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From Synchron to Australian Ultra Bionics

A chance meeting in a pub saw the team that built Australian braintech start-up Synchron spin out another brain opportunity.

Featured

The world's best airlines and airports of 2026

The world’s best airlines and airports of 2026

NAB to cut 2,500 roles in restructure amid economic turbulence

This new robot billionaire is betting big on humanoid gyms

Tim Doyle believed Eucalyptus could hit $10 billion. Here’s why he sold it for a fifth of that

How bootstrapped wellness startup KIC is building the female hydration market

Issue 25

From Synchron to Australian Ultra Bionics

Dali Kaafar centre with Brad Joffe (left) and Peter Eckermann.

How a Sydney professor built an AI army to scam the scammers

She was once asked to fetch coffees. Now Liz Westcott runs Australia’s largest energy company

This ex-NASA physicist had a ‘cushy job for life’. He took a gamble now worth $400 million

How the best horse on the planet came to Sydney to run in the richest turf race in the world

Quick Takes: Three entrepreneurs we’re watching right now – Issue 25

Life

Kylie Jenner wears $50 Million Jacob & Co. Victoria’s Secret fantasy bra

The record $6M Caulfield Cup, real estate, and racing legacy of the MRC

‘You can see everything’ sparks Elizabeth Holmes craze

Australia’s first Michelin Star restaurants revealed

Alex Fevola on slow-scaling Runway Room and why AI won’t replace the beauty counter

summer suits for men

Six of the best menswear brands to heat up your summer suit game

Billionaires

Meet the world’s highest-paid soccer players in 2026

Nvidia chief Jensen Huang’s net worth falls below $200 billion mark as tech stocks drop

OpenAI’s Sam Altman says world should accept ‘some bad things’ from AI

Evan Spiegel’s ill-fated $3 billion plan to put Snapchat on your face

Elon Musk becomes a trillionaire again after SpaceX stock soars

Should the wealthy pay for their friends’ trips? Savannah James sparks debate online

Entrepreneurs

Diraq scores $73 million in US defence race against quantum heavyweights

Ed Craven

Australia’s youngest billionaire Ed Craven places his next big venture bet

$790 million medtech Harrison.ai reveals revenue surge after restructure culling 15% of staff

Promethean BioPharma

The $200 million CBD gamble: Inside the Australian biotech betting on a cannabis pill

NZ’s richest woman targets Seek with AI recruitment startup

Heidi hits $1.2 billion valuation with $480 million in fresh funding

Innovation

OpenAI asked the chip industry to build faster. Then it built its own chip team.

Anthropic pauses free Claude startup perks days after launch

Figure’s Brett Adcock sold investors a humanoid future. Now he has to build it.

This former OpenAI exec is trying to cure chronic diseases, including her own

Anthropic will let Australia stress test dangerous new models

Arkeus

How Arkeus crossed defence tech’s ‘valley of death’

BrandVoice

Why your revenue problem might not be a lead problem

How BMW Australia plans to stay ahead in a crowded market

How two founders built a multi-million dollar business from their backyard bungalow

Investing

‘Confidence evaporated’: Explaining Firmus’ $44 billion IPO flop

Square Peg's Ben Hensman, Leila Lee, Dan Krasnostein and Paul Bassat. Credit: Square Peg.

Square Peg raises over $1 billion for new funds amid AI bonanza

‘Culture clash’: Inside three years of transformation and tumult at Xero

RBA Rate Decision Tracker (September, 2026)

RBA hikes cash rate by 25 basis points to highest level in 15 years

Oracle stock slides after company issued ‘force majeure’ notice for major data center project

Leadership

Australia’s top companies for women in 2026

OpenAI reportedly fires 3 researchers over allegedly mishandling confidential information

Oracle filing reveals Co-CEO made 6,623 times the company’s median worker

Jane Goodall’s lasting lessons for our planet

How 540 AFLW players became the world’s biggest women’s league

U.S. and China discuss AI alert system for safety incidents

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