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• Australian businesses split over where AI accountability lies

  Australian companies are split over whether they or the providers of artificial intelligence solutions should be responsible for its outcomes, according to a LivePerson-commissioned survey by research firm Fifth Quadrant.

• Chip designer ARM halts work with Huawei after U.S. ban

  British chip designer ARM has halted relations with Huawei in order to comply with a U.S. blockade of the company, potentially crippling the Chinese company's ability to make new chips for its future smartphones.

• Blackmores shifts APAC business to Oracle’s cloud ERP

  Blackmores’ CIO Brett Winn says the vitamins and health supplements company is about three-quarters of the way through its rollout of Oracle ERP Cloud across the Asian markets it operates in.

• 4 factors to ruin your serverless migration

  As more and more companies embark on their digital transformation journey, organisations need to upgrade and evolve their infrastructure technology to maintain a competitive edge.

• LivePerson CEO slams Facebook: “They need to go under”

  ​The CEO of chatbot and ‘conversational commerce’ company LivePerson says Facebook should be shut down until it can fix what he sees as multiple issues with the social media platform.

• Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition ban

  Amazon.com said shareholders rejected proposals to curb and audit its facial recognition service on Wednesday, just as members of Congress indicated there was bipartisan support to one day regulate the technology.

• AI delivering ‘new economics’ for banks, says UBank CEO

  UBank’s embrace of artificial intelligence has helped it grow its customer base while retaining a compact staff headcount -- and it’s also freeing up time for its employees as they attempt to understand the future of banking, according to chief executive Lee Hatton.

• Security’s not that funny, but maybe it should be

  Sometimes a single experience or just one data point can radically reshape an individual’s entire outlook — at least, that was the case for Michael Madon, the senior vice president and general manager of security awareness and threat intelligence products at Mimecast.

• Experts: enterprise IoT enters the mass-adoption phase

  Dropping hardware prices, 5G boost business internet-of-things deployments; technical complexity encourages partnerships.

• PayPal senior architect explains why the payments giant trusts Qlik for analytics

  PayPal has become one of the world's biggest online payments companies since it launched in 1998, exceeding US$578 billion in payments across 9.9 billion transactions for over 267 million customer accounts by its 20th birthday, a meteoric rise that analytics has helped drive.

• Qudos wins source code battle in Infosys court case

  ​System integrator Infosys is being asked to provide further documentation on source code it created for financial services customer Qudos Bank, following allegations of copyright infringement, breaching contract terms and misuse of confidential information.

• How Google's rift with Huawei could change Android and smartphones forever

  Google has informed Huawei that it will be pulling its Android app and Play Store license, leaving the future uncertain for the both companies.

• Telstra begins selling its first 5G device

  Telstra has begun selling its first commercial 5G device, an HTC-manufactured mobile hotspot that also supports 4G. The company's CEO also revealed today that Telstra would charge many of its customers a premium to receive 5G connectivity.

• Nokia CEO sees possible benefits from Huawei tensions

  ​Nokia chief executive Rajeev Suri said on Tuesday the company could benefit from a US clampdown on Chinese rival Huawei as the race to roll out 5G services heats up.

• EU regulators to decide on IBM's Red Hat acquisition by June 27

  ​EU antitrust regulators will decide by June 27 whether to clear US tech giant IBM's US$34 billion bid for software company Red Hat.