Technology

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.

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.

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.

Sixteen months ago, Google's AI answer boxes were an experiment most Australians could scroll past without noticing. Similarweb's mid-2026 generative AI landscape report put AI Overviews on more than 40 per cent of US Google searches by May 2026, compared with roughly 15 per cent in January 2025.

Agencies and reporting dashboards that plug into Google Ads have a deadline. From 5 August new connections will need a passkey rather than a password or a texted code, and the tools most businesses never think about are the ones that break.

Google is not hunting for machine-written text. New Ahrefs data shows the average share of machine-written wording barely shifts across the whole of page one, rising only from 27.1 per cent at the top spot to 30.9 per cent at the bottom.

Hundreds of shared Claude conversations turned up in Google and Bing because a robots file blocks a crawler but does not remove a page from search. The distinction catches out businesses running client portals and staging sites too.

Construction crews using Sitemate's Dashpivot are reporting site paperwork that took 90 minutes now finishing in under 10, the Sydney company says, as its Storm AI agent rolls out.