In-depth analysis of AI news and trends relevant to Australian small business.
On 5 May 2026, CDC Data Centres signed a 555-megawatt contract with an unnamed US hyperscaler — the largest data centre deal in Australian history. For a company that’s spent 20 years quietly building Australia’s most capable compute infrastructure, CEO Greg Boorer put it plainly: “I feel like I’ve been training for the Olympics, and…
The federal government’s competition minister gave a speech at Deakin University about AI and small business. It’s worth reading — he named the real risks, the real use cases, and coined a phrase that should be on more walls: ‘boring AI may be the most beautiful AI.’
On Friday, ABC journalist Alan Kohler interviewed Craig Scroggie, CEO of NextDC: the Australian data centre company currently riding the AI infrastructure boom. The question was blunt: will the massive investment in AI be paid for by productivity gains, or by mass job cuts? Scroggie’s answer was careful: “AI isn’t going to replace you tomorrow.”…
MYOB Is Rebuilding Itself as an AI-Native Platform. Here’s What That Means for Your Business. MYOB has been doing the books for Australian small businesses for 35 years. Now it’s replacing the core of that work with AI. CEO Paul Robson doesn’t soften it. “The AI era will be unforgiving,” he told Forbes Australia. “The…
After a volatile 2025, Australian small businesses are under pressure from several directions at once: trade disruption, a productivity squeeze, tighter budgets, and a shift in what AI adoption actually means in practice. Not all of those pressures are bad. Some are creating real openings. But the gap between businesses moving fast and businesses waiting…
Two things happened in the past six weeks that most Australian small business owners haven’t noticed. Together, they say a lot about where AI in Australia is heading. On 1 April 2026, the Australian Government signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Anthropic: the first arrangement signed under the National AI Plan. Then, in late April,…
There’s a new way customers are finding businesses. Most Australian business leaders know about it. Almost none of them are doing anything about it. That’s the finding from HubSpot’s research, which analysed 14 million citations and more than 13,000 real AI conversations. The result: 63% of Australian marketing leaders understand Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO). Only…
Microsoft announced a $25 billion investment in Australian AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and skills training on 23 April 2026. Here is what it means for small business owners. Microsoft just made its largest-ever financial commitment to Australia. On Thursday, CEO Satya Nadella stood alongside Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Sydney to announce a $25 billion investment…
Anthropic built an AI model so capable at hacking that it won’t release it to the public. Claude Mythos: an unreleased frontier model: has already found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser. It can chain small flaws across millions of lines of code into massive exploits, outperforming all but…