[Initiative] Nahar

A proposed law change would end an activist’s landmark climate case. It also raises questions about whether NZ’s domestic laws match its global commitments.

The Bank of England is reviewing whether existing rules can cover the use of agentic AI in finance, including payments, trading, cybersecurity, and operations. Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden said existing regulatory frameworks were not designed for AI agents that can act without direct human instruction. Speaking at the European Central Bank Forum on central banking […]

AI’s true impact is not merely automation but the reshaping of economic value through coordination: it dissolves scarcity‑based expertise, pushes value toward managing risk and aligning fragmented actors, and creates a “coordination tax” that rewards those who lower it. In news publishing, AI has unbundled the traditional bundle of gathering, producing and packaging content, eroding […]

The hedge fund Bridgewater and Thinking Machines Lab report that a finely tuned open-weight model outperforms the most powerful AI models in the evaluation of financial documents, at a fraction of the cost. The figures come from their own analysis. The article GPT and Claude failed Bridgewater’s finance tests because the right answers were never […]