Australia has been offered a pragmatic new definition of AI sovereignty. A recent report from the United States Studies Centre argues that, because Australia cannot reproduce America’s frontier AI...
The Strait of Hormuz closure, clean energy transition, and power-hungry AI boom have collided to make energy security the top priority globally. Simultaneously, great power competition between the United...
The first part of the Australian government’s Future Made in Australia legislation passed through the Senate last month, setting up a national interest framework. But the legislation divided Parliament....
The global AI race is fully taking shape. Billions have been invested by leading frontier AI developers like OpenAI in the United States and Huawei in China. Beyond Washington...
Governments must be more strategic with the $27 billion on offer to defence businesses in Australia, including opening up its new industry accelerator, according to a new report that...
A United States’ presidential executive order to streamline its defence technology export controls should be issued to make AUKUS a “functional reality”, according to a new report from the...
Australia and the US should share more science and technology to deter China, according to a defence aligned thinktank, which is recommending a greater exchange of scientists and military...
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The response to COVID-19 is having a transformational effect on the use of digital technologies in Australia, the United States and many other parts of the world. But the...
Most of the politics of the pandemic have pitted health outcomes against the economy. In health terms, Australia is doing well in avoiding the full brunt of the global...
When President Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act as a response to coronavirus in early April it provided a stark acknowledgement of supply-chain gaps not only in the...