OpenAI said on Saturday that the agreement it struck a day ago with the Pentagon to deploy technology on the US defense department’s classified network includes additional safeguards to...
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Australia’s largest data centre operators recorded their steepest rise in carbon emissions since the end of the pandemic last year, with three companies driving a near 16 per cent...
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The CSIRO has presented the most detailed evidence yet of how dire its finances are, showing how successive governments have chosen not to fund its true costs for decades,...
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Since the start of the year, InnovationAus.com has been beavering away on a couple of new podcast projects – including for the first time the addition of a LIVE...
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NEXTDC chief executive and managing director Craig Scroggie has been appointed the inaugural chair of Australia’s peak data centre industry body. Data Centres Australia on Friday unveiled its first...
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A $30 million TAFE Centre of Excellence aimed at boosting Australia’s technology skills pipeline will be set up in Victoria later this year under a joint federal and state...
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Employers rolling out AI risk coordinated union action if they deploy the technology without consulting workers, the Australian Council of Trade Unions warned on Friday after a wave of...
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Industry and Science minister Tim Ayres will deliver the National Press Club address as part of the Science Meets Parliament festivities on March 25. The event has been sold...
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The federal government has inked a new mega-deal with tech giant Microsoft, promising greater savings for agencies after a strategic review found discounts were “difficult to quantify”. The Digital...
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The NSW government’s innovation advisory board will remain empty until a government review with no hard deadline is completed, effectively cutting off independent advice that had been in place...
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A two-year study into Australia’s world-first social media age ban is underway, with the findings set to inform a future legislative review and potentially shape how other countries move...
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The Trump administration has ordered US diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate US tech companies’ handling of foreigners’ data, saying in an internal diplomatic cable that such efforts...
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NSW’s revamped MVP Ventures program has awarded $1 million to 22 startups developing breakthroughs like residential thermal storage system, medical devices and software platforms. The MVP Ventures program, which...
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The federal government must act to regulate artificial intelligence “in the next year” to avoid generational harms posed by chatbots and lock in the technology’s productivity benefits, top AI...