Another week, another tech vendor-sponsored report pointing to the huge productivity gains we’ll enjoy as a nation if we only improved our “digital maturity” and employed more artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence (AI) prophets and newsmongers are forecasting the end of the generative AI hype, with talk of an impending catastrophic “model collapse”. But how realistic are these predictions? And what is model collapse anyway?

New Zealand Government domains are the least likely in Australasia to be protected from email-borne cyber attacks like spoofs and phishing scams, according to email security specialist SMX.

New Zealand’s health tech sector eked out growth of just 2.4% last year following a flurry of Covid-era spending, but has doubled in size in the last decade.

Historically, fines have not been the sole method of enforcing antitrust laws as they do not demonstrate long-term impacts. This is especially true for a multi-trillion-dollar organisation such as Google.

The one area where work is actually reasonably advanced on a complex and challenging area applicable to AI is the Office of the privacy Commissioner’s proposed biometrics code of practice.