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Firmus Technologies has cancelled its float.
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Aaron Patrick

The AI dream machine takes a hit with Firmus’s failed float

If the second-largest share market float in Australia history had gone ahead as planned, co-founder Oliver Curtis would have graduated from a ex-banker with a criminal record into a $5.8 billion AI tycoon.

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A woman has become the seventh person charged after police allegedly uncovered an elaborate plot to assassinate a prominent underworld figure.

Woman charged over alleged plot to kill Sydney crime figure

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Indika Bambrick Samarasinghe was allegedly behind the wheel of a car that crashed into a crowd of Newcastle Knights fans on grand final weekend has had a big win in court.
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Teen who allegedly crashed into Newcastle Knights fans granted bail

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A Sydney councillor has broken her silence after Mick Mundine was charged over alleged historical sexual assaults, revealing why she decided to speak out after 40 years.
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Councillor identifies herself as 15yo in Mundine allegations

Australia
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New South Wales Police have arrested a man after an alleged carjacking caused chaos in Sydney’s CBD on Thursday night. 

City chaos as alleged carjacker injures woman, rams cop car

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Victoria

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A teenage boy is in a critical condition after he allegedly took part in an arson attack. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)

Teenager suffers horrific burns in alleged arson attack

Australia
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Snezana Markoski and Sam Wood

Distressing details about Sam Wood’s alleged DV attack

Victoria
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Van Viet Truong died after allegedly being set upon by a group of youths near his shop. (HANDOUT/BRIMBANK CITY COUNCIL)

Group assault charges related to grocer's death dropped

Victoria
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A mother and her young son were seated in the grandstands at the MCG when the food was allegedly thrown at them.
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Man charged after plate of nachos hurled at Lions supporters

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Queensland

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A Brisbane disability support worker has been charged with a swathe of offences after he allegedly groomed, indecently assaulted, and supplied drugs to a teenage boy under his care.

Disability worker charged with incident assault of child

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A woman and a child have died after their car rolled over into a dam.

Woman and young girl found dead after car ploughed into dam

Queensland
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The family of Kaiyah Kennedy has issued a statement in the wake of his tragic death.

‘Beautiful boy’: Family reveals pain of tragic 12yo’s loss

Australia
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A woman is accused of attempting to murder two boys by exposing them to a noxious substance. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Woman charged after boys 'exposed to noxious substance'

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South Australia

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Aidan Alchin, 23, was killed in a crash with two cars in Paracombe, Adelaide Hills.

After years of bullying, Aidan found love. Then tragedy struck months before his wedding

South Australia
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James Vlassakis was seen walking through the Adelaide Pre-release Centre car park before being driven away.

Snowtown killer seen in public for first time in decades

South Australia
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An 18-year-old man has been charged after allegedly picking up a young girl and carrying her away as she walked with family in Adelaide’s north.

Teen charged over alleged abduction of little girl

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Wild scenes erupted. TikTok

Wild scenes erupt at beaches

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Western Australia

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A Perth woman has revealed the horrifying moment a group of strange men took her photo at a pub and used AI to turn it into sexualised content. 

Perth woman’s horror after men turn pub pic into AI porn

Technology
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Two decades after it opened to raised eyebrows, Henderson is the heart of Australia’s biggest rearmament since World War II.

Inside WA’s massive new defence hub

Western Australia
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ASC CEO Alex Walsh says AUKUS will bring Western Australia long-term economic sustainment.

Nuclear subs bring more benefits than national security

Australia
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Rockingham is becoming the biggest naval centre in the southern hemisphere, and HII’s Eric Chewning has the seaside town in his sights.

All compasses point to Rockingham as city rides defence wave

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ACT

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Clocks will jump forward one hour at 2am on Sunday. Glenn Campbell/NcaNewsWire

Why millions of Aussies are set to lose an hour’s sleep

Australia
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A guest at the Ibis Budget Canberra was charged $1800 when shower steam set off the smoke detector.

Budget hotel ‘blindsides’ guest with $1800 charge after hot shower

ACT
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Liu Jinsong, right, China’s new ambassador in Canberra, with Masaaki Kanai head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau.

‘Asia enforcer’: China’s new ambassador lands in Canberra

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ACT Liberal Party leader Mark Parton and, inset, the photo he took in the committee room.

‘Wanna swap’: Libs leader responds to sex worker text claim

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Tasmania

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A parliamentary inquiry wants "Daniel's Law" redrafted, saying it has significant problems. (Dan Peled/AAP PHOTOS)

Pushback over 'Daniel's Law' identifying sex offenders

Australia
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The smelter had been at loggerheads with state-owned Hydro Tasmania over a new energy deal. (Ethan James/AAP PHOTOS)

Aluminium smelter gets $200m bailout to keep lights on

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A coroner has heard of scenes of "organised chaos" after a jumping castle tragedy in Tasmania. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

Top cop makes apology over jumping castle tragedy

Australia
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Three families grieving after devastating deadly head-on crash on Bass Highway, Tasmania

Three families grieving after devastating deadly head-on crash

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Northern Territory

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The Australian soldier killed at Mount Bundey in the Northern Territory has been named as 28 year old Brendan Hannam, a junior NCO in the Royal Australian Regiment

28-year-old soldier killed in Army accident named

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Ali Curung, an Indigenous Australian community in the Barkly Region of the NT.
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Taxpayer-funded appeal for brutal repeat DV offender fails

Australia
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Firefighters are battling a blaze burning in extreme weather conditions on the outskirts of Darwin. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)
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Emergency warning as bushfire threatens homes and lives

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Outback Wrangler star Matt Wright, wife Kaia and Top End Safari Camp are now facing litigation over a 2023 airboat crash in three jurisdictions.
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‘Beyond me’: Judge questions Matt Wright boat crash lawsuits

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