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- June 29, 2026
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SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son has publicly questioned the viability of orbital data centers, arguing that the cost and timeline involved make them irrelevant to the AI industry’s immediate compute needs. Son made the remarks at a recent shareholder meeting, contending that the next few years of the AI race matter far more than […]
The truth about the Dancing Cossacks ad
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- June 28, 2026
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When the storyboards were first shared with Muldoon, there was something missing. There were cartoons on the six o’clock news last Sunday. TVNZ and Three both festooned their bulletins with the Dancing Cossacks, stars of a notorious 1975 National Party election ad which decried the then Labour government’s “dangerous” compulsory superannuation scheme, warning that it […]
AI Weekly Issue #499: Microsoft proves it doesn’t need OpenAI; Alphabet raises $85B
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- June 28, 2026
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Microsoft used its own developer conference to show it can live without OpenAI, Florida’s attorney general sued OpenAI and went after Sam Altman personally, researchers and a new Workday product made plain that nobody trusts AI agents yet, and Alphabet raised a record $85 billion the same week the Fed flagged AI as a systemic […]
Police seize Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki’s firearms and revoke gun licence after incendiary online comments
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- June 30, 2026
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The Destiny Church leader says he made reference to using a shotgun to protect his family.