Michael Nicholls 
🏗️ Renewable energy developers in New South Wales will soon face mandatory land rehabilitation obligations comparable to those long established in the mining sector.
🤖 “My scorecard, at the highest level, would be we have been roughly right on technological predictions and pretty wrong on the social and economic implications.”
Speaking virtually at the Commonwealth Bank Accelerate AI conference in Sydney, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman walked back his previous warnings
Australia now has a national AI platform purpose-built for wildlife camera trap data. WildObs, developed through a collaboration between the University of Queensland, QCIF Digital Research, the Australian Research Data Commons, and TERN, enables environmental professionals to pro
🤖 “Companies are already blowing through their annual token budgets and it is only May.”
This observation has been circulating widely across enterprise AI circles as organisations scale autonomous agents and hit severe financial bottlenecks.
⚖️ According to the Australian Conservation Foundation, this is the first time a UN Special Rapporteur has been permitted to appear as amicus curiae in a domestic Australian environmental case.
🤖 “A helper, not a decider.”
This is the guiding philosophy of Dr Kate Conroy, who has been appointed as the inaugural General Manager of Australia’s new AI Safety Institute.
💧 Historical climate data is no longer a safe baseline for securing federal environmental approvals in the Murray-Darling Basin. The federal government and CSIRO have released a major $2.5 million study detailing climate vulnerability across three critical Ramsar-listed wetlands.
🤖 “We are inviting technically capable organisations to join the NIST AI Consortium to address the challenges associated with the development and deployment of AI.”
Deputy NIST Director Craig Burkhardt shared this invitation as the US Government announced a major shift in the global artificial inte
🏗️ How do you secure federal environmental clearance for a major Olympic development without triggering a full Environmental Impact Statement?
Scaling artificial intelligence from a series of disjointed experiments into a core engine for business value is the defining challenge for professional services firms right now. EY and Microsoft have announced a $1 billion, five-year joint initiative to embed AI directly into th