The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI on Friday, claiming that the artificial intelligence startup was copying, distributing and displaying millions of its articles without permission...
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The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman has renewed calls for government to extend its authority to include the handling of complaints about social media and other digital platforms. The TIO, which...
Communications minister Anika Wells has defended the federal government’s competing artificial intelligence and online safety agendas, saying it will be possible to pursue AI sector growth alongside tighter regulatory...
Australia’s chief scientist Tony Haymet has issued a blunt warning that the nation must seize the AI and data centre opportunity by creating homegrown intellectual property – not just...
Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings...
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been urged by the International Monetary Fund to focus on lifting research and development expenditure and leverage technologies like artificial intelligence to drive innovation and...
Science minister Tim Ayres and the CSIRO will be asked to explain hundreds of redundancies at the science agency when Parliament returns next week, as the research sector rallies...
Data centre billionaire Robin Khuda on Thursday urged business, government and academia to unite to draw more women into STEM careers, as he launched the next stage of a...
Australia has tumbled out of the top 20 most digitally competitive nations for the first time after a lack of AI policy and complacent companies dragged on global rankings...
A decision to sit in on a quantum physics class 20 years ago planted the seed of what became Australia’s first quantum technology firm and earned founder Dr Vikram...