Commonwealth agencies would be barred from automating any decision that requires judgement, under a bill now before the House of Representatives. They would also have to publish the rules, weightings and test results behind every high risk system.
Large language models will abandon a correct answer if a user repeats a false statement often enough. Some will flip back and forth on the same claim within a single conversation.
A cybersecurity incident that stopped a global medical device manufacturer from making or shipping product has ended with operations fully restored. The one clinical workflow it degraded is working again.
An AI agent compromised roughly 30 companies, exfiltrated 3.1TB of data and drafted the ransom demands. Token costs ran between 40 cents and four dollars per victim.
Australian organisations now have a common vocabulary for describing how sensitive their data is. The same scheme sets out what protection each category warrants, and how that expectation travels when data is shared.
AI systems inside Australian and New Zealand organisations are surfacing sensitive information to people who are not cleared to see it. The problem is now the second most common category of AI security incident in the region according to a new report.
National Australia Bank has been removed from the signatory list of an OpenAI open letter on cyber defence, two days after it appeared as the only Australian organisation endorsing the document.
Law firms risk a crisis of 'cognitive surrender' as lawyers treat artificial intelligence as a definitive authority rather than a tool, a new behavioural science study warns. The research finds machine dependence is impairing professional judgment, particularly among junior lawyers using automation for routine work.
Up to half of enterprise data team capacity in Australia and Singapore is consumed by single-use data work that will never be reused, new research from Quest Software has found. The study describes the pattern as a 'hidden tax' on capacity at the moment organisations most need it for AI initiatives.
RACQ has signed a five-year partnership with Adobe and Deloitte Digital to transform how it serves more than 1.7 million members. The deal uses a flexible “Lighthouse” model that gives RACQ early access to Adobe’s latest AI tools. Adobe says it is the first such arrangement in Asia Pacific and Japan.
Employees and customers increasingly encounter AI-generated content via emails, chatbot responses, learning materials, and documents. But enterprises have no way to know how that content, also known as unstructured data, is performing. To improve content over time, it makes sense to observe the human reactions to it. Is it clear? Is it trustworthy? Is it driving the desired actions?
John Edwards, the New Zealand-born former privacy regulator, has resigned as UK Information Commissioner after a workplace investigation into his conduct toward staff.
The Australian Privacy Commissioner has found two health service providers breached privacy law by collecting sensitive health information through third-party tracking pixels without consent.
New Zealand telco One NZ has credited a new deployment of UiPath Maestro as a victory over the challenge of transforming legacy-heavy operations at scale without a costly infrastructure overhaul.
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.
