Tag: Andrew Charlton

AI committee readies first hearing of lightning inquiry

Posted on   |  by James Riley
With its first hearing scheduled for Friday, the just-constituted Joint Select Committee on AI received more than 400 submissions by the time its deadline passed and has already granted...

We will use all the levers at our disposal: Ayres on AI

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Attracting frontier model development and training investment is critical to Australia’s ability to build local AI capability and a vibrant sovereign industry, Industry minister Tim Ayres says. The investment...

Hastie throws weight behind Kevin Rudd’s industry plan

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Opposition industry spokesman Andrew Hastie has thrown his weight behind former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s urgent call for more activist industry policies to bolster sovereign capability development. Speaking at...

AI showcase puts technology in front of policymakers

Posted on   |  by Suzanne Prescott
Parliamentarians do not need to know how to build a large language model. But they need to understand enough to ask the right questions – and recognise when they...

Govt considers levy on data centre revenue to fund R&D

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government is considering putting a levy on billions of dollars in annual data centre and hyperscaler revenue to help fund local research, support startups and build Australian...

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...

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...

Charlton says AI standards months in the making

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Assistant technology minister Andrew Charlton says the federal government has been developing a set of mandatory AI standards for at least the last five months, with the groundwork dating...