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@Innov_Aus

https://xitter.twitterapi.xyz/t.co/h9ZpFEywXi is an independent publishing and event company that maps, tracks and chronicles the transition of Australia’s economy.

 Sydney, New South Wales
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Cabinet discusses sovereign options for future GovAI models | @888riley @SenKatyG #GovAI #AI #GovTech #AusTech buff.ly/XeE5RqH
Cabinet discusses sovereign options for future GovAI models

Cabinet discusses sovereign options for future GovAI models

Finance minister Katy Gallagher says that Australian AI models could be used in future to power the Commonwealth’s GovAI platform, replacing the big US models that the public service currently relies...

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Tasmania sets AI ‘baseline’ for government | @justinrhendry #AI #GovTech #AusTech buff.ly/Qu2lhUb
Tasmania sets AI ‘baseline’ for government

Tasmania sets AI ‘baseline’ for government

Tasmania has become the latest state to put guardrails around government use of artificial intelligence, requiring agencies to appoint accountable officials for AI and list higher-risk AI applicati...

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NSW govt directs startup grants at female and regional founders | @joseph_brookes #MVP #Grants #Startups #AusTech buff.ly/b0ao7TI
NSW govt directs startup grants at female and regional founders

NSW govt directs startup grants at female and regional founders

More than half the funding of the latest round of NSW startup grants has gone to female and regional founders, after the Minns government tweaked the program to broaden participation in the state’s...

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Australia climbs digital ranking but ‘going backwards’ on AI | @justinrhendry @IMD_Bschool @ceda_news #Digital #AI #AusTech buff.ly/W1jvPpM
Australia climbs digital ranking but ‘going backwards’ on AI

Australia climbs digital ranking but ‘going backwards’ on AI

Australia has lifted its standing in a major global digital competitiveness ranking, even as it lost ground on nearly every artificial intelligence metric, heaping further pressure on the government...

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Minister lashes Gupta as heavy industry ‘wrecking ball’ #AusPol #Industry #Whyalla buff.ly/7omGzsV
Minister lashes Gupta as heavy industry 'wrecking ball'

Minister lashes Gupta as heavy industry 'wrecking ball'

Industry minister Tim Ayres has chastised Sanjeev Gupta as a “wrecking ball through Australia’s heavy industry” in the Senator’s strongest comments yet about the embattled British businessman....

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DDoC: Calls grow for gradated digital platform dispute scheme #DDoC #OnlineSafety #Regulation buff.ly/RChBDjN
DDoC: Calls grow for gradated digital platform dispute scheme

DDoC: Calls grow for gradated digital platform dispute scheme

Experts on Tuesday urged lawmakers to take an upcoming Digital Duty of Care further by adding an industry-funded external complaints scheme for online platforms that could graduate to a right to sue...

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Govt hands $70m Silicon Quantum Computing stake to NRF | @justinrhendry @NRFCGovAu @IndustryGovAu @silicon_quantum #Quantum #AusTech buff.ly/oGi9EeP
Govt hands $70m Silicon Quantum Computing stake to NRF

Govt hands $70m Silicon Quantum Computing stake to NRF

The federal government has folded its early bets on Silicon Quantum Computing into the National Reconstruction Fund, bringing its entire stake in the quantum startup under one roof. The transfer took...

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New regulator to police AI giants after OpenAI Medicare breach | @justinrhendry @AlboMP #AI #AusTech buff.ly/yfLkUsZ
New regulator to police AI giants after OpenAI Medicare breach

New regulator to police AI giants after OpenAI Medicare breach

Australia will impose mandatory safety and security standards on AI companies, including a new incident-reporting scheme, and create a regulator to oversee them, following OpenAI’s breach of a...

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Cooperative Research Australia appoints Judith Reinhard as CEO | Lanie Tindale buff.ly/zC45cdB
Cooperative Research Australia appoints Judith Reinhard as CEO

Cooperative Research Australia appoints Judith Reinhard as CEO

A biologist and clean energy lobbyist has been elected chief executive officer of Cooperative Research Australia (CRA). Former CSIRO fellow and Fortescue external affairs representative Judith...

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Cyberattacks on refrigeration systems and blood banks show the risks to essential services. Could you respond without disruption? Join Prof Jill Slay AM and Kinetic IT's Pierre Tagle, moderated by Corrie McLeod. Webinar | 27 Nov | 12–1pm AEDT Register: buff.ly/OMYEiLZ
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Aussie quantum pioneer Diraq is now a US company | @888riley @diraqQC #Quantum #AusTech buff.ly/T7ZVmns
Aussie quantum pioneer Diraq is now a US company

Aussie quantum pioneer Diraq is now a US company

Just months after receiving a $20 million boost from the Australian government’s flagship National Reconstruction Fund, pioneering Sydney quantum startup Diraq has pulled up stumps, shifting its...

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Sydney startups SunDrive and SMC team to build solar panels for space | @justinrhendry @SpaceMachinesCo @sundrivesolar #Solar #Space #AusTech buff.ly/yWJzuvN
Sydney startups SunDrive and SMC team to build solar panels for space

Sydney startups SunDrive and SMC team to build solar panels for space

SunDrive and Space Machines Company have teamed up to develop locally made solar panels for the booming space sector, betting a copper-based cell can help Australia crack a sovereign supply chain....

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Another Digital ID payday for Accenture at the Tax Office #DigitalID #ATO #Accenture buff.ly/sVidtIo
Another Digital ID payday for Accenture at the Tax Office

Another Digital ID payday for Accenture at the Tax Office

Tech services and outsourcing giant Accenture will be paid more than $140,000 a day to shore up the tax office’s Digital ID work for another year, as millions of consumers and directors now rely on...

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Small businesses face yearly online risk checks, inquiry hears #DDoC #OnlineSafety #COSBOA #ACS buff.ly/vpwmLPi
Small businesses face yearly online risk checks, inquiry hears

Small businesses face yearly online risk checks, inquiry hears

Plumbers and hairdressers will be forced to conduct online risk assessments each year under an upcoming Digital Duty of Care, a Senate inquiry heard on Monday, as the opposition accused the tech...

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Every state wants its own quantum companies. But no single jurisdiction has everything a quantum company needs to succeed. #quantum #QuantumAustralia buff.ly/PmhNL1s

The numbers that back a national model on quantum

Every state wants its own quantum companies. But no single jurisdiction has everything a quantum company needs to succeed.Australia's research expertise, specialist infrastructure, industry end-users...

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Fix VC rules, widen investor tests to unlock startup funding: PC | @justinrhendry @ozprodcom #VC #Startups #AusTech buff.ly/NofSuNU
Fix VC rules, widen investor tests to unlock startup funding: PC

Fix VC rules, widen investor tests to unlock startup funding: PC

The Albanese government should ease restrictions on tax-advantaged venture capital funds and widen the sophisticated investor test to get more money flowing to startups, according to the Productivity...

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Gig Guide: National AI Centre boss bows out #GigGuide #AI #Appointments buff.ly/X5uN1Tq
Gig Guide: National AI Centre boss bows out

Gig Guide: National AI Centre boss bows out

National AI Centre chief Lee Hickin is retiring, ending a 33 year tech career and making way for a successor to spearhead the government’s effort to to unlock the economic benefits of artificial...

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Marles rules out new suburban data centres #DataCentres #AusPol #AI buff.ly/NQJl8n9
Marles rules out new suburban data centres

Marles rules out new suburban data centres

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles on Friday declared data centres should not be built in the suburbs, adding weight to reports Labor is preparing to ban the digital infrastructure from being built...

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‘Almost universal scepticism’: Gun register hangs in the balance | @justinrhendry @ACICgovau #Firearms #GovTech #AusTech buff.ly/DormOJj
‘Almost universal scepticism’: Gun register hangs in the balance

‘Almost universal scepticism’: Gun register hangs in the balance

Australia’s long-promised firearms register is in doubt, with an internal review revealing there is “almost universal scepticism” that the critical real-time information sharing system for state and...

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PC wants a date for ‘tell us once’ as reform drags | @justinrhendry @ozprodcom #Data #GovTech #AusTech buff.ly/WrJpiDi

PC wants a date for ‘tell us once’ as reform drags

The Productivity Commission has urged the federal government to set a date for delivering ‘tell us once’, warning that reforms, which will mean businesses can stop reporting the same information over...

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