Now that I've watched a few of these I realise humans urgently need a protective AI layer wrapped around our sensorium, to shield us from hypnosis by algo-driven genAI - which otherwise will just capture our infinite attention and render us inert of any agency in the real world.

intel might be the ibm of ai

Cancer delays: Health NZ apologises to family of clinical psychologist Glenda Graham, who before her death wrote, ‘my life has been denied’ nzherald.co.nz/nz/cancer-dela…

AI startups have raised US$300 billion over the past three years, but few of them are making money yet.

'While plenty of money has been burned in other tech booms, the expense of building AI systems has shocked tech industry veterans,' the New York Times reports this week.…

TikTok is a threat to national security. Please tell me our PM doesn’t have it installed on his own devices (and, if so, why hasn’t one of his 7 social media team members mentioned it to him ?)…

Viagogo loses 6-year battle against Commerce Commission

Remember the first Google result (or sponsored result) might not be an official ticket seller. If you do land on a resale or 'scalping' site, take extra care that tickets are genuine - and be wary of 'selling out' claims…

Absolute ripper of a yarn by Bex Stevenson

Stunning work.

Kiwis don't like the idea of a national digital ID, we don't even have digital driver's licences or e-voting yet. People are most sensitive about their finances.

So how well received would a CBDC be with its potential to be programmmable and keep track of where every digital…

🤑 On The Business of Tech podcast this week, Hillfarance Venture Capital's Rob Vickery on putting a value on startup companies as an investor, and the impact of potential upcoming changes to the tax treatment of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs).

🥘 Ben Moore and I…

Great story. I have my own theory for how his lanyard ended up in Antarctica. Niwa's Tangaroa research ship is and was a regular visitor to the Wellington waterfront and Jamie Morton tells me it regularly ventures into Antarctic waters to monitor toothfish stocks. If the card…

Will China really cancel our milk powder shipments if we join Aukus Pillar II? Or will we miss out on opportunities in the high-tech economy and compromise national security if we don't?

Whether you believe we should throw our lot in with the UK, US and Aussie in developing AI,…

My first impressions of Apple's Vision Pro:

The good:
✅ Resolution of the OLED screens, it's the best I’ve experienced in a headset
✅ The learning curve isn’t huge - VisionOS is very intuitive and easy to use and the pinch and swipe gestures to navigate it really work.
✅ The…

🤖 On The Business of Tech this week, I delve into the immersive world of the Apple Vision Pro and talk to Beyond co-founders Jessica Manins and Anton Mitchell who have developed Runaways, the first New Zealand game to take advantage of the Vision Pro's spatial gaming…

“They’re a disrupter in a market that isn’t really disruptable” - afr.com/technology/how…

The Perilous Coming Age of AI Warfare cnas.org/publications/c… via CNAS