Australian Stories

Optus offers free AUD $300 AI search to mobile customers

Optus offers new and existing mobile customers a free 12-month subscription to Perplexity Pro, an AI search valued at AUD $300, enhancing access to AI tools.

By Kaleah Salmon • 3 min read • Tue, 3rd Jun 2025

Global Stories

Generative AI

Biostate AI raises USD $12 million to expand RNAseq precision AI

Biostate AI has raised USD $12 million to enhance AI tech for predicting disease progression using RNA sequencing, aiming to advance personalised medicine globally.

By Sean Mitchell • 5 min read • Wed, 21st May 2025

Data Analytics

Alteryx unveils unified AI suite to streamline data analytics

Alteryx has launched Alteryx One, an AI-driven analytics suite offering unified data management, automation and enhanced cloud integration for enterprises.

By Catherine Knowles • 4 min read • Fri, 16th May 2025

Virtualisation

Extend unveils open-source AI toolkit for smarter finance

Extend unveils an open-source AI toolkit enabling businesses to analyse financial data with advanced automation and multi-framework integration.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Mon, 12th May 2025

Software-as-a-Service

Cloudflare & Anthropic team up to power secure AI app links

Cloudflare partners with Anthropic to enable secure, real-time AI integrations with SaaS giants like Atlassian, Stripe, and PayPal using its new MCP toolkit.

By Sean Mitchell • 7 min read • Fri, 2nd May 2025

Digital Transformation

UiPath unveils agentic automation for unified AI & workflow

UiPath launches its new agentic automation platform, uniting AI, robots, and humans to streamline business workflows with improved orchestration and control.

By Sean Mitchell • 5 min read • Thu, 1st May 2025

Digital Transformation

Visa launches AI-assisted shopping with security focus

Visa has launched Intelligent Commerce, partnering with AI leaders to enable secure, AI-assisted shopping and payments tailored to user preferences.

By Jed Nykolle Harme • 4 min read • Thu, 1st May 2025

Endpoint Protection

Arctic Wolf doubles warranty to USD $3 million with new AI engine

Arctic Wolf has boosted its Security Operations Warranty to USD $3 million, marking the largest industry offer for its Aurora Managed Endpoint Defence customers.

By Moritz Florian • 2 min read • Tue, 29th Apr 2025

Firewalls

Arctic Wolf & Anthropic to develop autonomous AI cyber SOCs

Arctic Wolf partners with Anthropic to enhance cyber security with AI, launching Cipher to boost threat detection and autonomous Security Operations Centres.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Tue, 29th Apr 2025

Firewalls

Arctic Wolf launches Cipher, AI-powered security assistant beta

Arctic Wolf launches Cipher, an AI security assistant developed with Anthropic, offering instant insights via its Aurora Platform processing 8 trillion weekly events.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Tue, 29th Apr 2025

Data Protection

AI use in enterprises soars but brings surge in cyber risks

Enterprise AI use has surged over 3,000%, with ChatGPT dominating but also being the most-blocked app due to security concerns, says Zscaler report.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Thu, 24th Apr 2025

Data Protection

Veeam enables AI-powered business insights from backup data

Veeam Software now allows customers to use backup data with AI tools via Anthropic's MCP, enabling natural language searches and AI-driven business insights.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Thu, 24th Apr 2025

Application Security

Socket acquires Coana to cut false positive security alerts

Socket has acquired cybersecurity startup Coana to enhance its supply chain security platform, cutting false positives by up to 80% for faster threat remediation.

By Jed Nykolle Harme • 3 min read • Thu, 24th Apr 2025

Virtualisation

Veeam unveils secure AI access to backups with Anthropic MCP

Veeam unveils AI-ready features with Model Context Protocol support, enabling secure, context-aware access to backup data for smarter enterprise solutions.

By Moritz Florian • 3 min read • Wed, 23rd Apr 2025

Artificial Intelligence

Zoom unveils Custom AI Companion & task features for users

Zoom launches Custom AI Companion, Zoom Tasks, and AI-powered scheduling to boost productivity across its platform with new AI-driven tools.

By Kaleah Salmon • 5 min read • Wed, 23rd Apr 2025

Hybrid Cloud

Exclusive: Abhas Ricky on how Cloudera is powering the AI revolution

Cloudera's CSO, Abhas Ricky, highlights AI's shift from labs to enterprise with hybrid AI solutions powering faster, secure, on-prem deployments and innovation.

By Melania Watson • 5 min read • Tue, 22nd Apr 2025

Marketing Technologies

New A2A protocol launched to enhance AI agent synergy

The Agent2Agent protocol has been launched to enhance AI interoperability across enterprise platforms, supported by over 50 technology partners including Atlassian and Salesforce.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Thu, 10th Apr 2025

Partner Programmes

The inquiry is no longer “Are you using AI?” but “How are you using it?”

As AI becomes essential in legal practices, clients now demand to know not if law firms use it, but how effectively they do so.

By Jamie Ng • 6 min read • Thu, 27th Feb 2025

Artificial Intelligence

MongoDB acquires Voyage AI to boost data retrieval accuracy

MongoDB has acquired Voyage AI, enhancing its data retrieval capabilities for AI applications, crucial for sectors like healthcare and finance.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Wed, 26th Feb 2025

Private Cloud

GitLab unveils self-hosted AI option for secure data control

GitLab has launched GitLab Duo Self-Hosted, enabling organisations to leverage AI within their own infrastructure to enhance data privacy and security.

By Catherine Knowles • 2 min read • Fri, 21st Feb 2025