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‘Winning or learning’: DJ Forbes on what kids actually need from sporting parents
Amid national discussions about adult behaviour around junior fields, former All Blacks Sevens skipper DJ Forbes reflects on keeping Saturday games in perspective.

This PC case helps your room smell better
There’s a new PC case on the show floor at Computex that promises to make your desk setup smell a little nicer, and now you can watch PCWorld’s Adam Patrick Murray check it out firsthand. The folks at Montech have brought a variant of their Ten Wood PC case to the...

Agentic AI Foundation adds agentgateway as hosted project
The addition gives companies a shared layer for securing and routing AI traffic as agentic systems move into production.

Footage of Eid prayers misrepresented as attack on Muslims in Ethiopia’s Tigray region

Putin snubs Zelensky's peace offer, tells troops to get back to work

Ex-Channel 4 News host Jon Snow reveals he has Alzheimer's
Snow, the lead presenter of C4 News for 32 years, will be seen navigating his diagnosis in a new film.

Person stabbed at central Auckland Kainga Ora complex
Police were called to a grievous assault on Greys Avenue at 10:45pm on Friday.

Football World Cup: Ryan Thomas in race against time after latest injury blow
All White Ryan Thomas' career-long injury struggles continue on football's biggest stage.

Anthropic says Claude automates 95% of analytics queries
Routine analytics work is being shifted from data scientists as Anthropic says Claude now handles most queries with about 95% accuracy overall.

Quant & IBM launch Ava at Fortitude Re to cut calls
The rollout has cut average handling time by three minutes and lifted first-call resolution to 86% at Fortitude Re.

McKenzie returns with flying All Blacks sidelined as Chiefs charge into title quest
What you need to know as the Chiefs host the Reds in the third qualifying final in Hamilton on Saturday night.

Black Caps lose Williamson in late wickets as England assume control at Lord’s
The ball dominated again on day two and New Zealand still require more than 200 for an improbable win in the first test.

Businesses are declaring war on AI slop. They are fighting a losing battle

Pfizer licenses Chai Discovery AI platform for drug discovery

Generalist AI raises $400M at $2B valuation, backed by Nvidia

Supabase doubles valuation to $10B in 8 months

SpaceX Has Turned Space Investing Into One of the Hottest Trades of 2026. But Which ETF Is Actually Worth Buying?

Paris to probe war crimes after Gaza activists claim abuse by Israel

5 Strange Facts About Ancient Egypt That Sound Made Up

'No more excuses:' Merz vows to fast-track West Balkans into EU fold

The Amazing Digital Circus: Another YouTube sensation hits cinemas
The Amazing Digital Circus is being shown in cinemas after fans emailed chains asking them to show it.

No expectation NZ will revise nuclear-free stance, but there could be disadvantages - expert
Defence Minister Chris Penk last week said it'd be "helpful" for New Zealand to have a "conversation" regarding its nuclear-free policies.

What the hit new show Off Campus gets right in its portrayal of sexual violence
Off Campus pivots away from harmful representations of sexual violence, while initiating conversations about the impact of it on an individual level.

Organisers of event where Efeso Collins died took adequate measures, coroner rules
The former MP's widow, Vasa Fia Collins, raised concerns about his death, saying event organisers had failed him.

OpenAI updates GPT-Rosalind for life sciences research
Eligible research organisations can now access OpenAI's updated GPT-Rosalind model, as the company widens its life sciences rollout worldwide.

ChatGPT’s new ‘dreaming’ feature makes it way better at remembering you
OpenAI has, in a series of steps, improved the memory of ChatGPT. Initially, every conversation with ChatGPT was completely isolated. Later, you could explicitly ask the chatbot to remember specific things. Last year, ChatGPT became capable of remembering and retrieving context from all your previous conversations. Now, OpenAI has announced “dreaming”...