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Can the government really get ahead of the curve on AI? – podcast

On Wednesday, the Labor government announced environmental and energy safeguards on new datacentres in Australia. Our political editor, Tom McIlroy, speaks to the assistant minister for science, technology and the digital economy, Dr Andrew Charlton, about the government’s push for national standards on datacentres.The former Rudd staffer and economist speaks about having his own book […]

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Queensland and NT reject Labor’s push to ensure that power-hungry AI datacentres use renewable energy

Federal-state stoush comes as rating agency warns that electricity bills could skyrocketFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastQueensland and the Northern Territory have rejected the federal government’s plans to mandate that AI datacentres use renewable power, rubbishing Anthony Albanese’s proposals to regulate the

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Government use of automated AI decision-making to be curbed under new Australian rules

New national plan accompanied by Labor push for digital duty of care legislationGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe use of AI in automated decision-making by government departments and agencies will be subject to tough rules under a new national plan, expected to extend to consumer protections, workplace safety and privacy.As

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Albanese’s AI speech was a good start. Now Australia must confront these bigger questions | Julianne Schultz

The PM’s vision must look beyond datacentres and copyright to questions of capability, security and public benefitGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastEvery new technology has a tipping point, when it speeds towards ubiquity, changing the world as we once knew it. In the past six months, artificial intelligence, in its

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AI may be the toughest challenge Anthony Albanese faces this term. Guardrails are urgently needed | Peter Lewis

Coherent decision-making and internal accountability are critical to meeting this manic momentAnthony Albanese promises fast-track approvals for datacentres to shore up AI investmentThe University of Sydney was the natural setting for Anthony Albanese to lay out his vision for how Australia should confront the profound economic and social challenges posed by so-called artificial intelligence technology.His

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Anthony Albanese promises fast-track approvals for datacentres to shore up AI investment

PM to declare Australia the first country worldwide to bring economic, social, security and environmental issues from AI under single office in major speechGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese says the federal government will introduce faster approval processes for AI projects, including datacentres, across Australia, seeking to shore up

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Ed Husic tells Labor to get tougher on AI companies as letting them self-regulate ‘doomed to fail’

Labor MP also says watering down copyright rules is ‘going against the ethos’ of his partyThe Labor MP Ed Husic says any moves to water down copyright law to benefit AI companies would be “going against the ethos” of the party, urging his colleagues to place stricter rules on the big tech firms or be

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AI companies want to water down Australia’s copyright laws. Artists are outraged, Labor is split

Anthony Albanese will deliver a landmark speech on AI this week as MPs are torn between attracting datacentre investment and protecting the rights of creativesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhen Anna Funder stood before a pack of journalists at Parliament House earlier this month, she presented herself not just as

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Australia news live: shadow arts minister Angie Bell, a former musician, says AI giants must pay for content

Follow the day’s latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA teenager has been charged with murder after a 15-year-old boy was discovered with fatal stab wounds outside a community medical centre.AAP reports the boy was found critically injured outside Craigieburn Community hospital in Melbourne’s north about 7.50pm on Wednesday. A

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As One Nation seeks donations to ‘fire the liar’, News Corp gives it front-page billing | Weekly Beast

Pauline Hanson’s fundraising drive gets front-page coverage in Sydney tabloid. Plus: The Hollywood Reporter scoop that wasn’tWant to get this in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for the Weekly Beast media newsletter hereThere may be some doubt about whether One Nation has raised more than $2.7m in its Fire the Liar fundraising appeal this

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