Airtrunk has marginally overtaken NextDC as the data centre provider with the largest greenhouse gases emissions in Australia, as total emissions from the sector hit record levels. On Wednesday,...
Data
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Remember the optimism around the Open Banking revolution and Australia’s new digital data economy opportunity a few years back? It was enthusiastic but fleeting, having bubbled-up somewhere after the...
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A new procurement panel for AI-enabled research performance data and analytical services will be accessible to all government agencies as a part of the Australian Research Council’s reform of...
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The federal government should set up a Bureau of Indigenous Data within two years and legislate it by 2028 to improve the quality of data collected about First Nations...
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American and Australian law enforcement can now more easily access data stored in each other’s jurisdiction after a landmark bilateral agreement came into effect more than two years after...
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A plan to make pathology reports immediately accessible through My Health Record is facing opposition from GPs and specialists, with three peak bodies warning the move could lead to...
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Australia’s lead national intelligence agency is searching for senior tech executives to build out its joint capabilities with researchers and other intelligence agencies, as it presses ahead with an...
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Australia’s artificial intelligence discourse has been captured by “majoritarian thinking” that accepts a social cost for claims of massive economic value, former privacy watchdog Malcolm Crompton warned on Monday...
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National guidance to help public servants make ethical decisions when collecting, using and sharing public data will be developed by the federal government in a bid to tackle the...
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Australian businesses are leaving most of the cloud services they signed on for with hyperscale providers unused, putting them in weaker renegotiating positions or forcing them to ratchet up...
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More than $10 million has been set aside to introduce a consistent legal framework for automated decision-making across government and to bring back an administrative decisions watchdog abolished by...
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“I advocate that every company form a Responsible AI Office,” Balakrishna D.R. (Bali) said, underscoring its crucial role in steering AI-first strategies safely through the quagmire of data privacy,...
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Over a week in late November, the Australian Information Industry Association led an trade delegation to the United States made up of digital businesses and senior government representatives. The...
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We have largely been taken by surprise by the tremendous advances in capability of the latest Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI. Across domains from music and art...