Canva's Hardest Day Yet

By the Orchestra editors · 4 min read

TL;DR

Canva cuts more than 1200 jobs in its biggest restructure to date
NSW Health cyber breach declared a major incident, police investigating
Apple opens Siri AI actions to all third-party apps in iOS 27.3
Reddit takes Australia's teen social media ban to the High Court

AI · Worldwide

Apple opens Siri AI to every third-party app

iOS 27.3 lets developers integrate Siri AI across all apps, giving the assistant personal context, natural language understanding and on-screen awareness. A new "app skills" feature lets devs bundle multiple tasks into a single Siri action.

Anthropic Message Threads cut latency 35% on long conversations

A new Messages API feature lets agents send only the delta of a conversation instead of the full history each turn. For requests in the 500K–1M token range, time to first token drops roughly 35% — a meaningful win for agent builders running multi-turn workflows.

Australian Tech

Canva to cut more than 1200 jobs

Co-founder Melanie Perkins called it the company's "hardest moment" as Canva announced a major restructure. The cuts come as the design platform pushes deeper into AI while managing cost pressures across its workforce.

NSW Health cyber breach declared major incident

Police are investigating a cybersecurity breach at NSW Health. Officials say patient data has not been compromised, but the incident has been escalated to a major incident classification.

Reddit takes AU social media ban to the High Court

Reddit's lawyers told the High Court that Australia's world-first teen social media ban is "ill thought out" and amounts to a "profound restriction on political debate." The case, joined by a libertarian advocacy group, is the first legal challenge to the law.