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Meet the winners of the 2026 TechDiversity Awards

A quit-smoking app, a healthcare VR trainer and an Indigenous edtech platform led this year’s winners.

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Best Under A Billion 2026

Best Under A Billion 2026

Four versions of the truth and no owner: AI’s ‘deployment debt’

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His self-driving car startup hit $300m before crashing. Now he’s back for round two.

Australia’s job market is healthier than it looks

Life

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How F1 driver George Russell unwinds on his new yacht in Capri

Embark upon your own Aegean adventure at Four Seasons Mykonos

Embark upon your own Odyssey adventure at Four Seasons Mykonos

Aboard the $250 million superyacht ‘Amadea’ with the world’s youngest real estate billionaire

Winter red wine

Five intriguing red wines to drink this winter (and beyond)

Australia’s top 10 most expensive property sales (July, 2026)

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ scores second-biggest box office opening ever with $355 million

Billionaires

Palantir CEO Alex Karp surges 67 places in Forbes Billionaire ranks as stock skyrockets 30%

Zuckerberg’s fortune drops $18 billion as Wall Street sours on Meta’s AI spending

Atlassian warns more AI use will not magically lift productivity

Could more Epstein files be released soon? Redacted docs will be reviewed by a US judge this week

Inside the Arnault family succession fight Bernard Arnault says doesn’t exist

‘Former trillionaire’ Elon Musk’s wealth sinks as SpaceX shares slide

Entrepreneurs

Wendy McCarthy’s quiet campaign to fund next-gen rebel women

Bondi to Baroque: Camilla Franks’ palatial, but distilled, evolution

Samsara Eco kicks off $100m raise to recycle critical minerals

IREN co-founders score $1.14 billion pay packet amid AI bonanza

Amal Clooney on empowering female entrepreneurs and CWI’s global impact

Blackbird’s $200m punt on this AI startup is its biggest investment ever

Innovation

Indigenous edtech platform championed at TechDiversity 2026 Awards

Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8-Max model—China’s latest AI challenger to OpenAI and Anthropic

The spark behind the charge: how Tim Washington built Australia’s EV infrastructure giant

The drug behind Ozempic and Wegovy pills may also treat alcohol use disorder

Why this startup is strapping cameras to housekeepers’ heads in India

Rocket Lab alum raises $10.5m to build ‘anti-gravity chamber’ for space manufacturing

BrandVoice

Owning the checkout: How Rokt built its platform for the AI moment

How Nicole Eckels built a beloved fragrance empire

About time: Inside Richard Mille’s feminine revolution

Ideas to Save the Planet

Inside the mission to restore Namibia’s lost migration

Titouan Bernicot is racing to outpace the decline of the world’s coral reefs

Sylvia Earle has seen the ocean collapse. Here’s what still gives her hope

Investing

IMAX stock reaches all-time high as CEO says ‘The Odyssey’ demand ‘continues to defy gravity’

Should residential investors start buying commercial property?

US Dow Jones posts its worst day of the year after Federal Reserve holds interest rates

Apple briefly surpasses $5 trillion market value—joining Nvidia

Start-ups need to go where their customers are. Image: Getty Images

Australia won’t win the AI arms race. We don’t need to

The AI boom has created a new donor class of ‘anxious’ givers

Leadership

FIFA’s Infantino scrambles to save job after World Cup equity plan backfires

Cory Doctorow

How Australia can become a superpower of ‘disenshittification’

Why executive presence isn’t about looking the part

CEOs have a productivity problem. Asking people to work harder won’t fix it

Attention spans are shrinking. Our ability to focus will be the new competitive advantage

Why businesses need more grown-ups in the room