An American scientist convicted of lying to US authorities about payments from China while he was at Harvard University has rebuilt his research lab in Shenzhen to pursue technology...
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In the 1980s and 1990s, Labor governments under Bob Hawke and Paul Keating confronted an uncomfortable reality: Australia could not drift into prosperity. The old economic settings – protection,...
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PsiQuantum has added the CEO of global computer chip manufacturer Intel to its board as it marks the second anniversary of its pledge to build an industrial-scale quantum computer...
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Australia’s productivity debate has spent the past two years circling a familiar set of questions: how to adopt AI faster, how to lift workforce capability and how to translate...
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Australia’s data centre lobby group on Friday faced pointed questions about its economic benefit and sovereignty claims, as a NSW inquiry cranked scrutiny on the burgeoning sector. Data Centres...
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Australia and Finland’s national science agencies have signed an agreement to collaborate on research and development aimed at pushing quantum technologies towards practical industrial deployment. The Commonwealth Scientific and...
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Assistant technology minister Andrew Charlton has called on the private sector to choose Australian AI solutions over foreign alternatives, warning that government policy alone cannot sustain the sector. In...
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The CSIRO will merge its digital and manufacturing research units after shedding more than 100 of the units’ staff amid immense financial pressures over the last two years. The...
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In April 2024, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and then-Queensland Premier Steven Miles stood beside PsiQuantum founders Jeremy O’Brien and Terry Rudolph to announce a $940 million public stake in...
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Datacom has renewed a valuable contract managing the competition watchdog’s tech services, potentially extending its long-standing relationship with the agency into a third decade. The New Zealand-born tech firm...
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Australia’s race to adopt artificial intelligence is no longer about awareness. It’s about capability – and closing the widening gap between those experimenting at speed and those struggling to get started. That gap...
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Australia’s financial system regulator said on Thursday the country’s banks were not keeping pace with AI industry developments, warning frontier AI systems such as Anthropic’s Mythos had the potential...
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Support for women startup founders will be the focus area of the first round of a new diversity program launched by the New South Wales government on Thursday, with...
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California-based startup PsiQuantum is yet to break ground in constructing its stadium-sized quantum computing facility at Brisbane Airport, two years after the federal and Queensland governments staked close to...