Great Artesian Basin Rehabilitation Program Saves 4,923 ML of Groundwater in 12 Months
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Almost five billion litres of groundwater saved in just twelve months.
Michael Nicholls
Antarctic Infrastructure Renewal Program Secures Environmental Authorisation for Major Davis Station Upgrades
🏗️ Congratulations to the Antarctic Infrastructure Renewal Alliance on securing environmental authorisation for the Davis Critical Infrastructure Works. The approval, signed by the Minister’s Delegate, marks a significant regulatory milestone for this infrastructure upgrade.
NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Enters Production, Achieving 10x Energy Efficiency Leap Over Blackwell
🤖 “Vera Rubin is already in production. Giant amounts of production incoming.”
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has shut down rumours of manufacturing delays, confirming that their next-generation NVL72 platform is officially in production.
UK-based robotics startup Humanoid raises $152M Series A to scale industrial wheeled robots
🤖 “In just two years, we’ve gone from an idea to becoming Europe’s first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn.” – Artem Sokolov, CEO of Humanoid. The UK-based startup has secured a US$152 million Series A funding round, valuing the company at US$1.35 billion.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Defends Chinese AI Models
🤖 “These Chinese models are excellent. Open-source models that are excellent should be used.”
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has taken a firm stance on the global technology pipeline, defending the right of Western enterprises to run open-weight models developed in China.
Humanoid raises $152M Series A at $1.35B valuation as Europe’s first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn
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“We used to call it the second-mover advantage: the ability to distil lessons other companies had to pay millions or billions of dollars to learn.”
This perspective from Sotirios Stasinopoulos, Chief Product Officer at Humanoid, explains how the London-based robotics firm bypassed years of costl
Landmark Nature study maps the Great Barrier Reef’s microbiome, discovering 500 new bacterial species to revolutionise ecological monitoring.
🧬 Great to see the University of Queensland and the Australian Institute of Marine Science leading on a major scientific contribution to marine conservation. Researchers have successfully mapped the open water microbiome of the Great Barrier Reef, sequencing more than 800,000 microbial genomes.
Federal Court trial begins over Woodside North West Shelf 40-year extension challenge
⚖️ Could a claim of apprehended bias overturn a major project approval? The Federal Court of Australia has commenced a hearing challenging the forty-year extension of the North West Shelf gas project.
Great Barrier Reef microbiome mapped with 584 new bacterial species discovered
🔬 Congratulations to the University of Queensland and the Australian Institute of Marine Science on mapping the Great Barrier Reef microbiome for the first time, discovering 584 new bacterial species.
Australian Antarctic Program Secures Environmental Authorisation for Davis Station
🏗️ Securing environmental approvals on the most isolated and ecologically sensitive continent on Earth is no small feat.