An internal AI agent at Bunnings has saved staff half a million hours of administrative work, according to Google, as parent company Wesfarmers deploys agents across its retail portfolio. The figure was cited at Google Cloud's Gemini at Work 2026 event, where the company announced the Gemini agent, a single agent for knowledge work, content creation and coding.
Sixty per cent of Australian workers have personally spotted an error made by an AI tool at work. Almost half say the most significant error they saw had consequences beyond minor inconvenience, including financial, compliance or reputational impact.
Copilot will be able to read, organise and change files on Windows PCs with user permission, under a Microsoft plan to split AI work between the device and the cloud.
The NSW Audit Office is building a central platform to collect general ledger, journal and payroll data directly from state agencies. Around 180 agencies are due to be onboarded by 30 June 2027.
Customer requests made by voice or chat could soon flow straight through to back-office execution on a single agentic automation platform. Automation Anywhere has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Boost.ai, an enterprise conversational and voice AI company, from Nordic Capital.
Working out exactly what personal information was exposed in a data breach, and whose, is the slow middle step of incident response. Epiq has bought a platform built to automate it.
Agents that work out which AI regulations and standards apply to a system, then test whether its controls work, are coming to Collibra's governance platform, following the acquisition of trail ML, a Munich-based company founded in 2023.
Victoria Police is taking an average of nine months to process Freedom of Information requests – unchanged since at least 2022, when it was attributed to COVID-19.
Organisations that achieve positive AI outcomes invest up to four times more in data quality, governance, and workforce preparation than those with poor AI results, according to new research from Gartner.
A detailed guide clarifying how AI systems should process PDF documents has been published by The PDF Association. The FAQ warns that common ingestion practices risk information loss and hallucinations.
Singapore has put forward a proposed international standard, ISO/IEC 42119-8, that would set standardised testing approaches for generative AI systems, including benchmarking and red teaming methodologies.
No Australian or New Zealand organisation features among the roughly 50 partners granted access to Project Glasswing, Anthropic's landmark AI-driven cybersecurity initiative. Now a rival model from OpenAI has entered the field, with a broader access pathway that may offer ANZ security professionals a more realistic route to frontier AI defensive tooling.
Christchurch City Council has issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking vendors to deliver a Microsoft 365-based Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS) to replace its existing on-premise TRIM platform.
A global survey of 5,000 IT and security leaders has found that just 5% say both they and their organisation have full trust in their cybersecurity vendors - raising serious questions for CISOs, risk managers and boards about how they evaluate and manage vendor relationships.
New, more powerful artificial intelligence (AI) models are announced pretty regularly these days: the latest version of ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini always has new features and new capabilities that its makers are eager for customers to try out. But now Anthropic has announced a new model with great fanfare, but is only giving access to a select handful of users. In what the New York Times calls a “terrifying warning sign” of the model’s power, the company has instead started an initiative called Project Glasswing to use the model for good instead of evil.
Three years into the generative AI era, most enterprises are failing to convert growing investment and adoption into measurable business impact, according to new research from Forrester.
