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Bunnings first for an eleventh straight quarter; Aldi and Kmart unchanged behind it; Toyota up two to sixth; Big W down two to eighth. Roy Morgan Risk Monitor, 12 months to June 2026.
Optus most distrusted for a second quarter, ahead of Facebook/Meta, Temu, Woolworths and Coles. Telstra up two to sixth. Qantas improves three places to tenth. OpenAI now 16th most distrusted.
Ten agencies, assessed 26 August 2026 on search depth, AI SEO capability, public evidence and client fit. Bushnote first, Clearwater second, StudioHawk third.
Top ten of 250 assessed agencies across 25 countries. Bushnote (Sydney) first, iPullRank (New York) second, Omniscient Digital (Austin) third.
33,938 people in 28 countries. 70 per cent unwilling or hesitant to trust people with different values. Employers trusted at 78 per cent, government at 53.
Nvidia agreed to pay US$12.9 billion for the open-model hub used by 18 million developers, says its chips will not be required to use it, and expects the deal to close in the first half of 2027.
Communications Minister Anika Wells will release draft legislation this week forcing social media platforms to offer algorithmic opt-outs and actively prevent illegal content reaching users.
401 senior marketers. Budgets 7.8% of revenue (7.7% in 2025). 15.3% of budgets allocated to AI, but only 30% say they are ready to scale it. 56% say they lack the budget for their 2026 strategy.
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on Thursday. Its president called it a generational leap that might be AGI, and safety researchers say its reasoning method is playing with fire.
NAB, Deutsche Bank and UBS all tip a rise to 4.6 per cent at the Reserve Bank's next meeting, the dollar is back above 72 US cents, and the Treasurer will not say whether he thinks another rise is needed.
Lucy Knox to FINCH.
ChatGPT, Claude and Grok failed within the same hour on Thursday US time. OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI confirmed faults on their status pages, Downdetector passed 35,000 reports, and no company has named a cause.
Bushletter audited 136 Australian agencies and their llms.txt files. Nearly nine in ten now sell AI search. Fewer than one in four say how they measure it.
Georgia Thomas to Yango.
David McCallen to Omnicom Media APAC.