The Frontier Brief https://throughlineadvisory.au/brief/ Twice-weekly AI intelligence for operators. Global signal, Australian and APAC lens. en-au Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:00:00 GMT Issue 007 — The $150 billion buildout gets its rulebook. https://throughlineadvisory.au/brief/007/ https://throughlineadvisory.au/brief/007/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:00:00 GMT 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. Issue 006 — Westpac put five agents inside the credit decision. https://throughlineadvisory.au/brief/006/ https://throughlineadvisory.au/brief/006/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:00:00 GMT 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. Issue 005 — The week the AI industry organised itself. https://throughlineadvisory.au/brief/005/ https://throughlineadvisory.au/brief/005/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT 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.