NZ Tech News

Apple adds agentic coding to Xcode 26.3, integrating Claude and Codex so AI agents can autonomously build and refine entire apps.

Avanade has appointed Chris Howarth as CEO, succeeding Rodrigo Caserta, who departs after 11 years to lead SME and channel for Microsoft.

Ignored ‘low-risk’ security alerts are seeding real enterprise breaches, with Intezer warning of dozens of overlooked threats each year.

Okta users face rising vishing attacks as ShinyHunters expand real-time MFA phishing, prompting fresh SaaS and identity security warnings.

Dragos expands its Microsoft partnership to run OT security on Azure, integrate with Sentinel and offer SaaS from Q1 2026.

Snowflake unveils AI coding and semantic tools and inks a multi-year OpenAI partnership worth USD $200m to power its Cortex AI platform.

Datadog launches Feature Flags to tie rollouts directly to real-time telemetry, promising safer releases and automatic rollback controls.

YubiKey deployment delivers 265% ROI, USD $5.3 million NPV and 99.99% lower breach risk in Forrester model of a 5,000-staff enterprise.

Qualtrics appoints former Oracle executive Jason Maynard as CEO to spearhead AI-driven growth and a USD $6.75 billion Press Ganey deal.

Banks worldwide pour billions into AI, but Dyna.Ai warns only a small minority are turning pilots into tangible, scalable revenue gains.

Aspire Systems acquires New Zealand-founded Assurity, creating a 900-strong quality engineering group to boost AI-driven software testing.

SEON wins Frost & Sullivan’s 2025 Global Enabling Technology Leadership Award for AI-driven fraud and AML platform innovation.