Former Australian of the Year Michelle Simmons' deep tech startup says it is “on track” to build the world’s first commercial-scale quantum computer, with new research showing it has hurdled a key ...

The spread of agentic artificial intelligence risks undermining consumer protections, Australia’s fair trade regulator has ...

A federal government decision to withhold the cost of its latest three-year cloud mega-deal with Amazon Web Services has sparked transparency concerns and criticism that it has been strong-armed by ...

CSIRO’s United States subsidiary will be shuttered later this year, according to the national science agency’s latest corporate plan, as the extent of its massive enterprise services restructure ...

A new platform that gives federal public servants a secure way to experiment with artificial intelligence models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o has launched, as the government looks to boost adoption across the ...

An OpenAI-funded report claims artificial intelligence can add $142 billion to the economy by 2030 – a four per cent GDP lift — if the technology is adopted widely and fuels new domestic capabilities ...

The CSIRO is planning further job cuts despite already slashing more than 800 in the last 18 months, its management has confirmed, as new modelling shows government funding has not kept pace with ...

The CSIRO will make hundreds of scientists redundant in the lead up to Christmas while “sharpening” its research structure, as the agency reckons with a budget cliff and decades of declining funding.

Technology giant Microsoft will exit quantum computing research in Australia, confirming a plan to close its facility at the University of Sydney and to consolidate the company’s quantum efforts at ...

Grattan Institute chief executive Danielle Wood will lead the Productivity Commission after the federal government’s first pick Chris Barrett turned down the appointment, instead taking up the role of ...

Australians will be able to take a crash course in responsible AI from next week, with Standards Australia to offer a training module on its international standard for responsible development and use ...

Australia’s international ranking in economic complexity has fallen again, with the country now sat at 93 out of 133 countries in an index produced by Harvard University researchers. The Atlas of ...