The Commerce Commission is assessing whether to investigate, and nearly $48,000 is still owed to 1615 people that officials can't track down.
New Zealand
6:00am
Chinese electric vehicles’ ultrafast charging is only getting faster.
World
Monday 6:00am
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The US now finds itself further from governing AI systems than it was a few years ago.
Sun, Oct 11
Netsafe says sextortion attempts and deep fake image abuse has increased by 237% since it began tracking the issue in 2023.
Fri, Oct 9
Satellites are being designed to manoeuvre near, inspect, disable, or destroy spacecraft in projects shrouded in mystery.
Wed, Oct 7
Exclusive: Security experts warn the data from fitness app Strava could provide valuable intelligence to foreign adversaries.
Tue, Oct 6
The court found the video crossed the line, saying it didn’t reflect actual events and presented statements made in the footage as coming directly from the victim.
Crime and Justice
Sun, Oct 4
Like a baby taking its first tentative steps, New Zealand's political firmament is finally talking about how to manage the arrival of artificial intelligence.
Politics
You may have a vague recollection this could be bad for your phone’s battery.
Life
Fri, Oct 2
The agents, designed to complete ongoing tasks proactively on behalf of users, are a competitor of Meta's personal agent Muse.
Wed, Sep 30
"I will never stifle the growth of a technology that will be bigger than the industrial revolution," Trump said at the unveiling of an AI chatbot, America.gov.
Almost all drivers with in-car touchscreens say they have been distracted by them, with motorists favouring physical buttons for commonly used controls.
It's the latest in the company's effort to decelerate the pace of the technology's advance.
Tue, Sep 29
An OpenAI agent breached a Medicare statistics portal in June, but the company did not inform the government until early September.
It follows a series of revelations from top AI companies about their models escaping and breaking into other organisations.
Business
Debates inside the AI industry and beyond over the plausibility of doomsday scenarios have heated up since several executives endorsed slowing the technology's development.
Mon, Sep 28
Personal experiences were a powerful motivator for veteran journalist Ali Mau in her co-founding of a free legal service and innovative platform for reporting for sexual harm.
Sat, Sep 26
The timing of this revelation was "pretty tactical" according to Olivia Shen, a Director at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.
Fri, Sep 25
"If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole," said Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic.
Thu, Sep 24
"The technology is more persuasive, more intimate, and more powerful," the Duke of Sussex said
The ruse was part of a global operation generating hundreds of millions of dollars for the North Korean regime's nuclear weapons and missile programmes.
There’s no shortage of fantastical scenarios, and most of them involve the concept of “superintelligent” AI – that is, AI that’s more capable than humans.
The rollout also comes as there are changes for older passengers and SuperGold cardholders in Greater Christchurch.
Wed, Sep 23
Social media influencer known as "Clavicular" was charged with raping a 17-year-old girl who told police he gave her alcohol at his family's Cape Cod home.
Education Minister Erica Stanford says the person is ideologically-driven and there have been no attempts to circumvent the Official Information Act.
