CBA has embraced generative and agentic AI to boost efficiency, enhance customer service and cut costs — accelerated by a faster-than-expected shift to the cloud.
Artificial intelligence
Employment Hero is charging ahead with AI, but ASX giants remain vague and unambitious. Is AI a game changer for Australian companies, or is it all just hot air?
The likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI are rushing to build AI models as quickly as possible. And Meerah Rajavel says there are reasons to be worried about that.
In an all hands meeting which was leaked to Capital Brief, the company laid out radical plans to monitor staff and set up leaderboards for AI usage.
Ovum founder Ariella Heffernan-Marks is developing an AI health assistant for women. Part of her aim is to combat gender bias in artificial intelligence.
Some of Australia's most successful startups, known for disrupting traditional industries, are now facing disruption themselves from more efficient AI-native outfits.
AI agents are making it much cheaper and faster for startups to build a minimum viable product. That means failure is cheaper and faster too.
The HR software platform is rapidly implementing a sweeping "AI-first" strategy, with all 1,500 staff members instructed to use the technology in a major efficiency drive.
The election authority has written to OpenAI, Meta, Google and Microsoft seeking details on their plan to ensure AI disinformation does not influence the election.
One month on from the DeepSeek selloff, tech giants are still allocating billions to artificial intelligence.
The former Dovetail and Atlassian executive behind Twine says communication between product and sales teams is worse than most realise, and AI can bridge the gap.
The global head of quantitative investment strategies at Goldman Sachs Asset Management has downplayed fears over DeepSeek, amid security and privacy concerns.
Rupert Murdoch's publishing and digital real estate business has become one of the largest companies to raise alarms over DeepSeek’s use by employees.
If Australia wants to compete in AI, it needs more computing power — but securing it is unnecessarily hard, warns IREN founder Daniel Roberts.
Moves by companies to stay up to date in the AI race will create new litigation threats for corporate Australia in 2025.
Australia's ban of the Chinese AI platform on government devices shows the challenge of regulating models which can be freely downloaded, modified and deployed.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has not contacted the Chinese AI firm, but is in touch with foreign counterparts and monitoring multiple inquiries.
As the dust settles on DeepSeek's arrival, there is a growing belief that pure software plays like Atlassian could benefit from a second wave of the AI boom.
