Tag: artificial intelligence

Australians back copyright deal to take part in AI boom

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A majority of Australians would back changes to copyright laws to allow companies like Google, Anthropic and OpenAI to train their models locally, provided creators whose work is used...

Gig Guide: Home Affairs loses tech chief Kovacevic to Austrade

Posted on   |  by David Allen
The federal government’s trade investment agency has poached Home Affairs’ long-serving chief digital officer Radi Kovacevic, as the public service continues to grapple with the internal impact of artificial...

Defence doubles down on tech as AI ‘disruption’ looms

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Defence has formally identified artificial intelligence as a rising strategic factor and innovation priority in its new strategy and 10-year spending plan, while pledging an extra half-billion dollars to...

New Qld laws to jail creators of explicit deepfakes

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Queensland has become the latest state to pursue laws targeting ‘deepfake’ abuse, with the state’s government announcing it will criminalise the creation of non-consensual digital imagery. The Crisafulli government...

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...