The Frontier Brief
What actually moved in AI — Australia and APAC first, then the money, the regulation and the deployments. Charts, not think-pieces.
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Issue 007 · 7 August 2026The $150 billion buildout gets its rulebook.
Canberra takes the mandatory data-centre standards to National Cabinet and tells the states they can't be watered down — under a $150 billion, six-gigawatt pipeline. NAB becomes the second Big Four bank in a week to move on agents, this time facing customers. And five institutions now pay up to $100,000 a month for millisecond access to the President's posts.
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Issue 006 · 5 August 2026Westpac put five agents inside the credit decision.
A Big Four bank now runs five agents inside mortgage and credit-card decisions — 32,000 payslips a week, 150,000 banker hours saved. Qantas is examining up to 1,000 corporate roles. And a US appeals court ruled that when a customer's agent shops, the customer shopped.
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Issue 005 · 31 July 2026The week the AI industry organised itself.
A security alliance formed and the frontier labs sat it out. The market split its verdict on AI capex. And the FBI knew about the OpenAI agent breach before OpenAI did.