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Australian-founded Decacorn Airwallex has acquired San Francisco-based billing startup OpenPay to expand beyond payments into subscription management.

The ruling also boosted Apple’s shares, as Google will be allowed to continue paying the iPhone maker billions every year to remain the default search engine on its devices.

Nathan Xu’s Plaud has sold more than 1 million AI recording devices that transcribe and summarize the busy days of doctors, lawyers and business people.

With new approval for its manned Mk4, Airspeeder has turned flying car racing into a regulated reality, making Australia the launchpad for a new era of aerial motorsport.

Australia’s national carrier Qantas has seen statutory profits take off thanks to strong demand across all market segments.

Agentic AI is a ‘superpower’ according to Decidr. Its CEO says using it to reduce overhead, but not grow revenue, is a mistake.

Our fifth annual Forbes Asia 100 to Watch list provides a window into the vibrant world of startups and small companies in the Asia-Pacific region. Drawing nearly $3 billion in funding to date, these companies operate in fast-rising sectors such as biotechnology, spacetech and green tech.

In 2000, internet darling Cisco was the world’s most valuable company. Today it’s worth half as much. Buyer beware for AI juggernauts like Nvidia and Palantir.

Powell suggested the central bank may loosen its monetary policy, sparking a broader market surge and benefiting the world’s richest.

xAI published conversations with Grok and made them searchable on Google, including a plan to assassinate Elon Musk and instructions for making fentanyl and bombs.