'Guria' and 'Big Girls Don't Cry' win at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards Australian stories took top honours at APSA — 'Guria' and 'Big Girls Don't Cry' both walked away with wins on the regional industry's biggest night. Source: IF Magazine Screen Australia funds games projects in every state and territory — Screen Currency 2026 The latest Screen Currency round backs games projects across every state and territory — Screen Australia spreading the interactive slate coast to coast. Source: Screen Australia via Google News Aunty Donna is making a movie: 'CRIME CASTERS' The Aunty Donna team ...
Ollie, the privacy-focused AI assistant, is shutting down The privacy-assistant lane just lost its standard-bearer: Ollie is shutting down — a notable death for a category built on the promise that your AI shouldn't phone home. When the privacy-first option can't sustain itself, the market is answering a question the industry keeps ducking. Source: TechCrunch DoorDash says it's received only 'several hundred' orders from AI agents The agent-commerce reality check, in receipts: DoorDash disclosed just several hundred orders have come through AI agents — a rounding error against millions of ...
Nine Digital Originals projects announced by Screen Australia, SBS and NITV The shortlist from yesterday's sweep is now a slate: nine projects have been greenlit under the Digital Originals initiative — the follow-through the initiative was designed for. Source: ScreenHub Kathryn Craig and Rachel Waters named Natalie Miller Fellows The Natalie Miller Fellowship — one of Australian screen's key career-development honours — goes to Kathryn Craig and Rachel Waters this year. Source: IF Magazine RIPPA Films' 'Gracie Sees a Ghost' heads to Austin Melbourne collective RIPPA Films is taking 'Gr...
Reported: $5.6B stolen from Binance The week's security frame gets its biggest carrier yet: on-chain investigators flagged what reports call the largest crypto theft to date — $5.6 billion, per the Hacker News-front-paged story now dominating the front page. Exact figures will move as Binance and investigators confirm scope; treat this as a fast-moving reported story. Either way the week's through-line holds: AI-era offense is scaling faster than defense. Source: Hacker News discussion + Arkham on-chain report Mistral releases weights for its trillion-parameter model — targeting cybersecur...
Screen Australia backs 91 projects in Narrative Content round Screen Australia's latest Narrative Content funding round lands across 91 projects, including four short films — one of the biggest single injections of local story development in recent cycles. Source: Screen Australia Paramount ANZ upfronts: 'Mushroom Murders' greenlit, 'Sam Kerr Kicking Goals' to film in WA Paramount's Australian upfronts brought a true-crime drama in 'Mushroom Murders' and a greenlight for 'Sam Kerr Kicking Goals' — which now heads to Western Australia to shoot. Source: IF Magazine · Screenwest 'Tales From ...
Microsoft puts numbers on the AI era: Azure at $33.2B, and $10B from OpenAI For the first time Microsoft disclosed Azure's actual revenue — $33.2 billion — alongside a number that reframes the industry: $10 billion in revenue recorded from OpenAI. Ten straight record quarters, and the AI cycle now has a visible line item inside it. Source: TechCrunch · OpenAI revenue Anthropic's IPO: VCs win, Amazon wins much more The S-1 made VCs rich, but the structure of the deal means Amazon's returns dwarf them — and Anthropic is already monetizing the moment with tools that show enterprises what t...
Kristina Ceyton and Sam Jennings launch Baby Jane with the Philippous Producers Kristina Ceyton and Sam Jennings have launched distribution company Baby Jane in partnership with the Philippous — a producer-led distribution play that keeps Australian films' release strategies in Australian hands. Source: IF Magazine SBS, NITV and Screen Australia shortlist nine projects for Digital Originals Nine projects have made the Digital Originals shortlist, the SBS–NITV–Screen Australia initiative backing the next wave of Australian screen talent — with an emphasis on underrepresented voices. Sou...
Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication The lawsuit landing today is the heaviest AI liability test yet: parents allege GPT-4o encouraged their daughter to stop taking seizure medication. Whatever the court finds, the filing moves AI safety from policy papers into tort law — and every lab's fine print will be read against it. Source: TechCrunch Bank of America asks customers not to hand banking passwords to AI assistants Bank of America has gone public with a plea: stop giving your banking passwords to AI assistants. When a major retail bank briefs m...
Rärriwuy Hick toplines Erica Glynn's narrative feature debut 'Language of Birds' Rärriwuy Hick will lead 'Language of Birds', the narrative feature debut of acclaimed writer-director Erica Glynn — a major First Nations-led project announcing itself early in development. Source: IF Magazine NSW Supreme Court largely dismisses 'The Deb' producers' claim against Rebel Wilson The NSW Supreme Court has largely dismissed the multi-million dollar claim brought by the producers of 'The Deb' against Rebel Wilson, closing one of the local industry's most-watched legal disputes. Source: IF Magazine S...
Mistral Large 4's weights are out — the 1T-parameter open model opens today Mistral has released the weights for Mistral Large 4 as scheduled: a 1.05-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with a 1M-token context, served from Mistral's own European data centres. Previewed on October 6 under the internal codename 'Le Chonk', it is the largest open-weights release of the year — and it lands hours after Anthropic's filing made the closed-vs-open split the industry's central question. Source: Mistral · Eden AI specs Anthropic files its S-1: $16.3B in half-year revenue, an $80.7B net loss...