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Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has been hit with enforcement action by the prudential regulator for cybersecurity failures by a former business, and has agreed to an $8 million penalty.

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskus has announced the government will conduct a royal commission into artificial intelligence, just days after signing a memorandum of understanding with OpenAI.

The government is mulling stronger privacy laws to deal with emerging technologies like smart glasses, with the OAIC saying it was giving "serious consideration" to the privacy issues raised by the glasses, most of which are made by Meta.

Holding Redlich has hired four Melbourne-based lawyers from HWL Ebsworth, including two partners, to bolster its construction team.

Businesses in two cases against Lloyd's and QBE over COVID-19 losses have failed in an appeal of a ruling stripping the suits of class action status.

The ACCC will examine regional mobile coverage across Australia and whether regulating wholesale access to some mobile services would improve customer outcomes, as part of a new inquiry.

A native title group has won an appeal to the High Court over a 30-year licence granted by the Northern Territory government to Fortune Agribusiness to extract groundwater for irrigation on its property.

Clive Palmer has lost another legal battle over Western Australian legislation shielding the state from the fallout of a decision barring a proposed Pilbara iron ore project, with a Swiss court rejecting his challenge to a tribunal's finding that it had no jurisdiction to hear the $300 billion dispute.

Energy minister Chris Bowen has warned the federal government will legislate if necessary to prevent states from competing for data centres, after announcing plans last month to roll out a national AI framework to govern the booming area.