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Why AI progress feels like a black comedy

Plus: NZ mulls response to Trump tariffs, why VCs might be 'ghosting' you and billionaire moves to sack NZME board.

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 •

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 •

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 •

Inside Musk’s Aggressive Incursion Into the Federal Government

PLUS: Hnry takes on the UK, Nicola Willis hints at tax changes, Trump’s trade war fallout for NZ, OpenAI’s new expert-level ChatGPT tool, fixing NZ’s…

Feb 4

Kwetta Powers Ahead: Napier-Based EV Charger Startup Raises $17.5M for Global Expansion

PLUS: NZ’s $355M Nvidia loss, Trump 2.0 shakes trade, DeepSeek’s censorship exposed, Iceland’s algae future, top pods from Blackbird’s Phoebe, and Sim…

Jan 28

Halter founder Craig Piggott reflects on 2024’s meteoric growth and shares vision for 2025

The founder using the world’s newest tech to revolutionise one its oldest industries says he’s just getting started.

Jan 23

Trump begins presidency with flurry of executive orders

Plus NZ politics kicks into gear for 2025, India tests waters on free trade, more media cuts expected and OpenAI may be gearing up for crucial release.

Jan 21

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