Richard Scolyer – cancer pioneer and 2024 Australian of the Year – dies aged 59
Professor Richard Scolyer, the pathologist who volunteered to become patient zero in a world-first brain cancer treatment, has died. He was 59.
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Google’s AI chief says we’re in the ‘foothills of the singularity’. Here’s why that matters
As machine capability shifts from passive responses to autonomous operation, the concept of singularity – coined in the academic realm and adopted by science fiction – is one every professional needs to know.
AI has killed these three moats. Here’s what works instead
Opinion: AI has torn up the rule book of competitive advantage, argues Kim Teo, co-founder and CEO of me&u. Founders will need to focus on AI-proofing their moats instead.
‘Nothing ever like this before’: Daniela Amodei on Anthropic, Mythos and the IPO
Exclusive: In the lead-up to its IPO, Anthropic President and co-founder Daniela Amodei talks to Forbes Australia about containing its new model, Mythos, and why the frontier lab is anchoring in Australia.
What if we’re wrong about the productivity ‘crisis’?
Opinion: As politicians and economists search for answers to Australia’s productivity woes, Lauren Ryder argues the real problem may be how we measure work in a modern economy. Every few months, a new set of productivity figures lands and the political handwringing begins. We are told that GDP per-hour-worked has flatlined and that multifactor productivity is declining. […]
Why these boomer business owners face a retirement curveball
As many Australian business owners gear up for retirement, uncertainty around the Budget’s CGT changes may harm succession plans and retirement outcomes
The soaring financials behind Australia’s newest deep-tech unicorn
Airtree and the NRF led a $158 million round in March that valued Advanced Navigation at over $1 billion. Documents lodged with ASIC reveal a sharp rise in revenue and a fall in losses in the lead up to that unicorn round.
Aussie space unicorn scores fresh $14.2m amid SpaceX IPO frenzy
Australian Retirement Trust has backed Gilmour Space Technologies, extending the startup’s $217 million Series E which valued it at over $1 billion.
Sydney’s Oli procures $6.5m to monitor the leading cause of preventable maternal death
Maternal monitoring platform Oli has closed a $6.5 million Series A3 round – drawing funds from Scale Investors, the University of Sydney, and Clare Ventures – to address postpartum hemorrhage, which globally takes the life of one mother every 8 minutes.
‘Talent will move elsewhere’: Why this Linktree co-founder is rethinking Australia
Alex Zaccaria, the founder of unicorn Linktree, is among the Australian founders aggrieved by proposed changes to the capital gains rate. He believes the Government is well intentioned, but that the result will be more and more Australian startups shifting their centre of gravity to the US.