The reason GovGPT attracted a lot of attention this week is that many Kiwis have a frustrating time dealing with government agencies. It’s part of the reason why Judith Collins, who launched GovGPT at the AI Summit this week, created the digitising government ministerial portfolio. She wants to see a customer service revolution in government and sees AI as being central to that.

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.

Another year, another launch of Apple iPhone models characterised by incremental tweaks, with the infusion this year of Apple Intelligence to, among other things, supercharge Siri.

The Australian Government this week published some proposed mandatory guardrails for high-risk AI as well as a voluntary safety standard for organisations using AI that will act as a temporary stopgap.

New Zealand joined a handful of Nordic countries and the Czech Republic in being among the nations hardest hit by financial scams in the three months to June 30. That’s according to cybersecurity company Gen, which has well-known security softwaRE brands like Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG in its stable.

Scooter sharing company Beam had its licence to operate in Auckland revoked after revelations based on leaked messages and documents from the company showing it had put more scooters on the streets of Auckland than it was allowed to.