Tag: AI

Chris Bowen’s angry pills could power a data centre

Posted on   |  by James Riley
All eyes were on National Cabinet during the week as the Prime Minister agreed to relax energy rules for data centres that would let states with publicly-owned electricity networks...

US judge blocks Pentagon’s Anthropic blacklisting

Posted on   |  by Jack Queen
A US judge has blocked the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic, the latest turn in the Claude maker’s high-stakes fight with the military over AI safety on the battlefield. Anthropic’s...

Global tech firms call for defensive surge to defeat AI hacks

Posted on   |  by Raphael Satter
Major tech companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon are calling for a society-wide defensive surge to defeat what they describe as an impending wave of hacks driven...

Banks open up to AI startups as lock-in window closes

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australian AI startups will get an inside track on how some of Australia’s biggest banks procure and deploy the technology under a new accelerator program backed by the federal...

Greens fire up over data centre energy carve-out

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Greens have lashed a decision to allow some states and territories to power data centres with coal and gas, after national cabinet failed to agree on nationally consistent...

States back AI laws as PM agrees to relax energy rules

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Anthony Albanese has agreed to relax energy rules for data centres in planned national AI laws, allowing states and territories with publicly-owned electricity networks to tap “surplus” fossil fuel...