Industry Insider

  • Governance Issues Top Barrier to AI Success: Report

    Poor governance and data management practices, not technological limitations, are the primary reasons artificial intelligence initiatives struggle in organisations, according to new research that challenges recent claims about widespread AI project failures.

  • Purview Cuts Data Breach Risk by 30%: Microsoft

    A new study has found Microsoft Purview can reduce the likelihood of a data breach by 30 per cent. The Forrester Consulting study, commissioned by Microsoft, also reported a 355 per cent return on investment over three years for a composite organisation.

  • IDP Market Surges as AI Drives Automation Revolution

    The global Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) market exceeded $US8 billion in 2024, growing 14.5% as generative artificial intelligence transforms how organisations automate compliance and data workflows, according to Infosource's annual State of the Global Intelligent Document Processing Market report.

  • Why OpenAI’s solution to AI hallucinations would kill ChatGPT

    OpenAI’s latest research paper diagnoses exactly why ChatGPT and other large language models can make things up – known in the world of artificial intelligence as “hallucination”. It also reveals why the problem may be unfixable, at least as far as consumers are concerned. The paper provides the most rigorous mathematical explanation yet for why these models confidently state falsehoods. It demonstrates that these aren’t just an unfortunate side effect of the way that AIs are currently trained, but are mathematically inevitable.

  • Australian organisations addressing Shadow AI, but new risks are already emerging

    Shadow IT has always been a headache for security teams. Successive shifts in enterprise tech have always created blind spots and hidden behaviours that need to be discovered and secured. With the advent of SaaS apps, employees suddenly had a myriad of tools available to better collaborate and work. They quickly adopted them, often unaware of security approval processes, creating SaaS sprawl, shadow cloud, and significant changes in digital estates that some organisations are still grappling with. 

  • Australia Seeks Feedback on Cyber Response Code

    The Australian Government has launched public consultation on a voluntary Code of Practice for cyber incident response providers, aiming to improve service quality and national cyber resilience.

  • Why AI Ready Data Is Critical Now

    Regulation is moving faster than solutions can adapt. Regulation is changing at a pace that increasingly challenges the systems built to manage it. Even the most advanced RegTechs are constrained by a deeper issue: the data layer – the foundation every solution depends on, remains fragmented, inconsistent, and hard to operationalise at scale.

  • Affinda Claims Agentic IDP Breakthrough

    Enterprise document processing has long suffered from a fundamental flaw: systems that can't learn from their mistakes without extensive retraining. Melbourne-based Affinda claims to have solved this persistent industry challenge with the launch of its new agentic AI intelligent document processing (IDP) platform featuring "persistent model memory."