Industry minister Tim Ayres quietly abandoned his predecessor’s search for expert AI advisers last August after the government spent more than $188,000 on a 15 month recruitment process. Newly...
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Australian logistics software firm WiseTech Global plans to lay off about 2,000 people over the next two years, in what could mark one of the largest artificial intelligence-related workforce...
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OpenAI is expanding its push into the enterprise market by teaming up with four of the world’s largest consulting firms, betting that a more hands-on approach will help corporate...
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A $15 million AI-driven geospatial replica of Australia’s farming landscape has been launched, promising to cut years off industry research projects and hasten nationwide agricultural innovation. The National Digital...
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Australia’s Assistant Minister for Science, Technology and the Digital economy Andrew Charlton has been in India this week at the global AI Impact Summit. His presentation started to put...
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The US State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and...
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Australia’s competition and consumer watchdog says she will continue to closely monitor digital markets, as her wait for new intervention powers from the Albanese government enters a fourth year....
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta is building an artificial intelligence accountability program as his office probes Elon Musk’s xAI over the generation of non-consensual sexually explicit images. The California...
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Australia has leapfrogged the United Kingdom and Norway to claim second place in a global ranking of digital governments for the first time, reaching a benchmark set by the...
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Anthropic has raised US$30 billion in its latest funding round, more than doubling the Claude chatbot maker’s valuation to US$380 billion and underscoring massive investor interest in the startup...
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Services Australia has stopped paying for an unused Adobe feature designed to personalise myGov content for users, more than four years into a lucrative five-year deal with the tech...
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Australian AI infrastructure startup Firmus has finalised a $14 billion debt funding package led by global private equity firm Blackstone and Coatue Management, a New York-based technology investor. Firmus...
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Thousands of Macquarie University staff now have access to an in-house built AI platform that offers access to leading models like Claude Sonnet and GPT-4o without sacrificing data control...
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Europe must keep control over key technologies that underpin the region’s economies, the European Union’s financial services commissioner said on Tuesday, adding to growing calls for the bloc to...