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CBA's CAIO booked A$200m. The scam agents are the other half.
Ranil Boteju printed a FY26 number. James Roberts is fighting the con after it already worked.
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Named companies. This month.
Named-account news on The S Curve. What is happening now. For thought leadership see Insights.
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Airservices Australia RFI'd an Enterprise AI Broker. Closes 30 September.
One governed front door in a private AWS tenancy. Multi-model. IRAP PROTECTED. Outputs are not certified aeronautical info.
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H&M ran an AI Learning Day. Ownership sat with the teams.
Two tracks. Stockholm and Bangalore. The day was March. They refused to fake the ROI.
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Anthropic leased Stage 1 in Queensland. Inference for Claude, not training.
Western Downs Digital Park near Dalby. Premier Crisafulli, Dexus, Zerra DC and Macquarie. FIRB still pending. 16–17 September.
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Deloitte UK: workers spent £958m of their own money on GenAI. Half had no training.
Hayley McKelvey's survey: 25,000 workers, shadow AI and a company that still has not trained half its users.
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ANZ's CEO will not pretend he knows what AI does to the headcount
Nuno Matos at the AFR Asia Summit: nobody knows. The 3,500 is a simplify programme. Do not write it up as an AI miracle.
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BNY's Eliza programme is in the press again. Use the bank's numbers.
I opened the annual report. 160 in production, 171,000 learning hours, legal went first. Forbes can wait.
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Westpac's CAIO just put the training numbers on the ASX
35,000+ with access. 95% monthly use. 72% in the workflow. 262 specialist sessions. Named officers. A filing, not a vibe.
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Trust Bank shipped AI Ask. DBS and OCBC are racing the same retail front door.
Trust AI Ask is live. DBS digibot from November. OCBC WoW already in test. Three clocks. Not one Singapore-banks blob.
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SAP Canada: 66% are piloting agents. 97% say they are not ready.
Cathy Tough and Anthony Robinson on Oxford Economics' 200 Canadian leaders, CA$39.4m expected spend and a HITL gap.
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Atlassian's 94/6 problem: everyone uses AI, almost nobody can scale the SDLC.
Taroon Mandhana on governed Jira agent loops, Teamwork Graph context and a 64% DX hedge.
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Google Cloud and Accenture staffed 1,000 Gemini FDEs. Julie Sweet and Thomas Kurian signed it.
Julie Sweet and Thomas Kurian put 1,000 humans on the tin. The model was never the product.
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Lloyds put 31 people on a Level 6 AI engineering apprenticeship
Cambridge Spark is the mid-market partner. Lloyds is the logo. Literacy for everyone. A real cohort for the builders.
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Cognizant's CLO is done measuring course completions
Thiru Arohi on Skillspring, the AI Fluency Dashboard and why managers have to own capability.
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Datacom's NZ Index: 91% use AI. 4% transformed core ops. Skills are still the top brake.
Peter Nelson and Lou Compagnone. Training is up. The top of the maturity curve halved.
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Atos put 400 engineers in a three-day agentic AI league
Scored builds on real AWS services. 50% knew the theory and had never touched it. The winner runs hyperscalers for UKI.
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Telstra is building an AI control plane for 380 use cases. Ellis and Ackland named the lock-in risk.
Real-time cost, risk and performance. Multi-LLM on purpose. Stop calling experiment a strategy.
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Treasury to Chalmers: Australian AI is widespread and shallow.
Two-thirds some adoption. Under 10% significant. Warren Hogan and Brian Collins on displacement without lift.
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DBS just took its AI training playbook outside the bank
MOU with IBF: Uplift, Upskill, Upbuild. 40,000 trained globally. The 35,000 domestic figure is a January story. Keep them straight.
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