ANZ Institutional readies go-live for “multi-agent chatbot” amie

ANZ Institutional will shortly go live with a “multi-agent chatbot” for bankers called amie, styled as a “personalised markets analyst” that consolidates knowledge and can dispense it anytime. Head of digital strategy and financial institutions sales Tim Moloney told AWS Summit in Sydney that the agentic AI tool was developed with a prototyping team from […]

Microsoft offers to boost European governments’ cyber security for free

Microsoft is offering free of charge to European governments a cyber security program to bolster their defences against cyber threats, including those enhanced by artificial intelligence, it said. After a surge in cyberattacks in Europe, many linked to state-sponsored actors from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, the program aims to boost intelligence-sharing on AI-based […]

Hackers abuse modified Salesforce app to steal data, extort companies

Hackers are tricking employees at companies in Europe and the Americas into installing a modified version of a Salesforce-related app, allowing the hackers to steal reams of data, gain access to other corporate cloud services and extort those companies, Google said. The hackers – tracked by the Google Threat Intelligence Group as UNC6040 – have “proven particularly […]

Australian organisations must act on security – or risk AI ambitions falling flat

Establishing a strong security foundation in collaboration with partners is a critical first step for Australian businesses with ambitions to implement more complex AI and automation. Caleb Bateman, Spirit Technology Solutions That’s the message Australian organisations heard from local technology services provider Spirit Technology Solutions and local technology distributor Dicker Data at the recent CyberSecure […]