Australia
Why Australia needs its own AI tools directory
The world's biggest AI review sites barely register that we exist. Pricing is usually in USD, "available everywhere" often isn't, and nobody mentions GST until your card gets hit. The AI Directory Australia exists to fix that.
The best AI assistants for Australians in 2026 — ranked and reviewed
Eight AI assistants, one Australian shortlist. We tested each on AUD pricing, data residency, and how they actually perform for local users. Here's who wins, who ties for runner-up, and which one you should skip.
GitHub Copilot will train on your code unless you tell it not to
A quiet policy change flips the default: individual Copilot plans now feed your interactions into model training unless you find the setting and turn it off.
ChatGPT Images 2.0: the text in your AI images finally says what you typed
OpenAI's new image engine renders legible text, works in more languages, and runs about four times faster — on every tier, including free.
Claude Code learns to run on a schedule — Routines arrive with a redesigned desktop app
The agentic coder now works while you sleep: Routines run configured tasks on a schedule or an event, and the new desktop app runs more of them at once.
Linear's post-mortem: a permissions bug exposed private-team metadata for an hour
A code change broke a permission filter and private-team metadata leaked across workspace boundaries for roughly an hour. The post-mortem is honest — and worth reading before you put sensitive work in any SaaS tool.
ChatGPT Business quietly gets cheaper — US$20 a seat if you commit for the year
A five-dollar seat cut and a new Codex-only seat type — small numbers that change the team-plan maths for Australian businesses.
Microsoft extends the Copilot Business discount to 30 June — and tells you prices change after
The discount deadline just moved from March to June — and Microsoft has put the post-promo price changes in writing. The clock is real this time.
Microsoft puts Claude inside Copilot — and Australian offices get a choice
Wave 3 turns Copilot from a sidebar into a collaborator — and for the first time, the model doing the work doesn't have to be OpenAI's.
Anthropic is coming to Sydney — and says Australian coders are the reason
The maker of Claude is opening its fourth Asia-Pacific office in Sydney — and the phrase Australian businesses should notice is 'exploring local compute.'