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
Seventy percent of organisations say less than half their unstructured data is discoverable and usable for analytics or AI, according to new research from analyst firm BARC. The finding lands as enterprises push AI agents into production on top of documents, emails and images they cannot fully see.
Google Cloud has released the Open Knowledge Format, an open specification for the context and curated knowledge that AI agents need to work accurately.
Cybersecurity agencies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States issued a call to action on Monday for cyber defenders. The message was clear: artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful weapon for cyber attackers; defenders must act urgently to improve their cyber defences.
There is a very real risk the AI revolution could cause an international catastrophe within five years, a panel of 272 experts has found. The experts defined catastrophe as more than one million deaths, more than $ US100 billion in losses, or civilisation-scale damage to democracy or privacy.
A ransomware attack on Australia's second-largest sugar producer has shut two Queensland mills, the latest blow to critical infrastructure as attacks on essential industries climb.
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has opened national consultation on the evolution of the Essential Eight, its flagship cyber security framework.
The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) has released version 4.1 of its Information Governance Reference Model (IGRM), the first major revision since 2012. The update arrives as organisations confront AI adoption, expanding privacy obligations and growing pressure to coordinate information decisions across departments.
More than one in 10 enterprises will be AI-first by 2030, outperforming competitors in the adoption of AI agents, semantics and converged data and analytics (D&A) platforms, according to Gartner, Inc.
The Department of Finance has tied staff use of generative artificial intelligence to data classification and recordkeeping rules, in guidance released under Freedom of Information.
The AI agent followed its instructions, optimised the task, and executed flawlessly. Yet in doing so, it set off a chain of decisions that exposed sensitive data, alienated customers, and left executives scrambling to explain an outcome no one had explicitly authorised.
