{"id":503556,"date":"2026-02-25T17:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/503556\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T17:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:28:11","slug":"ai-giants-should-be-forced-to-give-australian-business-privileged-access-to-tech-as-a-condition-of-foreign-investment-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/503556\/","title":{"rendered":"AI giants should be forced to give Australian business privileged access to tech as a condition of foreign investment approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Labor industry minister Ed Husic says artificial intelligence giants should be forced to give Australian business privileged access to their tech as a condition of foreign investment approval, and the government should use taxpayer funds to bolster local AI development.<\/p>\n<p>Husic, who was responsible for Labor\u2019s AI policy until he was dumped from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/politics\/federal\/push-to-dump-attorney-general-dreyfus-in-factional-carve-up-20250508-p5lxht\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">frontbench in a factional brawl last year<\/a>, said amid a global data centre \u201cfrenzy\u201d, the Albanese government must not lose focus on where the benefit was for Australian industry and academia.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Labor industry minister Ed Husic says artificial intelligence giants should be forced to give Australian business privileged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-503556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}