UK Environment Agency declares allotments Contaminated Land due to PFOA plant uptake
Backyard vegetables have just forced a statutory contaminated land declaration.
Michael Nicholls
Where Are Australia’s AI Data Centres? US Mega-Builds vs Australia’s Quiet Pipeline
🤖 While the US grabs headlines with multi-billion-dollar AI Stargate programmes, Australia is quietly building its own massive pipeline of gigawatt-scale data centres. We are not falling behind.
Watchdog Investigates EPA’s Black Box AI Use in Chemical Safety
Regulatory decisions cannot be hidden inside a black box.
Sandia Labs Develops 5-Minute Rapid PFAS Detection Technology
A new ionisation method detects PFAS in water in just five minutes. Bypassing standard laboratory workflows, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a portable detection system.
US DOE deploys AI-ASSET for groundwater plume predictive modelling
The most expensive phase of groundwater remediation is often the decades spent monitoring site conditions. The US Department of Energy has deployed a predictive artificial intelligence system to alter how we manage long-term environmental monitoring.
WA Water Corp Inspectors Blocked from Alcoa Mine Sites, Raising Contamination Fears for Perth’s Drinking Water Catchment
When site access is blocked, who carries the multi-billion dollar risk? Documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws reveal the WA Water Corporation has been repeatedly locked out of Alcoa’s bauxite mine sites within Perth’s drinking water catchments.
AlphaGo Pioneer David Silver Partners with Google Cloud to Power Superlearner AI Lab
🤖 Success is no longer just about who has the most processors. Google Cloud has partnered with David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence to build what they call a superlearner.
Queensland’s McCoys Creek Wetland declared Australia’s first council-managed Conserved Area under OECM Framework
🐨 Congratulations to the City of Gold Coast, the Queensland Government, and the Federal Government on securing Australia’s first local government-managed Conserved Area.
Google DeepMind publishes 57-page roadmap from AGI to ASI
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“The kind of test I would be looking for is training an AI system with a knowledge cutoff of, say, 1911, and then seeing if it could come up with general relativity, like Einstein did in 1915.”
That is how Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, defines the boundary of true artificial general int
ASIC’s Early Observations Unveil Compliance Benchmarks for Australia’s Mandatory Climate Reporting Regime
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Early-mover companies are already finding out that generic statements will not satisfy the regulator. As the first wave of large Australian entities prepares to lodge mandatory sustainability reports under the Corporations Act, ASIC has released its initial observations from early lodgements.