Policy and Regulation

Pushing an opt-out system that would enable use of copyright-protected content, artifical intelligence giant Anthropic has told a parliamentary committee Australia needed to "seize" the AI golden goose, while media organisations said an opt-out would be unworkable. 

The NSW government has been hit with a class action alleging it ignored legal advice that merchant fees charged to residents on transactions, which included drivers licence renewal payments and parks passes, were unlawful.

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has released a series of proposals to strengthen superannuation investment governance in the wake of the $1 billion collapse of investment funds Shield and First Guardian.

The corporate regulator said Wednesday it would review the banking sector’s use of artificial intelligence to ensure customer protections have not been lost in the rush to adopt AI tools.

ChatGPT owner OpenAI has apologised after one of its AI models gained non-public access to a Medicare reporting service operated by Services Australia.

Following fierce opposition by local residents, Goodman Group has withdrawn its plans to build a $1.2 billion data centre in Sydney's leafy Lane Cove, citing the evolving regulatory environment.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday said an OpenAI agent hacked into Medicare's statistics reporting portal and accessed non public files in June but the company failed to notify the givernment until this month.

Warning against censorship, the US government has taken the extraordinary step of weighing in on Australia's Digital Duty of Care bill, which would require social media platforms to block harmful content and allow an algorithm opt-out.

A Senate inquiry into Triple Zero service outages has recommended stripping Telstra of its emergency call person function and launching a review into the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

New rules announced by the Victorian Labor government will require data centre developers to generate their own renewable energy supply, invest in local jobs and stay out of residential areas.