A cocktail of models from OpenAI, Anthropic and French AI startup Mistral are serving up answers to federal public servants through an early-stage trial of the Albanese government’s generative...
Artificial intelligence may be arriving in organisations as a productivity tool, but it is quietly forcing a much bigger conversation underneath: whether the digital systems governments and enterprises rely...
The Victorian government has thrown more than $200 million behind a multi-year upgrade of the state’s police and child protection IT systems in a budget that delivers the first...
Quantum nanodiamonds, synthesised molecules to improve the marine environments of fish farms and a ‘brain-in-space’ are among nine projects funded through the second round of the federal government research-diplomacy...
Australians overwhelmingly back government regulation of artificial intelligence and would be more likely to use it if local safeguards were in place, but most would prefer sector-specific rules over...
Companies bidding for federal government contracts will soon have to disclose any planned use of artificial intelligence and take responsibility for its output, under new procurement rules set to...
In the 1980s and 1990s, Labor governments under Bob Hawke and Paul Keating confronted an uncomfortable reality: Australia could not drift into prosperity. The old economic settings – protection,...
Australia’s productivity debate has spent the past two years circling a familiar set of questions: how to adopt AI faster, how to lift workforce capability and how to translate...
Assistant technology minister Andrew Charlton has called on the private sector to choose Australian AI solutions over foreign alternatives, warning that government policy alone cannot sustain the sector. In...
The US State Department has ordered a global push to bring attention to what it says are widespread efforts by Chinese companies, including AI startup DeepSeek, to steal intellectual...