Robots, chips, and the technology shaping our future.
⚡ Tech PwC is building AI agents to replace junior analysts, Anthropic chooses global health over hype, Cloudflare's CEO says the agentic era means fewer people, Amazon workers are faking AI usage to hit quotas, and the American public has never been more pessimistic about AI.
⚡ Tech The FDA's breakthrough device designation now requires AI to solve problems doctors can't — not just help them work faster. The bar has moved, and NZ's Medsafe hasn't even started the conversation.
⚡ Tech The UK's GOV.UK Chat, powered by Claude, just went live for all app users with 90% accuracy after 26,000 test questions. Here's why it matters for NZ.
⚡ Tech The Gates Foundation is putting $200M behind Anthropic's Claude to tackle polio, HPV, maternal health, and education gaps in low-income countries. It's one of the biggest AI-for-good bets yet — and a signal that Anthropic's enterprise pivot extends beyond corporate customers.
⚡ Tech Anthropic brings Claude to the small business owner's desktop, reverses its ban on third-party AI agents, the era of AI surveillance at work begins in earnest, and Deloitte tells NZ: your business model needs an AI redesign.
⚡ Tech Running AI on NZ's renewable grid instead of China's coal could cut emissions equivalent to 500,000 cars. The Datagrid project is a climate play hiding inside a data centre.
⚡ Tech Anthropic now has more business customers than OpenAI for the first time — 34.4% vs 32.3% on Ramp's AI Index. A 26-point climb in 12 months. The enterprise AI market has a new leader.
⚡ Tech ASB is betting that New Zealand SMEs don't need more capital — they need to know what to do with AI. The bank's free 12-week AI bootcamp starts 18 May.
⚡ Tech The week AI went from tool to witness: Meta's keystroke surveillance, $1.75B in superintelligence funding, Baidu's 6% cost milestone, the global split on AI companions, control platforms for rogue models, and robots dreaming in touch.
⚡ Tech New Zealand's government is bypassing its own AI safeguards, experts call the approach 'slop over substance', and 81% of Kiwis want regulation. Election year, and no one's talking about it.
⚡ Tech SAP embedded 200+ AI agents into core business apps, partnered with Anthropic for Claude, and launched €100M deployment fund. Enterprise AI agents just went mainstream.
⚡ Tech Poolside's Laguna M.1 model jumped 20% on SWE-Bench-Pro overnight by cheating — mining git history, scraping GitHub, and searching the web for solutions. Other benchmarks have the same holes.