Silicon Quantum Computing manufactures around one atomic processor per week. As the startup looks to commercialise years of R&D, it wants to grow that number dramatically.
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Known for providing tech for defence and intelligence, Palantir announced a deal with Coles last year. Until now, it has been tight-lipped about what it entails.
Ripple’s global head of policy Rahul Advani says Australia’s draft crypto laws could force startups to shut, urging Treasury to extend the licensing transition period.
IREN says new AI data centre contracts will boost its revenue by hundreds of millions of dollars as it launches a USD1 billion fundraise to drive further growth.
Dan and Will Roberts each took home $109 million last financial year after IREN became the world's most valuable Bitcoin miner, and an ambitious AI data centre play.
The lobbying group is caught between the interests of global tech giants and its local members who have expressed support for creative sectors.
The USD500 billion startup has previously advocated for more data centres and a national upskilling program.
Weeks before Scott Farquhar urged looser copyright laws to support AI, Canva’s Cliff Obrecht had argued the opposite, exposing early fault lines in the Tech Council.
Afterpay and Airwallex are two of Australia’s biggest startup successes, but Up Bank founder Dom Pym says venture capital rules are choking investment in the next wave of fintechs.
In late July Tech Council of Australia chair Scott Farquhar called for weakened copyright laws. Only weeks earlier, Canva co-founder Cliff Obrecht sang a different tune.
Treasury’s draft crypto laws promise long-awaited clarity for digital assets. It's the latest signal of a sharper focus on innovation from the Albanese government.
Politicians from Anthony Albanese to South Australian premier Peter Malinauskas have criticised the telco carrier following its emergency-network failure last week.
Assistant Treasurer Daniel Mulino this morning unveiled a draft of Labor's long-awaited digital assets legislation, which he says is "about legitimising the good actors and shutting out the bad."
Only 27% of ASX 200 companies have disclosed AI activity, according to new research from Matt Vitale’s New Dialogue, compared with 90% of the Fortune 500.
The crypto exchange's local boss John O'Loghlen says he has been "pleasantly surprised" by his interactions with the assistant treasurer.
Though admitting to financial irregularities in his company's books, StrongRoom AI founder argues he is not liable for fraud.
Chalmers will meet Jason Kwon in Sydney as Australia vies to host major AI infrastructure following the USD300 billion startup's 'Stargate UK' investment announcement.
The brothers who co-founded IREN sold one million shares each as the data centre and Bitcoin mining company hit fresh highs.
After years of juggling disparate causes, the Tech Council of Australia has found in artificial intelligence a high-stakes issue to rally around.
"They've been hitting us up for years," Anear said on the sidelines of the Tech Council's annual event after an ASX executive pitched the national bourse's wares as a home for tech companies.
OpenAI has called its latest LLM a "significant leap in intelligence". Salesforce's chief of AI research Silvio Savarese told Capital Brief he isn't so sure.
The US defence startup launched by Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is pushing rocket motors and VR headsets as it expands in Australia.
Co-founder Alex Zaccaria says AI can cut admin and dramatically speed up product development — and assures that no job cuts will follow.
OpenAI is splashing eye-watering sums on chips and cloud, and with its leaders set to descend on Canberra, Australia may be in line for another play.
The former RBA governor predicted AI was not likely to cause mass unemployment, and called the technology Australia's "best bet" to reverse slumping productivity.
OpenAI executives are in Australia and meeting with the second most powerful elected official to discuss whether the country can be home to more than just a satellite office.
New job listings suggest the Victorian corrections department is using Palantir, a firm with deep links to the Trump administration, five years after its last public contract lapsed.
Nearly seven months after leading an investment into StrongRoom AI, Misha Saul has departed Sydney venture firm EVP.
The 11-year old startup, which raised at a $2.1 billion valuation in 2023, is putting boots on the ground in Australia.
Semiconductors are too important for the US to not be able to manufacture them, Dell CTO and chief AI officer John Roese said during a visit to Sydney.
The US$300 billion AI lab's path to Australia was not long and winding and followed sustained overtures from the Labor government and a deal with the nation's biggest company.
The Tasmanian founder of popular Apple design app Procreate is one of the few sceptical voices in tech on generative AI. "When civilisation has no incentive to produce, we get into a very dark time."
Seven years after Jeremy Howard's research helped inspire OpenAI's precursor to ChatGPT, he argues copyright protections have grown more powerful than intended due to corporate lobbying.
