Google is threatening to pull New Zealand news snippets from its search and Google News platforms. But the Government should hold firm in a rare effort to address the power imbalance between Big Tech and nations grappling with the implications of their influence.

New Zealand's government-funded Deep Tech Incubator Programme has supported nearly half of the country’s deep tech startups since it was founded a decade ago, awarding $44 million in replayable grants.

The lack of investment in anything forward-looking that has the ability to boost capability in the digital economy is deflating and in stark contrast to what we saw delivered the Australian Federal Budget earlier this month.

Australia faces many of the problems we do at the moment, but is fundamentally a wealthier country, which is why the last few budgets there have seen left and right-leaning governments alike make some big investments in tech and knowledge economy initiatives they hope will lift salaries and high value exports in the longrun.

Using tech to make us more efficient has great benefits, but making tech to sell to the world is the real key to becoming more productive

With advances in artificial intelligence (AI), it is expected that in 2024, there will be a boost in health tracking.