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vidia on Wednesday said it finished its fiscal year with record high revenue of $130.5 bil
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Hackers air AI video targeted at Donald Trump and Elon Musk
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Alibaba to invest $53b in AI and cloud over next three years
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Markets with Madison: AI arms race
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DeepSeek, WeChat, other apps banned from MPs’ phones
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Trump car tariff threat puts pressure on stock markets
Global stocks were under pressure after Trump broadened his tariff threats.
Spark and Microsoft ink NZ’s ‘largest-ever Microsoft public cloud partnership’
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Tech Insider: Google follows Microsoft in raising prices as it bundles AI
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AI tool used to help with Gisborne’s woody debris problem
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Auckland startup Polymath, with its contrarian take on AI, raises money from a heavy-hitter
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Google’s AI has been breaching NZ court name suppressions
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