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Aug 2026The Hamberger Report

A Regulator Just Made AI Governance Real

New Zealand's central bank just named one frontier AI model a threat to the whole financial system, the first time a regulator here ...

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Aug 2026Notes From The Executive

No Data Centres, No AI Economy. NZ Is Already Too Late?

AcademyEx Build Business Software Using A (without becoming a coder) Download Free Guide: ...

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Aug 2026Xero Accounting Software

Xerocon Denver 2026 | 3 AI Tips

3 AI tips every small business should know At #Xerocon Denver, Xero's James Bergin breaks down how to get started with AI, ...

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Aug 2026Caelan Huntress

How Coaches Can Use AI as a Thinking Partner | Rita Cincotta

What changes when AI becomes something you think with, rather than something you simply ask for answers? Leadership coach ...

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Aug 2026Property Apprentice NZ

AI Real Estate Scams, $2M Property Coach Liquidation & Build Cost Surge | Ep 23

Are AI photos hiding structural property flaws? Plus, a $2M property coaching collapse exposes huge regulatory gaps in the NZ ...

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Aug 2026Learn Self Publishing

The Self Publishing Show (Episode 460) Crossing The AI Boundary

This week on The Self-Publishing Show, James Blatch checks in from New Zealand with Cissy Mecca to tackle the increasingly ...

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Aug 2026Blake Harkness

How To Rank In AI Search As A Business: GEO Optimisation

Need help using AI in your business? Work with me here: https://www.harknessai.nz/start Resources & Links LinkedIn: ...

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Aug 2026tpplus

Mother-daughter duo launch AI-powered homebuying app

A mother-daughter duo have created one of New Zealand's first Pasifika-led AI-powered property education platforms. Launched ...

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Aug 2026Ellen Mackenzie | Dishing up Digital

Claude ran my business for 3 months... and I made $100k

I made six figures in a single quarter for the first time ever - $100K in three months - and I re-recorded the intro to this video ...

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Jul 2026NZ Tech Rally

Keynote: Building with AI without losing our values - Lauren Peate | NZ Tech Rally 2026

Recorded at NZ Tech Rally 2026 conference, on 15th May 2026, at TĀKINA, Wellington, New Zealand. Talk summary: AI is here to ...

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Jul 2026nzherald.co.nz

Why AI is driving new investment in New Zealand's power future | Herald NOW Business

Mercury CEO Stew Hamilton on the $53m Datagrid investment and why AI is reshaping electricity demand. Video / Herald NOW ...

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Jul 2026Startup Theatre Podcast

$2.8B in Insurance Claims Were Denied Last Year: My AI is Fixing It

$2.8 billion in insurance claims denied last year - one Kiwi builder's AI is fighting back.

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Jul 2026Shedlife

Shedlife Podcast - How You Can Get AI to Do the Jobs of Many People

Leonardo Garcia Curtis from Waboom discusses using AI for productivity gains

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Jul 2026AIM Network

India-NZ Strategic Pact | Kaveri 2.0 Is Back | Claude Goes Rupee-Native | Front Page

Anthropic quietly rolls out native Indian Rupee pricing for Claude, eliminating FX fees; India and New Zealand elevate ties to a ...

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Jul 2026Startup Theatre Podcast

She Built & Sold an AI Startup in Under 2 Years for $34M

How do you build and sell an AI startup in under two years? In this episode of Startup Theatre, Troy Hammond, Serge Van Dam ...

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Jul 2026MartinJenkins

Panel discussion and event reflections - AI in NZ Public Sector Regulatory Practice

Public sector leaders from WorkSafe, Parliamentary Counsel Office, DOC, and ERO share real-world AI pilots, governance lessons, and how to start small and share openly across agencies.

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Jul 2026Pneuma / 2026 AI Roadshow Auckland

The technology can already do 95% of what your business needs from AI. So why are 70% of AI projects still failing?

In this talk from the 2026 AI Roadshow in Auckland, Asa Cox, founder of Pneuma, tackles why most AI projects stall - despite the tech being more than ready.

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Jul 2026GenZEO Playbook

Why a Sports Scientist Quit to Build an AI Startup

Jake Schuster was a sports scientist with the New Zealand All Blacks when he realized something was broken: he had to learn ...

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Jul 2026The Spinoff

NZ joins Project Arcadia to help US with AI warfare | Now You Know | The Spinoff

In May 2026, the Five Eyes countries announced Project Arcadia. A spokesperson for the US Department of Defence described ...

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Jul 2026The AI Corner

Why Halter runs its support agents on Claude's top AI models | The AI Corner

An interview with Pouria Asghari, Head of GTM Ecosystems & AI at Kiwi agritech company Halter, on how they deploy Claude AI models and RAG pipelines for support agents and business automation.

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Jul 2026Microsoft

How AI is helping New Zealand build safer after disaster

Beca's BEYON - an AI digital twin built on Microsoft Foundry - cuts engineers' data-retrieval time 40% for post-disaster rebuilding.

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Jul 2026Herald NOW Business

Why are we seeing a flurry of Kiwis in AI startups gaining serious traction?

2degrees' Peter Griffin on the Kiwi AI startups gaining traction - including Jeff Hawke's Odyssey AI, now valued around NZ$2.5b.

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Jul 2026Interest NZ

Unpacking AI with Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon sits down to unpack AI - what it means for the country’s economy, workforce and future.

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Jul 2026Dr Craig Hansen & Summit Institute

New Zealand Curriculum AI Gem: Study Units Created Instantly #shorts

Build integrated units of study focused on a topic, drawing from New Zealand's 2025 Refreshed Curriculum documents. Simply ...

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Jun 2026Numa team

Build AI agents in seconds, no code - Numa live demo at the AI Roadshow

Live walkthrough at the 2026 AI Roadshow of Numa, a NZ-built platform combining chat, company knowledge and agents for Kiwi SMBs.

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Jun 2026Anthony Butters

AI animation workflows for Māori-language learning content

At the AI & Creativity Summit, Anthony Butters shows the AI-powered animation workflows making reo Māori learning content affordable to produce.

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Jun 2026Caelan Huntress & Blake Burgess

Agent management & engineering habits - June Christchurch AI meetup

Meetup session on managing AI agents, with a senior engineer demoing the habits and hooks he builds around agents at work.

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May 2026Matthew Zonderop

Tinder for cows - the ChatGPT app breeding a 400-cow Waikato herd

A Waikato sharemilker explains the ChatGPT-built app he created to replace his failing cow-mating spreadsheets.

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May 2026Caelan Huntress & the Ōtautahi AI crew

Christchurch AI meetup - full May session at EPIC Innovation

Full recording of the May Christchurch AI meetup - talks, demos and community kōrero from the Ōtautahi AI crew at EPIC Innovation.

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Apr 2026Blake Harkness

Building an AI voice agent that never misses a call (NZ accent)

A NZ AI engineer builds a voice agent with a Kiwi accent that answers business calls.

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Apr 2026Adam Holt & the crew

theColab community catchup - AI news + member show-and-tell

theColab's weekly catchup - AI news plus members demoing what they've built.

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Mar 2026Robert Tu

AI coding in daily project work - CITA Wellington meetup

A Wellington developer shares how he uses AI tools day-to-day in real project development.

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Feb 2026Toby Cox

Solo Kiwi AI founder: shipping GEO tools with agents (Claude Code)

A solo founder walks through shipping generative-engine-optimisation tools with Claude Code agents. The AI Corner Ep 44.

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Aug 2025Chris Barlow & speakers

The great Kiwi AI uprising - Agentics Foundation NZ chapter launch

The inaugural Wellington event of the Agentics Foundation's NZ chapter - agentic engineering and AI-powered software development.

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Jul 2025Petera Hudson & Te Taka Keegan

Whānau, hapū AI and Māori large language models - Tikanga in Technology

Building whānau/hapū AI and Māori large language models, from the Tikanga in Technology Summit at the University of Waikato.

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