Australia may face a rush of datacentre construction before new federal rules take effect, as developers seek approvals under existing state laws, according to a report from Inside AI. The proposed re…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will use Wednesday's national cabinet meeting to reassure premiers that new national controls on datacentre developments will complement state rules, amid op…
Australia's corporate regulator, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), reported it took down 3,106 cryptocurrency investment scams in the past financial year, a nearly 30% jump,…
Spotify's global head of artists, marketing & policy, Sam Duboff, said the company is betting on human artistry and building AI products that respect copyright, aligning with Australia's recent commit…
OpenAI has hired Hanbury Strategy and Communications for government relations in Australia, according to the Attorney-General's Lobbyist Register, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese plans to legislate…
Queensland and the Northern Territory have rejected a federal Labor push to mandate renewable energy for AI datacentres, deepening a state-federal rift as S&P Global warns datacentre power consumption…
Australia's federal government proposed mandatory national standards on July 15 requiring large new data centres to underwrite new power supply, pay connection costs, reduce load when needed, and limi…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s proposed national environmental and energy controls for the country’s A$150 billion data centre pipeline hit their first obstacle on Tuesday when Queenslan…
Australia has told its data centres to put more power into the grid than they pull out, an obligation no other country has tried to write into law, but the electricity the industry is meant to supply …
Australia's Labor government on July 15 announced that large AI data centers must underwrite their own new power supply, pay grid connection costs, and obtain permission to use copyrighted works for t…
Journalist and author Cory Doctorow warns that the AI investment bubble will burst, leaving a skills void as companies that replaced human workers with algorithms lose institutional knowledge that tak…
Science fiction author and journalist Cory Doctorow warns that when the AI bubble bursts, executives who replaced staff with AI tools will face a 'really long time' to recover lost skills, and caution…
Australia's data centre operators warn that the federal government's proposed AI power rules are unworkable because renewable energy and transmission projects cannot be delivered quickly enough, creat…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's proposed AI framework includes provisions to pay writers, musicians, artists, and journalists for use of their work in AI development, but the policy does …
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on July 16 announced the 'Australian Standards for AI,' a mandatory national framework that will require large-scale data centers to underwrite new power gen…
Australia will require large AI data centers to generate as much power as they consume and ensure creators retain control over work used to train AI, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Wednesda…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said AI is here to stay and vowed to protect the intellectual property of writers, musicians, artists and journalists, stating that no company should use Aus…
Australia will become the first country to unify all AI-related policies—economic, social, national security, and environmental—under a single Office of AI, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced o…
Mineral Resources, an $11.5 billion West Australian mining giant, has told staff it will not hire more people unless the job cannot be done by artificial intelligence, joining Australian tech firms Wi…
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced that Australia will legislate new standards requiring tech companies like Anthropic to obtain consent and pay for using artists' creative work, calling unauth…