Laurie Chen and Casey Hall
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday cast Beijing as the champion of a new global AI order, using China’s premier tech conference to promote open-source technology and challenge US...

Full of promise, light on detail: Experts on PM’s AI pivot

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s leading artificial intelligence experts say the the Albanese government’s AI policy refresh is a welcome step, but still needs details and funding to achieve its goals of influencing...

Australia is chasing the wrong kind of AI

Posted on   |  by Professor Cori Stewart
Today, in Sydney, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made an important shift in Australia’s AI debate. Rather than treating artificial intelligence as simply another technology policy, he placed it at...

New laws to set standards for data centre boom: PM

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Data centre operators will be forced to underwrite new power supply, slash their water use and face a new “common sense” test on whether facilities can be built under...