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Australia joins US-led AI supply chain alliance

Australia and seven other nations have signed onto a US-led artificial intelligence supply chain pact designed to accelerate investment in digital economies and counter China’s dominance. Australian officials joined...

Govt abandons plan for external AI Advisory Body

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia will not get a permanent advisory body on artificial intelligence as promised, with the federal government abandoning the plan despite growing calls for stronger AI oversight. The Department...

Power-hungry data centres disrupt energy planning

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Data centres’ use of electricity in Australia will increase more than seven-fold by 2050, new forecasting released on Wednesday shows, as proponents seek to position the digital infrastructure as...

Defence gives itself more time to phase out legacy tech

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Defence will give itself at least another year to retire its legacy systems, as it races to adopt modern cloud-based platforms across its IT environment and scale the use...

Trump to sign ‘one rule’ executive order on AI

Posted on   |  by Bhargav Acharya
US President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order this week that he said would create a single national rule for artificial intelligence, which the industry has said...

Muster uncovers a retreat from startup sector employment

Posted on   |  by James Riley
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman’s prediction that the world’s first billion-dollar startup built by a single person with a laptop is coming soon is an unsettling vision of progress....

Feds mandate cloud-first approach as legacy tech costs soar

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Federal agencies have been told to go cloud-first on all new digital projects and minimise vendor lock-in where possible under the first major revamp of the government’s cloud policy...

How AI helped us plan for a growing community event

Posted on   |  by Andrew Dempster
On 18 October, the Woden Town parkrun in Canberra joined the national family of parkruns – free, weekly, timed 5km events that take place across Australia every Saturday morning....