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New research shows a third of Australian workers use AI on the job without telling their employer. Banning it just drives the productivity underground and leaves the risks in place. Here is the smarter response for a Melbourne business.
The federal Digital Solutions program relaunched in July 2026 with a new focus on AI and emerging tech. For a Melbourne small business it is a genuinely useful, low-cost on-ramp. Here is what it covers, what it does not, and how to turn a free webinar into an actual result.
Agentic commerce is not just a retail story. AI agents will find and book service businesses, and they will run your back office. Here is the calm, practical way for a Melbourne business to get ahead of it.
Australia has banned subscription traps, hidden fees and manipulative website design, effective 1 July 2027. It reads like a compliance story, but almost every rule is about what your website does. Here is the plain-English to-do list.
OpenAI is opening ChatGPT advertising to smaller businesses with a self-serve tool. A new place to get found is worth understanding, but it is not worth rushing into. Here is what a Melbourne business should actually do.
New data shows visitors arriving from AI assistants like ChatGPT convert better than Google organic search. Fewer clicks, warmer customers, and you can finally measure it. Here is what that means for your website.
Agentic commerce has landed in Australia: AI agents that search, compare and check out for a customer. Big retailers are split between joining in and blocking it. Here is what the shift means for a Melbourne business that isn't a national chain.
Shopping agents that research, compare and buy on a customer's behalf are now live in Australia. When the customer never sees a results page, the businesses an agent can actually read are the only ones in the running.
The US has lifted its export ban on Anthropic's frontier AI models, with Australian access returning from 1 July. Before you switch everything back on, use the restart to fix what the outage exposed.
The 2026 Victorian budget backs SMEs with a new Small Business Activation Fund and a $14 million AI package. A grant only pays off if it fixes the system underneath, not if it buys one more tool nobody uses.
Australians are starting to ask ChatGPT and Gemini for a good local plumber or accountant instead of scrolling Google. Here is what a Melbourne small business can actually do to be the name the AI gives back.
Anthropic just put Claude inside Slack as a shared team assistant. The interesting part for a small business is not the chatbot, it is where AI is finally showing up: inside the work you already do.
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