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
The financial services industry has become the most targeted by network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, new Akamai research has found.
ANZ organisations are reshaping resilience strategies as AI agents widen the attack surface, AvePoint ANZ Managing Director Max McNamara told a Sydney Gartner audience.
Australia's privacy regulator has opened consultation on guidance for new transparency rules. The rules will force organisations to disclose how they use automated decision-making (ADM) systems.
New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner has found both a major private patient portal vendor and the country’s central public health agency in breach of patient privacy laws, following a December 2025 cyber incident that exposed the sensitive records of nearly 100,000 people.
A terabit-scale DDoS attack took Australia’s largest privately-owned Web host offline on Saturday 23 May. The takedown has laid bare a regulatory gap that forces enterprise and government customers to fund the country’s DDoS defences themselves.
The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) concedes adoption of standards remains “sporadic” more than two decades after foundational digital health work began in Australia but claims a new framework will drive uptake.
Most organisations are accelerating artificial intelligence investment without the data foundations needed to support it, a global benchmark study has found.
More than half of enterprise AI projects are failing to deliver their objectives, with poor unstructured data management identified as the primary blocker, new Nasuni research has found.
The Albanese government's pre-election commitments to open government and transparency appear not to have made it through to key federal portfolios, which are failing the pro-disclosure obligations of the Freedom of Information Act according to the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO).
