Tag: artificial intelligence

New ‘ride-through’ rules target data centre grid risk

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Data centres would be forced to stay connected to the grid during disturbances under proposed changes aimed at preventing the cascading blackouts that could drive up the cost of...

Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI

Posted on   |  by Jaspreet Singh
Atlassian plans to lay off around 10 per cent of its workforce, or 1,600 employees, to push into artificial intelligence and enterprise sales. Shares of the enterprise software company...

Record round: CRC-P grants deliver $67m to industry

Posted on   |  by David Allen
A record number of projects have received almost $67 million in grants through the latest round of the federal government’s Cooperative Research Centre Projects initiative, while applicants for the...

NRFC drops $200m on ASX200 firm Macquarie Technology

Posted on   |  by David Allen
The National Reconstruction Fund Corporation has invested $200 million into ASX-listed data centre outfit Macquarie Technology Group to build out the sovereign tech stack and data infrastructure needed by...

Anthropic set to open Australian office in Sydney

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Anthropic is set to open its Australian office in Sydney within weeks, as the OpenAI rival accelerates its push into the Asia-Pacific region amid surging demand for its Claude...

Toby Walsh: Can Australia meet the AI moment?

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It is not enough for Australia to rely on the business sector to drive AI investment, according to UNSW scientia professor Toby Walsh. For Australia to take full advantage...

Data centres and AI: Have we seen this movie before?

Posted on   |  by David Havyatt
Jaded observers of the IT and innovation spaces may be looking askance at the forecasts of data centre requirements to fuel AI growth. The implications go beyond just data...

Sydney-built AI chip could slash data centre power bills

Posted on   |  by David Allen
A tiny silicon chip that uses light instead of electricity could mark the beginning of a revolution in new energy-efficient artificial intelligence hardware and bring down energy costs for...