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OpenAI monitors internal coding agents for risky conduct

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OpenAI unveils a GPT-5.4-powered system that audits its own coding agents for rule-bending behaviour, flagging suspicious sessions to humans.
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EY launches AI Academy to upskill Australian workers

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EY has launched an AI Academy in Australia to upskill workers, standardise everyday AI use and tighten governance across organisations.
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Arcadian's AI success: Start small, solve real problems

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Arcadian Digital backs small, tightly scoped AI projects solving real business problems over hype-fuelled, grandiose rollouts.
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Gartner tips AI to upend work tools, hiring & data

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Gartner predicts AI will disrupt office software, hiring and data by 2030, triggering a USD $58 billion productivity tools shake-up.
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AI speeds up workdays but doesn't lighten workloads

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AI is speeding up shorter workdays but piling on more tasks, with rising collaboration, multitasking and weekend work, a study finds.
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Women engineers gain AI career boost, yet trust lags

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Women engineers say AI is accelerating careers but remain wary of bias and blurred accountability for machine-generated code at work.
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TestGorilla unveils AI fluency tests to reshape hiring

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TestGorilla rolls out AI fluency tests and simulations to help employers measure AI readiness as skills overtake experience in hiring.
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Anthropic unveils new metric to gauge AI job exposure

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A new study examining AI use across occupations finds little evidence of rising unemployment so far, though hiring of younger workers may be slowing.
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International Women's Day: Embedding ethics, inclusion and skills at the heart of AI transformation

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On International Women's Day, leaders urge AI built with ethics, inclusion and skills at its core to avoid deepening gender inequality.
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Knowledge equity in the age of AI: Moving from gatekeeper to orchestrator

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As AI shifts from automating tasks to shaping decisions, leaders must share expertise generously to orchestrate, not gatekeep, knowledge.
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Working better, not just harder: why inclusion is Australia's next productivity lever

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Australia's productivity hinges on AI skills for all, with inclusive training and leadership key to unlocking AUD $115 billion by 2030.
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The AI inflection point: Why women's leadership will shape the future of work

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As AI reshapes work, women's leadership is crucial to design fair, trusted systems and ensure innovation reflects diverse perspectives.
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Atlassian brings AI agents to Jira with MCP support

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Atlassian launches Jira AI agents with MCP support, embedding governed automation in existing workflows rather than separate chat tools.
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CBA launches AUD $90m AI-focused Future Workforce plan

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Commonwealth Bank launches AUD$90m Future Workforce Program to boost AI skills, retrain staff and open new internal career paths.
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Forrester predicts cautious surge in humanoid robots

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Forrester sees humanoid robots shifting from trials to targeted deployment, promising efficiency gains but slowed by cost, complexity and risk.
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Marketers lag on AI tools amid data & trust concerns

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Marketers are hesitant to embrace AI as data quality, security fears and skills gaps fuel a widening confidence and adoption divide.
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Survey finds AI core to Wall Street research workflows

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Wall Street analysts lean on AI for core research and big time savings, but trust, security and integration fears still slow wider rollout.
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Mylobster.ai plans kernel-level AI assistant platform

Wed, 18th Feb 2026
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Mylobster.ai unveils plan for kernel-level AI assistants across major platforms, targeting a USD $200 billion-plus systems-level market.
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LJMU launches AI academy to boost staff skills, save time

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Liverpool John Moores University launches AI Academy with Multiverse to upskill 134 staff and free hours weekly for teaching and research.
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Proofpoint buys Acuvity to secure AI agents at work

Fri, 13th Feb 2026
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Proofpoint snaps up AI security specialist Acuvity to police 'agentic workspaces' as enterprises rush to deploy copilots and agents.