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Griffin on Tech: War of words over hacking heats up - but is it news?
It would be helpful if the PR campaign against China was supplemented with a decent investment at a natonal level in cybersecurity, an area we have woefully underspent in as a nation.
Substantial AI regulation - EU first off the blocks
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.
The Big Four’s stranglehold on fintech innovation
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.
Griffin on Tech: America - champions of innovation, as long as it’s US-made
TikTok’s travails show that the US will allow open innovation to flourish - as long as it doesn’t threaten US power.
Griffin on Tech: Newshub - disrupted and down, but not out
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.
The secret sauce of Coles’ and Woolworths’ profits: high-tech surveillance and control
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.