Many countries – including New Zealand – will be keenly watching how the application of the AI Act unfolds and how its principles might be used or adapted elsewhere.

We have not seen disruptive innovations observed overseas from fintechs such as Revolut, Monzo, and Rocket Mortgage, as fintechs here face a range of impediments entering and expanding.

TikTok’s travails show that the US will allow open innovation to flourish - as long as it doesn’t threaten US power.

Newshub’s crisis starkly illustrates the structural problem with media, which have seen their advertising move online and into the coffers of Google and Meta, as audiences ditch linear TV in favour of short-form video content and social media.

As the largest private-sector employers and providers of essential household goods, the supermarkets play an outsized role in public life. Indeed, they are such familiar places that technological developments there may fly under the radar of public attention.

If the last few years have seen companies tool up to improve their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting, the latest revolution in artificial intelligence raises the question of whether AI can help or hinder ESG efforts.