AI 🤖

AI progress feels like a black comedy

It's time to look up.

Mar 6 •

Rocket Lab soars, Orr departs and Trump tariffs unleashed

Plus: AI valuations surge, Kumo Study tool launched and earnings season wrap up.

Mar 5 •

The sustainable tech moat is dead

PLUS: Trump’s $5M ‘gold card’, Microsoft kills Skype, NZ’s economic slump, and Instagram’s next move

Mar 2 •

The sustainable tech moat is dead

The floor is lava in tech right now, better get moving because standing still could be fatal.

Mar 2 •

Semiconductors: The little chips that could (upend the world)

They are the load-bearing pillars of our economy and like all load-bearing pillars, we rarely think about them - until they start to crack.

Feb 27 •

Rocket Lab shares sink, bounty offered after crypto heist and Alexa gets upgrade

Plus: Perplexity launches new fund, asteroid mining could be a reality and the viral chat bot conversation that has people nervous.

Feb 26 •

AI powered 'tiny teams' and Overseas Investment ACT overhaul

PLUS: Grok 3 controversy over benchmarks and censorship and Microsoft's quantum chip blows minds worldwide.

Feb 23 •

Veteran of Trade Me, Xero wants less startup 'theatre' and more actual startups

Plus: Medtech Global acquired, humanoid robots deployed with impressive new AI model and is woke banking really a problem in NZ?

Feb 20 •

Veteran of Trade Me, Xero wants less startup 'theatre' and more startups

Rowan Simpson's new book reflects on decades of success but argues much modern startup advice is dangerously wrong.

Feb 20 •

OCR drop brings relief, cuts at NZME and new deal between Spark and Microsoft

Plus: X in talks for major raise in turn of fortunes and new AI company from former OpenAI CTO.

Feb 19 •

Elon Musk and when ‘Founder Mode’ goes too far

Plus: Black Pearl Group beta launches new product, Altman lays out plan for GPT 5 and Simon Watts gives ultimatum to gentailers.

Feb 13 •

Elon Musk and when ‘Founder Mode’ goes too far

'Move fast and break things' is not something you want in Government, writes Finn Hogan

Feb 13 •

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