New Zealand competition regulator The Commerce Commission has issued its final decision to approve $1.722 billion expenditure by telco infrastructure wholesaler Chorus over the next four years (2025-2028) – but disallow $172.6 million that would have flowed through to price increases for consumers.



Search AI Company  Elastic  in collaboration with LangChain, the de facto generative AI orchestration library, to build and delivering AI capabilities that expedite labor-intensive SecOps tasks.

IT corporation Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) acquired ZT Systems, a provider of AI infrastructure for hyperscale computing companies, in a cash and stock transaction for US$4.9 billion.

A new regulatory framework is needed to address the 51,854 phone and internet regional complaints plaguing consumers in remote areas, according to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO).

Australian national science agency CSIRO and tech giant Google announced a research partnership to close crucial gaps in how Australia’s critical infrastructure (CI) operators find, understand, and fix vulnerabilities in their software supply chains.

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Kenn Anthony Mendoza, newsletter editor, iTWire

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