Justin Hendry

AI lab Anthropic, the developer of Claude, will commit 5 per cent of its shares to a new public benefit fund so it has increased flexibility and scale to make donations for the “public good”.

Defence industry minister Pat Conroy says he is confident Germany's decision to walk away from a Ghost Bat deal does not mean the Australian-made military drone is out of the running.

Australia's growing fleet of Ghost Shark autonomous submarines will be able to fire swarms of kamikaze aerial drones, lay mines and deploy containers with military equipment deep beneath the waves.

A five per cent levy on the revenues of data centres operating in Australia would help the public capture a share of the “gold rush” in artificial intelligence, independent senator David Pocock says.

Australia's semiconductor sector could add $5.3 billion to the economy and support more than 10,000 additional jobs by 2040, but only with deliberate policy and funding to address workforce and infrastructure gaps.

Australia might not need a fab to grow its nascent semiconductor sector, but that hasn't stopped local players from insisting the country would be better off with some manufacturing capacity of its own.

Australians would rather miss out on onshore AI training than see copyright laws changed to let AI companies use the works of creatives without permission, a new poll shows.

A Sydney-based startup building turnkey, software-defined battery systems for the fast-growing satellite market has raised $23 million in one of Australia's largest-ever seed funding rounds.

The Albanese government will take its new startup tax breaks and a controversial overhaul of the R&D tax incentive to a lower house vote on Wednesday, barely a day after dropping the bill on parliament.

Defence will be handed “enduring” powers to take down drones and speed the development of counter-drone technology after a surge of incursions at sensitive military sites.