Westpac hires CBA’s data chief to lead AI, data and digital
Westpac has made a major coup by landing the services of CBA’s chief data and analytics officer Andrew McMullan from September. Andrew McMullan (Image credit:…
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Telstra addresses external antenna claims by Vodafone
Telstra says a “deep review” of its mobile network coverage claims has found they’re supportable, and not based on data only collected using an external…
EU, US authorities take down malware network
European, American and Canadian authorities have taken down over 300 servers worldwide and issued international arrest warrants against 20 suspects in a crackdown on malware,…
ANZ explores agentic AI opportunities
ANZ Banking Group is seeking out AI agent opportunities to improve its banker productivity. (L-R) Eran Agrios, Salesforce GM and SVP, Financial Services and Gerard Florian,…
Informatica explores sale again – iTnews
Informatica is exploring a sale after attracting renewed takeover interest from suitors, including Salesforce, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. Shares of Informatica…
Amazon tests AI audio summaries for products
Amazon is testing AI-powered short-form audio summaries on select product detail pages, the e-commerce giant said on Wednesday, as tech companies continue to integrate artificial…
Macquarie BFS prepares its teams to work with AI agents
Macquarie Banking and Financial Services (BFS) is starting to train and prepare its workforce now for a future that will see agentic AI introduced into…
AEMC draws up electricity rules for data centres in AI boom
The Australian Energy Market Commission is considering new rules to manage an expected influx of high-capacity data centres in coming years, concerned at how these…
Treasury Wine Estates uses AI agents to find consumer insights
Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) has built two AI agents to interrogate trend data and suggest ways to potentially capitalise on what that data says. The…
Circles.Life fined over identity checking failures during mobile porting
Circles.Life, a now-defunct mobile virtual network operator, has been fined $413,160 for its role in enabling mobile phone porting scams that netted scammers at least…
Microsoft files legal action against information-stealing malware Lumma Stealer
Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has filed a legal action against Lumma Stealer, after it found nearly 400,000 Windows computers globally infected by the information-stealing…
OpenAI buys iPhone designer Ive’s hardware startup
OpenAI is buying Jony Ive’s startup io Products in a US$6.5 billion ($10 billion) deal and will bring the chief designer of early iPhones on…