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The Business of Tech, hosted by leading tech journalist Peter Griffin. Every week they take a deep dive into emerging technology and news from the sector to help guide the important decisions all Business leaders make.
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Inside the AI race: Energy use, agents and the real impact on work
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Banking unleashed: What the new open banking regime means for consumers and fintech players
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Oppo’s bid to crack NZ’s smartphone duopoly
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Rocket Lab at 20: From pipe dream to $50 billion space empire
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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From pilot to payoff: “Five times return on our AI investment”
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Steady hands, not knee-jerk bans: Brainbox’s approach to AI regulation
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Rebuilding With AI: Grief, creativity, and the rise of a digital life companion
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Beating the algorithm: Recruitment in the age of AI
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Inside the government’s multi-billion dollar digital shake-up
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Edge of space: Mark Rocket’s sky-high mission
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Turn science into value: Aussie’s lessons for a stronger economy
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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“Absolutely abysmal”: Unpacking Amazon’s trainwreck cloud launch
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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No upgrade needed: Rimini St’s cost-saving pitch to CIOs
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Bulls**t jobs, agritech, and our advantage as AI proliferates
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Quantum tech's next era – A Kiwi quantum physicist on its potential
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Sovereign or sidelined?: Making the case for Kiwi-controlled AI
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Datacom at 60: Leading NZ’s tech giant into the AI era
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Concrete for a low-carbon world, with Neocrete’s Zarina Bazoeva
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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The true cost of cloud: David Reiss lifts the lid
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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From Auckland to orbit: Zenno’s bold bet on magnetic space tech
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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"Bigger than the internet”: Autohive aims to put AI agents in every Kiwi business
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Contented AI’s quest to turn conversations into business gold
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Kiwi businesses shift gears: Optimism, innovation, and ambitions for growth
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Tim Tams, Canva, and reimagining your business with AI
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Unlocking the middleverse: The Publicis playbook for the next wave of digital advertising
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Can tech save Welly?
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Art or algorithm? Navigating the creative crossroads in the age of AI
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May 28, 2025 |
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How Litmaps is supercharging scientific research
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May 21, 2025 |
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Tech skills - upgrade now or fall behind
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May 14, 2025 |
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Labour: back Kiwi brains, don’t cut them
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May 07, 2025 |
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Breaking Big Tech’s grip: Paris Marx on New Zealand’s digital future
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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How NZ startups can win in India’s giant market
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Chainsaws vs scalpels: How to do DOGE properly
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Garage to global giant: Microsoft turns 50
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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AI policy under Trump - what it means for NZ
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Strategic bets and happy accidents - the future of NZ Inc
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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The Māori-led effort to build private 5G networks
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Andy Hamilton's big dumb ideas to fix NZ's economy
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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NZ risks 'riding cavalry into battle against tanks' without Aukus
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Will Bitcoin set us free?
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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How the venture studio model is changing the game
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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A serial founder's guide to being totally wrong
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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The story of Being AI, so far
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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From Christchurch to 100 million global users
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Māori AI research is changing the world – plus, DeepSeek
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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SailGP: How data makes the boats go faster
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Toasting and roasting 2024's biggest gadgets
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Tech in 2024: what happened and what’s next
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Former Xero CEO Steve Vamos says an open mind is key to navigating change
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Inside Projectworks’ big push into the US, plus is Bluesky the new old Twitter?
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Wayve's Alex Kendall, a billion dollar Kiwi founder. Plus, is SpaceX ready for One NZ's promises?
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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AI year in review and what's coming next
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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How to put your data to work, plus tech under Trump
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Fibre's impressive return on investment in Aotearoa
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Google's anti-competitive reckoning is nigh – what's next?
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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The rise of deep tech in NZ, plus Peter Beck talks Mars
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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NZ tech should be taking on the world, now
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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What it takes to make AI truly trustworthy
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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When two become 2degrees - managing a major systems merge
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Could AI fix NZ's ailing health system?
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Could AI unlock truly personalised education?
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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From Halter to Supie: 14 years of startup wins and losses
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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The CIO of the Year's $10 billion ambition
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Gentrack's taming of the wild new energy market
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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AI is changing search, will your business be ready?
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Science funding cuts choke tech talent pipeline
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Will sharing data really improve banking? Yes
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Was ComCom actually right to block the Serato deal?
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Science in NZ poor in funding but rich in lessons
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Is the AI for business mini MBA any good?
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Rod Drury on his post-Xero life as NZ's fixer
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Unpacking 2degrees' Shaping Business 2024 - sponsored episode
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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NZ software companies should start in the US
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Media isn't dying, it's catching up / Apple AI is here(ish)
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Stories of NZ's tech excellence and science hopes
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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MFAT bungles IT project / Building NZ's digital twin
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May 29, 2024 |
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2degrees' CEO Mark Callander on keeping telco competitive - sponsored episode
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May 22, 2024 |
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Irish lessons - tech's place in NZ's economic future
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May 14, 2024 |
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Women are (still!) missing out on senior tech roles
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May 08, 2024 |
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The vision behind Callaghan Innovation's reset
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May 01, 2024 |
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The art of startup valuation and equity allocation
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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The future of computers, Apple's Vision Pro and Beyond
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Being AI is NZ's latest listed tech company, but why?
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Jason Paris reflects on one year of One NZ
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Finance is changing fast, whether big banks like it or not
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Aotearoa's tech future needs some big structural changes
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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DIY AI - the value of AI built by Kiwis, for Kiwis
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Kiwi cloud: grey skies or silver-lined?
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Tech adoption lag holding back NZ Inc / What's happening with Hira
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Tech might save us, but the billionaires won't
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Tariff-free digital trade may be about to end
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Starting a tech company, part one: the AI company NZ needs
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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How to avoid being replaced by AI
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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So your government killed its IT projects - now what?
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Summer special - Best of BoT: Interview with Judith Collins
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Summer special - Full interview with ethical hacker Jackson Henry
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Summer special - Best of BoT: Interview with Peter Beck
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Summer special - Full interview with Clare Capital's Mark Clare
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Should the news break free of Big Tech?
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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NZ tech stocks deep dive for 2023 and beyond
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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2023 was the year of AI, where will it head in 2024?
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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NZ gets its own stablecoin | Why we should care about the OpenAI drama
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Parkable’s ramping up, will it outgrow NZ?
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Breaking the grocery duopoly – lessons from telco
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Quantum’s coming, will you be ready?
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Connecting Auckland tech to the world, with Tātaki Auckland Unlimited
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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How telcos can reduce their environmental impact
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Are algorithms really ruining democracy?
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Lessons from Australia on digital ID, plus the tech lobbyists' wishlist
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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The fintech innovations coming to your digital wallet
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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From runaway AI to nuclear war
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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How tech issues are factoring into politicians' thinking
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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The dark heart of Silicon Valley, plus Google turns 25
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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The good and the bad of an augmented future, plus plummeting trust in AI
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Putting big tech on notice, with EU's envoy to Silicon Valley Gerard de Graaf
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Kiwi startup sparks nuclear fusion frenzy, plus inside Electrify 2023
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Digging deep into 2degrees Shaping Business 2023
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Can good data help tackle climate change?
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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The benefits of rocket fishing, with Peter Beck
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Tāwhaki is building a South Island space hub that's good for the land
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Nigel Latta on the psychology of scammers
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Neil deGrasse Tyson on the power of a cosmic perspective
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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What's in store for Aotearoa, with Kiwi futurist Ben Reid
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Govt’s digital tsar on cloud, AI and regulating tech
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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NZ needs women founders, with Marian Johnson
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Apple's big VR swing, with Dr Sarb Johal
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Who wants an AI buddy? With Ambit's Tim Warren
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May 31, 2023 |
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Startups, the budget, and bounties for bugs - with Ankita Dhakar
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May 24, 2023 |
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Inside 2degrees' satellite deal, with Mark Callander
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May 17, 2023 |
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Ginny Andersen on tech in NZ, plus author Ashlee Vance talks rockets
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May 10, 2023 |
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Judith Collins on AI and regulating tech, plus inside Microsoft HQ
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May 03, 2023 |