( August 18, 2026, 02:03 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: An Australian minister on Tuesday said Australia should leverage its data-center boom to secure domestic access to compute for start-ups, researchers and innovators, using that infrastructure to build AI training capabilities, specialized models, software and applications. In the Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy Annual Lecture, Andrew Charlton, assistant minister for science, technology and the digital economy, outlined a push for greater AI sovereignty by combining access to global technology with Australian compute capacity, proprietary data, local companies and intellectual property so the country retains more of the economic and strategic value created by AI.Speech follows....
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