The state of Florida filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman claiming the company knowingly released and aggressively marketed ChatGPT to the public while concealing serious risks.
Crime and Justice
7:28am
The clash over the integration of AI into the military, who ultimately controls the technology and the ethics behind its use has played out in unusually public fashion during the Trump administration.
World
Monday 7:00pm
The Social Security (Modernisation) Amendment Bill passed its third reading in Parliament on Friday, rushed through the house under urgency.
Politics
Fri, May 29
Leo said the technology had helped accelerate the "normalisation of war" by desensitising people to its cost.
Tue, May 26
The evolutionary biologist spoke to Q+A's Jack Tame ahead of what he is calling his farewell tour to New Zealand.
Sun, May 24
Nvidia's results have exceeded the analyst projections that shape investors’ perceptions since Nvidia’s high-end chips emerged as AI’s best building blocks three years ago.
Business
Thu, May 21
Artificial intelligence is increasingly reshaping how New Zealanders get hired — with one company alone conducting more than 2500 AI-led interviews last month.
Musk had accused the company he helped found of betraying a shared vision for it to guide AI development as a nonprofit dedicated to humanity’s benefit.
Tue, May 19
Steven Soderbergh's documentary John Lennon: The Last Interview uses artificial intelligence to visualise a conversation between Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Entertainment
Mon, May 18
AI models built in the United States still dominate in raw computing firepower, but Chinese people and businesses have rapidly embraced the technology.
Sun, May 10
Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Nvidia, OpenAI, Reflection and SpaceX will provide resources to help “augment warfighter decision-making", the Defense Department said.
Mon, May 4
Tom Campbell is standing by his view that a new cable for a large AI data factory will not impact the environment at Ōreti Beach, despite a report saying otherwise.
Environment
Tue, Mar 17
Potential impacts of a large cable on the natural environment have been highlighted in a commissioner’s report, including disturbance to wildlife.
Fri, Mar 13
Months out from the next general election, political "AI slop" is spilling over social media feeds. Experts say lessons from overseas could help electoral laws catch up.
Wed, Mar 4
All major political parties agree artificial intelligence must not be used to mislead, but their approaches to using – or avoiding – the technology in the 2026 campaign vary widely.
Tue, Feb 10
Facebook pages using unlabelled AI imagery and rewritten press releases are mimicking real news outlets, prompting warnings from civil defence authorities and media experts.
New Zealand
Mon, Feb 9
Why is everyone looking back to 2016? A look at the current cultural nostalgia for the transitional year.
Sun, Feb 1
Many of Apple's AI features remain in the development phase, while Google and Samsung have been rolling out more of the technology on their own devices.
Tue, Jan 13
Some have speculated online that some of the fake book titles published in NZME-owned papers may have been AI-generated.
December 27, 2025
The commercial boom in artificial intelligence has lit a spark under long-simmering visions to build humanoid robots that can move their mechanical bodies like humans and do things that people do.
December 13, 2025
Marketing expert Bodo Lang identifies key factors that may be putting local companies under pressure.
October 19, 2025
Global watchdogs have recorded an explosion in AI-generated child sexual abuse material.
October 17, 2025
AI hype has just shaken up the world’s rich list. What if the boom is really a bubble?
Life
September 15, 2025
OPINION: The AI future will require massive amounts of power and embracing nuclear energy is an obvious, clean solution that could boost the NZ economy for generations.
August 19, 2025
The assumption that youth is a built-in advantage when it comes to AI might not actually hold.
August 9, 2025
