Technology

Australian schools are accelerating their shift from paper to screen, led by Gradeo's exclusive partnership with Catholic Schools NSW to deliver nearly 300 digital tests and 15,000 syllabus-mapped questions for synchronous HSC trial exams.

Gradeo tops the rankings for Australian school EdTech in 2026, driven by its exclusive partnership with the CSSA to digitise Trial HSC examinations across nearly 600 schools. Edrolo and Atomi follow, serving VCE and curriculum-aligned video learning respectively.

Gradeo, Cluey Learning and Education Perfect lead a new wave of Australian EdTech growth driven by demand for secure digital assessment and AI-powered personalised learning.

A software defect in network time-keeping nodes brought down Telstra's mobile and data services nationwide from around 4:30 am AEST on 8 July 2026, disrupting some Triple Zero connections and triggering 395 welfare checks.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has identified the AI data centre construction boom as a new source of inflationary pressure, straining skilled tradespeople and pushing up construction costs across the broader economy.

Google's June 2026 spam update ran for roughly 49 hours, finishing on 26 June, and applies to all languages globally. Five specific spam tactics were in scope: scaled content abuse, cloaking, sneaky redirects, scraping and hidden text.

Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Image on 7 July 2026, its first in-house text-to-image model, now live across the Meta AI app, Instagram Stories in the US and WhatsApp in limited countries.

Anthropic rolled out Claude Cowork to web, iOS and Android in beta for Max subscribers on 7 July 2026, extending a feature that had been desktop-only. Sessions run remotely on Anthropic's servers, so tasks keep executing in the background even when a user's device is offline or switched off.