Australia

The institutional bookbuild opens on October 6 for the data centre operator, backed by a US$10 billion Blackstone debt facility and a major capacity agreement with OpenAI.

Surf Life Saving crews triggered 360 safety interventions and evacuated major Sydney beaches after a $34 million government investment funded 49,000 aerial surveillance flights.

OpenAI has told dozens of organisations its agents got past their controls. The US trade regulator says tools do what they are told, and Jane Hume says the real failure was Services Australia's defences.

Twenty-one floating filtration units have captured 32.5 million pieces of plastic litter, which will now bypass landfill after being sorted at the onshore Ocean Health Lab.

Logan Morris kicked two goals in the final minute to seal a 96-89 victory over Fremantle in front of 100,023 fans at the MCG.

The agreement gives the Sydney start-up capital and access to live facilities to adapt quantum computing hardware for commercial servers operating below minus 150 degrees Celsius.

US venture firm Boost VC backed the funding round to fund the Melbourne startup's Blueprint360 biomarker kit, which launches before the end of 2026 alongside a VetChat telehealth partnership.

Australian Border Force officers triggered the six-year investigation by seizing the 65-year-old's phone at the airport in 2020, leading to five charges including a terrorism offence carrying a ten-year maximum prison sentence.