This Month
Will AI start living up to the hype in 2026?
After all the hype and big spending, there has been a growing sense of unease that some of the promises aren’t being matched by reality.
OpenAI in Australian blitz as it woos start-ups, corporates
The Silicon Valley giant behind ChatGPT will offer free services to major venture capital-backed tech companies as it attempts to steal a march on rivals.
November
RBA survey reveals ‘shallow’ AI adoption as businesses stop at ChatGPT
The central bank’s research also suggests Australia is well behind other advanced economies in introducing artificial intelligence into how people worked.
October
CBA escaped the AWS crash. But what if it happens again?
CBA was not affected by the AWS outage even though it became the first Australian bank to move to a single cloud provider two weeks earlier.
August
OpenAI inks deal with Commonwealth Bank
OpenAI and CBA will work together on artificial intelligence-backed services around fraud detection, customers and employees.
Godfathers of Australian AI cash in as businesses play catch-up
Woolworths-owned Quantium has become sought after in boardrooms as executives and directors seek crash courses in how to ride the AI wave.
July
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.
‘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, 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
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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
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.
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 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.
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
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.