July
Robotics surgery trainer IMRA Surgical seeks growth capital
Rather than an IPO, its owners are understood to be seeking a private sale in three to four years, once the business has reached profitability.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
February
Whitehaven worries IR reforms will be ‘terribly demotivating’
Fresh from reporting a solid $372.3 million underlying half-year profit, Whitehaven boss Paul Flynn wants to find a way to reward experienced staff.
- Peter Ker
December 2023
Japan’s SoftBank swoops on ASX-listed shopping centre cleaning minnow
A division of the investments conglomerate has made a $57 million offer for Millennium Services, and wants to help it deploy robots to help service clients.
- Nick Bonyhady
November 2023
The AI tech that’s sorting fruit and veg amid labour shortages
Vision AI’s technology to sort fruit and vegetables faster has been picked up by manufacturers.
- Nina Hendy
Tech wreck pessimism no match for AI and Australia’s pet obsession
Mad Paws is struggling to win over ASX investors despite robust growth, while Aussie firms making autonomous vehicles and AI road cameras are thriving.
- Paul Smith
‘No one wants to be stuck with a dusty old lawyer’
Law students are embracing disruption in the legal profession and turning towards science, technology and engineering degrees to stand out from their peers.
- Maxim Shanahan
New laws to make federal algorithms and AI explainable
New federal transparency laws to review machine decision-making and to explain how these decisions are made, will be introduced.
- Tom Burton
Atlassian buys Melbourne software firm, advances AI push
Hot on the heels of the biggest acquisition in its history, Atlassian has bought Melbourne-based software developer AirTrack.
- Paul Smith
October 2023
- Exclusive
- Industrial relations
More machines and casuals the cost of Labor’s workplace rules
Past industrial relations changes making it harder to sack workers led to the hiring of more casual staff and the replacement of workers with machines, new research reveals.
- John Kehoe
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why there will never be a Canva or Atlassian from Aussie AI
“I’m seeing way more exciting stuff in the US,” says Zeb Rice, a venture capital investor targeting AI start-ups in Australia and the US.
- Anthony Macdonald
September 2023
Schwartz-backed Armitage Associates finds merger partner for Tecala
The growth equity investor picked up a significant minority stake in Tecala in August last year, turbocharging the IT services group’s expansion plan.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
August 2023
Lawyers tip AI to boost growth, billings
Lawyers regard artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT as another vehicle to boost profits, but worry about losing their jobs
- Michael Pelly
July 2023
- Opinion
- Review
Apple’s Mac Studio will help you keep your job . . . for now
If there’s one talent we’re all going to need in the future, it’s machine learning. Even if that means learning to run from the machines ... Apple’s new desktop PC can help.
- John Davidson
June 2023
- Exclusive
- Business IT
NAB and CBA look to India to build AI powers
The major banks are looking to hire thousands more staff in Delhi and Bangalore in a shift away from relying on external IT suppliers like IBM and Infosys.
- Paul Smith
Woolies and Telstra among leaders as UBS analyses global AI stars
New research from the investment banking giant has revealed a dramatic surge in companies trying to adopt generative AI, with some better positioned to capitalise than others.
- Paul Smith
May 2023
Big trouble for US lawyer caught using ChatGPT
A US case against airline Avianca descended into farce when lawyers presented a brief of fabricated court decisions, for cases that never happened, after relying on ChatGPT.
- Benjamin Weiser
- Analysis
- AI
Meet the AI humanoid robot that is already stacking shelves
Depending on your perspective you will either be delighted or terrified to meet Phoenix, the humanoid robot, who his creators say, is here to help.
- Paul Smith
- Exclusive
- Business IT
Staff and clients ‘left hanging’ as ex-NAB exec’s tech business collapses
Reveal Group, a well-established Aussie tech company collapsed into liquidation in March sacking local staff, but its founders continue to run it as US company from New York.
- Paul Smith
- Exclusive
- Business IT
IAG’s bot workforce saved it 150,000 hours a year
The insurer is aiming to expand its automation program to eliminate 500,000 working hours a year by 2026, as part of a big-money tech upgrade.
- Tess Bennett
March 2023
- Opinion
- Opinion
Deepfakes might be dictators’ most powerful weapon yet
In 1984, George Orwell predicted totalitarians would command you to reject “the evidence of your eyes and ears”. To save democracy, we might just need to.
- Misha Zelinsky