US expansion is an Australian startup’s dream. As a Californian expat and founder of a 24-week US-expansion Melbourne accelerator and Silicon Valley landing pad to prepare Australian startups for the jump, and support them once they’re there, I see the attraction. I’m not alone: 61% of Aussie startups said the US was top of their… Read more »
Competition watchdog the ACCC has struck a deal with Google over anti-competitive behaviour in a deal with Telstra and Optus to pre-instal Google Search on Android mobile phones, agreeing to a $55 million penalty. The deal now needs to be ratified by the Federal Court, which will decide if the penalty is appropriate. Google co-operated… Read more »
Big tech company hype sells generative artificial intelligence (AI) as intelligent, creative, desirable, inevitable, and about to radically reshape the future in many ways. Published by Oxford University Press, our new research on how generative AI depicts Australian themes directly challenges this perception. We found when generative AIs produce images of Australia and Australians, these… Read more »
Atlassian cofounder Scott Farquhar said he wouldn’t mind if others took the $60 billion tech company’s intellectual property without paying for it if it leads to better software. The Tech Council of Australia chair, who stepped down as Atlassian co-CEO last year, but remains on the board, has been advocating for changes to Australian copyright… Read more »
American technology giants Apple and Google have engaged in anti-competitive conduct through their respective app stores in Australia, a Federal Court judge said, following a lengthy legal battle brought by entertainment company Epic Games. Justice Jonathan Beach’s findings, outlined in a 90-minute hearing in Melbourne, saw Epic Games granted a partial victory which cleared the… Read more »
An Australian AI researcher has reportedly turned down a $1.54 billion package from Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. University of Sydney graduate and Perth native Andrew Tulloch accrued a reputation as a ‘genius’ during a ten-year tenure at Meta, where he initially worked on machine learning for Facebook before eventually securing one of the company’s… Read more »
Government-owned NBN Co has chosen Amazon’s Project Kuiper’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite technology for high-speed, wholesale fixed broadband to customers in sections of regional, rural and remote Australia. The decision sidelines Elon Musk’s Starlink, which launched in Australia in 2021, and has around 200,000 local customers, and was also pitching for the NBN contract.… Read more »
Critics of those who misuse power tend to be outsiders. So, it’s striking that Alexander Karp, cofounder and CEO of data analytics giant Palantir Technologies, has written a book, with Palantir’s head of corporate affairs Nicholas Zamiska, calling on Silicon Valley to find its moral compass. Together, they upbraid fellow big tech companies for “building… Read more »
The money is easy to trace. Scroll back through tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel’s political donations and you’ll soon hit US$15 million worth of transfers sent to Protect Ohio Values, JD Vance’s campaign fund. The donations, made in 2022, are a staggering contribution to an individual senate race, and helped put Vance (Thiel’s former employee at… Read more »
WiseTech Global (ASX:WTC) has named Zubin Appoo, a long-time collaborator with founder Richard White as the logistics software company’s new CEO. He takes over, effective immediately, from interim CEO Andrew Cartledge, WiseTech’s former CFO, who had to step into the role following the resignation of White last October amid claims of inappropriate workplace behaviour, which… Read more »
Grok, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot embedded in X (formerly Twitter) and built by Elon Musk’s company xAI, is back in the headlines after calling itself “MechaHitler” and producing pro-Nazi remarks. The developers have apologised for the “inappropriate posts” and “taken action to ban hate speech” from Grok’s posts on X. Debates about AI bias… Read more »
A researcher has found Google’s Gemini for Workspace can be tooled to serve up phishing messages under the guise of AI-generated email summaries. Tech giant Google last year added the ability for its AI model Gemini to produce dot point summaries of email threads in Gmail, and later enabled the feature by default for Google Workspace users.… Read more »
The NSW government is spending $2.8 million in grants to install 549 new kerbside chargers for electric vehicles across 130 suburbs, between Newcastle and Wollongong over the 12 months. EV Kerbside Charging Grants were awarded to five companies: Charge Post, Connected Kerb, EVX, Plus ES and EF Asset Management, which will contribute a combined $2.2… Read more »
Brand new edtech startup Alumly has secured what it says is one of 2025’s largest early-stage tech investments to help university students find work. While the size of the angel round was not disclosed, Startup Daily understands it topped 7-figures. The raise was led by Ann and John Ellis, cofounders of Mauve Group, a London-based,… Read more »
Two deep tech companies created from research at national science agency CSIRO have merged after raising $11 million. MagnaTerra Technologies is the result of combining mining innovator NextOre and explosives detection startup MRead. Together they have more than two decades of sovereign innovation in Magnetic Resonance (MR) sensing, a rapid, accurate, and safe detection technology developed… Read more »
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