Regulation stories

Young Australians lose over AUD $2.2 million as fake flexible job offers surge, with scammers recruiting money mules via texts and social media.

Daon warns viral ChatGPT caricature craze is handing fraudsters a richer dossier of personal data to fuel scams and social engineering.

Backslash raises USD $19m to secure emerging AI ‘vibe coding’ workflows as autonomous agents reshape how enterprise software is built.

CISOs show strong faith in cyber defences yet less than two-thirds feel ready for fast-rising AI-driven attacks and deepfake threats.

Trust tech firm Drata opens San Francisco HQ after hitting USD $100m ARR, eyeing deeper ties with security buyers and partners.

Europe’s data centres face surging AI demand but BCS warns grid, skills and planning bottlenecks now dictate where capacity can be built.

UK romance scam losses top GBP £106m as organised fraudsters exploit Valentine’s surge, with average victims losing more than GBP £11,000.

New research finds 85% of firms trial AI but only 17% use it daily, with weak knowledge governance blamed for stalled adoption.

Flok Health has expanded its app-based digital physiotherapy service to 11 NHS areas in England, covering more than 2.4 million patients.

AI workloads are set to outstrip data centre capacity by 2027, as power constraints and skills shortages threaten expansion plans.

Australian tech leaders shift AI from trials to daily operations, but warn a gap in skills and infrastructure risks stalling productivity gains.

A new foundation has launched to study how AI is transforming real-world accounting and finance work, from tax and audit to advisory.

Finternet Labs and Avalanche launch India agriculture tokenisation pilot, eyeing a wider TradeFi market worth up to $10 billion.

Experian integrates Aperture Data Studio with Snowflake AI Data Cloud to run in-platform data quality, governance and compliance workflows.

Nium strengthens global payments push with new chiefs for risk, technology and marketing as AI, stablecoins and regulation reshape the sector.

Christchurch AI startup Contented raises NZD $4.1m seed round to grow its meeting-minutes platform and push into Australia, UK and US.

Financial firms reap strong AIOps returns but poor data quality and fragmented tools are stalling the leap from pilots to scaled AI.

Wesco becomes Acre Security’s exclusive US distributor, expanding cloud access control and intrusion offerings nationwide.

Kyndryl launches policy-as-code guardrails to keep agentic AI workflows governed, auditable and compliant in tightly regulated sectors.

Qlik rolls out agentic AI and an MCP server in Qlik Cloud, linking governed analytics to third-party assistants like Anthropic Claude.