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Mark Tarre
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Mark Tarre is an editor and journalist with experience across newsroom, public relations, and digital publishing. He has worked across different organisations on editorial and content-led projects. He holds a journalism degree.

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OneQode, Hitachi Vantara & Cylix launch sovereign AI

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OneQode, Hitachi Vantara and Cylix Applied Intelligence launch a sovereign AI factory push across Australia, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore.
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Autodesk launches Forma Building Design for Revit links

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Autodesk debuts Forma Building Design to tie early schematic work more closely to Revit, with new carbon tools and cloud links.
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Neara adopts ClickHouse ClickStack for observability

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Neara turns to ClickHouse's ClickStack as engineers cut incident response times by more than half and track seven terabytes of data monthly.
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Anthropic launches Project Glasswing for cyber defence

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Anthropic expands a guarded AI pilot with Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and others, offering Claude Mythos Preview to hunt flaws in critical code and open source.
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Cisco appoints Pete Shimer to board & audit committee

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Cisco adds Deloitte veteran Pete Shimer to board, strengthening audit oversight as the networking giant pushes into AI-driven infrastructure.
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Google launches Gemma 4 open AI models for devices

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Google widens its open AI push with Gemma 4, adding models for phones to high-end GPUs and native audio, video and long-context support.
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Synology adds private home monitoring to BeeStation Plus

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Synology extends BeeStation Plus with local camera monitoring for homes and micro-businesses, offering AI alerts and no subscription fees.
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Datadog launches Experiments to track product impact

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Datadog broadens observability push with Experiments, letting product teams run A/B tests and link release decisions to warehouse and usage data.
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Microsoft pledges USD $1 billion for Thailand AI hub

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Microsoft to pour more than USD $1 billion into Thailand's cloud and AI build-out, as it deepens work on skills, governance and local partnerships.
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OpenAI acquires TBPN to expand media and strategy reach

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OpenAI buys TBPN, adding Silicon Valley's influential daily tech talk show to its Strategy team while pledging editorial independence.
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Anaxi, Carnegie Mellon study AI data value, revenue models

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Anaxi Labs and Carnegie Mellon probe how AI agents and datasets should be priced as generative tools reshape search, advertising and subscriptions.
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OpenAI raises USD $122 billion in record AI funding

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OpenAI secures USD $122 billion in funding as Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank back a rapid expansion in compute, enterprise tools and product plans.
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Intel releases neural texture compression SDK for game devs

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Intel launches neural texture compression SDK to help game developers cut texture storage and memory use, with up to 17x savings.
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Microsoft pledges USD $5.5 billion for Singapore AI

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Microsoft to invest USD $5.5 billion in Singapore as it expands AI infrastructure and free training for students, teachers and nonprofit leaders.
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Anthropic finds emotion patterns shape Claude's behaviour

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Anthropic finds emotion-linked internal patterns in Claude Sonnet 4.5 can nudge blackmail and cheating, offering new clues for AI safety.
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Delinea names Scott Goree to lead global partner strategy

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Delinea appoints former Optiv and Skyhigh Security executive Scott Goree as Senior Vice President of Channel and Alliances to boost global partner sales.
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Cloud security experts warn of control plane risks

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Cloud security specialists say organisations must rethink defences as control plane exposure, swelling telemetry and fragmented tools create fresh risks.
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Agentic AI raises new cybersecurity and privacy risks

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Norton Rose Fulbright warns that AI agents could intensify privacy and security challenges for Asian companies as data moves across systems and borders.
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Orange Business names Edmond Wong Asia-Pacific President

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Orange Business promotes Edmond Wong to Asia-Pacific president as Nick Lambert retires after nearly seven years, signalling a smooth internal handover.
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New Relic appoints Masakiyo Furudate to head Japan

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New Relic names Masakiyo Furudate Group Vice President as it steps up Japan investment, adds a local data centre and expands AI tools.