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…
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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…
M&S says hackers broke in through third-party contractor
Marks & Spencer said hackers broke into its systems by tricking employees at a third-party contractor, skirting its digital defences to launch a cyberattack that…
BHP sets sights on enterprise-wide AI transformation
BHP is taking the next step in an enterprise-wide AI transformation, creating new practice lead roles to architect and scale AI platforms across its operations.…
From Red to Real: Why It’s Time to Rethink Cyber Risk Reporting
Cybersecurity leaders are under increasing pressure to justify their investments—especially when budgets are tightening. Ahead of his tutorial at AusCERT 2025, Jason Ha, Ethan’s CISO…
Google unveils AI upgrades at I/O conference
Google said it would put artificial intelligence into the hands of more Web surfers while teasing a US$249.99-a-month ($389) subscription for its AI power users,…
Worley targets a 10x return on its AI investments
ASX-listed engineering firm Worley is becoming a “convenor” of digital technology for its energy, chemical and resource industry customers, changing the way capital projects are…
Vic gov puts $14 million into two AI projects
The Victorian government will invest $14 million into two artificial intelligence projects to aid regulatory processes and as a support when assessing the skills of…