David Allen

Federal parliament has launched its broadest inquiry into artificial intelligence to date, ahead of sweeping national reforms to regulate the technology expected from the government next year. The move comes just weeks after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pledged to develop a single national framework of laws regulating AI to be led by an Office of AI operating out of his department. The Joint Select Committee on AI will examine legislative … Want to know how this story ends?

Australia’s entrepreneurial base is shrinking, and the decline is sharpest among the wealthiest households that are ironically best placed to start a business, new CEDA data analysis has found. And while number of Australians founding or investing in businesses has tanked over the last two decades – with the steepest declines among the top 20 per cent of income earners – property investment has spiked over the same period, … Want to know how this story ends?

Jane O’Dwyer will step into the top job at the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering after more than five years at the helm of Cooperative Research Australia. Cooperative Research Australia (CRA) on Monday said the veteran public sector scholar and science advisor would end her tenure as chief executive in November to join the learned body, replacing former ATSE chief Kylie Walker. It comes as the CRA … Want to know how this story ends?