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- June 29, 2026
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Tara Ward reviews the first episode of Three’s new documentary series and asks, when will it be enough? The opening moments of Devotion: The Gloriavale Story capture how isolated Gloriavale really is. It begins with some stunning South Island scenery, all snow-capped mountains, wide stony riverbeds and steep hills covered in lush native forest – […]
The scene inside the National caucus room
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- August 12, 2026
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Possibly National MPs are in the caucus room determining things like the leadership of New Zealand. In the absence of any information emerging from that meeting, we have taken the obvious path, and made it up. Here is the latest. 9.30am There is a nervous energy in the National caucus room. Christopher Luxon has just […]
Germany’s AI Strategy: Funded But Stuck
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- July 13, 2026
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A policy analysis from July 2026 In November 2018, the German Federal Government launched its first National Artificial Intelligence Strategy, a joint effort by the education and research, economic affairs, and labour ministries that set out an ambition simple enough to fit on a banner: make Germany and Europe a leading centre for AI. Backed […]
Aether AI Announces $20M Seed Round to Build Causal World Models for the Next Era of AI
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- June 30, 2026
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Insider Brief Aether AI has closed a $20M seed round led by MPCi, with participation from Inno Angel Fund, SWC Global, Unity Ventures, and others, to accelerate research and development of its causal world model technology and support initial commercial deployments in Physical AI and robotics. Founded by Prof. Biwei Huang, an Assistant Professor at […]