Innovation

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

The annual list, now in its fifth year, highlights emerging businesses across the region, with this year’s entries collectively raising nearly $3 billion in funding.

These 50 STEM standouts on this list are actively advancing the world’s understanding of medicine, meteorology and large language models.

Abel Avellan is taking on SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Project Kuiper in the battle to provide broadband satellite internet directly to your smartphone.

Superpower, the company empowering members to take control of their health, today announces the launch of the world’s first health super-app—beginning with the most comprehensive biomarker testing service on the market to deliver proactive, preventative, and personalised healthcare to everyone.

Students at a Queensland high school got a thrilling paleontology lesson this week when a researcher confirmed that a rock slab stored on their campus for two decades preserves dozens of dinosaur footprints dating back some 200 million years.

Sydney startup Relume is the AI website creator behind www.gettrumpmemes.com, the official domain for President Trump’s controversial $Trump meme coin.

The billionaire technologist has quietly founded a startup that aims to “bring people closer, simplify communication, and enhance engagement” through artificial intelligence.

Backed by $200 million in funding, 28-year-old Scott Wu and his team of competitive coders at Cognition are building an AI tool that can program entirely on its own, like an “army of junior engineers.”

The autonomous vehicle company’s weekly ridership has jumped more than 50% in two months and more than doubled since the start of 2024.