In the wake of a week of gaffes, the prime minister’s hold on the National…
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Meta’s new local model forces enterprises to recalculate AI costs and ROI
Meta on Monday rolled out a new 30-billion-parameter AI model that is optimized to run…
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Election 2026: National MPs set to decide Christopher Luxon’s leadership in caucus meeting
Many National MPs have not responded when asked whether they support Luxon.
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The story behind Ngā Tamatoa, the Warriors’ history-making haka
On Friday night, the Warriors performed a haka before kick-off for the first time, and…
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Today’s AI hype-fest is partially IT’s fault
I came across a LinkedIn post the other day that described “hypegineering,” which the poster…
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Christopher Luxon leadership: National’s Chris Bishop not denying appetite within party for leadership change
The Herald revealed Luxon faced another round of leadership chatter on Monday.
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Old OCR text cripples language model training, and FineBooks wants to fix that at scale
The FineBooks project from Hugging Face and EleutherAI tested 14 open-source OCR models on more…
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UAE National AI Strategy 2031: Decoded
A policy analysis from July 2026 In October 2017, the United Arab Emirates did something…
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Discovered Materials Raises $9M to Advance AI-Driven Semiconductor Materials Discovery
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10, 2026 — Discovered Materials, a company building AI agents that discover and…
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Why Open Source Matters for AI
In 1995, the question in the media was whether Netscape or Microsoft would control the…