Rocket Lab alum raises $10.5m to build ‘anti-gravity chamber’ for space manufacturing

Outlier Space has raised an unusually large $10.5 million pre-seed round to build a satellite designed to help companies manufacture pharmaceuticals, silicon and other advanced materials in microgravity. Space is becoming a new frontier of advanced manufacturing thanks to the wonders of microgravity. That may sound like sci-fi, but antipodean investors are betting it will […]

Atlassian warns more AI use will not magically lift productivity

Fortune 500 companies are embracing AI, but few can measure a tangible return. Atlassian’s chief people and AI enablement officer says widespread adoption means little unless businesses redesign the processes around it. The executive in charge of Atlassian’s internal AI tooling says the world’s biggest companies are struggling to see productivity gains from AI, and […]

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Australia won’t win the AI arms race. We don’t need to

Opinion: Australia should play to its strengths in the AI era, leveraging critical minerals and renewable energy while ensuring global tech giants pay their fair share of tax, argues AirTree co-founder Daniel Petre AI is the biggest technological shift in modern history. It’s already smarter than us at a growing list of tasks, touches every […]