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July 25 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence is expected to pay off big for tech giants including Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Alphabet (GOOGL.O) someday. Microsoft is bearing AI costs in two ways, analysts said: to power its own products such as its forthcoming $30-a-month Copilot AI assistant, and to serve companies wanting to use its Azure cloud computing services to create AI products. "They're buying a bunch of H100s," said Ben Bajarin, chief executive and principal analyst of Creative Strategies, referring to Nvidia's flagship chips for AI. Microsoft may be "aggressively buying Nvidia chips, given Microsoft does not have its own silicon as an alternative," said Atlantic Equities analyst James Cordwell. "The message on inflection point was the same," from Microsoft and Google, said Gene Munster, managing partner at Deepwater Asset Management, "but the difference was Microsoft investors wanted to see more."

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☆ U.S. will be short 67,000 chip workers by 2030, industry group says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Max A. Cherney | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

July 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. semiconductor industry faces a shortfall of roughly 67,000 workers by 2030, according to an industry association study published on Tuesday. The chip industry's workforce is projected to grow to 460,000 by the end of the decade, up from roughly 345,000 this year. The law also created a 25% investment tax credit for building new chip factories, or fabs, that is worth $24 billion. Roughly half of the future chip industry jobs will be engineers. The shortage of skilled chip workers is part of a larger shortfall of science, technology, engineering and math graduates in the U.S., according to the report.

Persons: John Neuffer, Max A, Christian Schmollinger Organizations: Semiconductor Industry Association, SIA, Oxford Economics, Commerce Department, Intel Corp, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, Samsung Electronics Co, Thomson Locations: U.S, KS, San Francisco

☆ U.S., Allies Hold Record-Setting Military Exercise in Australia in Message Aimed at China
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Mike Cherney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Two Killed in New Zealand Shooting on Eve of Women’s World Cup
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Mike Cherney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Russian Diplomat Ends Squat on Embassy Site in Australia After Court Setback
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Mike Cherney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ U.S. Faces Pressure to Ease Rules for Sharing Military Technology With Allies
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Mike Cherney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Years After the Afghanistan War, Australia Grapples With Its Involvement
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Mike Cherney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ U.S. Courtship of Pacific Nations Leads to Key Security Deal
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Mike Cherney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Solomon Islands police receiving training from a Chinese police liaison team. Photo: handout/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesLast year, more than two dozen police officers from the Solomon Islands traveled to China, where they visited local police stations and were trained in hand-to-hand combat, guarding VIPs and managing security at large events. While the officers were overseas, Australia—a U.S. ally that anchors Washington’s strategy to counter China in the Pacific—donated 13 vehicles and 60 rifles to the Solomon Islands police and said it would provide training to help officers protect diplomats, politicians and visiting dignitaries.

☆ Testosterone surges preserved in 33,000-year-old mammoth tusk
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

In addition to cortisol, the mammoth tusk revealed annually recurring testosterone surges up to 10 times higher than baseline, according to the study. An African bull elephant tusk was used in the study to compare with mammoth tusks. Then we saw the same patterns in the mammoth — wow!”Both the elephant and male mammoth tusks contained evidence of musth-related testosterone surges. Meanwhile, the female mammoth tusk showed little variation and very low testosterone, as expected. Gleaning this type of information from mammoth tusks can reveal more insights into the lifetimes of the extinct creatures.

☆ Australia to Reshape Military Amid Growing U.S.-China Rivalry
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Mike Cherney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Australia’s defense minister said the country’s navy needed enhanced lethality. Photo: roslan rahman/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesSYDNEY—A wide-ranging review of Australia’s military found that the key U.S ally needs to quickly overhaul its armed forces and focus more on capabilities such as long-range missiles, amid concerns that rising tensions between the U.S. and China could increase the chance of a conflict in the region. Australian officials said they agreed with the review’s conclusion that the country’s military isn’t fully fit for purpose in the current strategic environment. The defense industry minister, Pat Conroy, said the revamped army will eventually be able to fire weapons that can hit targets some 300 miles away, versus 25 miles now.

☆ Submarine Deal Presents Test for Australia’s Balancing Act With China
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Mike Cherney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A deal to buy U.S. nuclear-powered submarines, as part of an effort by the U.S. and its allies to counter China in the Indo-Pacific, has handed Australia a tricky balancing act as it manages ties with Beijing that have only recently begun improving. As the U.S., Australia and the U.K. prepared to unveil their submarine deal, Australia’s foreign minister, Penny Wong , suggested a briefing when she met China’s new foreign minister in India earlier this month. On Wednesday, Ms. Wong said China had agreed to attend a briefing about the announcement along with other countries.

☆ To Counter China, U.S. and Allies Seek to Make Militaries ‘Interchangeable’
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-12 | by ( Mike Cherney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A U.S. Marine and an Australian soldier taking part in an exercise in Townsville, Australia. When the top general for the U.S. Air Force in the Pacific traveled overseas recently to meet with U.S. allies, responsibility for 46,000 personnel across the region fell to an unusual second-in-command: an air vice-marshal from the Australian air force. The Australian officer was appointed recently to be one of two deputy commanders for the U.S. Air Force in the region at its base in Hawaii. Although it isn’t unusual for people from friendly nations to embed in the U.S. military, it is the first time an allied officer has held such a top operational role in the U.S. Air Force’s Pacific command.

☆ BAE Systems Designs Fighter Drone That Can Take Off Vertically
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Mike Cherney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A BAE Systems Strix drone on display at the Avalon airshow in Australia. AVALON, Australia— BAE Systems PLC unveiled a design for a large drone that can take off vertically and fly alongside manned helicopters, the latest bet on autonomous warfare as countries seek to upgrade their militaries. The new system, called Strix, aims to be affordable and easy to deploy, while still offering substantial range and firepower. A video animation played by BAE at the Avalon Airshow in Australia, where it announced the new aircraft and displayed a model, showed Strix taking off from the back of boats. Another video showed the drone, with wings folded, being stored in a shipping container and then driven away on a truck.

A year ago, many airlines were still burning through cash as some countries were slow to remove coronavirus-related travel restrictions. Now, with borders fully open, some of those carriers are posting big profits. British Airways-owner International Consolidated Airlines Group SA said Friday it was back in the black last year for the first time since the pandemic began. Singapore Airlines Ltd. earlier this month posted a record net profit for the nine months ended in December. Qantas Airways Ltd. this week reported a record pretax profit for its most recent half year.

A year ago, many airlines were still burning through cash as some countries were slow to remove coronavirus-related travel restrictions. Now, with borders fully open, some of those carriers are posting big profits. British Airways -owner International Consolidated Airlines Group SA said Friday it was back in the black last year for the first time since the pandemic began. Singapore Airlines Ltd. earlier this month posted a record net profit for the nine months ending in December. Qantas Airways Ltd. this week posted a record pretax profit for its most recent half year.

☆ To Prevent Huge Wildfires, Australia Leans More on Indigenous Experience
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Mike Cherney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

As fire seasons lengthen, relentless wildfires such as this one northeast of Perth, Australia, in 2021, could become more common. SYDNEY—When Tremane Patterson sets fire to the countryside, the 34-year-old walks alongside the flames, using leaves and branches to put out embers and make sure the fire stays along his desired path. Mr. Patterson, from the Banbai nation, is one of many indigenous Australians seeking to reintroduce cultural burning, a practice that was widespread for thousands of years but was disrupted after Europeans colonized the continent.

☆ To Prevent Huge Wildfires, Australia Leans More on Indigenous Wisdom
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Mike Cherney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Cyclone Gabrielle Leaves Widespread Damage in New Zealand
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Mike Cherney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

An aerial photo showing flooding in part of the small New Zealand city of Napier on Wednesday. When wind and rain from Cyclone Gabrielle passed through the small coastal city of Napier on New Zealand’s North Island earlier this week, the storm downed trees and flung branches into the street near Charlotte Glück-Wurm’s home. Although her home wasn’t damaged, by Wednesday afternoon the power was still out, water use was restricted and mobile-phone service was spotty. To prepare food, she and her husband were using an emergency gas cooker.

☆ Coast Guard Looks at More Ships, Innovative Patrols to Ramp Up Pacific Presence
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Mike Cherney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SYDNEY—During a recent patrol, members of a U.S. Coast Guard cutter’s crew conducted a first-of-its-kind boarding of a fishing vessel in waters off the Federated States of Micronesia. Several months earlier, another cutter traveled thousands of miles from its home port in Guam to northern Australia, in what was considered a first for that type of ship. The missions illustrate how the Coast Guard, which some U.S. officials view as a potent soft-power tool that can advance relationships with Pacific island nations, plans to ramp up activities in a strategic region that has become an arena of great-power rivalry between China and the U.S.

At Sue Schmidt’s gas station and roadhouse off a remote highway in the Australian Outback, employees usually watch out for snakes when they are walking outside. But this week, they were looking for something else: A tiny capsule of radioactive material that sparked a search along a roughly 900-mile stretch of the road. The capsule, used in mine equipment, went missing while in transit from a Rio Tinto PLC mine to Perth, Western Australia’s state capital. As the search dragged on over the past week, Ms. Schmidt and her employees grew wary of cleaning up the bottle caps and coins that they usually find outside the roadhouse, fearing that any shiny object could be the capsule that would hit them with a dangerous dose of radiation.

☆ Missing Radioactive Capsule Found in Australian Outback, Officials Say
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Mike Cherney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Western Australia state’s Department of Fire and Emergency Services crews had been searching for the tiny capsule. SYDNEY—A tiny capsule containing radioactive material that sparked a massive search over hundreds of miles of highway in the Australian Outback has been found, authorities said Wednesday. The success “is testament to amazing inter-agency teamwork in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds,” Western Australia’s Department of Fire and Emergency Services said on Twitter.

Western Australia state’s Department of Fire and Emergency Services crews had been searching for the tiny capsule. A tiny capsule containing radioactive material that sparked a search over hundreds of miles of highway in the Australian Outback has been found, authorities said Wednesday. The success “is testament to amazing inter-agency teamwork in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds,” Western Australia state’s Department of Fire and Emergency Services said on Twitter.

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