AI systems in the average large organisation can reach just 45 per cent of company data. In financial services that figure falls to 33 per cent, and in healthcare to 40 per cent. The numbers come from Scaling AI Agents with Trustworthy Data, an MIT Technology Review Insights report sponsored by Google Cloud. It draws on a global survey of 300 senior executives.
All 10 NSW government agencies examined for their use of artificial intelligence keep an AI register. But only four of them record the AI they have formally assessed. The rest of their AI use sits outside any inventory.
A NSW government insurer is asking the market how it could collapse four separate document repositories into one. It has also put a number on what it expects to save. The target is a 20 to 30 per cent reduction in annual licensing and maintenance costs.
New Zealand's central digital agency has been told to stop delivering projects and start setting standards. It has also been told to open a direct channel to Australia's Digital Transformation Agency and import models that already work. Trans-Tasman sourcing and security collaboration are named as joint opportunities to explore.
A breach has exposed the names, employing organisations and work email addresses of more than 100,000 UK police and criminal justice staff. It appears to have required no malware and no zero-day. A misconfigured permission on a public-facing web portal is the reported cause.
A digital signer can clear identity verification at the start of a remote witnessing session and be replaced before the document is executed. Secured Signing has released the ID Trust Console, which re-tests the person on screen throughout a video signing meeting rather than once at the door.
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.
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.
Artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic has expanded access to a highly advanced model deemed too dangerous for public release, including Australia in the select handful of users. The large language model, known as Claude Mythos, is now being rolled out to an additional 150 organisations across 15 countries, including the Australian government and several local businesses, as part of Project Glasswing.
All 10 public universities in New South Wales have deficiencies in their IT and cyber security controls, the NSW Auditor-General has found, with weak management of legacy systems leaving the sector exposed to data breaches and system failures.
Stolen healthcare data is being traded through a mature global underground economy spanning ransomware groups, access brokers and fraud marketplaces, new TrendAI research reveals.
The Australian Government has signed its second Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft in seven weeks, this time covering cyber security, secure cloud and critical infrastructure resilience.
