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Corporations are not preparing their workers for an AI tsunami

Robert Bridge -

Businesses are racing to automate, but many staff are being left without the retraining, clarity, or safeguards needed to adapt. A comprehensive new study of...

nstagram makes public posts available to Meta AI by default

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Users are automatically enrolled in the new feature with the latest Instagram update unless they change their settings. Instagram’s latest update makes reels, videos, and...

CIA chief warns of AI-powered ‘digital nuclear weapons’

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The remarks follow a Five Eyes spy alliance warning that cyberwarfare could become a critical threat within months. AI-driven cyberoffensive tools can be compared to...

South Korean stocks plunge on AI overvaluation fears

DTNZ Business -

The KOSPI tumbled nearly 10%, with Samsung and SK Hynix leading a historic sell-off. South Korean stocks suffered their sharpest drop in more than three...

Pharmacy’s AI-built website exposes patients’ private medical details

RCR Bites -

The private medical details of 29 patients at Unichem Petone were left exposed online after the Wellington pharmacy switched to a new website. Full names,...

Charles Augustus Leale, Abraham Lincoln, and the physician we are slowly losing

Joseph Varon -

When Abraham Lincoln was shot, America saw more than just the loss of a President. Something quieter happened that night, but it was just as...

AI-designed ‘universal vaccine’ moves into early human testing

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have reported early human trial results for a vaccine whose key antigen was designed entirely using artificial intelligence...

AI bots overtake humans as dominant force on the Web

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Internet traffic has reached a historic milestone, with automated bots and AI-powered agents now generating more web activity than human users, according to internet...

AI rivals back DNA rules to limit bioweapons risk in rare show of unity

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and other executives have said AI advances could weaken biosecurity barriers. Executives from leading AI companies have joined biotechnology experts in...

SpaceX signs $30 billion AI deal with Google

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Anthropic similarly agreed to pay Elon Musk’s tech firm some $45 billion for compute capacity last month. Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million...

The unstoppable rise of miraculous psychology

Guy Hatchard -

A collaborative study undertaken by scientists from Oxford, Mellon. MIT and UC universities published in April is entitled “AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent...

Not the finest hour: BBC slammed over Churchill and Gandhi deepfakes (Video)

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The UK’s public broadcaster aired a Question Time segment featuring AI-generated historical figures. The BBC has been accused of producing “AI slop” after an episode...

BYOD & NZ workplaces: concerns, illegal practices and what we can do

Ursula Edgington -

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has evolved substantially with the use of AI over the last decade. And it's not just in education sectors -...

The strange world of luxury beliefs, Artificial Intelligence and the NZ economy

Guy Hatchard -

The human mind is truly amazing. Its history of innovative achievement stretches back far further in time than we imagined. The colossal and intricate megalithic...

Pope demands AI weapons be ‘disarmed’ (Video)

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The technology must not be allowed to kill autonomously, the pontiff has warned. Pope Leo XIV has delivered a stark warning on artificial intelligence, claiming...

The Noble Savage

Sofia Karstens -

Eisenhower warned us: “Beware the military-industrial complex.” Those words are widely remembered. Less so the companion warning: “Holding scientific discovery in respect, as we should,...

Data centre boom linked to health and environmental crisis

Daily Telegraph NZ -

A sweeping new report has raised concerns about the rapid expansion of data centres worldwide, claiming the industry is contributing to a wide range...

OpenAI and Apple rift threatens future of AI on iPhones

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Reports suggest tensions between Apple and OpenAI over the companies’ AI partnership could escalate into legal action. The disagreement reportedly centres on Apple’s integration of...

AI and the sublime

Bert Olivier -

Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be on everyone’s lips these days, and not surprisingly, given the widely divergent opinions about it. Some say it’s a...

Canadian city mayor denies using AI for government decisions

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Earlier comments by Vancouver head Kem Sim about digital assistants handling government work have sparked a data-security debate. The mayor of the Canadian city of...

Billionaires build escape routes as AI risks rise

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Tech billionaires feather their own nests and bunkers while the risks to the general public tied to rapid artificial intelligence development increase. Some of the...

AI deletes routine white collar jobs

Peter St Onge -

A new study predicts that 86% of AI unemployment will be women. And not just any women: rich Democrat women. Tragically, AI is coming for...

Pentagon strikes deals with top AI companies

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Anthropic, which the US Department of War designated a “supply-chain risk” earlier this year, was not part of the agreement. The Pentagon has said that...

How on earth did this happen to us?

Guy Hatchard -

In our latest release “The Fall of the House of Biotechnology, I began by saying it was among the most important articles we have...

Musk calls himself ‘fool’ in OpenAI court fight

Daily Telegraph NZ -

CEO Sam Altman “stole a charity” and betrayed its founding nonprofit mission, the billionaire has claimed. Tech billionaire Elon Musk has charged that OpenAI CEO...

OpenAI sued over Canada school shooting

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Families affected by a deadly school shooting in Canada have launched lawsuits against OpenAI and chief executive Sam Altman, alleging the company failed to...

Anthropic issues military AI ‘kill switch’ warning

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The company has disputed the Pentagon’s statements that it can somehow still control Claude AI deployed in military networks. AI developer Anthropic insists it has...

Chinese robot smashes human world half-marathon record (Video)

Daily Telegraph NZ -

A red android named Lightning outpaced all 12,000 human runners during an event in Beijing. A Chinese humanoid robot outpaced thousands of human runners to...

Auckland Council launches AI tool to simplify problem reporting

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Auckland Council has unveiled a new web-based AI assistant designed to streamline how residents report common issues such as graffiti, illegal dumping, roaming dogs,...

Putin orders major AI project

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The Russian president set a 2030 target for AI integration across all sectors, from industry and logistics to energy and education. Russian President Vladimir Putin...

OpenAI CEO’s home hit with Molotov cocktail

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The suspect was arrested after he also appeared at the company’s San Francisco headquarters and threatened to burn it down. The home of OpenAI CEO...

Anthropic withholds powerful AI over cyberattack fears

Daily Telegraph NZ -

AI company Anthropic is holding back public release of its latest artificial intelligence system, Mythos, amid concerns it could be exploited by cybercriminals. The company...

Musk sues to oust OpenAI CEO

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The tech mogul has accused his former startup co-founder of carrying out an “illicit for-profit conversion” of the artificial intelligence firm. Tech billionaire Elon Musk...

AI giant Anthropic suffers ‘strategic code hemorrhage’

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The highly confidential internal design of the Amazon-backed tech was published due to “human error”. AI giant Anthropic has mistakenly published its own top secret...

US court rules against Pentagon in killer AI dispute

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The Department of War had ordered contractors to drop Anthropic after it refused to allow military use of its technology. A US federal judge has...

AI, humanity, and the Tower of Babel

Bert Olivier -

One of the most suggestive allusions to Artificial Intelligence that I have come across lately came from Renaud Beauchard, a French journalist writing for...

Poll finds rising US anxiety over AI as living costs bite

Daily Telegraph NZ -

A new national survey suggests growing numbers of Americans are worried that artificial intelligence is advancing faster than protections for workers, with many linking...

‘Happy shooting!’ AI chatbots eager to help plan mass violence – report

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Eight in ten AI assistants provided guidance on targets and weapons to researchers posing as teens plotting attacks. Eight out of ten leading AI chatbots...

Trump orders federal ban on Anthropic after AI dispute with Pentagon

Daily Telegraph NZ -

U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered all federal agencies to “IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology” after the AI firm refused the Pentagon’s...

Meta and Google strike AI chip deal

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Big Tech firms are facing scrutiny over market dominance in artificial intelligence. Facebook owner Meta has signed a multibillion-dollar agreement to rent artificial intelligence chips...

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