Tag: artificial intelligence

NEXTDC and Firmus arm for AI with $1.7 billion raise

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Two of Australia’s largest data centre developers have come back from the Easter break to announce a cumulative $1.7 billion finance raise, as artificial intelligence-driven demand for domestic compute...

Investors press tech giants on data centre power, water use

Posted on   |  by Simon Jessop, Valerie Volcovici and Supantha Mukherjee
Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google have each recently abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centres over community opposition and now the companies are coming under shareholder pressure over the environmental...

Greens push to lift lid on social media algorithms

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Social media platforms would be forced to reveal closely guarded algorithms and risk assessment data, and allow users to opt out of algorithm-driven feeds under far-reaching digital duty of...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution as the New Renaissance

Posted on   |  by Tom Hajdu
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) isn’t just another technological shift. It is a fundamental reimagining of human potential that mirrors the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries. Both...

Canberra strikes AI safety pact with Anthropic

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
US artificial intelligence giant Anthropic has entered an AI safety and research pact with the Albanese government, making Australia the latest in a small group of nations to formalise...

Finance chief AI officer Paul Hubbard on Delivery

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Welcome to Delivery: A GovTech Podcast! In this first episode, we talk to the Department of Finance’ chief AI officer Paul Hubbard about the structures and priorities behind the...

AI tsars are a box-tick without tiger teams, Dominello says

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Embedding AI tsars across federal government agencies risks creating another layer of bureaucracy without the ‘tiger teams’ to make them effective, former NSW digital minister Victor Dominello says. “It’s...

‘Race to the top’: NSW puts data centres to work on energy

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey says setting data centre principles are about creating a “race to the top”, where the power-hungry sector helps to address the state’s renewable energy challenges....