Potent regulations for artificial intelligence need to be introduced “in the next year” to avoid generational harms posed by chatbots and lock in productivity benefits as the technology rapidly ...

Homegrown drone detection firm DroneShield will share vital counter-drone research with Australian defence scientists under a new collaborative research agreement.Defence Science and Technology Group ...

Apple says any move to force open its payments technology to third parties in Australia could put billions of payments at risk, as it defended the fees it charges banks to use Apple Pay. Fronting a ...

The federal government’s top science and technology advisers are finalising advice on Australia’s high performance computing and data needs amid warnings that local researchers are now begging ...

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 ...

Australian logistics software firm WiseTech Global plans to lay off about 2,000 people over the next two years as it adopts artificial intelligence across its software and internal operations.The ...

One of Australia's leading AI researchers will use a major address on Wednesday to warn that Australia is “dangerously unprepared” to capture the upsides of artificial intelligence or guard against ...

Australia’s top cyber spy agency has released a new digital tool it hopes will shave days if not months off the time needed ...

Australian fintechs are urging the Albanese government to follow NSW counterparts in opening up the government’s financial ...

Funding for Victorian startups almost tripled to $2.2 billion last year on the back of AirWallex’s $730 million in later ...

The CSIRO’s energy transition research hub in Newcastle will tackle more cutting-edge projects like storing excess grid electricity in electric vehicle batteries following a $3 million laboratory ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is facing calls to seize a rare opportunity to send Australia’s only active astronaut ...