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Google CEO warns users not to ‘blindly’ trust AI tools
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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.
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”
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
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...
Trump posts AI video of Obama being arrested
The US president has endorsed conducting a criminal investigation into the former Democratic leader over the Russiagate hoax. US President Donald Trump has posted an...
Designing a new school in the age of AI
Currently my colleagues and I have the challenging and inspiring task of designing a new school (Year 0 - 10) in the, still dawning,...
Western AI doesn’t answer questions – it installs values
Generative artificial intelligence spreads across the Global South, and with it spread values, ideals and modes of thinking. Generative AI spreads across the Global South...
Is AI driving us all insane?
An emerging class of AI-induced distress is raising alarms. But are LLMs merely a trigger – or a mirror to our deeper societal breakdown? The...
Top Western firms switching to Chinese AI – WSJ
The US is losing its dominance in the global artificial intelligence race, according to the newspaper. A growing number of top Western companies are adopting...
Zuckerberg unveils new ‘superintelligence laboratory’
Meta has launched an AI division to pursue technology capable of exceeding human capabilities. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced the formation of Meta Superintelligence...
ChatGPT ‘triggers psychosis’
The AI bot’s tendency to affirm users’ beliefs has been found to reinforce harmful delusions, according to a report. ChatGPT is linked to “terrifying” psychosis...
Did AI almost start World War III?
Recall that the Covid fiasco went into overdrive when Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London generated a wildly incorrect estimate of the fatality rate...
Teachers must avert an AI-facilitated intellectual Dark Age
I remember watching a YouTube interview with a highly intelligent and observant entrepreneur, who cheerfully predicted that the time would come when AI programmes...
How sick is New Zealand? What should be done?
Sometimes the veil is lifted and you get a glimpse into what our government is planning for us in the future. On Monday Prime Minister...
Google’s AI Mode sparks fears of ‘open web collapse’ as search enters a ‘new era’
Google’s introduction of “AI Mode” in its search engine is being hailed as a revolutionary step toward a more efficient, AI-driven internet experience. The new...
California Dreaming
The NY Times is heralding a new company called Mechanize formed in San Francisco to produce software with the ‘audacious’ (???) goal of replacing 50% of white collar...
Hollywood giants sue AI firm over ‘piracy’
Disney and Universal are seeking an injunction and damages from Midjourney over the alleged use of copyrighted characters. Hollywood giants Disney and Universal have filed...
Zuckerberg goes all in on ‘superintelligence’ lab – Bloomberg
The Meta CEO is reportedly forming an elite team to pursue human-level AI and challenge rival tech giants. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is setting up...
India tests AI-based machine gun (Video)
The new weapon can autonomously identify and engage targets in complex mountainous terrain. The Indian Army has successfully tested an AI-enabled light machine gun at...
UK judges sound alarm over AI-fabricated cases
Two lawyers have been warned after submitting arguments generated by artificial intelligence. A judge of the High Court of England and Wales has issued a...
