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Google AI Studio Android apps pull teams deeper into Gemini
Google AI Studio Android apps could cut prototype costs for Australian teams, while pulling coding, testing and discovery deeper into Gemini.
Anthropic nears $US30bn funding round at $US900bn valuation
Anthropic is reportedly set to close a funding round of more than $US30 billion at a valuation above $US900 billion, underscoring how capital-intensive the frontier AI race has become.
Modal Labs valued at $4.65 billion after $355m Series C raise
Modal Labs raised US$355 million at a US$4.65 billion valuation, quadrupling its price tag in eight months as serverless GPU inference demand surges alongside AI coding adoption.
Anthropic-Microsoft chip talks test Microsoft's Maia 200
Anthropic-Microsoft chip talks would give Maia 200 its first outside user and show whether custom cloud silicon can dent Nvidia's grip on AI workloads.
ChatGPT ads Australia: OpenAI adds self-serve buying
ChatGPT ads Australia now includes self-serve buying, CPC bidding and conversion tracking, widening OpenAI's pitch to local agencies and brands.
Canva plugs into Google Gemini alongside Adobe, CapCut
Canva is among the first creative tools plugging into Google's Gemini app alongside Adobe and CapCut as Google pushes deeper into design workflows.
Google wants app prototyping to start in AI Studio, not Android Studio
Google's new AI Studio workflow lets non-specialists spin up native Android prototypes in minutes, but the larger play is control of the path from prompt to Play.
Google turns startup SEO into a distribution problem
Google AI Search is squeezing startup SEO, pushing founders towards brand demand, direct traffic and pages AI answers cannot easily replace.
Google I/O 2026 explained: Gemini 3.5 Flash, Spark and Android XR glasses
Google I/O 2026 delivered Gemini 3.5 Flash, a 24/7 AI agent called Spark, and the first Android XR smart glasses from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster. Here is what it all means for Australian developers and consumers.
Andy Penn to chair Sharon AI ahead of planned ASX float
Andy Penn will chair Sharon AI as the Nasdaq-listed neocloud prepares an ASX float after raising $US350 million ahead of the listing.
Nvidia earnings show the AI chip boom is still accelerating
Nvidia earnings showed AI chip demand is still rising, with $US81.6 billion in revenue and $US91 billion guidance despite fresh competition risks.
Exa Labs $250m raise signals agent-native search boom
Exa Labs' $250 million Series C at a $2.2 billion valuation signals that agent-native search infrastructure is becoming its own category beneath the chatbot layer. Announced a day after Google's I/O search overhaul, the raise landed alongside Parallel Web Systems' $100 million round — a coordinated bet on retrieval built for machines, not humans.
Anthropic Australia talks pull banks into AI safety debate
Anthropic Australia talks have pulled banks, telcos and Canberra into a live debate over how to test and govern frontier AI.
OpenAI Guaranteed Capacity locks in AI compute access
OpenAI Guaranteed Capacity lets enterprise customers reserve one to three years of AI compute, making reliable access a premium service.
StanChart's AI push turns bank automation into a workforce decision
Standard Chartered's plan to cut more than 7,000 jobs shows bank AI spending has moved from pilot projects to workforce design, with compliance still setting the limits.
Meta layoffs 2026: 8,000 jobs cut as AI teams grow
Meta is cutting about 8,000 jobs and shifting another 7,000 workers into AI-focused teams, in a restructuring that affects roughly 20 per cent of its workforce.
Gemini API managed agents explained: what Google launched
Gemini API managed agents let developers define, run and customise cloud-hosted AI workers, pushing Google's platform beyond chat into deployable actions.
CommBank formalises AI push with first chief scientist role
Commonwealth Bank has appointed UNSW professor Mary-Anne Williams as its first chief AI scientist, signalling a more formal enterprise AI push inside Australian banking.
Jury tosses Elon Musk lawsuit against OpenAI
A California jury dismissed Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI as untimely, easing an immediate legal threat over the company's direction as the AI race intensifies.
xAI launches Grok Build to challenge Anthropic and OpenAI in coding agents
xAI has launched Grok Build, a terminal-based coding agent for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers, taking on Anthropic and OpenAI in AI developer tooling.
ABC report puts AI chatbot delusions at centre of safety debate
An ABC case study and early research suggest chatbot delusions are not a fringe curiosity but a product-safety problem that vendors and regulators now need to treat seriously.
CSIRO launches Vetra AI hub for faster robot decisions
CSIRO has launched Vetra, a compact edge-AI system in Brisbane designed to cut robot and sensor response times by pushing more processing on site.
Anthropic and OpenAI take 89% of AI startup revenue
Anthropic and OpenAI now capture 89 per cent of AI startup revenue, highlighting a winner-takes-most market that leaves smaller builders exposed.
Why OpenAI put Brockman over ChatGPT, Codex and agents
OpenAI product strategy is shifting towards one agent platform, bringing ChatGPT, Codex and the API stack closer for developers and enterprise buyers.
ArXiv tightens AI-paper rules with one-year submission ban
Preprint server arXiv says authors can be suspended for a year if they fail to check LLM-generated text, citations or other material in papers.
