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The Bushletter editorial team. Independent business journalism covering markets, technology, policy, and culture.

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Marketing

Google's new format tells AI which sources to trust

The Open Knowledge Format represents organisational knowledge as a directory of UTF-8 markdown files with YAML frontmatter.
7 min read a month ago
Google's new format tells AI which sources to trust
Marketing

ChatGPT nears a billion weekly users, seven months late

Nine hundred million weekly users is not a failure by any ordinary measure. When your own company announced seven months ago that one billion was just around the corner, though, the gap becomes the story.
7 min read a month ago
ChatGPT nears a billion weekly users, seven months late
AI

Zuckerberg backs faster AI as 1,293 lab workers urge brakes

The op-ed did not arrive quietly. On 28 July, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a piece arguing the US should speed up AI development, not pull back on it. "The defining question of our age isn't whether superintelligence will exist, but who will have access to it.
8 min read a month ago
Zuckerberg backs faster AI as 1,293 lab workers urge brakes
Australia

KPMG Australia weighs cutting 1,000 jobs after audit scandal

KPMG Australia is reviewing its workforce as reports point to about 1,000 job losses and dozens of partner exits, more than 10 per cent of a firm of 8,967 people. Partner profit distributions are expected to fall about 20 per cent, and procurement bans run to 30 September.
8 min read a month ago
KPMG Australia weighs cutting 1,000 jobs after audit scandal
Politics

US submarine rotations at HMAS Stirling to end in 2032

There is a clock running at HMAS Stirling, and it stops in 2032. Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy confirmed that is the year the Submarine Rotational Force, West will wind up, leaving Australia to operate its own nuclear-powered fleet without allied hand-holding.
7 min read a month ago
US submarine rotations at HMAS Stirling to end in 2032
Culture

Glen Hansard dies at 56 in Dublin motorbike crash

The stretch of Lower Road between Tinkers Hill and Rugged Lane is quiet at the best of times. Shortly before 4:30 am on 29 July 2026, it became the place where Irish music lost one of its most enduring figures.
6 min read a month ago
Glen Hansard dies at 56 in Dublin motorbike crash
World

France and Spain evacuate 300,000 as wildfires spread

Wildfires burning across southwestern France and Spain have displaced more than 300,000 people, triggering one of Europe's largest ever evacuation operations.
6 min read a month ago
France and Spain evacuate 300,000 as wildfires spread
Sport

FIFA seeks $4.2bn from private investors in $20bn venture

Football's world governing body wants to move the World Cup into a new company and sell slices of it to private investors, including a fund run by Joshua Kushner. Europe's federations say it is not FIFA's to sell.
7 min read a month ago
FIFA seeks $4.2bn from private investors in $20bn venture
Marketing

Australia's AI search agencies ranked by the proof they publish

There is no Search Console for ChatGPT. Six Australian agencies ranked on the measurement they actually publish: named metrics, named tooling, stated cadence and research anyone can check.
13 min read a month ago
Australia's AI search agencies ranked by the proof they publish
Finance

The best way to compare personal loans

Four of Australia's largest personal loan comparison platforms, Finder, Canstar, Money.com.au and RateCity, all publish disclosures acknowledging that commercial arrangements shape what borrowers see.
8 min read a month ago
The best way to compare personal loans
Australia

Check your offset account, says ASIC after $55m repaid

Your offset account might not be saving you a cent. The corporate regulator found banks quietly failed to link, open or activate them, and repaid more than $55 million to borrowers who never knew.
6 min read a month ago
Check your offset account, says ASIC after $55m repaid
Finance

Loan comparison versus loan matching explained

Ask how to compare loans and you will be pointed at a comparison site. Loan matching is the channel that actually reflects what you can qualify for, and no lender pays to influence the order.
8 min read a month ago
Loan comparison versus loan matching explained
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