Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter at InnovationAus
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innovationaus.com | Joseph Brookes
Multi-national tech service suppliers for the government’s $1.2 billion aged care digital uplift booked lucrative extensions worth at least $67 million just months out from the planned go live date. The technology launch has since been pushed back as part of a delay to the landmark aged care reforms revealed this week. It came after the sector warned it needed more time and information to get workers and systems ready.
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innovationaus.com | Joseph Brookes
Artificial intelligence is being deployed across NSW universities without central oversight, policies or strategies, leaving several institutions without a “complete understanding” of their use, a new audit has revealed. Only six of the state’s 10 public universities are identifying and documenting all the AI tools they implement. But even then, many still lacked complete details like a responsible owner or testing guidance.
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innovationaus.com | Joseph Brookes
In June 2024, the Australian government ended the Women in STEM Ambassador program. The decision followed a report that urged a broader, intersectional approach to diversity in the fields of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). For six years, under the leadership of astrophysicist Lisa Harvey-Smith, the program contributed to research, tools and resources aimed at breaking down structural barriers that limit women’s and girls’ participation in STEM education and careers.
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innovationaus.com | Joseph Brookes
US tech giants’ removal of misinformation in Australia plummeted last year, new transparency data shows, with platforms like Facebook and YouTube taking down tens of thousands less posts and videos. Meta “took action” on just 350 pieces of content for misinformation violations compared to almost 10,000 in 2023, and also recorded around 3 million fewer content warnings from third-party fact checkers.
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innovationaus.com | Joseph Brookes
Meta Platforms on Tuesday said it has struck an agreement with Constellation Energy to keep one of the utility’s reactors in Illinois operating for 20 years, in the Big Tech company’s first such deal with a nuclear power plant. Big Tech companies are looking to secure electricity as US power demand rises for the first time in two decades on demand from artificial intelligence and data centers.
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The current state government has made big cuts to innovation programs, but its predecessors also quietly took an axe to a $700m fund that was supposed to support R&D, commercialisation and industry growth.
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