Innovation

With AI now ubiquitous across the world’s top dating apps, some think we’re headed for the Twilight Zone. Others feel more hopeful than ever that love is within reach.

Fintech startups Coalition and At-Bay, founded by security and spy-agency veterans, are using their tech smarts to transform the fast-growing business of protecting companies against hackers.

The Meta Oversight Board has upheld the company’s decision to leave up manipulated video of US President Joe Biden that claims he is a pedophile.

Japan’s “Moon Sniper” rover on Monday regained power and has woken up on the Moon, a surprise turnaround for the country’s historic space mission after its successful “pinpoint” landing on the lunar surface more than a week was marred by technical challenges and forced into hibernation.

“You won’t lose your job to AI, but you will lose your job to someone who knows AI.”

Forbes Australia has picked out three of the entrepreneurs who have been making waves in the startup scene as of late – and they’re ones to watch.

With all eyes on generative AI (GenAI) this year, Australian executives are scrambling to makes sense of how the technology can create actual value in their organisations. All while assessing what’s still an unclear risk profile, as well as learning the basics of the underlying technology itself.

Backed by US$120 million in venture funding, Stanford professor Christina Smolke’s company Antheia just completed its first scaled production of a key drug ingredient. 

Athan Didaskalou and Richard Li, the co-founders of prestige luggage brand, July, started the business after tossing up a number of product ideas in categories primed for a shake-up. Five years later, July – the premium, design and innovation-focused luggage brand – is one of the fastest growing companies in a category that up until five years ago, was an outdated, dying category.

What a year it has been! From insightful interviews with industry leaders to some of the year’s most talked about moments at our events, the first 12 months at Forbes Australia has been nothing but extraordinary.