On The Call
On The Call is a weekly live conversation with the Capital Brief newsroom on the stories driving the agenda in Australia’s centres of power.
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Xero's culture clash; Albo's war on big tech (opens the original)
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Xero's aggressive AI pivot has sent morale inside the accounting software company into freefall, with engineers fearing they're building their own replacements. Meanwhile, the Albanese government's battle against big tech has a new target: the algorithms, with a digital duty of care proposal that would let users opt out of algorithmic feeds. We discuss: Sinking morale at Xero and the forced-ranking performance measurement behind it. Why engineers fear they're training their own replacement. The
Autonomous agents, real money: The risks of AI in banking and finance (opens the original)
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Agentic AI in banking has moved from drafting documents to moving money — and there’s an unanswered question on who's liable when bots are actioning transactions. Recorded live at Fintech Australia's Intersekt conference, the Capital Brief newsroom digs into the RBA's fintech regulation review, and where the big banks and the startup ecosystem sit not he agentic AI opportunity. We discuss: The disintermediation threat: what happens to the big banks when your money moves itself to the best provid
Pauline Hanson’s support drops; Data centre angst rises. (opens the original)
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Support for Pauline Hanson slides in the latest Capital Brief–Demos AU poll, with the sharpest drop among women — positive views falling 13 points since June while negative views jumped 15 points. Meanwhile, less than a quarter of Australians would support a data centre being built in their area, and 44% oppose the idea outright. We discuss: One Nation's five-point primary vote collapse and whether the Pauline Hanson bubble is bursting. The stark gender split driving the plunge and he facors con
Canva under the microscope, BHP cashes in on copper (opens the original)
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Canva is facing AI token fraudsters who are exploiting loopholes to access AI credits beyond normal limits, with some later sold on grey markets. This comes as two of Canva’s earliest backers, Blackbird and Airtree, wrote down its valuation by 17% to USD34.9 billion. Meanwhile, BHP posted a blockbuster USD9.8 billion profit — and for the first time, copper contributes more than half of the miner's earnings as the AI data centre boom rewrites Australia's mining story. We discuss: How token fraud
Anthony Albanese's sit-down with Capital Brief (opens the original)
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In an exclusive interview with Capital Brief’s Matthew Franklin and Katina Curtis, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he wants Australia to lead the world on AI regulation. He says his move to legislate AI regulatory standards could become a global model, and points to the Labor government’s social media ban as inspiration for this step. Albanese also spoke to gambling advertisement reforms being debated in parliament, warning that banning gambling ads outright would be incredibly damaging to
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