The country’s largest software company, Xero, used its Investor Day in Melbourne today to showcase a powerful generative AI assistant that will be able to generate an invoice, edit a quote or pay a bill.

As the largest private-sector employers and providers of essential household goods, the supermarkets play an outsized role in public life. Indeed, they are such familiar places that technological developments there may fly under the radar of public attention.

“Our productivity is a persistent challenge that has seen little change over many decades, but what is changing is the urgent need to address it.”

If the last few years have seen companies tool up to improve their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting, the latest revolution in artificial intelligence raises the question of whether AI can help or hinder ESG efforts.