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Seven Australian startups have secured $15.6 million in non-dilutive federal funding to commercialise dementia diagnostics, therapies, and digital tools.

Tivan (ASX:TVN) apologised to the Nganjuwarr Native Title Holders and agreed to pay $50,000 for breaching a heritage protection agreement.

Avira Resources (ASX:AVW) has remobilised drilling contractor Strike Drilling to resume drilling at its high-grade Mt Cattlin Gold Project.

ASIC is moving past warnings to prepare enforcement action against non-compliant firms in Australia's $200 billion private credit sector.

Matsa Resources (ASX:MAT) has agreed to sell tenements at its Lake Carey Gold Project to AngloGold Ashanti Australia.

Bounty Oil & Gas (ASX:BUY) has agreed to acquire PetroQuest Liberia Deep Water and secured $3.6 million in placement commitments.

Fortuna Metals (ASX:FUN) finished a 7,618-metre shallow aircore drilling campaign designed to evaluate deeper mineralisation.

Iron Bear Resources (ASX:IBR) executed a binding term sheet to sell its Australian subsidiary, Mining International, to Copperhead Investments.

Nanoveu (ASX:NVU) announced that its subsidiary Embedded A.I. Systems received physical silicon samples of its 16nm ECS-DoT edge AI chip.

Tungsten Mining (ASX:TGN) secured $50 million before costs through a share placement to institutional and professional investors.

Haranga Resources (ASX:HAR) has commenced its Phase 2 underground drilling programme at the Lincoln Gold Project.

Narryer Metals (ASX:NYM) has executed an agreement to acquire 100% of the Redhill Copper Project in Chile.

Parbo Resources (ASX:PRB) commenced trading on the Australian Securities Exchange on Sept. 22 following a fully underwritten $5 million IPO.

Global Lithium Resources (ASX:GL1) has agreed to a full acquisition by Titan Australia Mining via a scheme of arrangement for $1.15 per share in cash.

Genetic Signatures (ASX:GSS) has agreed on commercial terms to acquire Microba Life Sciences (ASX:MAP).

Rhythm Biosciences (ASX:RHY) completed the first phase of its ColoSTAT technology transfer and assessment with a National Health Service laboratory.

Broken Hill Gold (ASX:BH6) has finalised the strategic demerger of its North Queensland exploration assets to Manda Resources.

Anthropic committed a further $10 million in Claude API credits to Australian researchers and deep-tech startups.

QBE Insurance Group (ASX:QBE) announced the appointment of Jonathan Groves as CEO for Australia Pacific, effective Nov. 1.

Bellevue Gold (ASX:BGL) delivered $62.6 million in record free cash flow for FY26 after meeting its annual production target.

Australia has joined 19 other nations and the European Commission to demand strict international regulation and human oversight of artificial intelligence development.

Capstone Copper (ASX:CSC) has agreed to sell its Cozamin mine in Mexico to Luca Mining for a total consideration of up to $385 million.

All four major Australian banks now expect the central bank to raise interest rates in September.

Firmus has launched an initial public offering to raise at least US$5 billion ahead of a planned ASX debut on Oct. 26.