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Fuel, wages, insurance, energy. The costs keep stacking up. COSBOA is warning that more cost pressure risks pushing a fragile situation over the edge.

Dext CEO Sabby Gill explains what the next stage of automation looks like for small businesses.

OpenAI has shut down Sora, its AI video generation app, just months after it topped the App Store charts. 

From fuel costs to borrowing pressure, Australian small businesses are being squeezed on every front. Oliver Hume Chief Economist Matt Bell unpacks the numbers behind the pain.

When fuel costs rise, everything else follows. COSBOA’s Skye Cappuccio says small businesses are resilient, but they cannot absorb sustained cost increases indefinitely.

Generic emails are getting ignored faster than ever. Here is what personalised outreach actually looks like in 2026, and how any SME owner can do it.

Meta has 250 million small businesses on its platforms. Now Zuckerberg is making them a company-wide priority. 

Australian fintech Prospa has partnered with Qantas Business Rewards, letting eligible SMEs earn up to 500,000 points per loan.

A new RMIT and Deloitte report puts a dollar figure on low AI literacy in Australia. We unpack the numbers that should have every SME operator paying attention.

If you’ve been running your business for years without AI, you’re not alone. But study finds the data behind that choice is harder to ignore than most operators think.

Small businesses lost an average of $15,257 last financial year due to late payments, according to Xero. Now Payday Super is coming and late payments could force them to miss the deadline.

For the first time, Australian organisations can capture standardised neurodiversity data about their workforce.

Company registrations surged 16.1% yoy in February while GST registrations stayed flat. Lawpath co-founder Tom Willis says founders are thinking about structure earlier than ever before.

Before the RBA raised rates in March, Australians were already rushing to lock in credit. Equifax’s February Consumer Market Pulse shows the scale of that anticipatory movement

Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Acrobat and Firefly are all part of Adobe’s new NVIDIA partnership. Here is what businesses using Adobe tools need to know about what comes next.

Maxme founder Renata Sguario has three tips for Australian SMEs considering India: commit to in-person visits, lead with relationship building and get your partner strategy right. 

OpenAI’s Codex usage has more than doubled in Australia in the month since launch.

Full-time employment fell by 30,000 in February while part-time rose by 79,000, ABS data shows.

AI tools are multiplying faster than most businesses can evaluate themIntuit Mailchimp’s Anthony Capano says the problem is not adoption. It is knowing what to skip.

COSBOA has launched its 2026 Small Business Perspectives Survey focused exclusively on regional, rural and remote businesses. Responses close 30 April.