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Shopify Sidekick Gets a Major Reasoning Upgrade, Plus Free Image Generation
Posted on 8-May-2025 14:03 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
New capabilities unlock smarter decision-making, streamlined customer targeting, and instant visuals.

Data Insight Launches The Data Academy
Posted on 26-Mar-2025 20:21 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
New Zealand data analytics agency, Data Insight, announced the launch of The Data Academy, the first agency led, data literacy focused continuing professional development (CPD) programme in New Zealand. It is designed to assist organisations to create their own lasting, data-driven culture.

Smarter and More Personality: The New Alexa+ Coming to a Home Near You Soon
Posted on 27-Feb-2025 17:24 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
The next-generation AI assistant seamlessly integrates to help you get things done, leveraging a state-of-the-art architecture that connects AI capabilities, services and devices at scale.

Microsoft Introduces New Surface Pro and Surface Laptop Copilot+ PCs
Posted on 21-May-2024 17:46 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Microsoft and Surface have introduced their fastest and most intelligent Windows PCs ever. The all-new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop deliver incredible performance, all-day battery life and brand-new AI experiences.

Microsoft Introduces Copilot+ PCs
Posted on 21-May-2024 17:25 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Copilot+ PCs are the fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever built; with powerful new silicon capable of 40+ TOPS (trillion operations per second), an all-day battery life and access to the most advanced AI models.

Lenovo Supercharges Next Gen Copilot+ PCs
Posted on 21-May-2024 17:11 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Yoga Slim 7x and ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 are the first Copilot+ PCs powered by Snapdragon X Elite in the Lenovo lineup.

HP Unlocks New Era of AI Experiences
Posted on 21-May-2024 16:53 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
New ultra-mobile AI PCs drive the next generation of AI computing with a record-breaking 26 hours of battery life.

Samsung Announces Galaxy AI
Posted on 28-Nov-2023 14:48 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Introducing new AI-powered features and their own Generative AI model called Samsung Gauss, Samsung ushers in a new era of Galaxy AI.

Cisco Launches New Research Highlighting Gap in Preparedness for AI
Posted on 23-Nov-2023 15:50 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Cisco study reveals only 9% of organisations in New Zealand are fully prepared to deploy and leverage AI, with over half admitting severe concerns about the impact on business if they fail to act in the next 12 months.

Kaspersky platform, powered by neural network, answers questions of tomorrow
Posted on 3-Feb-2021 10:11 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
With Safer Tomorrow, anyone from around the globe can get answers to the most significant questions about "tomorrow" - and some answers appear on a LED screen standing at Castlepoint Station on the Wairarapa coast of New Zealand

Teletrac Navman launches next-generation AI-based telematics platform TN360
Posted on 25-Aug-2020 10:19 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Powered by artificial intelligence, the solution delivers telematics functionalities in real-time, providing businesses with simplified, smart, predictive and actionable insights.

Soul Machines joins forces with the World Health Organization
Posted on 13-Jul-2020 18:00 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Soul Machines joins the World Health Organization's (WHO) Access Initiative (AI) for Quitting Tobacco to help share WHO's life-saving information during the COVID-19 pandemic, combat misinformation, reduce the risk of COVID-19 and help over one billion tobacco users quit.

New Zealand Rugby Selects AWS-Powered Analytics for Deeper Game Insights
Posted on 5-Dec-2019 11:33 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Kiwi startup Intela AI and data science company DOT loves data join forces to develop analytics platform on AWS to improve team performance.

Major Japanese retailer partners with smart New Zealand technology IMAGR
Posted on 14-Oct-2019 10:29 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
IMAGR is the creator of the SmartCart intelligent shopping trolley. Harnessing computer vision technology and AI, this queue-busting solution automates checkouts and payments for a frictionless shopping experience.

Meet Nola, Noel Leeming's new digital employee
Posted on 4-Oct-2019 08:07 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
New Zealand's largest appliance and technology retailer has today unveiled Nola, its new digital human team member who will be based at the flagship store to help shoppers navigate the store and answer questions they have.

New AI legaltech product launched in New Zealand
Posted on 21-Aug-2019 17:01 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
McCarthyFinch and MinterEllisonRuddWatts announce authorDOCS Business Edition - an artificial intelligence (AI) powered legaltech tool delivering faster contract drafting and review.

Artificial Intelligence to double the rate of innovation in New Zealand by 2021
Posted on 13-Mar-2019 14:47 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
IDC study commissioned by Microsoft predicts Artificial Intelligence (AI) will double the rate of innovation improvements and improve employee productivity gains by 1.5 times in New Zealand by 2021.

Psoda uses AI computer vision to automate Agile project management
Posted on 24-Sep-2018 12:45 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Wellington-based project management tools company Psoda has applied machine vision AI to automate one of the most common frustrations with Agile project management - synchronising physical and digital kanban task boards.

How clever is this: AI will create 2.3 million jobs by 2020
Posted on 19-Dec-2017 19:52 Articles, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, by iStart
While eliminating 1.8 million less demanding ones...

Accenture study shows benefits of AI to New Zealand growth
Posted on 2-Jun-2017 15:40 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence could double New Zealand's growth rate in the next 20 years.

National AI group launching next month
Posted on 25-May-2017 09:54 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fast being used to make people more efficient and it will touch every element of New Zealanders' lives from better healthcare and education to faster service and more personalised products, tech leader Stu Christie says.

New AI and robotics capabilities optimise Pega CRM
Posted on 17-Mar-2017 19:58 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Pega CRM now offers desktop analytics to uncover hidden opportunities that increase workforce productivity and boost the bottom line.

Artificial Intelligence deal biggest yet for University of Auckland/UniServices
Posted on 23-Nov-2016 09:22 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Intelligent computers that look, think and react like humans are the latest technology being developed at the University of Auckland to become a commercial venture.

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