australia technology

Microsoft executive vice president for Copilot Charles Lamanna has put Australia’s weak productivity performance down partly to employers’ reluctance to take risks with artificial intelligence. The useful part of that diagnosis is not the slogan about “institutional inertia”; it is that...

Australia’s AI future may ultimately be decided not by whether today’s boom survives, but by what the country chooses to preserve when the hype, valuations and executive promises no longer do. In a wide-ranging interview, author and technology critic Cory Doctorow argues that the central...

Roy Morgan says 13.6 million Australians aged 14 and over—58% of the population—now use AI platforms, with the overall user base split almost evenly by gender. The market-research firm’s latest figures put men at 50.3% of AI users and women at 49.7%, based on surveys conducted from January...

Australia’s University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC), a public research institution rapidly gaining recognition for its innovation, is embarking on an ambitious migration of its core infrastructure workloads to Microsoft Azure. This move, detailed in recent reports and official statements, marks...