Innovation

When Sundance vaulted indie filmmakers into the spotlight in the late 1980s, it reshaped cinema and the business around it.

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named Jorge.

Elon Musk hypes the AI-enabled system, and getting more people to buy it is key to his new pay package. But in a recent test, it ignored some street signs and squashed a mannequin child.

The investment comes as OpenAI prepares for a share selloff that will value the AI darling at roughly $500 billion.

India, France, the UK and the UAE are already building sovereign AI. An Aussie LLM needs 30 billion parameters, and can protect against offshore policy shifts, price shocks, and opaque black-box systems.

Atlassian has made its second billion-dollar AI acquisition in less than a month, announcing a US$1 billion (AU$1.54bn) deal to acquire DX, a Salt Lake City-based startup that helps engineering teams measure the real-world impact of AI on productivity. The acquisition, expected to close in Q2 FY26, is being paid for with a mix of cash and restricted stock.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed the company’s new Meta Ray-Ban Display are “ideal form factor for personal superintelligence.”

Atlassian’s Mike Cannon-Brookes has welcomed a $38.5 million state commitment to Tech Central, which includes $5 million for a new innovation hub and a governance model to steer Sydney’s largest tech district.

The generative AI platform says it’s rolling out a new set of protections to keep under 18s ‘safe’, including parental control features.

Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures and Wellcome Leap commit $100M to accelerate women’s health research and close long-overlooked gaps worldwide.