For most of the last two years, enterprise AI conversations started with the model. Organisations debated which foundation model to use, how to fine-tune it, and which orchestration framework would deliver the best results.
Microsoft is undertaking the biggest restructuring of its Copilot strategy since it began embedding OpenAI's technology across its software three years ago, a move triggered by leaked internal figures showing that very few of its commercial customers pay for the assistant or use it regularly.
Elastic has expanded its collaboration with OpenAI to help organisations build production AI applications that draw on their own enterprise data. For organisations that deploy the two together, Elasticsearch acts as the retrieval and governance layer feeding OpenAI's reasoning models.
A single compromised email account, paired with an AI assistant, can be escalated into chief executive impersonation and a $250,000 wire transfer scam. A controlled attack by Barracuda's red team has shown how.
Almost two thirds of Victorian local government officers are using artificial intelligence without clear governance behind them, a new survey has found. The gap exposes councils to privacy, accountability and compliance risk.
One in four malicious data breaches over the past year was AI-enabled, and those breaches cost an average of US$6 million, about US$1 million more than the global average.
The UK government has abandoned its controversial national digital ID card, with reports that incoming prime minister Andy Burnham is dropping the scheme announced by the previous administration. Savings will be redirected to a tax cut aimed at lowering household electricity bills. https://insight.scmagazineuk.com/news-briefs/uk-government-scraps-controversial-digital-id-card-scheme
A practitioner's observation: After forty years of designing and implementing records systems for some of Australia’s most highly regulated organisations, I have something to say, and I think the profession needs to hear it.
An autonomous agent powered by OpenAI’s advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models went rogue during a security test and hacked multi-billion dollar tech startup, Hugging Face, last week. The agent didn’t just exploit vulnerabilities in Hugging Face’s systems to achieve what it perceived as a strategic gain. It also exploited vulnerabilities within OpenAI’s infrastructure.
Federal and state agencies wanting to run AI inside their own security perimeter have a new sovereign hosting option. Macquarie Government has launched an Azure cloud, security and AI practice built for Protected-level government requirements.
Western Sydney University has given every staff member enterprise-grade Microsoft 365 Copilot access. It is the first university in New South Wales and the second in Australia to do so.
Configuration-led approaches to Microsoft 365 governance are no longer sufficient, according to new research from Info-Tech Research Group. The spread of AI tools such as Copilot is making the weaknesses harder to ignore.
The alleged hacker who claimed access to two million Origin Energy customer records says a private settlement has been reached with the company and no data will be published. Origin has separately confirmed that customer data was accessed and disclosed.
A Sydney-based Microsoft specialist Informotion has been ranked alongside global systems integrators including Accenture, Avanade, Capgemini and TCS in a new analyst assessment
Enterprises are collecting the right volume of data in only a reported 2 per cent of legal matters. AI prompts, system responses and AI-generated outputs are creating a new class of discoverable records that traditional discovery tools were not built to handle.
Qantas has dodged penalties that could have run into billions of dollars after simple human error was found to be the cause of the massive 2025 data breach that affected millions of customers, and ISO27001 compliance failed to prevent.
Picture two finance managers in the autumn of 2027, one in Manchester and one in Lyon, doing exactly the same thing: exporting an invoice as a tidy, letterheaded PDF and emailing it to a domestic business customer. In Manchester, this is still a perfectly ordinary invoice and will remain one until April 2029. In Lyon, it stopped being one a year earlier.
