Westpac stands up Copilot Studio for Gen AI agent development

Westpac is rolling out Microsoft Copilot Studio across its business, enabling cross-functional teams to build and scale generative AI agents and applications within a governed environment. From left: Smitha Janarthanan, Simon Gobbo (Westpac) The bank already has several use cases live in production and is now focused on integrating the platform with data sources “everywhere, […]

Parent company of Gucci, Balenciaga hit by cyber attack

The private details of potentially millions of customers from luxury brands Gucci, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen have been stolen in a cyber attack on the labels’ French parent company Kering, the BBC reported. Kering confirmed the breach in a statement without naming the affected brands, saying it identified in June that “an unauthorised third party […]

Domain Group builds ‘listing assistant’ to help staff find property metrics

Domain Group has around one-third of its staff using an AI assistant to locate property listing metrics and other data with natural language, reducing reliance on dashboards as a data presentation layer. Head of business intelligence Suyash Masurkar told a Snowflake World Tour event in Sydney that the property marketplace operator had shifted “from dashboards […]

AFP nabs alleged smisher targeting mobile phone customers

The Australian Federal Police has arrested a 36-year-old man in Tomakin on the NSW south coast, for allegedly targeting mobile telco customers with a phishing campaign. He was arrested on September 9 this year after an unnamed telco on August 20 reported to the AFP that some of its customers had suffered malicious cyber activities. […]