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Arcanum AI started out doing invoice processing. It turned out to be the wrong first job, and working out why reshaped the way the company builds everything now. That admission came about 26 minutes into iTWire's inaugural Q&A executive interview series, which went live at 11:00am AEST on Thursday 20 August 2026 with Arcanum AI CEO and founder, Asa Cox, (LinkedIn). I hosted.

Guest Articles / Guest Research Gareth Davies | Published 31 Aug 2026 Steering through the Storm of Cybernetic Technology Change GUEST RESEARCH: Steering through the Information Age Digital transformation has become a catch-all term for modernization, but for technology leaders (now including the CEO), the reality is far more complex.

COMPANY NEWS: We are pleased that XRG delivered a strong performance in FY26, with Operator XR driving the Group’s growth and momentum. Total income grew 43% to $20.0 million (FY25: $14.0 million), narrowing the net loss to $0.1 million from FY25’s net loss of $3.1 million. This reflects the operating leverage emerging as Operator XR scales and validates the Group’s strategic focus on high-growth, high-margin opportunities.

COMPANY NEWS: New in-country sovereign instance delivers production-safe autonomous security validation with full Australian data residency, enabling government, critical infrastructure, and enterprise customers to continuously prove resilience in the AI vs. AI era. Horizon3, the AI-Native Proactive Security Company behind NodeZero®, the World’s Best AI Hacker™, today announced the general availability of its first Asia-Pacific Sovereign Instance, hosted in Sydney.

GUEST OPINION: Every generation of business leaders has had a defining management challenge. Several decades ago, it was manufacturing efficiency. Later, it became supply chain optimisation, followed by globalisation, digital transformation, cybersecurity, and more recently, artificial intelligence. Each of these shifts forced organisations to rethink how they operated and rewarded those that adapted earlier than their competitors.

Guest Articles / Guest Opinion Network Insurance House | Published 31 Aug 2026 Supplied image GUEST OPINION: Australian small and mid-sized businesses have spent the past few years absorbing one operational shock after another: supply chain disruption, extreme weather, rising input costs and a steady drumbeat of cyber incidents. What many are only now discovering is how much of that risk they were carrying themselves without realising it.

Australians reported $554.1 million in scam losses in the first six months of 2026, Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree closed 460% up on its trading debut, and two of the sharpest voices in AI and gaming sat down to explain what any of it means for the rest of us. I recorded the pilot of my new show, The Byte Back, for the UK Live network this week, talking to a British (and ultimately, an Australian, US and global audience) from Sydney. The time difference is the useful part.

Business IT News / AI and Data OutSystems | Published 29 Aug 2026 AI and Data Agentic Loan Applications combines customer-facing applications, governed agents, and deterministic workflows into a single pre-built system.

Half the requests hitting the internet aren't people any more. Fastly co-founder and vice president of strategic initiatives, Simon Wistow, sat down with iTWire in Sydney to explain what that actually costs, why his company won't put NVIDIA silicon in every rack, and what Australian publishers and streamers should be doing about it right now.

GUEST REVIEWS: Six tests that separate a genuine ISMS platform from ISO 27001 compliance software that stalls after certification.