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.

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.