AI Adoption stories

Anthropic expands in Australia and New Zealand with Sydney office and Theo Hourmouzis named Chief Executive Officer to drive regional AI growth.

NTT DATA launches Software Defined Infrastructure Services Agent to help enterprises manage multivendor IT estates with natural language prompts.

Hyland names Tracy Roccasalva as Chief Marketing Officer to bolster its AI-led Agentic Enterprise push and expand in enterprise content management.

Netskope deepens Google Cloud tie-up to bring AI Guardrails to generative and agentic systems with real-time safety checks.

Lion rolls out ChatGPT Enterprise to 2,500 staff in Australia and New Zealand, using AI for forecasting, production and sales support.

SUSE expands AI, virtualisation and agentic partnerships as it targets digital sovereignty, citing research showing many firms have yet to act.

Anthropic names Theo Hourmouzis as General Manager for Australia and New Zealand as it opens a Sydney office and deepens local AI ties.

NZ businesses using AI could be earning far more, with Deloitte Access Economics finding sizeable revenue lifts and rising spending on the technology.

TCS broadens Google Cloud alliance to speed enterprise shift into autonomous AI systems with new tools for data, factories and security.

AI tools may help construction firms keep staff as a survey finds more than half of professionals would stay put if employers boosted investment.

Kyndryl broadens Google Cloud deal to help enterprises modernise applications and run AI workloads across regulated hybrid environments.

New Zealand mid-sized firms are being held back by weak AI foundations, with cybersecurity, skills and governance gaps slowing productivity gains.

Lancom gains AWS Anthropic reseller status to help customers deploy Claude models through Amazon Bedrock with stronger security and compliance controls.

Cobalt's annual pentesting study says AI and supplier tools are exposing fresh weaknesses, with security teams struggling to keep pace with rapid deployment.

Zapier broadens enterprise AI controls with policy enforcement across workflows, agents, assistants and SDK-built apps.

Portal26 adds real-time token controls as firms race to cap runaway spending from autonomous AI agents and keep budgets in check.

Mars broadens Google Cloud tie-up, making Gemini Enterprise the core AI layer for employees as it pushes unified search, custom agents and faster workflows.

Valeo will equip 100,000 staff with Gemini for Workspace as the automotive supplier deepens its Google Cloud partnership and expands agentic AI in engineering.

Isaca launches AI risk certification as European research finds many organisations still lack clear ownership, response plans and board oversight.

NetApp expands Google Cloud storage partnership with Flex Unified availability and Gemini Enterprise adoption, as it wins a 2026 partner award.