Technology and startups
The rapid development of AI, and the push to avoid failures of the past through expedited regulation, may also speed up efforts to pin down legal definitions of the ecosystems in which Big Tech operates.
Different quantum technologies should have been put to the test before the Australian government's investment in PsiQuantum, according to a rival startup.
What if the $1 billion PsiQuantum deal had less to do with supporting innovation and more to do with national security?
As the big four retreat from lending, GCI co-founder Gavin Solsky explains how money can be made by lending in places where banks won't go and when equity is too expensive.
Australia's banks are solid, with the economy resilient, bad debts under control and margin pressure easing. But investors are increasingly asking how these unexciting fundamentals support over-valued shares.
With new legislation to overhaul Australia's Privacy Act now due in August, Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind outlines the regulator's plans to become a tougher enforcer and the 'multiple ways to skin the cat of AI governance.'
Notes and observations from the Magnificent Seven earnings releases and investor conference calls.
KWM, one of Australia's biggest law firms, is leaning heavily into AI and legal tech, with the firm's junior lawyers playing a key role in helping their more senior colleagues learn the ropes.
Stripe Australia managing director Karl Durrance says advances in stablecoin have paved the way for the global fintech’s long-awaited return to the cryptocurrency market.
At Australia's biggest startup festival there was widespread optimism that a tough period for the ecosystem is finally coming to an end.
Australian philosopher Peter Singer is one the key intellectuals behind effective altruism, which focuses on maximising the impact of philanthropy, and has become highly popular in tech circles.
The co-founder and chief executive of PsiQuantum says he believes there is “no alternative” to leveraging the semiconductor industry as a means to build the world’s first commercially useful quantum computer.
On the eve of Sunrise, the country's biggest startup festival, the government announced the biggest single investment into a startup in memory. But not everyone is enamoured with that.
The Melbourne founded unicorn has launched a program to support local startups - which could eventually become its customers.
It's possibly the biggest ever injection of Australian taxpayer funds into a startup. But will the Albanese government's $940 million quantum computing bet pay off?
Travellers who used the real-time PayTo service will hope the troubled airline can manage refunds because, unlike with credit or debit cards, they can't fall back on a bank.
Australia is home to some of the world's most renowned quantum researchers and companies, yet the government chose an American startup to invest $940 million in.
While the price of Bitcoin is tipped to strengthen further this cycle, the former Iris Energy is already preparing for the next crypto winter by diversifying with a $40 million AI bet.
In 2022 TPG said it wouldn't be interested in working with Optus on an infrastructure sharing agreement just like the one the pair announced today.
