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As women live into their eighties and nineties, a divorce at 50 is not an ending and it certainly isn’t a decline. It is the beginning of a multi-decade second act.

The Forbes Australia “Leadership in the Age of AI” panel concluded that using AI to automate mundane tasks creates the capacity – and the responsibility – to elevate a more meaningful, resilient, and inherently human way of leading.

Amanda Lacaze has been at the helm of ASX-traded Lynas Rare Earths for a decade. The stock shot up 120% over the last year, amid China/U.S. trade tensions. Now, Lacaze is spearheading the capacity, certainty, and speed of the Australian/U.S. rare earth supply chain.

This year’s Asia’s Power Businesswomen list highlights 20 accomplished leaders at the forefront of the fast-evolving business landscape.

Lars Rasmussen and Bill Tai are the brains behind some of the most ubiquitous tech in the world. Now, they are funding entrepreneurs to follow in their footsteps. On stage at SXSW Sydney, they revealed that achieving spectacular outcomes like Google Maps, Zoom, and Canva takes immense grit, and the propagating power of a ‘human web.’

Ryan Foutty articulated Perplexity’s vision for the digital economy at SXSW Sydney. The economic structure of the internet is fundamentally realigning to prioritise quality, brand, and user efficiency over click revenue, he says

Sitting atop the Ritz-Carlton in Melbourne, Bill Fairies co-founders Jenny Ghabrial and Sophia Symeou explain how a moment of financial struggle led to a bootstrapped tech company that turns gift-giving into practical financial support.

Opinion: Two per cent of global funding goes to women-only teams. Brittany Fox is an outlier, having raised a $1.2m seed round for her startup Neevam last month. Here’s why she still believes the fundraising journey is broken.

Australia ranks below Botswana for economic complexity, writes Greg Miller. Our only hope for remaining internationally competitive is to grow the things we invent to a size that matters on the world stage.

Robotics is projected to be worth $165 billion by 2029. Alloy Robotics founder and CEO Joe Harris has found a way to dig through the firehose of data that robots produce to find the 1% that matters.