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Australian AI lab caps $10 million pre-seed raise to run in global AI race

“There’s 1,000 races being run right now, and there’s a million companies out there trying to run them.”

Featured

Apple unveils the iPhone Duo, its first foldable, at $3,499

‘10% chance’ AI could ‘kill all humans’ by next decade, Anthropic researcher warns

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Elizabeth Holmes A24 movie arrives as she seeks clemency from Trump

OpenAI inks deal with $14 billion Australian data centre player Firmus

Life

Ranked: The NFL’s most valuable teams 2026

The Macallan's new film explores the craft behind exceptional whisky casks

Steve McCurry’s new Macallan documentary lifts the lid on 3-year secret project

Apple’s new Siri AI can recap your conversations: What to know

“Artificial” will open in select theaters on Christmas Day, distributor Neon announced Tuesday.

First look at Andrew Garfield as OpenAI billionaire Sam Altman in ‘Artificial’

The outrageous flying cars and jetbikes you can actually buy

F1 Driver Standings 2026: Live Championship Order and Points

Issue 24

The business of Sam Kerr: Inside the Matildas captain’s next chapter

Sam Kennard, CEO of Kennards Self Storage.

How Sam Kennard built his family’s storage business into a $4.5 billion empire

Graphic illustration of dice and board game

Where I’m putting the money: Rory Hunter

Forbes Creators

The new rules of influence: How Australia’s top creators turn followers into fortunes

‘This is what I always say to young people’: Susie Grehl’s reality check for Gen Z investors

A word from our Editor-in-Chief: Issue 24

Billionaires

Michael Dell hits No. 2 on Forbes billionaire list for first time—passing Larry Page

‘Musk’ documentary portrays Tesla billionaire as an ‘unabashed megalomaniac’

Canva co-founder and chief product officer Cameron Adams. Credit: Canva.

Canva takes the fight to Microsoft and Google for enterprise subscribers

A little-known company called Fluidstack has become a test bed for Google’s plans to push its own AI chip. That’s helped it hit a $18 billion valuation and minted its founders as new billionaires.

A tiny startup helping Google take on Nvidia is now worth $18 billion

Billionaires—including Jeff Bezos and Rihanna—billed for unpaid private jet taxes

The top 10 richest people in the world (September 2026)

The top 10 richest people in the world (September 2026)

Entrepreneurs

Inside alcheMe: Rebecca Judd’s new formula for tween skincare

Beyond the burn: How a trans-Pacific leap built Glasshouse Fragrances

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

Innovation

Australian AI lab caps $10 million pre-seed raise to run in global AI race

Meta shares boosted after Muse AI agent launch

The iPhone 17 Pro. Apple is expected to unveil its successor on Wednesday. Image: Getty

Apple’s first foldable iPhone is tipped to arrive this week. Here’s what we know.

Ex-OpenAI scientist warns of ‘rogue AIs’ that ‘try to get money and power’

Prompts on the playa: AI invades Burning Man

Brandon Capital Chris Nave

Brandon Capital’s $60m taypayer-funded biotech bets

BrandVoice

As commercial real estate private credit evolves, clarity becomes a competitive advantage

Australia’s great wealth transfer: How Australia’s wealthiest families are rewriting the rules of inheritance

Why AI’s real superpower isn’t predicting markets

Investing

Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face for almost $13 billion

Uber cuts 10% of staff in company’s largest layoffs since pandemic

$1.2 billion VC King River Capital predicts ‘flood’ of super money flowing to startups

Malaysian Energy Tycoon Lim Hang Weng In Talks To Take Yinson Holdings Private In $1.7 Billion Deal

PayPal plunges 15% after reports that Advent, Stripe abandon $53 billion bid

Qantas takes a corporate travel hit – but luxury flyers are booming

Leadership

Dolly Parton’s life at 80 taught women to live fully at every age

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

Xero investors protest CEO’s new $25.5m pay pack

Jacinda Ardern on impostor syndrome and the illusion of guilt

The two Aussies who helped secure the internet, and never made a cent from it.

When a company’s reputation is damaged, employees pay the price

We’re in the era of synthetic content. How can leaders build trust?

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