Lion to embed AI across its operations
Lion is deploying OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise to its 2500 staff and agentic coding tool Codex as well, as part of a plan to embed AI…
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Alleged ‘Hafnium’ hacker-for-hire extradited to the United States
A Chinese national accused of directing attacks as part of the large scale Hafnium intrusion campaign has appeared in court in the United States after being…
Australia to charge Big Tech companies two percent levy unless they strike local news deals
The Australian government said that Meta, Alphabet’s Google and TikTok could face multimillion-dollar charges if they did not negotiate deals to pay local media outlets…
Woolworths gives agentic-powered Olive chatbot to its 200,000 staff
Woolworths has gone live with an agentic AI-augmented version of its Olive chatbot to its 200,000-plus staff, and revealed how it is keeping the agentic…
‘Firestarter’ malware survives Cisco firewall patches
Cisco has confirmed that the ArcaneDoor threat actor deployed a persistence mechanism that isn’t handled by the security patches released by the company in September…
US judge dismisses Musk’s fraud claims in OpenAI case at his request
A US judge has dismissed Elon Musk’s fraud claims in his lawsuit accusing OpenAI and co-founder Sam Altman of betraying OpenAI’s original mission, but plans…
US State Dept orders global warning about alleged AI thefts by DeepSeek, other Chinese firms
The US State Department has ordered a global push to bring attention to what it says are widespread efforts by Chinese companies, including AI startup DeepSeek,…
ANZ Banking Group finds AI chief
ANZ Banking Group will bring in Kai Yang as its first chief data and AI officer, starting from July. Yang, who will report to group…
University of Melbourne, RMIT build ties with AWS
Two Victorian universities have unveiled collaboration agreements with Amazon Web Services this week, powering digital infrastructure transformation and innovation initiatives. University of Melbourne signed a…
In two Amazon units, ‘builder’ replaces traditional job titles
During Amazon’s annual review season now underway, hundreds of employees will see their job titles stripped. The company is not punishing underperformers. Rather, in a…
Attacker embeds Claude Code in mass credential harvesting op
An unnamed threat actor has succesfully incorporated Anthropic’s Claude Code AI coding assistant into their workflow in order to run a massive credential harvesting operation,…
Telstra’s AI bid to nip customer complaints in the bud
Telstra is using agentic AI to interrogate its customer data in a bid to ease pressure on its frontline call centre operations. The carrier revealed…