Singtel open to selling “meaningful minority stake” in Optus
Singtel is open to adding a local partner to its Optus operation in exchange for equity in the carrier. The Singtel Group, Optus’ owner, announced…
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NT government to spend $5m on payroll automation
The Northern Territory government is embarking on a $5 million payroll automation program, comprising enhancements to its current mainframe-based HR system and “complementary solutions”. The…
Fears of unfettered hacking spurred by Anthropic’s Mythos AI model likely ‘overstated’
Early fears that Anthropic’s new AI model, Mythos, could dramatically turbocharge hacking are looking overstated a month after its release. The company warned at launch in…
Telcos unable to overturn $7.3bn bill to renew mobile spectrum
Telstra, Optus, TPG and NBN Co will pay just over $7.3 billion to keep expiring mobile and wireless spectrum licenses after the sector’s efforts to…
AustralianSuper hires its first head of AI and automation
AustralianSuper has appointed Microsoft A/NZ’s current national chief technology officer Sarah Carney as its inaugural head of artificial intelligence and automation. Carney will step into…
Event Cinemas owner EVT to make network software-defined
Entertainment and travel group EVT has started moving to software-defined networking in a bid to boost its data capacity and reduce its reliance on physical…
Service Stream is checking field work with computer vision
Service Stream is increasingly using computer vision to verify that field work is completed to specification and safely. Service Stream’s head of data and AI…
Victorian bulk porting scammer gets over two years in prison
A 35-year-old man from Lynbrook, south-east Melbourne, has received a prison sentence of two years and two months, with a 12-month non-parole period, for a…
Telstra and Ericsson to jointly research and test 6G
Telstra will join its long-term equipment partner Ericsson in a program of reciprocal development and testing of 6G technology. The two companies have signed a…
Grafana refuses ransom demand after GitHub breach
Grafana Labs, the maker of popular open source monitoring and observability tooling, is resisting paying off a threat actor that gained access to its GitHub…
OpenAI defeats Elon Musk’s lawsuit
A US jury has ruled against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI, finding the artificial intelligence company not liable to the world’s richest person…
Rio Tinto brings automation, Copilot to its finance function
Rio Tinto has put Microsoft’s Power Platform to use in its global shared services operations, with the first use case introducing automation to its month-end…