AI news in New Zealand

New Zealand wine exports rose 6% to 306.2 million liters in the year to June. Vinetur

As we are leading up to the elections, I was trying to look up the boundaries of my electorate online to see who my MPs were gonna be for this election. Google served me this quite slick, but definitely AI generated slop website up as the second search result when I searched my electorate name: https://www.myelectorate.co.nz/electorates This supposedly 'independent' 'non-partisan' site linked to a second AI site for comparing the parties and policies: https://policynavigator.neonz.org/parties There was a person's name in the footer which I tried to search to find out more information, but I di

Māori are named in only about a third of New Zealand news stories about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Māori are talked about, but rarely heard. When you count who is quoted, Māori technology, rights and data sovereignty voices make up just 3% of media articles. This creates an issue where Māori societal harms, opportunities and benefits ... Read more

Kimi chatbot sarin jailbreak: only 2% of NZ boards ready B2B News

Snowflake stock rises 6% as AI Marketplace launch boosts software outlook Invezz

How to build a nuclear bomb or plan an assassination are just some of the suggestions made by one of the world’s most popular AIs to a Kiwi researcher.

How OpenAI’s revenue discrepancy shook the AI stock trade Invezz

Inside the tortured property deal for NZ’s next ‘Silicon Valley’ The Press

Nvidia stock slowly forms a risky pattern as experts warn of an AI bubble Invezz

Sextortion warning after man's death: 'Help is available' 1News

Datacom has revealed it has close to a thousand people coding with a variety of AI tools every day – and is already spending about half a million dollars a month on tokens. However, the company is looking to count the outcomes from its AI use rather than the number of tokens used, Datacom CEO Greg Davidson said at the recent AWS Cloud and AI Day in Auckland . “Inside our organisation, we’ve got around 500 core developers and close to 1000 people who code in their roles. Adoption across that group’s at about 50 per cent today,” he said, “But with that comes a rising tide of spend. It’s now abou

'Perfect storm': What's behind New Zealand's youth unemployment? Human Resources Director

A sixteen-year-old was stranded on a Canadian mountain after asking Anthropic’s Claude chatbot to plan a route.

Rana Stephan has joined Ingram Micro in the newly created role as AWS senior business development manager. According to the distributor, Stephan’s new role is focused on supporting Ingram Micro’s AWS business and partner engagement activities. Stephan brings deep AWS expertise, strong industry relationships and a genuine passion for helping partners succeed to the position, said Ingram Micro advanced solutions and cloud general manager for New Zealand Brook Gyde. “We’re pleased to welcome Rana to Ingram Micro. She will play an important role in supporting partners to build capabilities, deploy

The emergence of AI and other technological changes have added another layer of uncertainty.

The creation of the first Auckland chapter of the Global Technology Industry Association (GTIA) comes at an opportune time for the local channel as AI is set to change the sector and the wider economy. This was the message delivered to an audience of around 30 representatives from local channel organisations, including distributors, IT service providers (ITSPs) and managed service providers (MSPs), at the inaugural meeting of Auckland chapter recently. In attendance to officially launch the chapter was GTIA CEO Dan Wensley and other global and regional representatives of the association. In hi

AppWrap: AI for tertiary sector, AI data centres power play and digital payments views istart.co.nz

Dow holds steady as Nasdaq falls 1.24% on AI stocks, oil surge Invezz

Securecom goes live on Snowflake's New Zealand instance IT Brief New Zealand

The dual technologies will make easy work of decrypting the security of most existing digital devices.