APAC stories
Governance failures have forced most Australian enterprises to pull back customer-facing AI agents, even as spending plans and deployments keep rising.
Sydney will coordinate wider APJ growth as demand rises for earlier warning on cyber threats hitting critical infrastructure and finance.
Financial advisers may soon get quicker answers on retirement income products as Allianz Retire+ tests Ada for compliant support.
Driver fatigue is pushing Australian fleets towards video telematics, with more than half now using in-cab cameras to cut risks and costs.
The Berrinba site will give Metso extra warehousing capacity in southern Queensland, helping speed parts and machinery to mines across eastern Australia.
Thousands of corporate devices may be exposed because many remain unpatched, unseen or missing endpoint protection, Arctic Wolf found.
The 600-petabyte deployment is set to underpin regulated AI workloads in Australia as demand for onshore data control intensifies.
Stronger AI adoption could lift office, industrial and retail demand in Asia Pacific, Cushman & Wakefield says, despite automation fears.
Many firms are adopting AI quickly, but weak data architecture is leaving them unable to measure returns or manage governance risks.
More than four in 10 firms where AI widened access were breached last year, underscoring a growing governance gap, Netwrix says.
Demand for agentic AI protection helped the company land its largest deal yet and post its strongest quarter as customers expanded spending worldwide.
Brands need cleaner data and tighter measurement to prove personalisation boosts retention, revenue and viewer loyalty, not just clicks.
Guardrails may not stop attackers as Anthropic's split release underscores a widening gap between AI exploit discovery and patching.
The repeat regional honour may help Umbrellar strengthen ties with global vendors as cloud and AI demand intensifies across Asia-Pacific.
Brands in media and entertainment are missing revenue because they cannot turn scattered engagement signals into coordinated, real-time personalisation.
Teams can now link preferred AI assistants to live project data, as Smartsheet broadens access beyond Claude and adds Smart Assist.
Channel partners in Australia and New Zealand gain Microsoft Teams-based customer service tools, as Tech Data adds AnywhereNow to its portfolio.
Backup power demand is set to lift spending as operators add generators to shield data centres from outages and grid instability.
Students in Malaysia will gain hands-on access to BlackBerry's QNX tools as UKM becomes the first ASEAN university to add them.
He will oversee systems linking the consultancy's Amsterdam, Helsinki and Singapore offices as it scales AI-assisted project delivery.