Michael Nicholls 
🤖 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.
Regulatory decisions cannot be hidden inside a black box.
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.
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.
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.
🤖 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.
🐨 Congratulations to the City of Gold Coast, the Queensland Government, and the Federal Government on securing Australia’s first local government-managed Conserved Area.
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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
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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.
🤖 “The limiting factor for seeing value from AI in the enterprise is no longer model capabilities.”
This statement from OpenAI marks a fundamental shift in how professional services must approach technology.