The debate over whether to pause frontier AI is often framed in an unhelpful way: should we stop building AI until we have ...

Twenty years ago, Australia made an unusually practical decision. Instead of expecting every university, government agency or ...

Cynata Therapeutics has laid off its entire staff after a clinical trial of its stem cell therapy failed to outperform a ...

Australia has spent years telling us the biggest barriers facing women in STEM are systemic and cultural. Its own evidence ...

Federal agencies have been directed to draw up plans to retire the encryption standards underpinning their systems, as quantum computers powerful enough to break public key cryptography edge closer to ...

Electro Optic Systems has landed a counter-drone contract under the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator’s Mission Syracuse, becoming the third defence tech firm to win work through the program ...

The legislation allowing US and Australian law enforcement authorities to seize data from people’s social media and emails ...

Queensland Energy minister David Janetzki won’t sign his state up to new principles aimed at managing a wave of new data ...

Britain’s financial regulator has been urged to consider regulation of large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude and ...

Well over 2,000 years ago, Aristotle is supposed to have described what these days we call “first principles thinking” as ...

The Trump administration’s recent decision to block foreign access to advanced artificial intelligence models has reignited AI sovereignty debates – where nations strive to build and maintain their ...

The biggest upgrade to Australia’s frontline defence against deadly pathogens will begin within months, with new ultra secure biosecurity labs to be built and existing infrastructure upgraded at a ...