New York has become the first US state to halt construction of large new data centers, imposing a one-year moratorium as concerns grow that the facilities driving the artificial...
Australia will develop a set of national AI standards through a centralised office within the Prime Minister’s department in a bid by the Albanese government to better co-ordinate its...
Outspoken former Industry minister Ed Husic has called on state and federal Energy ministers to “get tough” on data centre operators to make sure additional renewable capacity is in...
All eyes will be on Anthony Albanese on Wednesday as he sets out his government’s latest thinking on how to capture the economic upsides of artificial intelligence without hollowing...
Australian experts joined more than a dozen Nobel Prize winners and hundreds of top economists in an open letter on Tuesday that warns leaders must “act now” to understand...
National AI Centre executive director Lee Hickin says there is something uncomfortably binary about public discussions about artificial intelligence in Australia. For many, its viewed as all good, or...
Australia’s new AI Safety Institute is working with the nation’s cybersecurity agency to test highly advanced artificial intelligence models not yet publicly available, its newly appointed head has revealed....
The policy decisions related to data centres, artificial intelligence and copyright that will be announced in the coming weeks will be among the most consequential that this government will...
The debate over whether to pause frontier AI is often framed in an unhelpful way: should we stop building AI until we have “solved” AI safety? That framing is...
A first of its kind report by the federal government says artificial intelligence is not yet disrupting Australia’s labour market, despite several reports the technology is a growing factor...