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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

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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...

Pentagon expands military AI arsenal with Grok

Daily Telegraph NZ -

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

Daily Telegraph NZ -

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

Daily Telegraph NZ -

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

Daily Telegraph NZ -

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

Daily Telegraph NZ -

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

Daily Telegraph NZ -

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

Daily Telegraph NZ -

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

Daily Telegraph NZ -

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

Daily Telegraph NZ -

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

Daily Telegraph NZ -

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

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