Big Tech stories

Women in tech are drowning in mentorship but starved of sponsorship, leaving careers stalled and leadership pipelines chronically underused.

As faith in tech bros wanes, founders say a quieter, human-centred playbook is proving better for business, investors and users alike.

Women in AI and adtech call for bias-free systems, fair leadership paths and cultures where merit, not gender, defines success.

Amazon to invest up to USD $50bn in OpenAI as the pair deepen AWS ties, expand Trainium use and launch a new stateful AI runtime.

Auckland startup Wallo Pay launches open banking service, targeting card surcharges it says drain over USD $1 billion a year from NZ.

Anthropic alleges Chinese labs DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax ran vast illicit campaigns to copy Claude and bypass US export curbs.

Google has begun rolling out Gemini 3.1 Pro, a more advanced AI model for complex reasoning, to developers, enterprises and consumers.

New Zealand investors are warned AI-fuelled gains face “incredible danger” from US inflation, soaring debt and turbulent midterms ahead.

Apple has opened submissions for the 2026 Swift Student Challenge, inviting student developers worldwide to submit Swift app playgrounds by 28 February.

Health NZ says a third-party hardware failure caused a 36-hour South Island hospital IT outage that forced staff back to pen and paper.

Study finds over 28,000 fake domains mimicking top global sites, exposing users to rising phishing, malware and industrial-scale squatting.

myFirst expands its kid-focused tech range and Circle app, offering smartphone-style features with tighter safety controls for families.

Most Australians doubt the under-16 social media ban has made the internet safer, with many expecting teens to bypass the new rules.

Meta promotes parental controls over teen social media bans at NZ Instagram safety camp as debate grows on under-16s' online access.

Snap forms Specs unit to spearhead next-gen smart glasses, promising AI-driven, low-friction eyewear that blends digital and real worlds.

Big banks and AI leaders signal they will layer new AI tools on top of, not instead of, core enterprise software systems.

YouTube sets 2026 agenda with tougher child safety tools, bigger creator payouts and expanded AI across production and viewing.

Ben Goertzel and Jaron Lanier clash over whether increasingly autonomous AI deserves moral standing or must always remain under human control.

Apple will build its next-generation AI foundation models on Google's Gemini cloud, promising a more personalised Siri later this year.

Punkt launches MC03 minimalist smartphone with Proton, promising dual secure environments and subscription-based privacy for users.