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Datacom Launches New AI in the Workplace Course to Equip Future Tech Talent
Posted on 16-Mar-2026 16:18 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Originally developed for high school students, the enrolments to date show the online courses appeal to a wide audience – from university learners to career changers.

Heidi AI Scribe to Be Rolled Out Across New Zealand's Emergency Departments
Posted on 5-Dec-2025 14:13 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
AI Care Partner Heidi will be rolled out across all Health New Zealand emergency departments (ED), helping alleviate administrative burdens for ED teams and improve patient care nationwide.

AI Adoption in cybersecurity surges across New Zealand
Posted on 12-Nov-2025 17:49 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
AI now powers detection, response and recruitment as enterprises shift from reactive to predictive defence.

Amplitude Launches AI Visibility to Help Marketers Win in AI Search
Posted on 31-Oct-2025 15:19 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
New capability gives marketers insight into how their brand shows up in AI search results, accompanied by recommendations on how to improve it based on a company's actual data.

Palo Alto Networks Unveils Cortex AgentiX
Posted on 29-Oct-2025 19:43 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Enhanced platform combines the power of agentic AI with the safety of enterprise-grade guardrails.

Amplitude Brings Behavioural Data into AI Tools With MCP Launch
Posted on 23-Oct-2025 15:53 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
In June this year, Amplitude launched a limited beta for its first series of AI Agents, enable teams to move faster, scale decision-making and transform analytics into an always-on system,

Genesis Energy Adopts Databricks to Accelerate Data and AI Transformation
Posted on 23-Oct-2025 15:52 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
This collaboration will empower Genesis to democratise access to data and AI, driving enterprise-wide transformation through intelligent asset management, AI-assisted trading, enhanced customer experiences, and generative AI–enabled productivity.

Air New Zealand Starts AI adoption with OpenAI
Posted on 24-Jul-2025 16:00 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Air New Zealand is working with OpenAI in a first-of-its-kind collaboration in Aotearoa to expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI) across the airline, aiming to boost efficiency and enhance customer outcomes.

AI Report Reveals Trust Is Key to Unlocking Its Potential in Aotearoa
Posted on 30-May-2025 16:55 News, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
While 77% of New Zealanders have knowingly used AI-powered services in the past year, nearly half don’t trust large companies to use AI ethically.

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.

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