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AI adoption could add AUD $93 billion, report finds
Construction

AI adoption could add AUD $93 billion, report finds

Wider adoption among smaller firms could lift annual output, but only one in four Australian SMEs is using AI and just 5% use it broadly.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • Last week

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Cybercriminals hijack LLM access, racking up bills
Multi-factor authentication

Cybercriminals hijack LLM access, racking up bills

Victims can face six-figure charges in hours as stolen credentials let attackers run large language models on company accounts.

By Mara Sugue • 3 min read • Today
VentraIP warns slow landing pages can sink Black Friday
Artificial Intelligence

VentraIP warns slow landing pages can sink Black Friday

Retailers risk wasting paid media unless campaign pages can cope with Black Friday traffic surges, VentraIP says.

By Mara Sugue • 5 min read • Last week
Google Cloud adds RemotiveTopology to Horizon platform
Google

Google Cloud adds RemotiveTopology to Horizon platform

The move could speed up vehicle software integration by more than 10 times, cutting dependence on hardware benches and test rigs.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Last week
Zero100 launches Peerworks for agentic supply chains
Manufacturing

Zero100 launches Peerworks for agentic supply chains

The initiative aims to give supply chain teams practical guidance on agentic AI, as large firms seek to link planning, sourcing and inventory decisions.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Last week
Google launches llm-d 1.0 for distributed AI inference
Open source

Google launches llm-d 1.0 for distributed AI inference

The open-source stack aims to cut latency and boost accelerator use for AI workloads that now arrive in bursts and compete with interactive requests.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 5 min read • Last week
Google adds AI & partner tools to air-gapped cloud
Data Analytics

Google adds AI & partner tools to air-gapped cloud

Defence and intelligence users can now query local text, audio and video with Gemini, without moving sensitive data outside their air-gapped perimeter.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Last week
Google warns LLM judges are biased & unreliable
Generative AI

Google warns LLM judges are biased & unreliable

The guidance says automated scoring can miss unsafe outputs and reward verbosity, making AI evaluation less objective than many businesses assume.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Last week
Google adds Cloud Logging for BigQuery Python UDFs
eCommerce

Google adds Cloud Logging for BigQuery Python UDFs

The update lets data pipelines keep running when bad rows appear, while malformed Python UDF records are captured in Cloud Logging for later repair.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 3 min read • Last week
Google adds interactive MCP apps to Gemini Enterprise
Customer Relationship Management

Google adds interactive MCP apps to Gemini Enterprise

The upgrade gives enterprise users a live workspace for visual tasks, cutting back-and-forth in Gemini Enterprise while keeping edits synced.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Last week
Google says AI coding tests must track execution paths
Large Language Models

Google says AI coding tests must track execution paths

Google says teams should judge AI coding agents on what they execute, after internal tests showed final replies can hide successful tool use.

By Mara Sugue • 4 min read • Last week
Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon with cyber focus
Cloud Security

Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon with cyber focus

Cyber defenders are getting first access as Google rolls out its latest AI model in stages, with wider use to follow after testing and review.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last week
Google uncovers brief AOMEI supply chain malware attack
Malware

Google uncovers brief AOMEI supply chain malware attack

Systems that polled AOMEI's update servers at the wrong moment could have pulled malicious files in the brief April-to-July tampering window.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last week
Google named Leader in IDC agentic AI platform report
Low code & No code

Google named Leader in IDC agentic AI platform report

Enterprises are increasingly prioritising governance, security and integration as they move AI agents beyond pilots and into production systems.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 3 min read • Last week
Google adds token quotas for BigQuery AI functions
Data Analytics

Google adds token quotas for BigQuery AI functions

Analysts can now cap BigQuery AI spend before it runs away, as Google adds daily token quotas for generative functions across projects and users.

By Mara Sugue • 4 min read • Last week

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Google launches Gemini for government services in preview
Generative AI

Google launches Gemini for government services in preview

By keeping data in place and adding citations, the preview could help agencies speed up records requests, compliance checks and policy research.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Last week
Krea image editor cracks top five on Arena.ai leaderboard
Generative AI

Krea image editor cracks top five on Arena.ai leaderboard

The ranking bolsters the smaller San Francisco-based lab's pitch to commercial users, as its editor outpaces rivals from Google, Meta and ByteDance.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Last week