Startups, AI, and the digital economy. How innovation and technology adoption are creating new business models and investment opportunities.
Energy North’s Project Ares, planned for a remote cattle station, is no longer working to its June 2028 ‘first power’ date after the Territory’s environment regulator suspended its deadline.
The ASX-listed owner of Singapore telco Simba lost about 30% of its value in a day after disclosing a show cause notice that puts the operator’s licence at risk. No findings have been made.
1 Nov 2026
The tax office is updating its penalty rulings to deal with taxpayers who use AI, and says the responsibility for getting it right stays with the taxpayer and their adviser.
31 Oct 2026
The world’s largest crypto exchange estimates the impact at around $US6.3 billion, says about $US3 billion has been frozen and has promised to cover losses.
30 Oct 2026
Suspended grid works at NextDC’s M3 Melbourne site have pushed back revenue, forced a guidance cut and paused new projects, a warning for the whole AI infrastructure build-out.
29 Oct 2026
The Melbourne medical-scribe company has raised a US$100 million Series C and is now worth A$1.26 billion. The bigger story is what it wants its AI to do next.
23 Sep 2026
Directors are treating cyber risk as a core governance issue, not an IT problem.
20 Sep 2026
Startup equity looks simple until the company is sold. Dilution, option pools and liquidation preferences decide who actually gets paid, and they are all visible on paper long before anyone is counting millions.
18 Sep 2026
Mathspace, Quest Apartment Hotels and a string of car dealers and clinics have all been hit in recent weeks. The common thread runs through the vendors and tools those companies rely on.
15 Sep 2026
A breach notification lands in your inbox and then nothing seems to happen. Stolen data tends to have a long life, and the risk to you usually arrives in the form of a very convincing message.
15 Sep 2026
Large corporates are moving from AI pilots to production, but boards want harder numbers on returns.
5 Sep 2026
With public listings still scarce, employees and early investors are cashing out through secondary markets instead.
25 Aug 2026
Government demand for data sovereignty is driving a fresh wave of local hyperscale investment.
18 Aug 2026
Early-stage capital is flowing into Australian AI ventures at a pace not seen since the 2021 tech boom.
13 Aug 2026
The Melbourne-based chip designer will supply low-power inference hardware for defence applications.
4 Aug 2026
A leading Sydney accelerator has doubled its cohort size after a record year of applications.
22 Jul 2026
Canberra has shifted the rules for anyone using artificial intelligence (AI) in Australia. If you run a startup, a marketing team, or a product built on a United States model, you now have a compliance problem you did not have a week ago.
16 Jul 2026
The Australian AI Safety Institute is up and running, testing frontier models with a A$29.9 million budget. It can study the labs, but it cannot tell them what to do.
10 Jul 2026
The new facility pairs academic researchers with industry partners to commercialise quantum applications.
10 Jul 2026
A discussion paper floats independent audits for AI systems used in lending, hiring and insurance decisions.
28 Jun 2026
The Brisbane-founded logistics software company becomes the year's first new local unicorn.
16 Jun 2026
