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Atlassian co-CEOs Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar have agreed to pay the ATO an extra $US60.5 million.

Atlassian paid $284m tax before ATO deal

Over the past six years Atlassian’s Australian entity paid $283.8 million of tax locally before reaching an agreement to pay more tax.

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  • Tess Bennett
Blackbird co-founders Niki Scevak and Rick Baker have plenty of investors’ money still to deploy.

Blackbird tours US hunting for Aussie deals abroad

Blackbird Ventures investment partners have picked up their search for the next Aussie-founded tech unicorns abroad, as bigger local deals dry up.

  • Jessica Sier

‘Make peace’: How Microsoft remade its ruthless corporate image

Can Microsoft, on many days the most valuable company in the world, and with a history of squeezing competitors, truly claim to be more evolved than most?

  • Noam Scheiber

AI auditors let the ATO find millions in unpaid tax and super

Natural language AI models have helped the ATO find hundreds of millions of liabilities and pinpoint organisations that may not be paying employees enough super.

  • Paul Smith

The AI horrors Husic will head off with ‘guardrails’

Science and Industry Minister Ed Husic is trying to thread the needle with AI rules strong enough to protect society, without killing innovative business.

  • Paul Smith

Inside Telstra’s AI charge

Telstra’s top tech exec says the company is halfway towards an ambitious AI plan, but admits it is the steepest technology learning curve it has ever faced.

  • Paul Smith

Opinion & Analysis

Why this new Samsung phone can help you be your best self

Samsung’s latest Galaxy S Ultra maintains its position as the most useful phone you can buy. So what if sometimes it gives you more than you bargained for?

John Davidson

Columnist

John Davidson

The cyber lessons Australia still has not learnt

Big data breaches have highlighted cyber vulnerabilities to Australians, but there are two crucial points that are getting lost in the public post-incident brouhaha.

James Turner

Contributor

James Turner

AI should do what humans can’t, not what we want

The best deployments of AI are helping us discover solutions to big problems and work smarter, without taking the humanity out of creativity or selling junk.

Paul Smith

Technology editor

Paul Smith

As Nvidia explodes, this may be the way to play AI on the ASX

The ASX has few direct links to the AI boom, but investors should think about which local stocks are best placed to lead the race to adoption. 

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Chanticleer

Technology reviews

Why this new Samsung phone can help you be your best self

Samsung’s latest Galaxy S Ultra maintains its position as the most useful phone you can buy. So what if sometimes it gives you more than you bargained for?

  • John Davidson
  • Opinion

The new Samsung Galaxy could transform your phone calls

Most of the new features in the soon-to-be-released Galaxy S24 Ultra are software, so Samsung can keep working on them long after you buy it.

  • John Davidson
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Why this new Samsung phone can help you be your best self

Samsung’s latest Galaxy S Ultra maintains its position as the most useful phone you can buy. So what if sometimes it gives you more than you bargained for?

  • John Davidson
There’s a critical place for the Department of Home Affairs, under Clare O’Neil, to continue to act as the convening agency bring accord among regulators.

The cyber lessons Australia still has not learnt

Big data breaches have highlighted cyber vulnerabilities to Australians, but there are two crucial points that are getting lost in the public post-incident brouhaha.

  • James Turner
Rowena Westphalen of Salesforce says there are a growing number of examples of AI making a material difference inside big companies.

Thriving in the AI era

This series looks at how businesses can not just survive the AI era but grasp the opportunity of it and thrive.

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AI should do what humans can’t, not what we want

The best deployments of AI are helping us discover solutions to big problems and work smarter, without taking the humanity out of creativity or selling junk.

  • Paul Smith
Rowena Westphalen of Salesforce says there are a grwoing number of examples of AI making a material difference inside big companies.

Businesses still at the starting line in AI race

We are starting to see tangible returns from early corporate AI deployments, but there is still room for much more ambition and evolved use in the years ahead, experts say.

  • Paul Smith
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Megaport’s billionaire founder Bevan Slattery.

Megaport on M&A watchlists as Slattery heads for exit

Nothing lights up Street Talk’s radar like a company getting its defence strategy in order. 

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Former Seek boss Andrew Bassat, who is also president of the St Kilda Football Club, now runs the Seek Growth Fund.

Broker pressures Seek to unlock VC fund’s $2.3b valuation

Analysts from Morgan Stanley argue the job classifieds site and VC investor should make major changes to maximise shareholders’ perception of its value.

  • Nick Bonyhady and Tom Richardson
Pro Medicus chief executive Sam Hupert has retained a 24 per cent stake in the company.

Pro Medicus share price pause ‘a good entry point’

A $2.8 million share buyback has helped restore $1.2 billion of value to Pro Medicus. Despite its sky-high multiple, bulls think it has further to run.

  • Tess Bennett

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has positioned Nvidia at the sweet spot of the AI boom.

Nvidia’s AI-fuelled rocket ship draws acclaim and doubters

The explosive growth of Nvidia dates back to a Steve Jobs-like visionary decision but investors are betting on how long its dominance of the AI market can last.

  • Jessica Sier and Paul Smith
Nvidia’s halo effect is leading to an AI driven stock melt-up.

As Nvidia explodes, this may be the way to play AI on the ASX

The ASX has few direct links to the AI boom, but investors should think about which local stocks are best placed to lead the race to adoption. 

  • James Thomson

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Emma Gibson, who resigned as CEO of Aquamamma in 2022, is defending herself against fraud allegations.

Former Aquamamma CEO says investors should have read fine print

Emma Gibson, the wellness start-up’s co-founder and a former Rich Lister, says backers should have known she had not verified the figures she was pitching.

  • Jessica Sier
Bubbles are generally popped by rising bond yields. We’re not there yet.

Is Nvidia really the ‘most important stock’ on the planet?

Nvidia’s staggering growth and surging share price is drawing comparisons to previous bubbles. How should investors approach this mania?

  • James Thomson

Nvidia proves it’s the weapons dealer for the AI age

Nvidia’s shares surged in extended trading after its latest results and its next quarter revenue outlook exceeded Wall Street’s already high expectations.

  • Nick Bonyhady
Israel’s war in Gaza has spurred a rise in cyber attacks against Israeli interests.

Iranian-backed hackers target Israel after Hamas attack

New threat assessment from global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike also warns AI-generated deepfakes pose a threat to democratic elections.

  • Andrew Tillett
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Australia has faced cyberattacks of growing prominence over the past two years.

How the hackers were hacked by federal agents

A coalition of international law enforcement breaches the world’s most prolific ransomware syndicate, LockBit, which left prints on the DP World hack.

  • Nick Bonyhady
Chief executive Richard White said WiseTech is in a stronger position than six motnhs ago.

WiseTech returns to all-time high after profit beats forecasts

Freight software provider WiseTech has added $3 billion to its market cap after its first-half results beat expectations.

  • Tess Bennett

Tool to prevent AI scams raised Aussies’ Tinder hit rates by 67pc

In a trial before a global rollout of ID verification services, Tinder says its Aussie and Kiwi users signing up, saw a 67 per cent increase in matches.

  • Antonia Mufarech
As cybercrime spreads its tentacles, the key is to protect people as far upstream as possible or at the top of the funnel.

Defence contractor Informatech seeks strategic partner; taps Ad Astra

Sources said the firm, founded in 2015 by a trio of army veterans, is projected to report revenues of $75 million in the next financial year.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

Start-up says it will beat famous Aussie rival to make a quantum computer

Diraq says it’s on track to beat Michelle Simmons’ company – backed by Telstra, the CBA and the government – to the punch with a commercial model by 2028.

  • John Davidson