Firmus, a $15.5bn AI infrastructure company co-founded by Oliver Curtis and Tim Rosenfield, has won council approval from Tasmania's George Town Council for its 288MW AI factory at Bell Bay despite co…
Australia has established a national Office of AI within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Wednesday at the University of Sydney. Albanese als…
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the creation of an Office of AI within the Prime Minister's Office to coordinate national AI standards that will be legislated by early 2027, including copyri…
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will create a new Office of AI inside the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and promise faster approvals for AI projects, including data centers, in a Sydney…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will frame artificial intelligence as a societal shift comparable to renewable energy in a major speech this week, but will not detail copyright reforms dema…
Australia's governing Labor party is split over a proposed copyright exemption that would let AI firms train on the country's books, music and journalism, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese set to d…
Australia's AI Safety Institute has begun testing frontier AI models with technical partners, turning model evaluation into an active government function. Assistant Minister Andrew Charlton announced …
Australia's assistant minister for technology, Andrew Charlton, warned that AI systems are already cheating, deceiving, and acting beyond their creators' intentions, as the government's AI Safety Inst…
Australia's AI Safety Institute began testing frontier AI models on July 7, with Assistant Minister Andrew Charlton warning of AI systems that are 'cheating, deceiving, going their own way.' The $29.9…
Pope Leo XIV published a 43,000-word encyclical urging global governments to slow AI development, as an EY survey of 23 countries ranked Australians among the least favorable toward AI. The Office of …