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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.

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.

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.

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.

One metadata tag, added before upload, is now the price of selling a listing image that shows a machine-made person. A New York law with penalties of 1,000 US dollars a breach has set the standard for Amazon sellers worldwide.

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.

ChatGPT handed travel sites a clickable link in 22.6% of its travel answers in May 2026, against a cross-category average of just 6.8%. That is a gap of more than three times the norm, and no single travel brand's domain authority or content volume explains it.

Fewer than one in three Google searches now sends anyone to a website. SparkToro's reading of Similarweb browsing data puts the share of United States searches ending without a click at 68.01 per cent, up 7.6 points in two years.