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Anthropic Fable 5 returns as Washington reshapes AI rollouts

Anthropic Fable 5 is back after an 18-day US export-control halt, but the new safeguards and usage caps show AI rollouts now need official clearance.

By Asha Iyer
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
Startups

Ordermentum's $55m raise backs AI push in hospitality software

Ordermentum's $55 million raise from Five V Capital backs new AI tools and underlines continued appetite for Australian vertical SaaS.

By Jules Hartman
Startups

Mary Technology adds drafting and financial analysis to FMS platform

Sydney legal-tech start-up Mary Technology has added bank-statement analysis, custom chronologies and template-based drafting to its Fact Management System. The two-year-old company says more than 3,000 lawyers across 100-plus Australian firms now use the platform.

By Jules Hartman
AI

Canva pauses 5,300 staff for AI Discovery Week with OpenAI, Anthropic and Google

Canva paused normal work for its 5,300 staff this week to run a five-day program of artificial intelligence learning and hackathons. Speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google joined the second annual AI Discovery Week at the Sydney design giant.

By Asha Iyer
AI

ElevenLabs opens Sydney office, names Damian Naughton ANZ general manager

Voice AI company ElevenLabs has opened its first regional office in Sydney and named former Slack executive Damian Naughton as ANZ general manager. The London-headquartered firm plans to triple local headcount as Australian enterprise demand for voice agents accelerates.

By Asha Iyer
Enterprise

Pipedrive opens Sydney data centre, says local hosting cuts latency 60 per cent

Pipedrive has switched Australian users onto a Sydney AWS region, cutting latency by up to 60 per cent and pulling local customer data onshore. The Estonian CRM vendor said Australia is now its seventh-largest market.

By Soren Chau