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Table stakes — Capital Brief
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (274+ words) Live now: On The Call. Join now → Essential overnight intelligence. Sent first thing. Get Standup → One read. You’re across it. Get access → Get the Capital Brief app. Download → It often seems like VCs won’t give startups a second glance these…...
TSMC, MediaTek sales surge as AI chip demand stays strong
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (328+ words) The news: MediaTek and TSMC both reported a surge in monthly sales on Thursday as Taiwanese chipmakers grapple with strong demand for AI semiconductors. TSMC, the world’s largest chipmaker, reported a 53.3% increase in monthly sales in August, lifting revenue to…...
Claude help us — Capital Brief
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (172+ words) Once again, the story of the day is AI. But even by the standards of the current era, this one is a little odd. As we covered in this morning’s Standup, pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon dramatically resigned from Anthropic, warning…...
The government should give us actual choice over our feeds
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (299+ words) Forgive me my pedantry, but if Australia is going to regulate social media algorithms, we should be precise about what an algorithm actually is. Discussion of the Albanese government’s proposed digital duty of care has been framed in the media…...
UK’s Andy Burnham rejects call for data centre moratorium
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (380+ words) The news: British prime minister Andy Burnham has rejected a call from a member of his own party to impose a moratorium on AI data centres. Labour MP Ian Lavery asked Burnham to support a moratorium on future data centres…...
Dirt resistant — Capital Brief
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (198+ words) They all deny it. But all political parties have what are known in the trade as dirt units. Dirt unit staff spend their time searching for embarrassing information about political opponents, which they then leak to the media. The ultimate…...
Xero friends — Capital Brief
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (234+ words) It was only yesterday we observed Xero had gotten offside with its employees, and just two weeks since shareholders protested the CEO’s pay package. Now Capital Brief’s Rose Mackenzie reports it has managed to leave a third and even more…...
Don’t call it a backlash, AirTrunk’s been building data centres for years
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (235+ words) AirTrunk has been building and operating data centres in Australia for more than a decade. But even it has been caught off guard by the shift in sentiment towards the facilities as a generational AI boom kicks into gear. The…...
Main Sequence injects $10m into Metacognition AI to build ‘Windows for robots’
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (259+ words) Australian artificial intelligence researcher Anton van den Hengel has raised $10 million from Main Sequence to build what he describes as the “Windows for robots” — a software layer designed to let people safely control robots and complex industrial systems using natural…...
School students who use AI chatbots score lower in OECD science test
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (386+ words) The news: Students who use generative AI for specific tasks score lower in science than those who don’t, according to an OECD report. Andreas Schleicher, the OECD’s director for education and skills, said outcomes depended on exactly how generative AI…...