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33 stories this week from 2 outlets in Australia.

  1. Airbnb’s finally dealing with the most annoying part about anal-retentive hosts. Here’s what you need to know
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    A cleaning fee on top of being told to wash linen and remake beds? Not anymore.

  2. Australia will get AI safety standards as law, with a watchdog to enforce them
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Australia is turning AI safety into law, arming a watchdog to test frontier models and punish breaches.

  3. In sales development, a human touch stands out
    AUAtlassian Blog DevOps & SRE

    This article was written with contributions from Toni Cadden, SDR regional manager, and Lora Kassanchuk, global head of mid-market SDRs. AI makes it incredibly easy to prepare research reports and send large batches of personalized emails…

  4. Synchronous vs Asynchronous Communication
    AUAtlassian Blog DevOps & SRE

    Key Takeaways Synchronous communication happens in real time, while asynchronous communication gives recipients the flexibility to respond later. Choose synchronous communication when speed and interaction matter, such as during crises…

  5. CSIRO spinout lands $15 million to make green hydrogen using less power
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Hadean grabs $15m to turn factory waste heat into cheaper green hydrogen for steel. Watch this pilot test the hydrogen hype.

  6. Queensland construction tech startup ProcurePro makes Startup World Cup top 10 in San Francisco
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    ProcurePro crashes Startup World Cup’s top 10 with AI construction costing and $10M in ARR.

  7. Australian Built: we have the climate tech startups, now it’s time to let them grow
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Australia’s climate tech is real; but without first customers and scale-up cash, it ships jobs offshore.

  8. Melbourne adtech Vudoo raises $22 million Series B as in-ad checkout takes on the US
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Vudoo bags $22M to turn ads into checkouts and storm the US.

  9. Invest Rural puts investors on a bus after Bathurst brewer raises $513,000
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Invest Rural drags city money onto a bus so regional founders can meet funders beyond the bank.

  10. Nvidia is investigating CEO Jensen Huang over affair with alleged Chinese spy
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Nvidia probes Jensen Huang after alleged China spy affair; he admits infidelity but says he'll stay CEO.

  11. Poetry in motion: Google’s orbital data centre prototype sends an AI-generated haiku from space
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Google’s space AI wrote a haiku, proving orbital data centres aren’t sci-fi as the cloud war leaves Earth.

  12. NSW parliamentary data centre inquiry asks who’s paying for government’s red carpet roll-out
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    NSW MPs tear into AI data centres, demanding transparency and user-pays rules for power, water and land grabs.

  13. From change risk to root cause: AI-native operations for the AI SDLC
    AUAtlassian Blog DevOps & SRE

    Assess change risk, coordinate incident response, and bring your observability context into one place. AI is changing the speed of software delivery. Teams can move from an idea to a pull request, a deployment, or a production change in…

  14. Atlassian stays in the black as quarterly revenue climbs 24%
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Atlassian flips losses into US$91m profit as cloud revenue surges and AI cuts bite.

  15. South Australian council pushes back against Firmus data centre over rates and water concerns
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Port Augusta wants Firmus’ 1300MW AI data centre to pay rates and prove its water math.

  16. AI coworker startup raises $115 million
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Future Secure AI grabs US$80m at a US$1.2b valuation to unleash AI co-workers globally.

  17. Our Q1 FY27 letter to shareholders
    AUAtlassian Blog DevOps & SRE

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  18. Supercharge the Teamwork Graph with People Context
    AUAtlassian Blog DevOps & SRE

    Every piece of work your teams do has people behind it. The Jira issue has an assignee. The design doc has an author. The pull request has reviewers, and the Slack thread has the people deciding what happens next. The Teamwork Graph…

  19. Perth logistics analysis startup Indrus moves on $750,000 pre-Seed
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Indrus grabs $750k to expose yard chaos with AI camera tracking for trucks and trailers.

  20. From Special Forces to elite sport: EDGE puts startup leadership in the spotlight
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    EDGE gives people leadership drills and skills used by high performers in business, the military and sport.

  21. How to adapt your career and job search to AI native
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    AI-native hiring punishes résumé spam. Treat yourself like a product, target the 5% who matter, and start planting career seeds now.

  22. Heidi cuts headcount by 18%, as two cofounders depart, just weeks after banking $475 million
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    AI health unicorn Heidi slashes 18% of staff and loses two cofounders weeks after a $475m boost.

  23. Reddit argues Australia’s social media ban creates the ‘worst outcome’ in High Court challenge
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Reddit blasts Australia’s under-16 social ban as a blunt censorship machine.

  24. Meet Code Reviewer, now available with Jira
    AUAtlassian Blog DevOps & SRE

    Get a fast, useful first review on every pull request. Code Reviewer is generally available with paid Jira and Teamwork Collection licenses. As teams adopt AI coding agents, they’re writing code faster and in greater volume. That puts…

  25. More control over permissions in Bitbucket Pipelines: new features and upcoming changes
    AUAtlassian Blog DevOps & SRE

    Automating releases, semantic version bumps, and API calls often involves configuring branch permissions and storing long-lived credentials in pipeline variables. Managing credential rotation adds an ongoing maintenance burden. Today…

  26. Teaching a 4B Model to Think Like a Policy Expert
    AUAtlassian Blog DevOps & SRE

    Content moderation at Atlassian’s scale means making millions of real-time decisions every message, prompt, and query that flows through Rovo Chat, Rovo Search, and more has to be checked before a response is served. That puts moderation…

  27. AI was supposed to take on the drudgery. Workers say it’s taking on the good stuff, too.
    AUAtlassian Blog DevOps & SRE

    The promise of AI at work has been consistent: let it handle the tedious parts of the job so people have more time for the work they find meaningful. But new research from Atlassian’s Teamwork Lab suggests the reality is more complicated…

  28. Airtasker founder’s proptech merges as Singapore’s richest Brazilian chips in
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    As housing chills, SohoAI and Inspace fuse with Saverin-backed cash to chase proptech scale.

  29. Uber hits legal dead end in 6-year fight over $81.5 million NSW payroll tax bill
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Uber’s gig-economy tax dispute hits a wall, the High Court dismissing the rideshare company's appeal.

  30. ATO commissioner ‘jumped to conclusion’ about credit card usage before business ban
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Commissioner of Taxation Rob Heferen told a Senate committee "hindsight is a wonderful hing", regarding the ATO's controversial credit card ban.

  31. Measuring and orchestrating AI across the full engineering lifecycle
    AUAtlassian Blog DevOps & SRE

    This session references data from DX’s Q2 AI Impact Report (reporting period of April to June 2026). For the latest findings, read DX’s Q3 AI Impact Report (reporting period of July to September 2026). Every engineering organization today…

  32. Mel Perkins looks to ‘refound’ Canva, with 22% of its workforce affected
    AUStartupDaily (AU) Tech Market & VC

    Canva’s AI reckoning hits 1,270 staff as Mel Perkins ‘refounds’ the giant to revive growth—see what changes next.

  33. Inside a context graph: how agents connect the dots across work
    AUAtlassian Blog DevOps & SRE

    Agents need more than access to your tools. They need connected context that shows how work fits together, and where the boundaries are. An account team is preparing a customer renewal, and the customer is asking for a discount beyond…