The government plans to impose green power mandates on AI data centres and ban them near homes and schools, according to Stockhead. The measures respond to concerns that AI data centres risk driving u…
Australian tech leaders reacted with support but skepticism after Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX agreed to slow development amid existential concerns, warning that the AI "genie is out of the bottle." T…
Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers launched an inquiry into artificial intelligence, tasking Labor backbencher Ed Husic with investigating whether technology can reverse the country's productivity, whi…
Nvidia signed deals to build AI factories in Australia, according to Stockhead. The report states the world's most valuable company chose Australia for the AI infrastructure push, while noting concern…
Fortescue founder and executive chairman Andrew Forrest has tied employee bonuses to the company's adoption of artificial intelligence, telling staff to embrace the technology or risk being "left behi…
Adelaide agtech company Cropify, founded by husband-and-wife team Anna Falkiner and Andrew Hannon, is using artificial intelligence for crop grading and is pursuing global expansion, according to a Un…
SCX.ai is developing SCXSwiftKit, a toolkit to connect its hosted AI models with Apple's Foundation Models framework, according to Stockhead. The company described the move as an Australian-first entr…
Stakk, an Australian fintech company, is developing infrastructure to help businesses verify identities and combat AI-driven digital fraud, as artificial intelligence intensifies a 'trust arms race' i…
Sonos CEO Tom Conrad unveiled Sonos 27, repositioning the company's audio platform as an operating system with a larger role for artificial intelligence, aiming to reduce users' reliance on smartphone…
More than 10,000 doctors in Queensland will use Heidi Health's AI-powered note taker to complete patient medical records, marking the largest rollout of the technology in Australia. Metro South Health…
FortifAI (ASX:FTI) has appointed Priya Shivakumar, chief product officer of Archetype AI and former chief product officer of Lightning AI, to the advisory board of its subsidiary NOL8 ahead of the com…
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's AI surveillance debate has intensified after the Administrative Review Tribunal overturned a 2024 Privacy Commissioner ruling that Bunnings breached privacy laws by using facial recognitio…
AI-driven trading is rewriting the rules of profit season, with machines listening to earnings calls in real time and trading on nuances before humans can react, causing sharp share-price swings. Comm…
SCX.ai, Australia's first ASX-listed pure-play sovereign AI inference infrastructure company, has partnered with global AI data intelligence leader DDN to expand its sovereign AI inferencing cloud, co…
Canva co-founder Cliff Obrecht said high costs forced the company to slow the rollout of AI features in its graphic design apps, as the Sydney-based company, valued at US$42bn, cut its annual revenue …
SCX.ai began trading on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) under the ticker SCX after a fully underwritten $40 million IPO at 30 cents per share, with contracted annual recurring revenue (ARR) u…
Australian start-up Cropify will commercially grade pulses such as lentils and chickpeas using artificial intelligence for the first time this harvest, a world-first that promises efficiency gains for…
SCX.ai, Australia's first ASX-listed pure-play sovereign AI inference infrastructure company, debuted on the ASX under the ticker SCX after a $40 million IPO. Founder and CEO David Keane said the comp…
The artificial intelligence boom is driving up demand for helium, a critical gas for semiconductor manufacturing, while supplies remain constrained by the Middle East conflict and China's export contr…