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Griffin on Tech: Trump’s digital tax threat and InternetNZ’s membership surge
President Trump has put the world on notice - tax or fine our tech companies and we will retaliate with tariffs. Plus, InternetNZ’s membership surge is an opportunity to reclaim its relevance.
Agentic AI a big priority for businesses in 2025
In a new study conducted by Salesforce and YouGov last month, Australian and New Zealand business leaders have indicated that agentic AI will be a big focus this year as they seek to embed artificial intelligence in their businesses.
Griffin on Tech: Hollowing out of the high-tech workforce continues
With more redundancies at Callaghan Innovation as its disestablishment looms and the public service union taking a legal case to stop Health NZ shedding tech workers, we seem to willing to jettison highly skilled workers even as we pursue a growth agenda.
CentrePort’s private 5G network will be an innovative first
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.
Putting DeepSeek to the test: how its performance compares against other AI tools
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.
DeepSeek’s disruption is a delicious thing
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.