Blackbird leads $16m raise to supercharge Kwetta’s grid-first EV tech
Blackbird is leading the raise and believes the technology can unlock up to 10 times more power at constrained sites without the need for costly upgrades or batteries.
Shivaune Field
Shivaune Field is a business journalist with Forbes Australia reporting on tech and innovation. She has reported extensively in the U.S. and Australia across print, digital, television and podcast platforms. She regularly interviews founders, C-suite executives, leaders, entrepreneurs, and company builders. Before Forbes, Field was a journalist with Bloomberg Media based in Los Angeles covering innovation and the business of media and entertainment. She spent 16 years living in California and recently returned from Arizona where she reported on the 2024 US election. Field writes for the bi-monthly Forbes Australia magazine and Forbes.com.au. She covers Google, Amazon, OpenAI, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Netflix among many other companies. She is the editorial lead for Forbes Women in Australia.
Relume: The Aussie website creator powering Trump’s meme coin
Sydney startup Relume is the AI website creator behind www.gettrumpmemes.com, the official domain for President Trump’s controversial $Trump meme coin.
Trump is back in the Oval Office. Here’s how the Australian economy could be impacted
US tariffs on Australian and Chinese exports can lead to higher prices, economic uncertainty, and a decrease in demand for Australian-made goods and services. Here’s how it could play out.
Leonardo.AI founder JJ Fiasson on Flow State, Phoenix and Google Cloud
Leonardo.AI had a bumper 2024. In June it released Phoenix, Australia’s first generative AI foundational model. In July, the company was acquired by Canva – and over the last month, Leonardo shipped its latest product, Flow State.
‘Brilliant but dangerous’: Andrew Forrest is supporting US-China think tank discussions on AI security
Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest has spent 5 years secretly working to bring together US and Chinese foreign policy experts to find common ground on national security and AI. Here’s what the Brookings Institute consortium has achieved.
5 strategies for balance – uncovered by our most successful female tech founder
Canva CEO Melanie Perkins – one of only two female founders of Australia’s top tech unicorns – says making space to pause has been transformative. Here are the tools she uses to make it happen.
2024 is done. Ergo, what definitions did we google most last year?
If you’re wondering what monticello, katz, and sobriquet mean, you’re not alone. They are among the definitions googled most by Australians this year.
Christian Beck-skippered LawConnect lands back-to-back line honour wins
Supermaxi LawConnect crossed the Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race finish line at 2.35am, bringing home line honours glory for the second year running. The 2024 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race has been a wild ride. The victorious LawConnect supermaxi crew completed the Derwent River homeward stretch in the dark of night, crossing the […]
Two sailors lose lives overnight in Sydney to Hobart yacht race tragedies
Crew members on The Flying Fish Arctos and Bowline yachts suffered fatal blows overnight and succumbed to their injuries. Another sailor was swept overboard and subsequently rescued. Both fatalities occurred approximately 30 nautical miles off the coast of NSW. The Bowline vessel was east/north east of Batemans Bay when a 65 year old male crew […]
Blackstone closes AirTrunk acquisition in biggest deal of 2024
Sydney-founded global data centre company AirTrunk is now officially a part of finance behemoth Blackstone in the largest transaction in Australia this year.