Justin Hendry

Australia's eSafety Commissioner has launched investigations into five social media platforms for suspected breaches of landmark laws designed to keep teens off their sites as it prepares to step up enforcement.

Salesforce looks set to remain the core case management system for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, with the agency in charge moving to protect the system from data loss for up to six years.

One line in this week's Treasury analysis of the dizzying economic implications of AI said it all: “In Australia, most productivity growth at the firm level related to AI will come from adopting and adapting technology developed elsewhere.”

A new private members' bill would force AI companies to build in shutdown mechanisms and give the Australian government last resort powers to intervene in the event of a serious safety incident.

Social media users could switch off recommender algorithms in their social media feeds, under new draft laws the Australian government plans to unveil this week.

Data centre and AI investment is driving a “once-in-a-generation shift” in business spending, with growth now back at levels last seen at the tail end of the early 2010s mining boom.

The NSW government will invest $150 million in a new science and innovation fund to commercialise homegrown research and back the creation of new startups and scaleups with equity.

Some of Australia's top AI minds have raised $10 million for a new venture building the missing natural language layer that lets large language models safely and reliably control robots and other complex systems.

The Albanese government has shifted ground on proposed changes to the R&D tax incentive, agreeing to extend the runway for biotech companies to claim refundable offsets from 10 to 15 years.