Household debt stress is easing while the liquidation queue keeps growing
New Zealand's credit data is telling two different stories, and business owners should pay attention to both. Centrix's latest figures show consumer arrears are 11.2% lower than a year ago, while company liquidations are up 14%. The household recession is easing. The...
Wellington’s climate lawsuit ban has handed Brussels a trade lever
Earlier this month, former solicitor-general Una Jagose KC warned that legislating away Mike Smith's climate case against Fonterra would do...
Ministers chose a 55,000 headcount before pricing the AI meant to deliver it
Shrinking the core public service to 55,000 is a defensible goal. Staking that goal on artificial intelligence that nobody in...
OpenAI’s rogue AI was a boardroom failure long before it was a tech one
The most important detail in this week's OpenAI saga is not that an AI model escaped its testing environment. It...
Starshipit reached the Series A milestone without ever needing a Series A
Evolution’s $526m bet builds the surgical capacity Health NZ can’t
The building that once housed One NZ's national headquarters at Smales Farm is being turned into a surgical hospital. Evolution...
