Companies are increasingly recognising the need to perform much of the computer and AI processing to customer devices like smartphones, potentially putting greater control in the hands of consumers.

The reason GovGPT attracted a lot of attention this week is that many Kiwis have a frustrating time dealing with government agencies. It’s part of the reason why Judith Collins, who launched GovGPT at the AI Summit this week, created the digitising government ministerial portfolio. She wants to see a customer service revolution in government and sees AI as being central to that.

Whether and how we use that power is up to us, but we mightn’t have it for long. The more the new class of billionaires and trillionaires becomes entrenched, the more it will be able to use the political system to protect their interests rather than those of mere mortals.

Another year, another launch of Apple iPhone models characterised by incremental tweaks, with the infusion this year of Apple Intelligence to, among other things, supercharge Siri.

The Australian Government this week published some proposed mandatory guardrails for high-risk AI as well as a voluntary safety standard for organisations using AI that will act as a temporary stopgap.

Real-time crime centres are specialised units within police departments that use the latest technology to monitor public spaces and record incidents. they are becoming widespread across the US.