In a week where the kiwi AI industry focused on the development of GovGPT, this week's Weekly Matters sees Nyssa Waters joined by Stefan Korn, CEO of Callaghan Innovation. Together they cover recent AI news and topics of interest including of course Callaghan’s release of GovGPT, the pace of AI innovation, unstructured data, the need for agile development, death of SaaS bloatware, the agentic world realising intuitive human-centric UX, the explosion of data centres, digital identity, and NZ’s potential in the world of AI.

In this week's Weekly Matters, Adam Ross-Murphy and Craig Boxall cover recent news from Sam Altman’s “Intelligence Age” manifesto, the explosion of AI regulation, an interface-less agentic future revolutionizing customer experiences. We also drop a postscript on Meta’s Orion AR glasses.

Why does any of it matter to you?

In this week's episode, David McDonald and Caleb Perelini cover a range of topics, including:

• Being AI's new Share Offer, open now to NZ Residents.
• Microsoft expanding Copilot's capabilities to compete with Google Workspace.
• Salesforce's Data Cloud move toward an AI-native future.
• The medical industry's increased adoption and trust of AI tools.

Episode 4. Nyssa Waters and Caleb Perelini discuss the AI that is "Apple Intelligence", Copilot updates, AI safety, the international AI treaty, AI curing cancer, and why NZ is missing the AI boat. Your weekly update of AI news, and why it matters.

Episode 3. Sean Muller and Caleb Perelini canvas legislative updates, research deals, AI assistants, AI ROI and productivity. Your weekly update of AI news, and why it matters.

Episode 2: Brooke Howard-Smith and David McDonald cover a wide range of topics sparked by recent news in the AI Industry. AI energy, AI edge models, distributed compute, AI Agents and visualisations, existential crises, Visual AI, AI copyright issues, AI governance, and robotics. And some other things.

Episode 1. Our inaugural episode. Sean G Muller and Caleb Perelini pick some recent news events and discuss why they matter. Our launch week turned out to be a fairly quiet news week but Sean and Caleb cover a raft of AI events relevant to business. AI launches, AI laws, Data and Content Ownership, AI Automation, and the US elections. Just the thing for your Friday morning commute.