Thursday, November 12, 2026

Business

This new app helps startups find funding opportunities from around the world

Funding Atlas is a new app from Melbourne-based entrepreneur and filmmaker David Raynor intended to make it easier for startup founders to unearth opportunities for accelerators, funding, grants, and incubators all around the world. The 75-year-old app developer was looking...

OpenAI has handed out $5.5 million in startup credits in just 9 months

OpenAI has bookmarked Australia as part of its top 10 global markets for developers building on its platform. The credits milestone was marked at OpenAI’s recent Sydney Founder Day, which saw roughly 150 builders gather to discuss the technology. Year 12...

In January 2026, the largest human–AI creativity comparison yet tested language models against 100,000 people. GPT‑4 beat the average person at generating unexpected associations...

Try the experiment before reading the result. Write down ten English nouns that are as different from one another as possible. Not opposites. Not ten objects you can see. Not a tour through one category. Ten words whose meanings and...

Karen Arnold followed 81 high-school valedictorians for 14 years and found that nearly 90% entered professional careers—but most pursued conventional paths within established institutions....

A valedictorian has solved a difficult problem repeatedly. Across several years, subjects and teachers, that student has understood what was required and delivered work that earned the highest grades. That is real achievement. It is also achievement inside a system...

Tasmanian council approves Firmus Bell Bay AI data centre despite community opposition

Firmus Technologies’ 288MW factory at Bell Bay on the island’s north was on Tuesday given planning approval by the local council. It comes as the federal government is soon expected to finalise rules on how data centres use energy, while...

Pay.com.au banks $39 million Series E for US launch

The seven-year-old scaleup targets small businesses, which can earn loyalty points on payments including rent, suppliers, utilities and taxes, paid by credit card or bank transfer. Founded in 2019 by Damien Waller, Edward Alder and Grant Austin – the former...

Can the planet only be saved by moving beyond capitalism? We map the strongest case its supporters make, from degrowth to the doughnut, against...

The claim that the planet cannot be saved without moving beyond capitalism is one of the more consequential arguments in climate politics, and it is contested by serious people on more than one side. It is worth setting out...

People who say a breakup physically hurts aren’t being dramatic — brain scans taken while they looked at a photo of their ex lit...

Is there a version of you whose brain can’t actually tell the difference between a breakup and a burn? In 2011, a research team put that question to forty people who had just been through one — an unwanted breakup,...

Ten Startups Advance to New Ventures BC Competition Finale

The race to be crowned British Columbia’s top early-stage tech startup is down to 10 companies. After seven months of pitches, coaching, and judging rounds, New Ventures BC has named the finalists in its 2026 competition. The cohort spans health sciences,...

Happier people’s minds seem to return to friends before money — across the US, UK, and South Korea, their spontaneous thoughts were more closely...

A job offer can be generous on paper and still ask for something the salary does not replace. That tension sits at the centre of a 2025 study connecting three parts of experience that are usually measured separately: self-reported happiness,...
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As Funds Dried Up, Nonprofit Immigration Group Hired Anti-Labor Law Firm to Crush Union

As the two executives of immigration advocacy group Washington Immigration Solidarity Network (WAISN) burned through cash and as donations...
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