If you’ve been watching Meta and Microsoft’s latest financial results and thinking, “Wow, tech is back!” well, enjoy the party while it lasts.  Because just beyond the confetti and Mark Zuckerberg’s AI-powered smile, there’s a freight train of tariffs and antitrust headaches barreling straight for Silicon Valley’s golden children.

Planned obsolescence might feel inevitable, but as an industry, we can do better. Some great insights and thoughts on how we move on from this inevitable trap from a recent member discussion.

ITP members had a lively debate on whether Aotearoa should follow in Australia’s footsteps and ban social media for under 16’s. So many pros and cons.

Big Tech companies have made it challenging to unsubscribe from their services. But regulation is coming and may provide relief for consumers struggling to easily find the cancel option.

As a researcher of information systems and AI, I examined both candidates’ records on technology regulation. Here are the important differences.

Whether and how we use that power is up to us, but we mightn’t have it for long. The more the new class of billionaires and trillionaires becomes entrenched, the more it will be able to use the political system to protect their interests rather than those of mere mortals.