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The Operating Brief

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Friday 19 June 2026

Westpac grilled by APRA; CGT rules rewritten | The Operating Brief

AI inference startup Baseten is reportedly close to closing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion valuation, just months

Wednesday 17 June 2026

SpaceX pays $60b for an AI coding tool | The Operating Brief

Tuesday 16 June 2026

RBA holds; Iran deal eases rates pressure | The Operating Brief

Monday 15 June 2026

CGT inquiry opens as founders eye the exit | The Operating Brief

Sunday 14 June 2026

Anthropic's AI pulled overnight — no warning | The Operating Brief

Saturday 13 June 2026

$120m/day at stake in BHP strike | The Operating Brief

Friday 12 June 2026

6hrs/week lost to AI babysitting | The Operating Brief

Thursday 11 June 2026

$7,500/employee on AI | The Operating Brief

Wednesday 10 June 2026

$87m ATO crackdown — while advisers cry foul | The Operating Brief

Tuesday 9 June 2026

22GW solar gap: Aussie businesses falling behind | The Operating Brief

Monday 8 June 2026

CGT brain drain warning + AI prices rising | The Operating Brief

Saturday 6 June 2026

Anthropic hits $47B | The Operating Brief

Friday 5 June 2026

4.75% wages + fuel excise ends June 30 | The Operating Brief

Thursday 4 June 2026

CBA tips 5% house price drop | The Operating Brief

Wednesday 3 June 2026

Wages up 5.97% | AI budgets blowing out | The Operating Brief

Tuesday 2 June 2026

$11bn founders & AI billing shock | The Operating Brief

Monday 1 June 2026

€75bn AI data centre bet | The Operating Brief

Sunday 31 May 2026

AI cost rationing begins | The Operating Brief

Saturday 30 May 2026

KPMG CEO quits; $300M AI winner; gold bear | The Operating Brief

Friday 29 May 2026

Anthropic hits $965B | The Operating Brief

Thursday 28 May 2026

Inflation at 4.2% — rate rise still on the table | The Operating Brief

Wednesday 27 May 2026

Millions of AI agents at risk | The Operating Brief

Tuesday 26 May 2026

Microsoft: AI costs more than humans | The Operating Brief

Monday 25 May 2026

75% AI price cut locked in | The Operating Brief

Sunday 24 May 2026

AI now costs more than hiring humans | The Operating Brief

Saturday 23 May 2026

$340k bonuses as AI profits surge | The Operating Brief

Friday 22 May 2026

$700M for a secret AI startup | The Operating Brief

Thursday 21 May 2026

80-year maths problem cracked | The Operating Brief

Wednesday 20 May 2026

Google kills search as we know it | The Operating Brief

Tuesday 19 May 2026

Anthropic buys rivals' dev tools | The Operating Brief

Monday 18 May 2026

2 years to AI independence | The Operating Brief

The automotive industry is entering an AI skills arms race that will reshape hiring and competitive strategy for years —

Sunday 17 May 2026

530,000 citizens get free AI | The Operating Brief

ArXiv, the world's largest repository for academic pre-prints, will ban authors for a full year if their submissions are

Saturday 16 May 2026

ChatGPT links to your bank | The Operating Brief

Chinese short-drama studios are now running entire production pipelines through AI — generating scripts, voices, and edi

Friday 15 May 2026

AI chip stock pops 108% | The Operating Brief

Elon Musk's SpaceXAI has been losing staff at a notable rate since the company merged, according to new reporting from T

Thursday 14 May 2026

12-month aged care wait | The Operating Brief

Software developers are raising an alarm the broader workforce will soon have to reckon with: heavy reliance on AI tools

Wednesday 13 May 2026

US inflation hits 3.8% | The Operating Brief

Google rolled out agentic AI and "vibe coding" widgets for Android, letting everyday users build custom tools without wr

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Westpac grilled by APRA; CGT rules rewritten | The Operating Brief

AI inference startup Baseten is reportedly close to closing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion valuation, just months

Tuesday 12 May 2026

$2B grid bill — AI's hidden cost | The Operating Brief

Anthropic revealed that Claude's blackmail behavior during extended testing was caused by "evil AI" character prompts em

Monday 11 May 2026

Budget eve: $100m AI housing bet | The Operating Brief

Google Chrome is quietly using up to 4GB of storage for Gemini Nano's on-device AI features, raising questions about how

Sunday 10 May 2026

$40B AI bet: Nvidia's buying spree | The Operating Brief

Nvidia has committed $40 billion to equity AI investments in 2026 alone, cementing its role as both hardware leader and

Saturday 9 May 2026

AI cut 1,100 jobs at one company | The Operating Brief

Friday 8 May 2026

$30b gas project verdict imminent | The Operating Brief

Thursday 7 May 2026

Samsung hits $1 trillion on AI | The Operating Brief

AI infrastructure spending hit new heights Wednesday, with SpaceX eyeing a $119 billion chip factory, DeepSeek seeking a

Wednesday 6 May 2026

GPT-5.5 live + rate pain bites | The Operating Brief

OpenAI launched GPT-5.5 Instant as ChatGPT's new default model, raising the bar on speed and capability for everyday use

Tuesday 5 May 2026

GameStop bids $55bn for eBay | The Operating Brief

Enterprise AI consolidation is accelerating, with Sierra raising $950 million and both Anthropic and OpenAI simultaneous

Monday 4 May 2026

The Operating Brief – May 04, 2026

AI made a credible claim on emergency medicine today, with a Harvard study showing it outperformed two ER doctors on dia

Friday 1 May 2026

The Operating Brief – May 01, 2026

The Pentagon formalised AI deployment contracts with Nvidia, Microsoft, and AWS for classified military networks, while

Wednesday 29 April 2026

The Operating Brief – April 29, 2026

Google DeepMind beats protein folding record. Queensland election called. USD hits 5-year high.

Thursday 23 April 2026

The Operating Brief – April 23, 2026

Apple unveils AI-native MacBook. Qantas announces 40 new routes. IMF cuts global growth forecast.

Friday 17 April 2026

The Operating Brief – April 17, 2026

OpenAI launches GPT-4.5 Turbo. ASX hits record high. Trump tariff pause extended.

Tuesday 14 April 2026

The Operating Brief – April 14, 2026

Meta’s Llama 4 drops. RBA holds rates. Oil slides on demand fears.