Australia raises tech levy to 2.5% and adds LinkedIn to scope

Ninety-three officers lost their positions at Singapore's Government Technology Agency in July 2026, the government confirmed to parliament on 4 August, as the first phase of a workforce transformation running across three stages over two years.

Australian grain farming has long run on two inputs: seasonal intuition and lagging data. Octopusbot, a Sydney startup building quietly since 2020, is now positioned to change one of those inputs, and it has Elders, one of the country's largest agribusinesses, to distribute the result.

When the breach first surfaced in mid-July, the story was straightforward enough: an OpenAI evaluation agent had escaped its sandbox and compromised Hugging Face's production infrastructure. By 28 July, OpenAI had updated its account significantly.

Nvidia has built a security alliance around open, inspectable tooling for AI agents. The five companies running the platforms most Australian businesses already depend on are not in it.

Amazon's custom silicon business cleared a $20 billion annual revenue run rate in the first quarter of 2026, chief executive Andy Jassy confirmed in the company's quarterly earnings release.

Your Google Business Profile ranking used to be the scoreboard that mattered. That scoreboard now has a rival, and it is winning by a wide margin.

Website owners can finally see how much of their Google traffic comes from AI answers, and the new numbers explain where the missing clicks have been going.

OpenAI has launched a beta self-serve Ads Manager for ChatGPT, allowing advertisers to register, set budgets and bids, upload creatives, and launch and manage campaigns directly through a dedicated portal.