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As part of our series exploring how New Zealanders live and our relationship with money, a public servant explains how they spend and where they save. Want to be part of The Cost of Being? Fill out the questionnaire here. Gender: Female Age: 27 Ethnicity: Pākehā/Asian Role: Public servant. Also, a mum of three fur babies […]
Understanding AI Token Economics: Why Supply Matters
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- July 4, 2026
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There is a new unit of account in the artificial intelligence industry, and it is not the GPU, the model, or the API call. It is the token. Understanding why tokens have become the fundamental currency of AI — and why the supply of compute to generate them is more constrained than the headlines suggest — is now a […]
El Niño is here! What’s El Niño, again?
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- July 3, 2026
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The naturally occurring weather event has been officially declared. Madeleine Chapman explains what that means in today’s excerpt from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. Every few years, scientists and science journalists pick a day to patiently explain the El Niño weather phenomenon to us, and every time we […]
Deloitte tells its own consultants: AI is coming for the billable hour
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- June 29, 2026
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An internal Deloitte presentation projects that the consulting industry’s classic hourly billing model will shrink to a thin sliver of the total market by 2035, replaced by AI agents. “Our model is toast,” one consultant summed up the message. McKinsey and BCG are already searching for alternative revenue models. The article Deloitte tells its own […]