Nearly half of Australians say a modest fall in house prices would be a good thing, giving Labor some political cover for its highly contested tax reforms.
Technology and startups
Australia’s startup sector has blasted the government’s proposed carveout in submissions, warning it is too narrow, too complex and could drive founders offshore.
Xero CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy’s share sale has raised fresh questions about confidence and remuneration at the company after a bruising 12-month sell-off.
The Federal Reserve is among those warning the AI investment boom is an inflation risk. When will the productivity gains catch up?
The US is asking big questions about how to divvy up AI’s potential riches. Australia is still figuring out how to get a seat at the table.
A small group of Australian startup founders and executives have been granted access to Stripe Treasury ahead of a wider launch.
Phil King’s Regal Partners and Pinnacle Investment Management have cut their positions in Qoria since the reverse merger was announced, with the stock also caught up in the SaaSpocalypse.
The data centre boom is well and truly on its way to Australia. Whether it helps local startups build globally competitive AI companies is a different question.
With some AI investors keeping powder dry for the impending megafloats of the frontier labs, fund managers and strategists warn against chasing headlines.
Anthropic says its local talks are early, but reports of a giant data centre push have moved markets and again ignited fights over copyright and resources.
Anthropic’s Australian AI ambitions depend on a massive expansion of local data centre capacity — and copyright changes the government has ruled out.
Critics, including a prominent short-seller, say IREN’s Sydney based co-CEOs will be paid more than Nvidia’s Jensen Huang — who leads a company more than 300 times bigger.
Elite investors including Softbank and Situational Awareness are dropping billions on the likes of Australia’s IREN, Firmus and Sharon AI. But can it last?
Australia needs great science teachers, a stronger STEM pipeline and a better-connected research system to secure its future prosperity.
Anthony Albanese says Australia can “set the ground rules” for AI, but the battle over frontier model access shows sovereignty may be harder to build than data centres.
A shock pricing decision triggered a steep share price fall, sparked warnings of cost cuts and led to a prediction the company could abandon its UK expansion.
After spending much of the year courting the world’s largest investors ahead of a blockbuster IPO, Firmus co-founder Oliver Curtis is being increasingly pulled into less glamorous conversations.
A rock star at the Midwinter Ball and a flat end of financial year on the ASX offered two unlikely reminders of Australia’s uncomfortable place in the AI boom.
The AI infrastructure company says its seven-point policy goes beyond government expectations. Industry says much of it is already common practice.
AI is attacking the tried-and-true SaaS model from pricing to distribution, raising an uncomfortable question: has the SaaSpocalypse really even begun?
Massive investments into AI infrastructure are expected to provide a welcome tailwind for local companies this earnings season. But the long-term picture may be less rosy.
A new Nvidia-backed facility in Indonesia marks another strategic shift for Firmus as its long-anticipated ASX listing remains on ice.
