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Jeff Bezos has launched his own AI company.

Jeff Bezos is back: Amazon founder’s new company

One of the world’s wealthiest people is throwing his money and time into a startup called Project Prometheus that he will help manage as its co-CEO.

  • Cade Metz

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Thomas Oxley of Synchron in Brooklyn, NY. Photo by Adam Glanzman.

The Australian company racing Elon Musk to put chips in our brains

The Australian government has joined tech titans Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates in backing a company that started life in Melbourne and has found its way back home again.

  • David Swan
British employers are making commitments to help parents who are separating from each other.

Why these companies insist on a 72-hour workweek

The grind culture that birthed Big Tech companies such as Google and Amazon is back.

  • Danielle Abril
The Remedy Robotics tech in action.

Australian start-up completes world-first remote robotic surgery

Remedy Robotics plans trials to treat NT stroke patients from thousands of kilometres away.

  • David Swan
Doctors have warned of critical workforce shortages.

How AI may provide an answer to hospital workforce shortages

Australia, like much of the world, is facing an exodus of exhausted doctors and nurses. This start-up may have the solution.

  • David Swan
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
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Canva founders Cliff Obrecht (left), Melanie Perkins and Cameron Adams.

Canva now bigger than Telstra, Woolies

The software powerhouse has made billionaires out of its co-founders, and now some of its “Canvanauts” are set to become instant millionaires thanks to a new share sale.

  • David Swan
Steve McGovern’s Warrandyte home.

Sacked Dubber boss could lose multimillion-dollar home

Steve McGovern took out a $2 million mortgage days before ASIC began investigating the millions of company cash he’s accused of dishing out to Melbourne’s underworld.

  • Carla Jaeger and Sarah Danckert
Now, more than 20 years after its final flight, Ansett Australia is making a comeback.
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Ansett Australia is back for travellers. But not as you knew it

It was the nation’s second-largest airline. It’s now making an AI-powered comeback.

  • David Swan

Kylie Jenner helped this gadget go viral. Now the firm’s founder is a billionaire

Endorsements from top-tier influencers reflect the growing mainstream appeal of K-beauty.

  • Yoojung Lee

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