Innovation

Luke Anear has wanted to change the name of the company he founded for years. Now SafetyCulture has become Mittle as the $2.4 billion startup reshapes itself for the AI era.

Opinion: AI is tearing up the old SaaS rule book and pushing venture capital towards a barbell of mega-bets and tiny cheques. Australia needs to pay close attention, argues Daniel Petre Venture capital, lazily defined, is capital invested into high-risk and hopefully high-return companies that disrupt tired market sectors with genuinely new products. That’s been […]

Mike Cannon-Brookes handed down what could be a landmark earnings report for Atlassian, with the company swinging from a US$24 million loss a year ago to US$139 million of profit. Key Takeaways Key background It has been a tough year for Atlassian investors – before these earnings, its stock was down 40 per cent over […]

Opinion: AI could perform nearly one-third of Australian jobs, even as other sectors struggle to find workers. Futurist and work strategist Dom Price asks why Australia is not planning for both at once. Here’s a stat I find genuinely reassuring and then immediately infuriating. New EY-Parthenon modelling suggests artificial intelligence could add as much as $116 billion […]

A free app to help Australians quit smoking and “flight simulator for healthcare” were among other award winners at the 2026 TechDiversity Awards in Sydney. An AI-powered edtech platform that helps corporations build inclusive workplaces for First Nations cultures has been awarded the TechDiversity Champion title, the highest honour bestowed at the annual Tech Diversity […]

Opinion: As companies rush to deploy AI, a new kind of organisational debt is building: capability without clear ownership, workflow or accountability, argues Lucio Ribeiro Last year in South Australia, ambulances spent close to 49,000 hours parked outside hospitals with patients still inside. Six years earlier, the figure was around 15,000. Paramedics kept monitoring patients […]

OpenAI has hired Hanbury Strategies and Communications for government relations services. Hanbury has long operated in the UK but setup shop in Australia this year after recruiting both Liberal and Labor insiders.

Cibby Pulikkaseril has raised a $3.5 million seed round for Zabidou, a deep tech second act after his first startup collapsed amid an attempt at revolutionising self-driving cars. Cibby Pulikkaseril remembers standing by the test track where the team at his first startup Baraja would trial the LiDAR tech it was developing to help self-driving cars […]

The Chinese tech giant hailed its model as its “most capable.”

Opinion: From cold plunges and cryotherapy to intermittent fasting and IV vitamin drips, biohacking promises sharper performance and a longer life. Performance dietitian Jessica Spendlove examines what the evidence says. Nearly three in four Australians now use complementary medicines, an industry forecast to reach $6.3 billion in 2025. Globally, the biohacking market has already passed US$20 billion and […]