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Ed Husic

September

After the column ran, Microsoft gave Bing a lobotomy, neutralising the chatbot’s outbursts and installing new guardrails to prevent more unhinged behaviour.

Could a kill switch help us control dangerous AI?

The government is calling for business responses to its plans to rein in the use of potentially dangerous forms of artificial intelligence.

  • Tess Bennett

August

Caravan and chocolate makers line up for Made in Australia billions

Caravan manufacturers, chocolate makers, software developers and native titleholders are among the slew of interest groups putting their hands out for taxpayer support.

  • Michael Read
Michaelia Cash says the Coalition will target Labor’s IR laws as part policy package to help WA.

Coalition eyes Labor’s IR laws as part of WA policy package

The Coalition is developing a specific policy package for WA to try and reclaim lost ground in its former stronghold.

  • Phillip Coorey
Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic says Australia said the investment in PsiQuantum would “ensure our nation’s national security.”

Coalition claims ‘$1 billion captain’s pick’ as PsiQuantum answers emerge

New information reveals the Commonwealth engaged in a lengthy due diligence process before making a $1 billion bet on PsiQuantum.

  • Tess Bennett

July

Professor Jeremy O’Brien has now added $US500m of Illinois incentives to the $940m investment by the Federal and Qld governments into PsiQuantum.

PsiQuantum promises US a computer after $US500m investment

Three months after inking almost $1 billion worth of deals with the federal and Qld governments, the tech start-up has signed up to build another quantum computer in Chicago.

  • Paul Smith
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Former NBN boss Mike Quigley.

Labor appoints former NBN boss as nuclear head

Mike Quigley has been appointed as the head of the federal government’s peak nuclear organisation.

  • John Kehoe

June

Protesters and pro-China supporters on the front lawn of Parliament House ahead of a visit from Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Monday.

Why our spooks and economists are teaming up to manage China

Treasury Secretary Steven Kennedy and chief spook Andrew Shearer are leading a new economic security regime that will have far-reaching consequences for business and investors.

  • John Kehoe
Latitude Financial chief executive Ahmed Fahour.

The fund meant to save Australia held ‘sham’ meetings

The $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund is struggling to find investments, but it is great at holding meetings.

  • Aaron Patrick
Science and Industry Minister Ed Husic has signed the contracts to invest $US125m in quantum computing start-up PsiQuantum.

Government’s $189.5m quantum computing VC investment revealed

Previously secret details behind the mammoth investment in US-based quantum computing firm PsiQuantum have been uncovered, including the government’s equity investment.

  • Paul Smith

May

Ed Husic and Jim Chalmers.

Competitive tensions abound on policy and ambition

Jim Chalmers wants to be Labor leader one day. Cabinet colleague Ed Husic’s public intervention on company tax policy this week shows he’ll have to work for it.

  • Phillip Coorey
Dennison Hambling, the MD of Intelligent Monitoring Group, says Australia has become uncompetitive and is being strangled by compliance rules. A cut in corporate tax rates would free up capital for extra investment.

CEOs to Labor: Cut taxes and tech investment will ramp up

Dennison Hambling of security monitoring company IMG says Australia is five to 10 years behind other countries and a corporate tax rate cut would free up capital to make bolder investments.

  • Simon Evans and Tess Bennett
Industry Minister Ed Husic told The Australian Financial Review AI Summit that current business conditions were ripe for lower company tax rates.

Husic states the obvious about tax reform

Without a cut to the corporate tax rate, Australia’s ambitions to be a globally competitive and innovative economy will come to naught.

  • Innes Willox
Industry Minister Ed Husic has advocated for a lower corporate tax rate.

Chalmers wrong on Husic’s corporate tax call: experts

Business leaders and tax watchers say overdue changes to corporate rates could be a good place to start a major reform push.

  • Tom McIlroy and John Kehoe
Industry Minister Ed Husic called for a reduction in the corporate tax rate.

Husic, inadvertently perhaps, has rained on the budget centrepiece

Industry Minister Ed Husic articulated a long-held view that the government needed to consider lowering the company tax burden to spur investment.

  • Phillip Coorey
Ed Husic has called for a reduction in the corporate tax rate.

AI minister: Cut company tax to boost robotics, automation

A call by Ed Husic to cut taxes on corporate profits to encourage investment in advanced manufacturing has been applauded by business but exposed a split in the cabinet.

  • Phillip Coorey
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Husic’s corporate tax call revives Hawke-Keating Labor spirit

Rather than have his office rebuke his cabinet colleague for comments made at the Summit, the treasurer should start making the pro-business and pro-worker case for reform.

  • The AFR View
Telstra’s Kim Krogh Andersen is in charge of AI projects across the group.

How an AI-powered Santa makes the case for tax reform

AI threatens to change everything, from education to manufacturing. Ed Husic is right to ask whether tax reform is needed as part of this revolution.

  • James Thomson
Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic has selected four organisations to provide free AI training to SMEs.

Labor to spend $17m to help small businesses join AI revolution

While major banks and tech firms are rushing headfirst into artificial intelligence investments, smaller firms are less prepared to capitalise on the technology, surveys have found.

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  • Tess Bennett
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Husic calls for lower corporate taxes
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Husic calls for lower corporate taxes

Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic says the Labor government would consider revising the company tax rate.

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