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Nobel winner Demis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO
Demis Hassabis is not retiring, being pushed sideways into an honorary role, or leaving Alphabet. He is exiting the operational command structure of Google DeepMind entirely and moving into a newly created position: Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet.
Marketing
AI search cites 4 sources per answer, 37% absent from Google
Traditional search engines crawl the web, index pages, and hand users a ranked list of links. LLM-based search engines work differently: an AI agent takes a query, breaks it into sub-queries, retrieves a small set of documents, and synthesises a natural-language answer with in-text citations.
Media
Australia raises tech levy to 2.5% and adds LinkedIn to scope
If you want to know where a platform's real money comes from, look at advertising. The Albanese Government has now done exactly that.
Marketing
Google bans fake and undisclosed paid reviews from search
Documentation updates rarely make headlines, but they can rewrite the rules for thousands of businesses overnight.
Marketing
Google now shows businesses how social posts rank in Search
Google has opened Search Console platform properties to everyone, letting businesses track how their Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube posts perform across Search, Discover and News.
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.
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.
Marketing
Best AI SEO agencies in Australia for 2026
Google says no special AI markup is required. So what is an AI SEO agency actually selling? Seven Australian agencies assessed on crawl and index hygiene, structured data accuracy, entity clarity and content architecture.
Technology
Nvidia launches AI security group without OpenAI
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.