AI Training

What belongs in an AI register?

What an AI register should hold under Australia's guidance for AI adoption, with one row per use and a named person beside every row.

What are employees hiding when they use AI at work?

A global survey found 57 percent of employees hide their AI use. The fix is safer rules, not a curiosity gap.

What does accountability require of a board once a model can act?

What is the NIST AI Risk Management Framework for if you are not a model-risk team?

A voluntary framework released on 26 January 2023, plus the later generative profile. Useful as questions. Useless as a talisman.

What does psychological safety ask of a team once a model is in the work?

Edmondson's 1999 definition is a belief about interpersonal risk, not a mood. The risky act now is saying a model's answer is wrong.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cognizant's CLO is done measuring course completions

Thiru Arohi on Skillspring, the AI Fluency Dashboard and why managers have to own capability.

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.

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.

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.

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.