The AI industry believes the government is saying the right things about building local capability, but failing to invest the necessary money to make it happen.

As One Nation and residents groups ramp up campaigns against data centres, the prime minister will deliver a speech on Wednesday, titled AI in Australia’s interests.

Labor will develop a new national framework in response to artificial intelligence as it seeks to address the technology’s growing economic and social impacts.

The prime minister will emphasise the technology’s “pivotal” role in resuscitating productivity and warn of extremists and hostile states using it “to spread disinformation that…

PM to declare Australia the first country worldwide to bring economic, social, security and environmental issues from AI under single office in major speech

Australia plans to fast-track AI datacentre approvals and unify AI oversight under one office, backed by Microsoft's A$25 billion investment commitment.

The national AI framework will address concerns on copyrights, education, workforce and energy.

Labor wants to accelerate AI investment while protecting households, workers and creators — but crucial details are still to come.

Australia will enact laws to regulate how artificial intelligence data centres use power and water, and to protect creative copyright, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said…

Albanese says country will regulate data center construction and training of models

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pledged an Australia-first approach to AI, promising to protect artists' work and establish guardrails to shape the new technology.

Hours before Albanese delivered a major speech on AI in Sydney, the US state of New York imposed a one-year pause on building new data centres.

Australia will enact laws to regulate how artificial intelligence data centers use power and water, and to protect creative copyright, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said…

Anthony Albanese wants to lead the national conversation on AI. But he is managing political risk and cannot forget AI’s huge opportunities.

Albanese announced an Office of AI, net-generator rules for data centres, and tough copyright language. None of it is law yet.

'This is our time to decide what AI looks like here in Australia. It is not a question of if or when AI will transform our economy, we are past that,' Prime Minister Anthony…

The reality is Australia won’t be able to direct much of the activity of Anthropic, Microsoft, Google or OpenAI

“This is our time to decide what AI looks like here in Australia,” Prime Minister Albanese said.

If Australia is truly going to coax major AI companies to choose us rather than the other suitor nations with similar ambitions, some tough decisions need to be made soon.

We’re unlikely to compete with the US and China on frontier models. But if the world really goes south, we would benefit from building and training sovereign models.

The AI industry believes the government is saying the right things about building local capability, but failing to invest the necessary money to make it happen.