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AI-related contracts made up most of Mphasis's new business last year, helping lift annual deal wins 68% to USD $2.1 billion.
Governance concerns are pushing regulated firms to demand audit trails and human oversight as AI agents move into live operations.
Australian organisations are racing ahead with AI agents, but most still lack the identity controls needed to secure non-human users at scale.
Only about 10% of APAC organisations say their identity systems can fully secure AI agents, bots and service accounts.
Australian businesses are pushing AI beyond pilots, prompting Glean to nearly double local headcount as ANZ customers rise more than 60 per cent.
The fresh capital lifts Legora to USD $600 million in Series D funding as demand for legal AI tools accelerates across firms and in-house teams.
Operational gaps are emerging as most large companies push AI agents into production before staff believe they are ready.
Orders and shipments can now be rebooked in minutes as Infios pushes AI deeper into live logistics systems amid persistent disruption.
Most enterprises are still unable to link AI spending to business gains, with 87% investing faster than they can show results.
Businesses could cut back-office cycle times by up to 70% as Salesforce expands Agentforce into finance, supply chain and compliance.
Regulated firms can now run AI inside existing workflow systems as Nintex’s latest K2 update keeps sensitive data off external services.
Many firms cannot see where their AI agents are, leaving identity, policy and supply-chain risks to grow as deployments scale.
Rising AI use is widening attack surfaces, while most organisations still need nearly a month to recover from cyber incidents.
Teams can now switch between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok in one workspace as the Boston-based platform adds image and file tools.
Recurring revenue lifted quarterly profit and cash flow at Check Point, even as sales changes hit its security appliance business.
Embedding the software into daily workflows lifted 365 Data Centres' win rates by more than 15% and cut sales cycles by 35% in six months.
Charities are being urged to move beyond AI trial use as a new four-week course tackles governance, ethics and practical deployment.
Australia’s tech sector is seeing routine tasks automated, with demand and pay still strong for scarce software, data and cloud specialists.
Incorrect AI responses are already steering customers away, with Atlas finding factual errors in most brand profiles across major platforms.
Most Australian security teams lack confidence their controls can spot a compromised AI system, even as firms push assistants beyond pilots.