About AIAN


AIAN (AI Australia News) covers artificial intelligence as it actually plays out in Australia. Not the Silicon Valley hype cycle. Not breathless press releases. The real story of how AI is being adopted, regulated, debated, and built across Australian organisations, governments, and research institutions.

The site is written by Marcus Webb, a technology journalist who's spent fifteen years covering the Australian tech sector from Sydney. He's reported on everything from NBN rollout dramas to CSIRO's Data61 breakthroughs, covered AI policy debates in Canberra, and interviewed hundreds of founders, CTOs, and researchers building AI products here.

Marcus started AIAN because he got frustrated with AI coverage that treated Australia as an afterthought. We have a $23 billion tech sector, world-class research institutions, and a government that's actively shaping AI regulation. That story deserves proper coverage, not just a paragraph tacked onto a US-centric article.

What you'll find here: clear-eyed analysis of Australian AI policy, honest assessments of enterprise adoption (including what's failing), profiles of local startups doing interesting work, coverage of CSIRO and university research, and practical takes on how AI regulation is shaping business decisions.

No hype. No filler. Just the Australian AI story, told properly.