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Trump AI order revives early model reviews for OpenAI

Trump AI order asks frontier labs to give US agencies up to 30 days of early access, reviving scrutiny for OpenAI, Google and Anthropic.

By Marnie Blackwood
Enterprise

GitHub Copilot pricing puts AI coding on a meter

GitHub Copilot pricing now ties advanced AI coding work to credits, forcing software teams to weigh Copilot against cheaper rivals.

By Soren Chau
Policy

Florida sues OpenAI and Altman over ChatGPT safety

Florida sues OpenAI in a first state-led case alleging ChatGPT safety warnings were ignored, putting chatbot liability in court.

By Marnie Blackwood
Startups

Pre-ChatGPT startups face AI's valuation reset in 2026

Pre-ChatGPT startups are being repriced as generative AI changes what investors will pay for older SaaS tools and leaner software teams.

By Jules Hartman
AI

AI job losses 2026: evidence trails CEO layoff claims

AI job losses 2026 remain harder to prove than CEO layoff memos suggest, as Apollo, OpenAI and Australian cuts point to a messier story.

By Asha Iyer
Cybersecurity

ChatGPT Google Sheets flaw exposes workbook data

ChatGPT Google Sheets flaw disclosed by PromptArmor could let one poisoned sheet leak workbook data and show phishing overlays.

By Reza Khalil
Enterprise

Microsoft Copilot super app unifies AI tools as adoption lags

Microsoft is building a Copilot super app to unify its AI tools as enterprise adoption of the company’s flagship AI features sits below 4.5 per cent.

By Soren Chau
AI

Meta starts AI subscriptions at $US7.99 a month

Meta has begun testing paid Meta AI tiers from $US7.99 a month inside Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, testing whether consumer AI can deliver recurring revenue.

By Asha Iyer
AI

DeepSeek V4-Pro price cut deepens AI model price war

DeepSeek V4-Pro price cut leaves its flagship API at a quarter of list price, forcing developers and cloud buyers to rethink premium AI spend.

By Asha Iyer
AI

Australia AI boom: why local startups are still missing out

Australia's AI boom still lacks enough local startups, even as Canberra adds grants and founders warn tax changes will push talent offshore.

By Asha Iyer
AI

AI writing scandals 2026: where editing becomes authorship

AI writing scandals now expose a wider problem for publishers, vendors and workers: when does editing help turn into authorship?

By Asha Iyer
Policy

Trump’s aborted AI order shows who writes the AI rules

Trump AI order politics now turn on who sets model-safety terms, with Australia likely to keep leaning on sectoral compliance.

By Marnie Blackwood
AI

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.

By Asha Iyer
AI

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.

By Asha Iyer
AI

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.

By Asha Iyer
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.

By Asha Iyer
Cybersecurity

OpenAI Daybreak: CBA, Westpac test cyber defences

OpenAI Daybreak is being tested by Commonwealth Bank and Westpac, bringing agentic cyber defence tools into Australian banking workflows.

By Reza Khalil
AI

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.

By Asha Iyer
Cybersecurity

Developer workstations are the new supply-chain weak link

Developer workstations are emerging as the new supply-chain weak link as attackers pivot from package registries to laptops, tokens and CI access.

By Reza Khalil
AI

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.

By Asha Iyer
AI

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.

By Asha Iyer
AI

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.

By Asha Iyer
AI

OpenAI's Weights.gg deal shows voice cloning is becoming core AI infrastructure

OpenAI's reported Weights.gg acquisition suggests voice cloning is shifting from fringe creator tooling into a core layer of AI platforms.

By Asha Iyer
AI

OpenAI, Malta tie ChatGPT Plus to national AI course

OpenAI's first nationwide partnership gives Maltese residents one year of ChatGPT Plus after an AI course, offering a test case in state-backed AI access.

By Asha Iyer
Enterprise

AI coding assistants shift work to technical debt clean-up

AI coding assistants are speeding up output, but Lightrun says 43 per cent of machine-written changes still need production debugging and clean-up.

By Soren Chau