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Canva made all staff down tools to spend a week learning AI

An intensive bootcamp is being used by businesses to help staff overwhelmed by the latest technology and the breakneck pace of change.

ChatGPT agent

‘Try the future’: New ChatGPT AI agents promise to do your jobs

Drawing on three pre-existing OpenAI products, ChatGPT Agent lets users ask AI to take control of multi-step and fairly complex tasks.

Publishers and other website owners are being given more options to lock the front door to AI crawler bots.

Publishers, website owners to block AI ‘crawlers’ that don’t pay

Websites will find it easier to lock out bots from AI companies like OpenAI and Google that are taking data to train their models without payment or permission.

June

Shannon Sedgwick, Partner in charge of cybersecurity practice at MinterEllison.

How to safeguard your business (and your reputation)

Organisations are aware of the existence of cyber threats, but ways to minimise the dangers to systems and individual careers are less well understood.

“This was a difficult decision, but one that we think is best for the company long term,” CEO Andy Jassy told employees in a memo.

Amazon CEO warns white-collar staff that their jobs are on the line

In a memo explaining all the ways the technology giant is using AI, Andy Jassy told workers how they can stay relevant as bots become capable of doing more.

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BCA chief executive Bran Black said Australia needs a clear national AI policy.

Business Council says government must step up on big AI questions

Industry needs clear national AI goals, regulatory certainty and much faster approvals for new data centres, according to the peak industry group.

May

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke.

Boards have a tougher choice to make from today if they get hacked

Ransom payments to cybercriminals will now have to be disclosed via a government portal, putting companies under extra pressure.

Slack use has been unreliable for millions of users on Tuesday.

Slack stutters as messaging platform fixes ‘issues’

Millions of users of the workplace messaging app have reported problems sending messages and using channels they share with colleagues.

Relevance AI co-founders Daniel Vassilev, Daniel Palmer and Jacky Koh have been ahead of the curve on agentic AI.

Australian AI start-up raises $37m after backing by US tech heavyweight

Relevance AI has raised a $37 million investment from some Silicon Valley giants to build AI agents that can autonomously perform tasks previously done by humans.

April

Director-general of The Australian Signals Directorate Abigail Bradshaw has acknowledged he big challenges facing SMBs trying to be cyber secure.

Small and medium businesses must act big in cybersecurity fight

SMBs face the same frightening cybersecurity landscape as larger enterprises, but lack anything like the same financial muscle and expert staff to fight back.

CISO Lens director David Cullen says AI cyber protection software is still only of limited value in the fight against hackers.

How hackers are using AI to trick their way through cyber defences

The jury is still out on whether these new tools are more helpful to hackers or cybersecurity professionals. The tech has led to an era of deepfakes and suspicion.

Ramsay Health CEO Natalie Davis says digitisation and AI are a big part of the hospital operator’s plans.

Ramsay Healthcare chief says the age of AI care is coming

The CEO of Australia’s biggest private hospital operator has flagged greater AI adoption as a way to help improve services.

NextDC chief executive Craig Scroggie says reports of reduced investment in data centre capacity are not borne out it his company’s books.

Microsoft pull-back casts doubts on local data centre boom

The CEO of data centre operator NextDC hoses down suggestions the sector is in for a correction but analysts warn of ‘AI fatigue’ across businesses.

March

Oracle denies being breached by a hacker, but hundreds of Australian clients are on alert after being named.

Hacker claims Oracle breach, sending business and agencies scrambling

Australia’s biggest companies rushed to check their systems after a hacker claimed to have stolen important credentials via tech giant Oracle.

February

ASX’s Helen Lofthouse has described the December outage as highly irregular.

ASIC launches investigation into ASX’s December settlement failure

The corporate regulator is already suing the market operator for misfires in its ageing infrastructure platform. The new probe could lead to a second lawsuit.

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January

Atlassian chief executive Mike Cannon-Brookes recorded a video on the company’s Loom platform to accompany his results’ presentation.

Atlassian rockets to three-year high after earnings surprise

Mike Cannon-Brookes says the company has had some “massive customer wins”, sending its shares soaring almost 20 per cent on Friday.

November 2024

Shaneen Marshall, chief of technology and strategy at Zurich Financial.

AI gets real as big business finds its feet

An era of cautious, low-stakes experimentation is rapidly giving way to tangible changes in how some of Australia’s largest operations run.

October 2024

Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind says giving ChatGPT personal information to generate tailored marketing or financial recommendations may be a breach of privacy laws.

Why you could be fined for using ChatGPT at work

Giving ChatGPT personal information to generate tailored marketing or financial recommendations may be a breach of privacy laws, the Privacy Commissioner says.

Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic.

Tech giants, major banks warn Labor to tread lightly on AI regulation

The companies say sweeping rules like those in Europe and called for by public interest groups will do more harm than good, and could restrict new uses.

KPMG Australia

This is the kind of consulting work KPMG Australia will send offshore

The firm’s consulting arm plans to send 44,000 hours of work to employees based overseas this financial year as part of a push to change the way KPMG operates.

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