Can you help judge a national youth physics competition in Auckland?

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.

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.

While federal efforts on issues like Section 230 reform and children’s online protection may advance, federal-level AI regulation and data privacy laws could potentially slow down due to the administration’s deregulatory stance.

A new machine-learning weather prediction model called GenCast can outperform the best traditional forecasting systems in at least some situations, according to a paper by Google DeepMind researchers published in Nature

Australia is set to ban under-16s from social media and next year will trial technology to enforce the ban. So what exactly are these options – and what does the evidence say about their effectiveness?