Atlassian puts HR at the centre of AI transformation
The software company made its Chief People Officer responsible for AI enablement across the business, reversing the usual sequence in which technology teams lead and HR follows.
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AI governance is breaking down on accountability first
Deloitte's Global AI Institute says 84% of enterprises haven't redesigned jobs for AI, and only 21% have mature governance, even as teams deploy models faster than anyone can name who owns the risk.
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Telstra's tech chief asks telcos to fix basics before chasing AI
Kim Krogh Andersen says Telstra sits below Level 2 on network autonomy and wants telcos to modernise legacy systems before scaling AI.
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How Atlassian and OpenAI plan to ground AI in enterprise context
Atlassian is wiring OpenAI's frontier models into its Teamwork Graph so AI answers draw on live Jira, Confluence and permission data.
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KPMG offers departing staff £100 to waive legal claims
Around 200 people in AI, cyber, SAP and testing teams learn their fate by email.
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JP Morgan Chase most advanced in AI as UK banks group in chasing pack
North American banks dominate the top tier of enterprise AI adoption, with European and Australian institutions trailing in capability and control maturity.
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23 Singapore financial institutions commit to train 80,000 staff in AI by 2028
The IBF AI Workforce Co-Lab pairs a sector-wide training pledge with job redesign pathways for leaders, wealth managers and operations teams.
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DBS takes its 40,000-person AI training playbook to Singapore's finance sector
After training every employee and reskilling more than 11,000 in reshaped roles, the bank will co-develop sector programmes with IBF.
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CommBank engineers deepen expertise through Anthropic's Claude Frontier Academy
Twenty CommBank engineers will build advanced AI skills through hands-on enterprise training and a 12-week residency alongside global practitioners.
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Why the real AI advantage is organizational system design
The productivity software maker says connected context and team structure determine whether AI delivers results.
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NSW Health uses AI to help map staff access to digital patient record system
AI helps the state health department understand who needs what inside its electronic medical records platform.
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Why context is the biggest unlock for your AI strategy
The company positions connected knowledge as the difference between generic outputs and business-relevant results.
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AI skill levels drive workforce divide, PwC finds
More than half of workers surveyed said they are falling behind their AI-savvy colleagues, with proficiency bolstering a sense of job security.
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UOB expands AI Ready 2.0 with SME financing and prototyping workshops
UOB FinLab and IMDA deepen AI Ready 2.0 with financing, hands-on workshops and a peer community as more than 600 SMEs engage the programme.
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Deloitte maps six ERP trends as CIOs rethink core systems
Enterprise resource planning systems were supposed to be the stable layer.
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Sumsub launches APAC council to develop guidance on AI agents
Financial services firms are deploying autonomous AI agents to handle customer verification, fraud detection and compliance workflows without waiting for regulators to publish a playbook.
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ANZ organisations carry invisible costs that boards never see
Every organisation carries a number on its books that most boards have never seen.
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Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents
You have probably watched a colleague wrestle with a procurement portal for twenty minutes to buy a single USB cable.
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AI made expertise abundant. Here's what became scarce instead
For decades, organisations built competitive advantage by hoarding expertise.
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The sovereign imperative: Why enterprise AI mandates a new infrastructure playbook
Every organisation chasing generative AI at scale eventually hits the same wall: the models they need live in someone else's data centre, subject to someone else's compliance
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Why CIOs must redesign how SAP, Salesforce and ServiceNow grant authority
You have probably watched a finance analyst wait three days for a ServiceNow ticket to surface a dashboard she could have built herself in twenty minutes.
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Girls Talk Tech: 7,000 students and the next generation of women tech leaders
ConocoPhillips' Girls Talk Tech STEM outreach has reached more than 7,000 students across Houston, Bartlesville and Calgary.
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NatWest unveils AI tools for money management and fraud support
When a retail bank serves twenty million customers, the distance between a good idea and a useful intervention narrows to execution.
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Telstra deploys an AI agent to meet its customer service guarantee
You have probably watched a telco promise faster resolution, then watched the promise dissolve in hold music.
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Verizon launches a $70M AI Skills for America programme
**A $70 million commitment to workforce AI literacy signals that enterprise digital inclusion now means teaching people to work alongside algorithms, not just connecting them to broadband.**
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Google tests buying from Walmart-owned Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India
You have probably watched a colleague ask ChatGPT for a product recommendation, then opened a new tab to buy it on Amazon.
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HSBC announces 1,500 early-career opportunities
Every September, graduate recruitment teams face the same tension: hire for today's skills or bet on tomorrow's adaptability.
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Deloitte argues AI's real problem is not intelligence, it is economic measurement
You have probably sat through a board presentation where someone showed a chatbot demo, then struggled to explain the return.
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AI spending puts the squeeze on IT modernization, risking ROI
You have probably sat in a budget meeting where the AI line item swallowed everything else.
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Grab and OpenAI launch regional AI skills programme in Singapore
A super-app and a frontier AI lab rarely share a training stage.
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OpenAI launches third-party assessment priorities with KPMG
You have probably sat through a vendor briefing in which a chief product officer assures you that their AI model is safe, fair and auditable.
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AGL builds AI agent for security architecture reviews
Security architecture reviews have long occupied a peculiar position in enterprise technology: critical enough that no one questions their necessity, yet repetitive enough that
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Employees use AI, but many say they don't know why
You have probably sat in a quarterly review where a leader announces that AI adoption has doubled, then watched the same leader struggle to name a single workflow it improved.
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The silo is dead: Why every engineer now needs customer skills
You have probably sat in a planning meeting where an engineer shrugged off a feature request with "not my cup of tea" or "that's a product problem".
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Legal & General to cut 1,000 jobs by mid-2027
You have probably sat in a town hall where the chief executive promised that technology would free people to do higher-value work.
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AWS launches CloudWatch Omni to unify observability for AI agents and applications | CIO
You have probably found yourself explaining to a colleague why the AI agent they deployed last quarter is behaving differently this week, only to discover that the telemetry you
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Walmart’s AI and fulfillment push boosts CPG brand discovery
Walmart’s AI and fulfilment stack is surfacing startup CPG brands faster, with e-commerce up 24%.
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Avoiding the ERP hangover | CIO
You have probably sat through the post-implementation review where everyone agrees the new enterprise resource planning system works, the data migrated cleanly and the invoices process on time.
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CBA, Telstra and peers sat with Rishworth on AI at work. Best practice is the product.
A government roundtable with Commonwealth Bank, Telstra, AGL, Kmart, Blackmores, Ramsay and Microsoft is shaping Australia's first tripartite AI workplace guidance.
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Chubb's new chief scientist to 'push boundaries of what AI can do'
Chubb made Sean Ringsted chief scientist for AI, data and analytics worldwide.
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New IBM CHRO Study: AI Puts Critical Thinking at the Center of Workforce Priorities
IBM’s CHRO study: 60% of employees worry AI is eroding critical thinking.
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CBA's CAIO booked A$200m. The scam agents are the other half.
Ranil Boteju printed a FY26 number. James Roberts is fighting the con after it already worked.
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Ant International Pushes AI Agents Into Payments and Treasury
Peng Yang put nearly 100 AI-native products on the table for payments, FX and treasury.
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AI Design Sprints
Airservices Australia RFI'd an Enterprise AI Broker. Closes 30 September.
One governed front door in a private AWS tenancy. Multi-model. IRAP PROTECTED. Outputs are not certified aeronautical info.
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H&M ran an AI Learning Day. Ownership sat with the teams.
Two tracks. Stockholm and Bangalore. Ownership sat with the teams. They refused to fake the ROI.
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Anthropic leased Stage 1 in Queensland. Inference for Claude, not training.
Western Downs Digital Park near Dalby. Premier Crisafulli, Dexus, Zerra DC and Macquarie. FIRB still pending. 16–17 September.
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Deloitte UK: workers spent £958m of their own money on GenAI. Half had no training.
Hayley McKelvey's survey: 25,000 workers, shadow AI and a company that still has not trained half its users.
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ANZ's CEO will not pretend he knows what AI does to the headcount
Nuno Matos at the AFR Asia Summit: nobody knows. The 3,500 is a simplify programme. Do not write it up as an AI miracle.
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BNY's Eliza programme is in the press again. Use the bank's numbers.
I opened the annual report. 160 in production, 171,000 learning hours, legal went first. Forbes can wait.
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Westpac's CAIO just put the training numbers on the ASX
35,000+ with access. 95% monthly use. 72% in the workflow. 262 specialist sessions. Named officers. A filing, not a vibe.
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Trust Bank shipped AI Ask. DBS and OCBC are racing the same retail front door.
Trust AI Ask is live. DBS digibot from November. OCBC WoW already in test. Three clocks. Not one Singapore-banks blob.
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SAP Canada: 66% are piloting agents. 97% say they are not ready.
Cathy Tough and Anthony Robinson on Oxford Economics' 200 Canadian leaders, CA$39.4m expected spend and a HITL gap.
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Atlassian's 94/6 problem: everyone uses AI, almost nobody can scale the SDLC.
Taroon Mandhana on governed Jira agent loops, Teamwork Graph context and a 64% DX hedge.
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Google Cloud and Accenture staffed 1,000 Gemini FDEs. Julie Sweet and Thomas Kurian signed it.
Julie Sweet and Thomas Kurian put 1,000 humans on the tin. The model was never the product.
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Lloyds put 31 people on a Level 6 AI engineering apprenticeship
Cambridge Spark is the mid-market partner. Lloyds is the logo. Literacy for everyone. A real cohort for the builders.
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Cognizant's CLO is done measuring course completions
Thiru Arohi on Skillspring, the AI Fluency Dashboard and why managers have to own capability.
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Datacom's NZ Index: 91% use AI. 4% transformed core ops. Skills are still the top brake.
Peter Nelson and Lou Compagnone. Training is up. The top of the maturity curve halved.
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Atos put 400 engineers in a three-day agentic AI league
Scored builds on real AWS services. 50% knew the theory and had never touched it. The winner runs hyperscalers for UKI.
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Telstra is building an AI control plane for 380 use cases. Ellis and Ackland named the lock-in risk.
Real-time cost, risk and performance. Multi-LLM on purpose. Stop calling experiment a strategy.
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Treasury to Chalmers: Australian AI is widespread and shallow.
Two-thirds some adoption. Under 10% significant. Warren Hogan and Brian Collins on displacement without lift.
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DBS just took its AI training playbook outside the bank
MOU with IBF: Uplift, Upskill, Upbuild. 40,000 trained globally. The 35,000 domestic figure is a January story. Keep them straight.
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