Daily Cover

Square Peg raises over $1 billion for new funds amid AI bonanza

It’s the biggest haul in its 14-year history.

Featured

Diraq scores $73 million in US defence race against quantum heavyweights

TikTok quietly gutted its advertising rules. Scams have exploded ever since.

Figure’s Brett Adcock sold investors a humanoid future. Now he has to build it.

How Arkeus crossed defence tech’s ‘valley of death’

This former OpenAI exec is trying to cure chronic diseases, including her own

Life

Forget the corporate playbook: Camilla Franks says embracing one’s flaws is key

Omega combines James Bond and Spectre in new Seamaster collection

Alex Fevola on slow-scaling Runway Room and why AI won’t replace the beauty counter

Eat, Pray, Forage: Three Days At Marriott International’s Luxury Dining Series In Bali

Rimowa goes all in on leather for its latest bag drop

These fitness fans took bootleg peptides. It landed them in the hospital.

Billionaires

OpenAI’s Sam Altman says world should accept ‘some bad things’ from AI

Should the wealthy pay for their friends’ trips? Savannah James sparks debate online

Inside the mega-deals behind Europe’s AI billionaire boom

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

Australia’s youngest billionaire Ed Craven places his next big venture bet

Trump hosting billionaires at AI lunch: Zuckerberg, Amodei, Huang among these attendees

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Entrepreneurs

The $200 million CBD gamble: Inside the Australian biotech betting on a cannabis pill

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

Issue 24

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

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

Where I’m putting the money: Rory Hunter

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

Innovation

ChatGPT’s traffic roars back after year of stagnation

A business guide to AI’s worst month: Resignations, a hoax, and a Medicare breach

Google and Amazon are the reason for Anthropic’s eye-watering $42 billion loss

White House releases ‘Accord’ between billionaire AI execs: Here’s what it says

‘Godmother of AI’ joining AMD in $8.2 billion deal for World Labs

Nvidia says its new platform can prevent AI agents from going rogue

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

Square Peg raises over $1 billion for new funds amid AI bonanza

‘Culture clash’: Inside three years of transformation and tumult at Xero

RBA Rate Decision Tracker (September, 2026)

RBA hikes cash rate by 25 basis points to highest level in 15 years

Oracle stock slides after company issued ‘force majeure’ notice for major data center project

Oura sets terms for up to $2.2 billion IPO

Leadership

OpenAI reportedly fires 3 researchers over allegedly mishandling confidential information

Oracle filing reveals Co-CEO made 6,623 times the company’s median worker

Jane Goodall’s lasting lessons for our planet

$790 million medtech Harrison.ai reveals revenue surge after restructure culling 15% of staff

How 540 AFLW players became the world’s biggest women’s league

U.S. and China discuss AI alert system for safety incidents