| Good afternoon, Welcome to your twice-weekly look at how generative AI is transforming the way we live, work and play – plus the latest news and analysis. ANZ is ditching its home-built version of ChatGPT in favour of Microsoft's off the shelf product. The bank has purchased 3000 new Microsoft Copilot licences for its management staff, sidelining its Z-GPT, which was a generative AI tool built by its staff in India that could tell bankers interest rates and other information. A Commonwealth Bank-backed start-up might change the way scammers are dealt with the world over, launching a service that can flip fraudulent transactions on their head. The world’s most popular email marketing platform is attempting to reinvent itself down under by hiring an Australia-based general manager and leaning into an expanded partnership with Canva. Let me know what you think — lynchj@theaustralian.com.au | 