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Airtree backs Aussie AI startup after its robotics model beat Alibaba, Mistral

It has pumped $5 million into Adelaide’s Metacognition.

Featured

What is p(doom)? How tech leaders evaluate existential AI risk

AirTrunk secures $4.25 billion loan amid $75 billion Australian data centre splurge

Anthropic IPO: We now know how much Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei are worth

Anthropic founders can name secret successors

MP Space

Ex-Tesla duo’s startup lands one of Australia’s biggest space seed rounds

Issue 25

Rick Stein reveals his favourite city, car and dream dinner guests

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

Life

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

‘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

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

This new robot billionaire is betting big on humanoid gyms

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

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

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

Airtree backs Aussie AI startup after its robotics model beat Alibaba, Mistral

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

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.

BrandVoice

Inside Richard Mille’s Sydney boutique and world of luxury watchmaking

Azolla: The inheritance you create shapes your organisation’s success

Qippay’s mission to reform finance through open banking

Investing

Anthropic files for IPO: Here’s what we learned

Moderna stock plunges 25% after possible cancer vaccine data leak

Meta posts $64 billion in revenue and announces stock split in Q3 earnings

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

Leadership

Australia’s top companies for women in 2026

OpenAI reportedly fires 3 researchers over allegedly mishandling confidential information

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

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

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