AI Adoption stories
Employers may be underestimating training needs, as a survey found employees far less confident than HR leaders about AI readiness across Asia-Pacific.
The tie-up aims to let law firms and in-house teams ground AI-assisted drafting and research in their own precedents and knowhow.
Legal teams will be able to benchmark AI uptake and governance as Harvey opens early access to a tool built to replace spreadsheets and manual reporting.
Channel partners in Australia and New Zealand will get clearer sales guidance as Kong taps Unfold to accelerate AI and API deal flow.
The new features aim to help IT teams spot and fix digital workplace glitches before employees are affected, as AI use grows.
More than 276,000 KPMG staff will gain access to Claude as the firm speeds up tax, legal and cybersecurity work across 138 countries.
Data privacy and accuracy fears are slowing uptake as nearly half of IT professionals question AI tools now entering their workplaces.
Many firms are still wrestling with trust and governance as analysts spend 3.7 hours a week correcting AI outputs, survey data shows.
Marketing teams are increasingly using AI to automate routine campaign work, with Optimizely saying customer-built agents now dominate activity on Opal.
Businesses weighing AI-ready upgrades now have new Surface laptops and tablets, with Microsoft touting local processing, security and manageability.
Smaller firms risk being left behind unless ministers back AI infrastructure, training and accessible support, the body said.
Large firms face mounting execution risk as weak governance, legacy systems and poor change management threaten to derail AI spending.
Many Australian firms are slowing AI roll-outs because fragmented oversight is leaving no one clearly accountable for risk, compliance or decisions.
The move will put AI tools in daily use for more than 1,900 staff, as HWLE seeks tighter controls around risk, training and compliance.
Tom Cawley's move highlights Australia's drive to turn mining data into usable AI as MaxMine's load-and-dump tool reaches customers.
Cautious support from tech leaders hinges on whether Canberra can turn new AI and digital funding into real productivity gains.
Most New Zealand SMEs now use AI tools, but many want firmer safeguards and training before widening adoption.
Finance teams are under growing pressure to deliver sharper analysis, with new courses aimed at building AI and data skills fast.
The partnership will create more than 200 technical jobs and give Singapore OpenAI's first Applied AI Lab outside the United States.
Safely embedding AI into public services now hinges on clearer accountability, as only 22% of Australian organisations use advanced governance models.
