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Australian Stories

AI Safety stories

Optus workshop helps over 1,000 students tackle online AI threats

Over 1,000 Australian students joined Optus' Digital Thumbprint workshop to learn how to identify AI threats like deepfakes, scams, and online extortion.

By Kaleah Salmon • 3 min read • Fri, 27th Jun 2025

Digital Transformation

Amplified intelligence: Smart business governance in the AI-age

Australian businesses are urged to adopt responsible AI governance to harness innovation while ensuring ethical, secure, and inclusive technology use in the AI age.

By Tony Bailey • 4 min read • Fri, 13th Jun 2025

Hyperscale

Zetaris and Equinix team up to accelerate agentic AI innovation globally

Zetaris teams with Equinix to speed up global agentic AI innovation, leveraging secure data centres and interconnection for rapid, scalable AI deployment.

By Melania Watson • 6 min read • Tue, 3rd Jun 2025

Global Stories

AI Safety stories

Large Language Models

xAI launches Grok 4 and announces immediate model availability

Elon Musk's xAI launches Grok 4, a powerful new AI model now available for users and businesses with advanced multitasking and multimodal features.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Thu, 10th Jul 2025

Digital Entertainment

An in-depth look at the Google Veo 3 text-to-video AI model

Google's Veo 3 AI model creates HD videos with realistic audio from text prompts, revolutionising video content creation for creatives and businesses alike.

By Sean Mitchell • 5 min read • Wed, 9th Jul 2025

Software-as-a-Service

Datacom posts NZD $1.48 billion revenue, eyes AI-led growth

Datacom Group reported steady NZD $1.48 billion revenue for FY25, focusing on AI-driven growth amid challenges in New Zealand and strong Australian contracts.

By Sean Mitchell • 6 min read • Wed, 2nd Jul 2025

Unified Communications

Genesys unveils AI Studio to power safe, scalable virtual agents

Genesys launches Cloud AI Studio with AI Guides, enabling firms to build scalable, ethical virtual agents for complex customer interactions without coding.

By Kaleah Salmon • 4 min read • Fri, 27th Jun 2025

DevOps

Agentic AI adoption in application security sees cautious growth

A Cycode study reveals cautious yet growing adoption of agentic AI in application security, with 60% early adopters reporting improved productivity and risk mitigation.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • Wed, 18th Jun 2025

Cloud Security

Cloud Security Alliance launches pledge for responsible AI use

The Cloud Security Alliance has launched the AI Trustworthy Pledge to promote responsible, transparent, and ethical AI development and usage globally.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Wed, 18th Jun 2025

AI Security

Guardian agents set to secure 15% of AI market by 2030

Guardian agent technologies are set to capture 15% of the AI market by 2030, ensuring secure and trustworthy AI interactions, says Gartner.

By Melania Watson • 3 min read • Thu, 12th Jun 2025

EduTech

Teachers in Australia & New Zealand offered free Microsoft AI training

Education Services Australia and Microsoft offer free AI training to teachers in Australia and New Zealand to promote safe, effective generative AI use in classrooms.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Fri, 30th May 2025

Firewalls

Unbound secures USD $4 million seed to boost safe AI adoption

Unbound has raised USD $4 million in seed funding to support secure enterprise adoption of generative AI, focusing on data protection and cost control.

By Melania Watson • 4 min read • Fri, 30th May 2025

Generative AI

Google Cloud unveils advanced AI models for creative industries

Google Cloud launches Imagen 4, Veo 3, and Lyria 2 on Vertex AI, boosting image, video, and music generation with advanced AI media models.

By Moritz Florian • 5 min read • Thu, 22nd May 2025

AI Security

Google DeepMind reveals new strategy to defend Gemini 2.5 AI

Google DeepMind has unveiled a new strategy to bolster Gemini 2.5 AI against indirect prompt injection attacks, enhancing its security and resilience.

By Moritz Florian • 5 min read • Thu, 22nd May 2025

Wearables

Google unveils Gemini AI upgrade for universal assistant vision

Google unveiled Gemini AI upgrade, aiming to create a universal assistant with advanced planning, simulation and task management capabilities.

By Sean Mitchell • 5 min read • Thu, 22nd May 2025

Data Privacy

Gemma 3n AI model brings real-time multimodal power to mobiles

Gemma 3n, a new AI model designed for mobile and on-device use, offers faster, private, real-time multimodal performance, now available for developer preview.

By Melvin Hipolito • 5 min read • Thu, 22nd May 2025