Monday, September 7, 2026

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Energy network management platform Gridsight charges up on $36 million Series B

The round for Gridsight was led by Insight Partners, with support from Galvanize and existing investors Airtree, Energy Transition Ventures and Aera VC. It follows a $7.5m Series A 16 months ago led by Airtree, with cricketer Pat Cummins...

Treasury estimates AI will boost productivity by just 1.2%, but also have a ‘profound’ impact on jobs, as well as interest rates 

These are among the conclusions of a detailed analysis of the economic implications of AI prepared by Treasury for Treasurer Jim Chalmers. As of March, Australia had 162 operational data centres. Another about 130 centres are proposed, taking Australia to...

Between May and December 2025, the share of American students from middle school through college using AI for homework rose from 48% to 62%....

Students did not wait for schools to finish the AI rulebook. Between May and December 2025, the share of American students from middle school through college who said they used AI help for homework rose from 48 to 62 per...

Researchers followed 1,793 BT call-centre workers for six months and found that a one-point rise in weekly happiness was associated with roughly 12% higher...

“Happy workers are more productive” has the suspicious neatness of a sentence invented for a management presentation. It is agreeable, difficult to oppose and vague enough to survive almost any result. Happiness can mean job satisfaction, enthusiasm, a good morning...

During the Second World War, when sugar, butter and cream were rationed and rival firms quietly swapped in cheaper ingredients to keep selling, a...

Business decisions during wartime rationing don’t usually get remembered eighty years later. Most companies faced the same problem, most made the same call, and most of the resulting compromises got quietly absorbed into corporate lore as necessary adjustments to...

This Collapsible, Modular EV Can Be Configured for a Range of Tasks

ENVO Drive Systems has developed something akin to LEGO Technic for adults. The B.C. company has developed several different types of electric vehicles during its decade-plus in business, engineered in-house to excel at specific tasks. But ENVO’s most intriguing offering is...

Numia Brings Healthcare into Home with Launch of Pilot for Cancer Testing

Earlier this year, we reported on a startup based in Vancouver innovating broader accessibility to medical laboratory testing. Numia Health, launched last year by chief executive officer Adrián Sahagún, utilizes licensed physicians and accredited Canadian labs to deliver real lab...

Anti-scammer startup Apate.AI nabs $11.4 million Seed raise amid US move

The round was led by Silicon Valley VC Lobby Capital, with support from OIF Ventures, Investible, Concept Ventures and Baobab Ventures. Apate previously raised $2.5 million, led by OIF, a year ago. It now has operations in Australia, Europe,...

The ticking clock nobody warns product founders about

We sell concentrated cleaning sheets, the kind that replace a two-litre plastic bottle of detergent with something that fits in a drawer. There are two of us, we have no staff, and every dollar in the business is ours. Our...

Airwallex tips $1 million into 10 AI startups

Cofounder and CEO Jack Zhang announced the annual initiative – Latitude 37 is a reference to Melbourne, where Airwallex began -in April and received 100s of applications from local startups before a panel of VCs and company execs selected...
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A new study suggests the person who left your message unanswered tends to feel worse about it than you imagine, and worse still when...

“What do you think of this?” That is the last message in one version of an experiment funded by the...
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