A recent survey from tech research firm, Telsyte, found as of June that a fifth of Australia’s population, or 5.5 million people have used generative AI systems, which dwarfs the 2.5 million that had adopted Neflix when it launched. OpenAI ChatGPT was the most popular AI app, used by 71%, with Snapchat’s My AI second, but with only 15% users.
Following the pilot of Virgin Australia’s program that began in May, guests in two thirds of the country now will be able to track status of their checked baggage using Virgin Australia’s app. This is a part of a more than $400M (USD $255,640,000) investment in digital innovation, technology and customer experience and provides the airline’s passengers the ability to self-manage their bookings end-to-end in cases of travel disruption.
iPrice Group (iPrice), the Malaysia-based ecommerce technology platform, has launched its platform in Australia. The launch of iPrice.au marks the first significant expansion beyond Southeast Asia and comes four months after Indonesian tech unicorn Bukalapak acquired iPrice.
Scope3 is expanding into brand safety and fraud detection turf of Integral Ad Science and DoubleVerify. Amazon DSP is the first company to integrate Scope3’s Agentic Media Platform, which eliminates made-for-advertising, fraud, non-brand-safe, and climate-risk inventory by default. A separate Brand Standards product, built on top of the Agentic Media Platform, lets companies connect with expert AI agents to apply additional content standards.