Microsoft announced a major partnership with Spark for cloud computing that will also see Copilot rolled out to an additional 1,800 staff. Meanwhile a quantum computing breakthrough at Microsoft could accelerate the roadmap for useful quantum computers.

Can generative AI make us better at critical thinking? Maybe – if we are careful, we might be able to use generative AI to challenge ourselves and augment our critical thinking.

CentrePort is set to host the country’s first commercial private 5G network later this year, in a bid to improve connectivity across Wellington’s busy port.

How do the offerings of new Chinese large language model maker DeepSeek stack up? AI expert Simon Thorne puts them to the test against more established rivals.

No matter the motivation of DeepSeek’s founder for releasing the low-cost large language model as an open source project, it promises to trigger a flurry of innovation in more efficient AI and break the doom-loop narrative that high performance AI is only for the big boys.

As New Zealand (among others) has discovered in the past decade, influencing the behaviour of these companies is easier said than done. It has repeatedly found itself struggling to effectively manage big tech’s impact on its society and economy.