Executive employment in Australia fell a further 3 per cent in February to its lowest point in the past five years.

Japanese telecoms and tech giants NTT, DOCOMO, and NEC have demonstrated a distributed MIMO technology system that maintains communication quality in the mmWave 40 GHz band when a large number of antennas are distributed among multiple locations.

Australian telecoms operator TPG Telecom Limited has paid A$75,120 in penalties after the ACCC issued it with four infringement notices for alleged contraventions of the Telecommunications Act by failing to comply with its joint functional separation undertaking.

The Tech Council of Australia (TCA) and the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade) have entered into a new partnership to “accelerate the growth and expansion of Australian tech companies”.

COMPANY NEWS: MSI is holding a massive laptop sale and its latest, Nvidia RTX 50 Series models are available for $300 off.

Inaugural Singaporean Green Bonds issuance for Equinix underscores its commitment to furthering sustainable innovation

COMPANY NEWS: Digital infrastructure company Equinix has issued S$500 million in green bonds in its inaugural offering in the Singaporean market.

Banks and financial institutions that are not using AI to detect fraud are going to be outgunned because those trying to commit fraud are using AI to try to infiltrate their systems.

Cybersecurity and compliance company Proofpoint Inc. today has expanded its global partnership with Microsoft that leverages Microsoft Azure’s robust AI capabilities and “trusted cloud infrastructure to host Proofpoint’s future innovations and scale AI-powered threat and data protection”.

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.