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Where I’m putting the money

We sit down with East Coast Capital Management CEO, Simone Haslinger.

Featured

Inside OpenAI’s plan to protect the internet before hackers break it

Billion-dollar ballers: The highest-paid athletes of all-time

‘Whole new revenue opportunity’: Canva bets big on Craft foundation model

AI agents have struck again. How much access should you give them?

Some startups are making millions in months thanks to AI. Most are falling behind.

Issue 25

Graphic illustration of dice and board game

Where I’m putting the money: Simone Haslinger

From Synchron to Australian Ultra Bionics

Dali Kaafar centre with Brad Joffe (left) and Peter Eckermann.

How a Sydney professor built an AI army to scam the scammers

She was once asked to fetch coffees. Now Liz Westcott runs Australia’s largest energy company

This ex-NASA physicist had a ‘cushy job for life’. He took a gamble now worth $400 million

How the best horse on the planet came to Sydney to run in the richest turf race in the world

Life

‘You can see everything’ scores nearly $20 million second weekend—beating first

Our Asia insider reveals the Hong Kong luxury hotels actually worth a trip

Our Asia insider reveals five Hong Kong hotels actually worth the trip in 2026

The world's best airlines and airports of 2026

The world’s best airlines and airports of 2026

Kylie Jenner wears $50 Million Jacob & Co. Victoria’s Secret fantasy bra

Australia’s first Michelin Star restaurants revealed

The record $6M Caulfield Cup, real estate, and racing legacy of the MRC

Billionaires

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

Ranked: These are the top 10 richest people in the world (October 2026)

Musk invests $1 billion in Skydance as it stares down high debt after WBD acquisition

World’s 6 richest lose $130 billion on Thursday as AI spending fears sink tech stocks

Meet the world’s highest-paid soccer players in 2026

World’s richest lose $50 billion as stocks slide after hot inflation report

Nvidia chief Jensen Huang’s net worth falls below $200 billion mark as tech stocks drop

Entrepreneurs

Sam Bankman-Fried bought his first startup. Now, Airwallex is betting millions on his next

Tim Doyle believed Eucalyptus could hit $10 billion. Here’s why he sold it for a fifth of that

How bootstrapped wellness startup KIC is building the female hydration market

Firmus absorbed 70% Australian startup funding before attempted IPO

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

Ed Craven

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

Innovation

OpenAI says AI found one of the biggest web weaknesses ever

OpenAI opens door for payments to Australian creatives as part of AI data centre drive

‘The Social Reckoning’ policies that Silicon Valley avoided – and Canberra delivered

OpenAI asked the chip industry to build faster. Then it built its own chip team.

Anthropic pauses free Claude startup perks days after launch

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

BrandVoice

Lodestar is hunting the critical minerals an electrified world needs

Customer habit and fear can no longer be mistaken for loyalty

Why your revenue problem might not be a lead problem

Investing

NAB to cut 2,500 roles in restructure amid economic turbulence

‘Confidence evaporated’: Explaining Firmus’ $44 billion IPO flop

Square Peg's Ben Hensman, Leila Lee, Dan Krasnostein and Paul Bassat. Credit: Square Peg.

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

Arkeus

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

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

RBA Rate Decision Tracker (September, 2026)

Leadership

Australia’s top companies for women in 2026

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

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