The national auditor has cleared a multi-million dollar blowout on legal advice for the federal government’s investment in Californian quantum startup PsiQuantum, concluding that the key due diligence contract...
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Australia’s $2 billion Top Secret cloud is sorely needed by defence and intelligence agencies that have fallen years behind the private sector, allies and some adversaries. But the government’s...
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South Australians will face jail terms of up to two years for sharing violent or illegal acts on social media under laws introduced to state parliament on Thursday to...
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Social media platforms and service providers like Meta and Google would need a licence to operate in Australia and be forced to fund an independent regulator under a radical...
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Science and Technology Australia has called on government to establish a $2.5 billion Sovereign Capability Moonshot Program that would support research, translation and industrial transformation in areas identified as...
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The regulation of global technologies has emerged over the past decade as a key social and economic challenge for governments around the world. The challenges are obvious and daunting....
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Australia’s online safety laws have fallen well behind leading global efforts and key parts of the legislation are no longer fit for purpose, an expedited review has found, heaping...
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South Australia’s new assistant minister for artificial intelligence will press his government for more support to capitalise on the state’s renowned research base by growing and attracting more companies....
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Without significant investment in artificial intelligence, Australia risks lower productivity, economic stagnation and the loss of AI research skills, the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has warned in its...
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Tech giants and the Big Four consulting firms donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Australia’s major political parties last year, new data from the electoral commission shows. Annual...
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It has been a week in which artificial intelligence hit the business and political mainstream, and where Australian leaders were well and truly exposed, caught with their pants down....
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A Senate committee has given the green light to the federal government’s plan to direct billions of dollars in tax credits towards the production of green hydrogen and critical...
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The most comprehensive scientific understanding of artificial intelligence systems and their risks was published overnight, offering a “global handbook” to policymakers at an AI inflection point. The landmark document...
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Government legislation that ensures medical imaging data is shared by default with the My Health Record system is set to float through the Senate, despite concerns of an uneven...