Commiserations – you haven’t been selected for Startmate or Techstars or Y Combinator or Antler, and you’re not sure what to do next with your startup after slogging your guts out. BrandHook founder Pip Stocks knows the feeling and wants to do something about it. So she’s launching the 48 Hour Startup Accelerator, a two-day… Read more »
Last week billionaire Elon Musk got a bit upset when an Australian journalist wrote a 2025 predictions column saying the US-based immigrant will resign as Tesla boss. “After constant controversies and distractions, it will all come to a head in 2025, and Musk will be forced to hand over the reins at Tesla, a company… Read more »
CES, the annual trade show packing some of the latest – and often strangest – new technologies, returned to Las Vegas this week for its 2025 iteration. Dominated by the continued rise of artificial intelligence and some interesting visions for consumer electronics, the event offered a glimpse of what we can expect to see on… Read more »
Meta has announced it will abandon its fact-checking program, starting in the United States. It was aimed at preventing the spread of online lies among more than 3 billion people who use Meta’s social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Threads. In a video, the company’s chief, Mark Zuckerberg, said fact checking had led to… Read more »
In October last year, the world’s richest conspiracy theorist, Elon Musk, announced plans for a robotaxi, the Tesla Cybercab. Production would begin he said “in 2026”, before correcting himself to “before 2027”, because “I tend to be a little optimistic with timeframes”. That observation is an understatement inversely proportional to Musk’s wealth. So it wasn’t… Read more »
The study of leadership in high-performance coaching aims to deepen the understanding of how and why coaches lead the way they do, rather than just what they do. There has been increasing academic and applied interest in this area, particularly due to the significant impact coaches have on athlete and team performance, as well as… Read more »
2024 was a pivotal year for Australian open banking. While Australia is seen as an open banking leader, its CDR regime has been criticised for issues including quality of data, slowness of adoption, cost of execution and cumbersome user experiences. This led to Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones announcing a CDR… Read more »
The federal government will develop an artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities plan for Australia to figure out what support is needed and how it can be used to bolster the economy. Industry and science minister Ed Husic announced on Monday that his department will consult with industry to develop a National AI Capability Plan. The final… Read more »
Early stage investment company Antler Australia recently backed a new cohort of startups as part of its ongoing program to build great local tech companies. Startup Daily is sharing the details of each venture in the “Antler Investor Memos” series, which is designed to give you a quick, sharp understanding of the startups and people… Read more »
R&D incentive uncertainty, migration changes, and the cost of living crisis are slamming the Australian startup community, according to the 2024 Startup Muster report. Launched on Monday, the 2024 report found Australians are starting ventures at an increasingly older age with more looking at overseas markets and investors. The cost of living crisis, however, was… Read more »
In late November, Australia’s federal parliament passed landmark legislation banning under-16s from accessing social media. Details remain vague: we don’t have a complete list of which platforms will fall under the legislation, or how the ban will look in practice. However, the government has signalled that trials of age assurance technologies will be central to… Read more »
Spotify has just released its 2024 Spotify Wrapped, the music streaming site’s annual presentation of each user’s yearly listening habits. It gives you a fun recap of your most listened to songs, artists and genres from the past year – complete with stats like how many minutes you listened and your top genre “phases” or… Read more »
Just days out from the United States presidential election last month, X (formerly Twitter) suddenly crippled the ability of many major media and political organisations to reach audiences on the social media platform. Without warning, the platform, under tech billionaire Elon Musk’s stewardship, announced major changes to the main pathway these organisations use to disseminate… Read more »
A new Australian research initiative aiming to shed light on the often-overlooked mental health challenges facing founders and their relationship with investors, to address a critical knowledge gap in the startup community wants to know what you think. Recent international studies have revealed a significant disconnect between founders’ mental health struggles and their willingness to… Read more »
The federal parliament has passed legislation to ban people under 16 from having an account with some social media platforms. In doing so, it has ignored advice from a chorus of experts – and from the Australian Human Rights Commission, which said the government rushed the legislation through parliament “without taking the time to get… Read more »
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