Australia's National AI Plan has drawn sharp criticism from legal and academic experts who warn the government's decision to rely on existing legislation leaves organisations exposed to emerging risks in high-stakes automation and automated decision-making systems. The plan abandons previously proposed mandatory guardrails for high-risk AI systems, instead establishing a light-touch regulatory framework built on technology-neutral laws covering privacy, consumer protection and workplace safety.

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks jumped globally by 40% year-over-year in the third quarter of 2025, with security provider Cloudflare blocking 8.3 million attacks, averaging 3,780 attacks per hour - according to the company's latest quarterly threat report.

Myriad Genetics, a Salt Lake City-based provider of genetic testing and precision medicine solutions, partnered with AWS to transform its healthcare document processing pipeline using Amazon Bedrock foundation models. The implementation reduced document classification costs by 77 percent while improving accuracy from 94 to 98 percent.

Organisations performing regular audits of AI systems are more than three times likely to achieve significant business value from their generative AI investments compared to those neglecting systematic evaluation, according to new Gartner research.