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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The federal government will review the laws underpinning Australia's triple zero net, more than two years after a catastrophic Optus outage first exposed gaps in the emergency call ...

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

A small and misunderstood cohort of medium sized firms could hold the key to addressing Australia’s structural prosperity issues, according to the federal government’s top industrial policy ...

Australia has reached a fork in the road in its policy approach to broadening the prosperity benefits of AI, assistant minister for the Digital Economy Andrew Charlton says, with Australian ownership ...