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Commonwealth Bank is using Atlassian’s Strategy Collection to connect team activity with its AI goals, iTnews reports. The bank says it achieved about $200m in AI benefits last financial year and is targeting $400m this year. The $400m figure is a benefits target—not an announced investment budget or a guaranteed result.
iTnews Australia · 11 Oct 2026Mistral has released Medium 3.5 in public preview and moved coding agents into the cloud so tasks can run asynchronously. A new Work mode in Le Chat handles multi-step research and connected-tool workflows while asking for approval before sensitive actions.
Mistral News · 10 Sept 2026QUT researchers found that Google AI Overviews usually challenged the conspiracy theories they tested, but the rebuttals were often shallow. For searches about the less established “15-minute cities” narrative, some summaries presented false claims as one side of a legitimate debate.
The Conversation Australia — Technology · 10 Sept 2026