Technology and startups
Atlassian is cutting 1,600 staff as it bets on AI, putting the spotlight on its unique and precarious exposure to the upheaval tearing through the software industry.
It was an agonising 20 minutes this morning for staff at Australia’s most celebrated tech company, as they awaited their fate after months of AI driven turmoil.
Anthropic is setting up shop in Sydney, turning months of quiet groundwork into a local office as Claude adoption climbs across Australia and New Zealand.
Jessy Wu has caught the startup ecosystem’s attention before. This time, it’s with an 80,000-word novel featuring a longevity startup scandal — and a sex scene or two.
Trying to make a digital service work for every user from the outset often means government ends up shipping too late and solving too little.
The assistant productivity minister will make his argument at Wednesday’s Tech Council breakfast.
AI may lift productivity, but for boards and CFOs the bigger question is whether it can deliver returns on top of years of accumulated tech spend.
The digital queue management software provider has secured backing from the low-profile Australian Business Growth Fund to expand across Asia-Pacific markets.
The e-conveyancing giant is passing on regulatory charges to its customers and moving away from uniform national pricing amid a dispute with a NSW government agency.
Canberra-based counter-drone outfit Electro Optic Systems is up more than 700% in the last year. But not everyone is convinced it’s squeaky clean.
The longevity platform founded by former iflix CEO Mark Britt has closed its first VC round — backed, in large part, by its own members
This week was a reminder that the artificial intelligence story is as much about power and leverage as it is about economics and finance.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney addressed parliament on Thursday and struck a deal with Australia on critical minerals and AI.
When a VC firm with no Australian registration, no public profile and no obligation to explain itself keeps backing unicorns, it’s worth asking where the money comes from.
