OpenText, announced a partnership with Yirigaa, a sovereign Aboriginal Australian-owned digital technology company. The collaboration aims to enhance technological opportunities and foster greater inclusion of Indigenous communities within the tech industry. This strategic partnership represents an important step in bridging the technological gap in access, resources, and opportunities for First Nations leaders and organisations.

Advanced computer vision technology company Seeing Machines has appointment John Noble as its Chief Technology Officer, effective immediately.

• New Lenovo agentic AI and hybrid AI factory platforms include NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra support and usher in the new age of AI reasoning through faster deployment of customised AI agents
• Integrated use cases have been tested, proven and scaled at Lenovo – automating content creation up to 8x faster, enhancing customer service efficiency by 50%, and boosting productivity across workflows with knowledge assistants
• Hybrid AI adoption enhances patient care, supports faster medical diagnostics and powers scientific discoveries around the world

COMPANY NEWS: Today, at NVIDIA GTC, Lenovo unveiled new Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage with NVIDIA solutions designed to accelerate AI adoption and boost business productivity by fast-tracking agentic AI that can reason, plan and take action to reach goals faster.

A consortium comprising Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), SK Broadband (SKB), SoftBank, and Verizon - the E2A Consortium - have announced a project to build a new transpacific submarine cable system, E2A, that will connect Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and the US.

US communications regulator the FCC has announced a new investigation into the US operations of Chinese telecoms companies - what it calls CCP-aligned entities - to determine the level of security risks they may pose.

IT service providers Interactive has appointed of Darren Broadbent as the new Sales Lead for South Australia.

COMPANY NEWS: Composable data and AI platform for marketing and personalisation Hightouch has named Monks, the global, purely digital, data- driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital as a certified reseller in APAC, expanding access to and bolstering customer service for its technology in the APAC region.

AI-powered data security company Cohesity has expanded collaboration with Red Hat, the provider of open source solutions, to provide enhanced support for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualiastion, now available on the Cohesity Data Cloud.

Bridget Esposito, Head of Brand at Prudential Financial, gives a talk involving enterpise marketing insights.

Australian renewable energy start-up Allegro Energy has been granted a US patent for micro-emulsion electrolyte technology, which addresses “critical limitations of traditional energy storage systems”.

Pure Storage® announced Altay Ayyuce as Area Vice President of Australia & New Zealand. He replaces Amy Rushall, who will return to the US as Area Vice President of Strategy and Development, Americas region for Pure Storage, after over two years in ANZ.

Enhancing Threat Intelligence and Threat Detection in Australian Central Government Organisations

GUEST OPINION by Cyrille Badeau, Vice-President of International Sales, at ThreatQuotient: In an era where digital frontiers are continuously expanding and evolving, adaptability is critical for Federal, State, and Local Government Departments, and Agencies to secure their infrastructure and sensitive data. Progress and growth strategies must be aligned with defense against growing cyber threats.

Qualtrics supports open-source agent protocols to extend the impact of Experience Agents

COMPANY NEWS: Qualtrics, the leader and creator of the experience management category, and LangChain, a leading platform for building and deploying AI applications using large language models (LLMs), today announced a partnership to develop Qualtrics® Experience Agents™ on LangChain’s LangGraph Platform.