Asia Pacific stories - Page 9

OpenAI unveils an Australia-wide AI push, pairing a Sydney supercomputer campus with skills training and new startup support schemes.

Australian firms are turning observability from backroom monitor into strategic engine, fusing AI and data to drive growth and resilience.

Netpoleon partners with Hack The Box to deliver hands-on cyber skills training and readiness tools to address ANZ's growing security gap.

A cyber incident has driven a surge in demand for YubiKey security devices as Australian public schools tighten authentication controls.

Okta warns APAC firms that rapid AI adoption is outpacing governance and identity controls, leaving “shadow AI” and non-human access unchecked.

Asia-Pacific startup founders are growing older but no less ambitious, with most over 45 and four in ten still chasing unicorn valuations.

Remara picks 10x Banking's cloud-native core to speed new lending and investment products and fuel ANZ and Southeast Asia expansion.

IDeaS launches Rate Data Advantage in APAC, promising hotels deeper real-time rate intelligence and sharper revenue decisions.

Prometheus expands its APAC enterprise push, hiring three senior leaders in Sydney to drive marketing, customer success and solution engineering.

Trilliant will unveil AI-driven grid-edge intelligence and AMI innovations as sponsor, speaker and exhibitor at DISTRIBUTECH 2026.

Rapid7 appoints veteran cyber leader Simon Ractliffe as APJ general manager to drive regional growth and deepen Microsoft-focused security.

Australia's tech boom hides a growing e‑waste crisis, as repair barriers, patchy recycling and high green costs stall real sustainability.

Databricks reports a 327% jump in enterprise use of multi-agent AI, as firms move beyond chatbots to real-time, governed production systems.

Johnson Controls has appointed Susan Hughes to lead its Asia Pacific business, joining the executive committee as it targets growth in the region.

Shuttlerock adopts Workday to unify global finance and HR, tightening controls and boosting real-time insight as its international footprint grows.

AI's rapid spread is forcing Australian organisations to treat data privacy as a constant priority, reshaping risk, policy and vendor scrutiny.

Adyen partners with Raptor to embed payments into POS tools, promising smoother reconciliation and cross-channel reporting for APAC SMBs.

As cyber spend soars past USD $100 billion, rising breaches show Australian firms need clear security frameworks more than extra tools.

Juspay raises USD $50m in follow-on funding led by WestBridge Capital, lifting the payments firm to a USD $1.2bn valuation.

Agentic AI is set to flood infrastructure with billions of virtual users, forcing nations like Australia to rethink open, heterogeneous compute.