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Trump orders federal ban on Anthropic after AI dispute with Pentagon

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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

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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...

Pentagon expands military AI arsenal with Grok

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The Pentagon has reportedly approved Elon Musk’s Grok artificial intelligence system for use within classified US military networks, signalling a major expansion of AI...

Gates pulls out of major AI summit over Epstein controversy

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Bill Gates cancelled his scheduled keynote appearance at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi just hours before he was due to speak,...

Pentagon used Claude AI to kidnap Maduro – reports

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Anthropic has publicly touted its focus on “safeguards,” seeking to limit military use of its tech. The US military actively used Anthropic’s Claude AI model...

Musk announces record merger

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The billionaire is combining SpaceX and xAI in a deal that reportedly values the enlarged entity at $1.25 trillion. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has completed the...

U.S. cyber agency head under scrutiny over ChatGPT data leak

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The acting head of the United States’ top cyber-defence body is facing scrutiny after sensitive government documents were reportedly uploaded to a public version...

Elon sues for $134b in damages in lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft

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Elon Musk has launched a sweeping legal challenge against OpenAI and its major backer Microsoft, demanding a combined $134 billion in damages and alleging...

UK police apologise for AI error in ban on Israeli football fans

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West Midlands Police have admitted that artificial intelligence was used to produce flawed intelligence cited in a decision to bar supporters of Israeli club...

How a techno-optimist became a grave skeptic

Roger Bate -

Before Covid, I would have described myself as a technological optimist. New technologies almost always arrive amid exaggerated fears. Railways were supposed to cause mental...

Nvidia unveils Alpamayo platform to power ‘human-like reasoning’ in self-driving cars

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Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has unveiled Alpamayo, a new AI platform designed to give autonomous vehicles human-style reasoning, allowing them to handle rare...

Satellite heat maps reveal growing strain from AI and crypto data centres on global power grids

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Surging demand from artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency mining is driving a rapid expansion of energy-hungry data centres, placing mounting pressure on electricity grids around...

Trump issues executive order to limit state-level AI regulation

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U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at restricting individual states from imposing their own artificial intelligence regulations while a national...

HSBC warns OpenAI may need over $200 billion just to stay afloat

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OpenAI could face a massive funding shortfall of more than USD $200 billion by 2030 as soaring computing costs threaten to eclipse its revenue...

Grok chatbot declares Musk ‘world’s greatest human’

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Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has come under scrutiny after users reported that it repeatedly described its creator as the greatest human alive, praising...

Musk predicts future where AI makes work ‘optional’ and money ‘Irrelevant’

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Elon Musk says rapid advances in artificial intelligence and robotics could make traditional work largely unnecessary within the next two decades, with jobs becoming...

Google CEO warns users not to ‘blindly’ trust AI tools

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Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has cautioned users against placing blind faith in artificial intelligence systems, saying current models still make mistakes and...

Top NZ authors disqualified from book awards due to AI-generated covers

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Two acclaimed New Zealand writers, Elizabeth Smither and Stephanie Johnson, have been ruled ineligible for the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards after organisers...

AI companies are encouraging users to believe chatbots are people, and it’s insanely creepy

Caitlin Johnstone -

They’re trying to manipulate us into believing we are much, much less than what we are, just so they can become billionaires and trillionaires. They...

Who’s afraid of the AI Boogeyman?

Bert Olivier -

It is becoming ever more obvious that many people fear rapidly developing Artificial Intelligence (AI), for various reasons, such as its supposed superiority, compared...

Over a million ChatGPT users discuss suicide weekly – OpenAI

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OpenAI has disclosed that more than one million people discuss suicidal thoughts with ChatGPT each week, prompting the company to roll out new safety...

Amazon cuts 14,000 corporate jobs as AI hits tech industry

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Amazon has announced plans to cut around 14,000 corporate jobs as part of a major restructuring effort to accelerate its investment in artificial intelligence. The...

‘AI Scribe Tool’ to be rolled out to 1,000 emergency doctors

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An artificial intelligence scribe tool will soon be deployed to 1,000 doctors and frontline staff in emergency departments nationwide, Health Minister Simeon Brown has...

Australian government blocks AI copyright loophole

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The Albanese government has rejected calls for a text and data mining exception in copyright law, signalling a tougher stance against tech giants profiting...

Google parent company to build $15bn AI data hub in India

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Google’s parent company Alphabet will invest $15 billion to establish a major AI data hub in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh—its largest such project outside the...

Spark to block all AI-generated child sexual abuse material

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Spark has announced it will become New Zealand’s first internet provider to block all AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery, including cartoon-style and non-photorealistic material. The...

OpenAI surpasses SpaceX as world’s most valuable startup

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The maker of ChatGPT overtook Elon Musk’s tech company with a $500 billion valuation following a recent share sale. OpenAI has become the world’s most...

Musk targets ‘biased’ Wikipedia with AI alternative

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Grokipedia will be a “massive improvement” as a source of knowledge, the billionaire has claimed. Elon Musk has announced plans to build a new online...

AI-generated minister sparks chaos in Albanian parliament (Video)

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Opposition MPs hurled bottles and copies of the constitution after a speech by a bot recently added to the cabinet. A parliamentary session in Albania...

Albania appoints AI bot as a ‘virtual government minister’ to tackle corruption

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Diella, formerly a virtual assistant on the government website, will handle public procurement, Prime Minister Edi Rama has said. Albania will soon be the first...

Why so many people are lapping up digital garbage

Mathew Maavak -

Algorithms and brain chemistry keep us stuck in loops until we get saturated with doomscrolling and fake news. There is a long-brewing malaise that has...

Journalist warns of “Digital Gulag” as unelected global “elites” push surveillance systems

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Journalist Alex Newman has issued a stark warning about what he describes as a sweeping plan by unelected technocrats—including Bill Gates, the United Nations,...

Concerns grow over Meta’s ‘automated bans’

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New Zealanders and others worldwide are raising concerns over Meta’s reliance on automated moderation systems, which they say are wrongly suspending legitimate Instagram and...

New report shows USD $1.2m is spent on AI every minute

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Domo (Nasdaq: DOMO) today unveiled a special second edition of its Data Never Sleeps: AI Edition infographic, which focuses on AI and its growth...

Data-mining the Global South into submission

Mathew Maavak -

The new colonial frontier isn’t restricted to mineral-rich Congo or oil-drenched Venezuela. It’s digital, invisible, and everywhere. From the shantytowns of Nairobi to the barrios...

ChatGPT maker could become world’s most valuable private tech firm – Bloomberg

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OpenAI is reportedly in talks about a stock sale that would push its market valuation to half a trillion dollars. ChatGPT maker OpenAI is in...

How the A.I. and Biotech alliance will affect New Zealand

Guy Hatchard -

An article published in Nature on July 30 entitled CRISPR-GPT for agentic automation of gene-editing experiments explains how genetic modification of human and plant cell lines...

The unthinking faith in biotechnology and A.I.

Guy Hatchard -

In his 2017 book ‘The Strange Death of Europe’ Douglas Murray argues that we have lost our sense of purpose. Fuelled by rational and scientific...

Government investment in AI & biotech includes research into “insect larvae-based food development”

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The Government has announced a $24 million investment into artificial intelligence and biotechnology research, partnering with Singapore on projects aimed at healthy ageing and...

Taiwan chipmaker achieves $1 trillion valuation

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Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC’s market capitalisation has surged amid booming AI demand. The world’s largest chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), has become the first Asian...

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