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but we are we are currently in a weird environment where we we have more a larger variety of news publications now than we've had in a very long time so your average australian reader now has a choice like just take sydney if you've got you're in sydney and you have an interest in politics and business let's say most broadly you've got the city morning herald the daily telegraph the australian financial review the australian Then on top of that, you've got the New Daily, you've got the Guardian, you've got the ABC, you've got now Politico, as we talked to Ryan Heath a few weeks ago.

You've got Capital Brief.

You've got Crikey.

You've got the, like there is a, like the nightly, like there is a plethora of news organizations now because the cost of entry for these news organizations is lower than it's ever been because they don't have to buy printing presses anymore.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's battle against tech giants has a new target, the algorithms.

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Canva is ramping up its path to a public listing, hiring senior US staff to rehearse earnings calls, manage sell-side analysts, and prepare financial guidance.

Co-founder Cliff Obrecht told Capital Brief in April the company was fully IPO ready and expected to list in 2027. though he said Canva wanted to establish its shift to an AI token business model before facing public market scrutiny.

Bub's shares jump on USFDA approval.

Bub's Australia shares ended the day up 30% after securing permanent FDA approval for three of its core infant formula products.

That's the topic of this week's On The Call, which was recorded live at Fintech Australia's Intersect Conference.

This is On The Call, a weekly live conversation with the Capital Brief Newsroom.

I'm your host, Harshdeep Paul, and today I'm joined by business correspondent, Rose McKenzie, and startup and VC correspondent, Roman Kloon.

Hello, thank you so much for joining us, the dream team of Capital Brief, Australia's best business news and politics publication.

Now, normally at this time every Thursday, I get behind the mic with our journalists on our podcast on the call to ask them about what they're hearing and get an inside take into the biggest stories in our newsroom.

And today we get to do that live with all of you here today and talk about agentic AI in banking.

because often those agentic partnerships are in fact partnerships with fintechs.

And part of what I think a lot of us are finding really exciting about the rise of agentic AI in banking and fintech is there are fantastic tools that are being used and deployed already, both within banks and within fintechs.

Growth can remain strong enough to sustain inflation without producing the productivity improvements needed to deliver substantially higher living standards.

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New Zealand's Reserve Bank has raised its official cash rate by 25 basis points to 2.75%, its second consecutive increase, as annual inflation remains above target at 4.1%.

The bank says higher fuel prices linked to the Middle East conflict have contributed significantly to the inflation surge, even as New Zealand's economic recovery remains uneven.

Support for Pauline Hanson declines, particularly among women, in the latest Capital Brief Demos AU poll.

Additionally, less than a quarter of Australians support having a data centre built near them.

This is On The Call, a weekly live conversation with the Capital Brief newsroom.

I'm your host, Harshdeep Kaur, and today I'm joined by Chief Political Correspondent Matthew Franklin and Ideas Editor James Hennessey.

Hello and welcome back to On The Call, our weekly conversation on the stories we're obsessing over in the Capitol Reef newsroom.

But of course, I think he likes being Prime Minister.

It comes to the territory.

Well, getting into this week's conversation, we are going to be talking about Capital Brief's latest poll with Demos, which shows that support for One Nation's Pauline Hanson has dropped and she's actually now marginally behind Anthony Albanese and Angus Taylor.