The Solomon Islands have several issues that threaten its national peace and security with conflict prevention being a path to peace.

The Defence Strategic Review (DSR) is changing the way Australia’s defence and innovation ecosystems interact.

Microsoft's VALL-E synthesises speech from short audio clips, maintaining emotional and acoustic nuances. Applications abound, but potential misuse raises concerns.

The new weapons counter tanks by targeting their top vulnerabilities and deploy drones to shower infantry with metal fragments.

ChatGPT can be used for cost-effective content creation—however, human fact-checking can be required, particularly for dates, locations, and specific claims.

Stereotyping by birth era perpetuates bias, limits potential, undermines unity, and reinforces discrimination, and can cause significant emotional and social harm.

Ukraine's counteroffensive nears Crimea; and Kyiv's new amphibious force aims to disrupt Russia's plans.

Artificial intelligence companies from the three nations are developing tools that enable the collection of increasing amounts of data in an information-overloaded environment. Word count: 27

The war in Ukraine has spurred mass production of kamikaze FPV drones fitted with explosive warheads.

AI tools for detecting disease in retinal images already exist, but the new tool, RETFound, was created through self-supervised learning.