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dailydeep-diveAI Region Focus

Region Focus | Oceania

A CPA Australia survey of 1,679 accounting and finance professionals finds 88% of Australian and New Zealand businesses use AI, but only 11% have deeply embedded it, with agentic AI usage at just 28% — behind Mainland China (58%), Hong Kong (49%), and Singapore (47%); ahead of New Zealand's 2026 election, Labour calls the government's AI readiness 'terrifying' and proposes an undefined 'super-AI' ban, while commentary argues the real gaps are in copyright and data rules; Australian law professor Kimberlee Weatherall warns at a parliamentary AI hearing that AI agent liability is unclear, meaning OpenAI is unlikely to face criminal liability over the Medicare breach; and AgenticAdvertising.org launches an Australian chapter to advance agent-to-agent commerce protocols in media trading.

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dailydeep-diveAI Region Focus

Region Focus | Oceania

On September 10, NVIDIA announced it will work with 8 Australian cloud and data center partners to build out AI compute capacity to 2GW by 2027 — more than doubling existing capacity; around the same time, New Zealand's Labour Party released an AI Action Plan explicitly modeled on the Australian government's AI governance framework from July 15, including a proposed Office of AI; and Adelaide startup Metacognition AI raised a AU$10 million seed round to build a robotics operating system. Infrastructure, governance, and startup capital are all moving at once, with Australia and New Zealand's policies explicitly aligned.

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