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Sam Altman was interviewed by Commonwealth Bank CEO Matt Comyn on Tuesday, where he admitted to being surprised that AI hasn’t stimulated more economic growth.

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.

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.

Airtree co-founder Daniel Petre has problems with the Labor Government’s proposed changes to capital gains taxation, but says “screeds” on LinkedIn won’t solve anything.

Carlos Sainz is best known for the Williams helmets he wears at the F1 track, but his coveted head of hair has given rise to a global ambassadorship for L’Oréal Paris. We caught up with the motorsport pilot at the Cannes International Film Festival and discussed prioritising high-performance over high-maintenance.

The quantum computing startup will receive up to $53 million to establish a supply chain in the US. Later this year it hopes to progress through a US Defence initiative that could score it an even bigger windfall. Andrew Dzurak first received grant funding from the US Government when he was a quantum academic in […]

Michael Biercuk was one of many startup founders who joined Allegra Spender’s roundtable on capital gains tax reform.

The ChatGPT maker could go public as early as September.

Under the deal, Indonesian billionaire Alexander Ramlie’s UK-based Dhilmar will pay $2.3 billion in cash upon the completion of the transaction in the first quarter of 2027 and an additional of up to $1.6 billion depending on the price of coking coal within five years after the deal’s close.

Shares of the AI juggernaut are up nearly 20% in the last four weeks.