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Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes in the company’s new Melbourne office.

Victoria was ranked dead last, yet a $60b tech giant just made Melbourne its fastest-growing hub

The Business Council of Australia has slammed Victoria’s taxes and red tape, but tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes says the criticism doesn’t stack up.

  • David Swan

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Mike Cannon-Brookes led a campaign to scrap the demerger of AGL’s coal assets.

Could tech bros like Mike Cannon-Brookes become the new climate pariahs?

IT giants are betting hundreds of billions of dollars on soaring AI use and the environmental impact promises to be catastrophic.

  • Colin Kruger
Attorney-General Michelle Rowland called the scheme “heartless and disastrous”.

Nine accuses AI firms of ‘illegal scraping’ of journalism

One of Australia’s largest publishers says AI giants “scrape” content produced by its newsrooms, as the media industry backs the government’s stance on not allowing tech firms to be exempt from copyright laws.

  • Elias Visontay and Brittany Busch
Mike Cannon-Brookes led a campaign fast-track the closures of AGL’s polluting coal-fired power stations.

Billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes reignites climate feud with Australia’s biggest emitter

Cannon-Brookes has renewed his push for power giant AGL to do more to combat climate change, rejecting its current plans as dangerously inadequate.

  • Nick Toscano
Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes.

Atlassian splashes $1b on AI browser as chief defends redundancy video call

Mike Cannon-Brookes says he’s targeting the billion “laptop warriors” who are drowning in open tabs, and has hit out at reports that his company is in turmoil.

  • David Swan
UNSW computer science student Jayden Nguyen has secured a graduate role at a big tech firm. He says students will have to start building their industry experience earlier as AI eliminates “grunt coders”.

Learn to code? Maybe not any more

Politicians preached it, universities packaged it and teenagers took up Python and JavaScript. Now, amid an AI boom, graduates are facing a world of anxiety.

  • David Swan and Bronte Gossling
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Skye Therodorou (centre) is one of the co-founders of the start-up, UpCover.

Crying emojis, taxpayer subsidies: Where next for Sydney’s start-ups?

Entrepreneurs say they’ve been left in limbo, but critics of the defunct Sydney Startup Hub say it was a poor use of millions in taxpayer funding.

  • David Swan
Atlassian co-founder and chair of the Tech Council of Australia, Scott Farquhar.

Tech lords are promising us utopia. Their brave new world might be a dump

We’re repeatedly told the AI spaceship is leaving, so we’d better get on board. Unfortunately, the people steering the ship appear to have lost their moral compass.

  • Melanie La'Brooy

Hey, Scott Farquhar, this is the future. Can I have a word?

Mr Farquhar, we’re interested in your views on fair use of other people’s property, and we’ve found an exciting new use for one of yours.

  • Malcolm Knox
Atlassian co-founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon Brookes at the National Press Club on Wednesday.

Billionaire tech chief spruiks AI as company he co-founded cuts 150 jobs

Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar says Australia should seek to host data centres for governments around the world and wants politicians to use AI every day.

  • Millie Muroi, Shane Wright and David Swan

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