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Bunnings Bets on Agents and Saves Half a Million Hours

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.
AI Guardrails Lag Behind AI Deployment

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.
Microsoft Gives Copilot Hands on Local Windows Files

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.
NSW Auditor Pulls Agency Ledgers Onto Central Data Platform

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.
Automation Anywhere Targets the Front Office

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.
Epiq Adds Data Mining Platform for Cyber Incidents

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.
Collibra Targets manual GRC Work with Acquisition

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.
Ungoverned Data Is Stalling AI, Partners Say

ANZ organisations whose AI projects are stalled by data problems can now buy records governance design and enforcement technology as one package. Sydney-based data governance vendor RecordPoint has signed records and information management consultancy Informotion as a delivery partner across both countries.
Gartner's Five Year-End Actions for CISOs

More than half of organisations have no defined way to limit what AI agents can access, or simply give agents the same access as humans. Gartner says chief information security officers (CISOs) should now treat every frontier AI deployment as an insider risk.
One Email, Two Attacks: Human and AI

Phishing emails are now carrying two attacks in one message. One targets the person reading the email; the other targets the AI assistant that summarises, prioritises or acts on it.

Bunnings Bets on Agents and Saves Half a Million Hours

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.
AI Guardrails Lag Behind AI Deployment

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.
Microsoft Gives Copilot Hands on Local Windows Files

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.
NSW Auditor Pulls Agency Ledgers Onto Central Data Platform

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.
Automation Anywhere Targets the Front Office

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.
Epiq Adds Data Mining Platform for Cyber Incidents

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.
Collibra Targets manual GRC Work with Acquisition

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.
Ungoverned Data Is Stalling AI, Partners Say

ANZ organisations whose AI projects are stalled by data problems can now buy records governance design and enforcement technology as one package. Sydney-based data governance vendor RecordPoint has signed records and information management consultancy Informotion as a delivery partner across both countries.
Gartner's Five Year-End Actions for CISOs

More than half of organisations have no defined way to limit what AI agents can access, or simply give agents the same access as humans. Gartner says chief information security officers (CISOs) should now treat every frontier AI deployment as an insider risk.
One Email, Two Attacks: Human and AI

Phishing emails are now carrying two attacks in one message. One targets the person reading the email; the other targets the AI assistant that summarises, prioritises or acts on it.