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Investors face $3m loss after sale of SmartSpace platform and holding firm liquidation

Founder Timothy Boyne is personally owed more than $2.1m from the collapse.

'More than our road toll': Inside the Kiwi-made AI tool taking on prescription errors

An estimated 200+ New Zealanders a year are thought to die from prescription mistakes.

We study mass shooters. Something terrifying is happening online

NYT Opinion: Teens in crisis don’t need to seek out dark material. It finds them.

What is heart rate variability – and why are office workers obsessed with it?

New York Times: Fitness tech is everywhere – including the workplace. Is that healthy?

AI shakes Hollywood, but creative 'human element' will still rule, tech boss says

Steven Spielberg told a festival he refuses to let AI replace writers and crews.

Datagrid's $5.1b 'AI factory' faces three major hurdles

Why Chorus walked away from its Datagrid partnership.

AI boom creating shortage of key elements for consumer technology

RAM and SSD prices have jumped up to 400% since late last year.

Former Palantir staffer takes us inside the tech giant | Herald NOW Business

AI is reshaping how the US military makes decisions in war. Jonty Kelt reflects on the early days at Palantir. Video / Herald NOW Business

Apple’s cut-price iPhone 17e: What you get, what you don’t

Apple's cheapest iPhone gets MagSafe wireless charging, double the storage.

UK electric car drivers ‘spied on' by previous government through phones

Two-year mass surveillance project commissioned by Department for Transport under Tories.

Iran strikes send VIP Dubai influencers 'back to reality'

Influencers filmed missiles and burning buildings metres from Dubai hotels.

The future of AI? Tech titan slashes 40% of workforce overnight

Shares in Block jumped as much as 27% as investors backed Jack Dorsey's AI-driven cull.