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Australian firms not ready for AI at scale, study warns
Only 8% of data and AI leaders said their information was ready for scale, as weak governance and skills gaps held back adoption.
Smartsheet wins Australian IRAP security assessment
The assessment should make it easier for Australian agencies and regulated firms to buy Smartsheet, after an independent review cleared its controls for sensitive data.
Sinch launches Australian hosting region for Mailgun
Banks, hospitals and universities can now keep transactional email data and logs onshore under the new region, easing compliance pressure.
Australian firms scale AI only as trust builds, Cisco says
Fewer than half of Australian firms say their AI foundations are ready for more autonomous systems, Cisco's research found.
Qualys expands mROC Alliance with new tech partners
Security teams will get a single risk view as Qualys adds mobile, OT, IoT and identity telemetry from five new partners to mROC.
Urbyte tests KƎƎLO on OpenAI, Anthropic & Hugging Face
The tests suggest autonomous agents can be stopped from crossing authority limits, with seven unauthorised actions blocked and receipts kept for approved ones.
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First Digital: Agentic AI to reshape payment infrastructure
Businesses are being urged to build safeguards now as AI agents could soon be transacting more value than humans, First Digital says.
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Palo Alto Networks: Frontier AI brings more attacks, faster
Frontier AI isn't inventing new attacks, says Palo Alto Networks' Wendi Whitmore, but it is making old ones far faster and more frequent.
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ClearRoute launches runkora as global expansion accelerates
Developers can now try ClearRoute's runkora for free, as the consultancy seeks to convert interest in agentic AI into enterprise contracts.
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Google Cloud launches IAM Helper for agent access tasks
That could cut deployment delays for firms using autonomous agents, while keeping higher-risk access changes behind human approval and audit trails.
Google Cloud donates three AI projects to CNCF Sandbox
The move puts Agent Substrate, gVisor and OpenRL under neutral governance as companies race to secure and scale automated workloads.
ClickHouse expands with Xata deal into Postgres & AI
The deal aims to cut the operational sprawl facing companies as AI agents push analytics, transactions, monitoring and security onto one platform.
Red Hat launches OpenShift 5 with AI troubleshooting
Customers can now use natural language prompts to diagnose issues and assess upgrade risks on the updated hybrid cloud platform.
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Fortinet lifts full-year outlook after strong third quarter
Strong demand in security and AI helped lift third-quarter revenue 20% to USD $2.08 billion, prompting a higher full-year forecast.
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Peak Insight appoints new hires after revenue surge
The Melbourne-based Cisco partner is expanding sales and services as FY26 revenue jumped 67 per cent and bookings surged.
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Smartsheet adds AI agents & controls to work platform
The updates are designed to help businesses automate routine work while tightening oversight of AI use across their project data.
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Rising security spend has failed to curb cyber incidents, prompting Michael Collins to argue that organisations need better decision-making, not more tools.
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