New Modelling Shows Renewable Electricity Can Meet NZ’s Future Demand – without Importing Gas
New modelling indicates New Zealand can satisfy its projected electricity demand through 2030 using existing renewable projects, especially if offshore wind is added. Without offshore wind, hydro would fall short for about 474 hours a year, but offshore wind would keep reservoirs near full and reduce hydro reliance. The analysis also quantifies short‑term (≈1.45 GW) and long‑term (≈1.5 TWh) storage needs, highlighting battery and pumped‑hydro solutions. Consequently, the government’s plan to fund an LNG terminal via an electricity levy appears misaligned with a renewable‑dominant grid.
AI Can Fix the Chaos of Scaling Creator Ops
Creator ops for any brand that is scaling are an absolute mess. If someone can solve all these problems using AI, it will make them richer than they could imagine. - Outreach volume. The bigger companies need to be contacting...
ADP Numbers and New Look for iCIMS
This episode covers three major developments in talent acquisition: Upgrad Asia’s acquisition of Internshala to integrate AI‑driven internship matching, ManpowerGroup’s partnership with AI pioneer Hubert to automate initial chat‑based interviews while keeping final decisions human, and iCIMS’s brand refresh alongside...
The Rage at OpenAI Has Grown So Immense That There Are Entire Protests Against It
OpenAI’s recent Department of Defense partnership sparked unprecedented protests, with users abandoning ChatGPT for Anthropic’s Claude after a 300% surge in app uninstall rates. Demonstrations by the “QuitGPT” movement erupted in San Francisco and London, condemning potential job losses, environmental...
Advisors Must Master AI Prompting and Verification
I've long-held that one of the most important skills for an advisor to develop is to become an excellent "Google-er." With the advances in AI over the past few years, I've started to reframe that concept to becoming more of...
Serverless AI Cuts Token Costs Compared to Claude/OpenAI
I burned 84 million tokens on February 28th. Researching companies, drafting memos, running agents. That’s running Kimi K2.5, a serverless model via API. At Claude or OpenAI rates — roughly $9 per million tokens blended — equivalent usage would cost $756...
The Smart Home Technology That Could Actually Save Your Life
Smart home devices are evolving from convenience gadgets to life‑saving tools. Newer smoke and carbon‑monoxide detectors can notify phones and shut off gas, while motion and water sensors detect hazards early. Fall detection, AI health monitoring, and connected security systems...
TestSprite 2.1 Released
TestSprite unveiled version 2.1, delivering a 4‑5× faster AI testing engine, broader test coverage, a visual Test Modification Interface, and native GitHub integration that runs tests on every pull request. The release targets the four chief developer pain points—speed, coverage, control,...
LawNext on Location: At A Sonoma Winery, A Conversation with Briefpoint CEO Nathan Walter About Discovery, Disruption and, Of Course,...
In this LawNext on Location episode, host Bob Ambrogi chats with Nathan Walter, co‑founder and CEO of BriefPoint, while sipping wine at Paradise Ridge Winery in Sonoma. Walter recounts his unconventional path from philosophy student to public defender, to civil...
At the Heart of Quantum Matter: Geometry
Researchers from the University of Geneva, the University of Salerno and CNR‑SPIN have directly detected the quantum metric—a geometric property of electron wavefunctions—at the interface of strontium titanate and lanthanum aluminate, as reported in Science (Aug 2025). The quantum metric, previously...
Middle East War Disrupts U.S. B2B Ecommerce Supply Chains
Escalating conflict between Iran, Israel and the United States is disrupting key air and maritime corridors in the Persian Gulf, notably the Strait of Hormuz. The disruptions are lengthening transit times, raising freight costs, and forcing carriers like DHL to...
EarthDaily and ABB Reveal First High Precision Images From Orbit
EarthDaily released the first public images from its EDC‑01 satellite, confirming that the ABB‑built imaging system meets daily global‑monitoring standards. The satellite digitizes 20 billion pixels per second and carries 16 multispectral assemblies covering 22 spectral bands. EarthDaily will launch six...
The Drone Attrition Trap
The article warns that the United States is falling into a "drone attrition trap," where cheap Iranian‑made Shahed‑136 drones, priced around $20,000, force the U.S. and allies to expend multi‑million‑dollar Patriot and SM‑6 interceptors. Ukraine’s four‑year experience shows that a...
What SMEC’s Data Reveals About AI Max Performance via @Sejournal, @Brookeosmundson
Smarter Ecommerce (SMEC) examined over 250 e‑commerce Search campaigns that used Google’s AI Max feature. The study found a median 13% lift in conversion value but a 16% rise in cost per acquisition, indicating higher revenue at a higher price....
DHD to Unveil Benefits of New Firmware at NAB Show
DHD Audio will showcase firmware 10.4 at the 2026 NAB Show, extending capabilities of its DX2, RX2, SX2, TX2 mixers, RM1 portable unit, and XC3/XD3/XS2 processing cores. The update adds flex channels, mic preamp control, and channel categories, enabling more...
Home Assistant Now Backs up Directly to Cloudflare R2, and the Free Tier Gives You All You Need
Home Assistant now includes a native integration that backs up the entire platform directly to Cloudflare R2. The free tier of R2 provides enough storage for typical home‑lab and personal smart‑home setups, and the service only charges for stored data,...
AI for Finance & Accounts
The post outlines how AI is reshaping finance and accounting in India, highlighting tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Notion AI, Dext, Microsoft Copilot, and Indian platforms ClearTax and TaxBuddy. It notes the massive market of ~1.4 crore GST filers and ~8.5 lakh chartered...
Keychron Announces Q5 HE 8K TMR Gaming Keyboard With More Compact 1800 Layout
Keychron has added the Q5 HE 8K to its ultra‑fast gaming lineup, offering a compact 1800‑layout keyboard that retains a full numeric keypad. Priced at $239.99, the wired‑only device shares the series’ aluminum chassis, polyurethane gasket mount, double‑shot PBT keycaps,...
Free Weekly Chapters on Building AI‑Native Service Firms
🚨 BOOK ALERT -- Sign Up Now for *Free* Access ! 🚀 📚"Building AI-Native Professional Services Firms: Strategy, Economics, and Execution" 📖 By Daniel Katz, Michael Bommarito & Jillian Bommarito 🔥 🔥We’re releasing this book as a serialized book — full chapters...
AI's Rapid Gains Silence Skeptics, Reveal Overperformance Risk
The rapid advancement in models and agentic tools in the past 30 days has silenced most AI bubble bears. The pace of spending is being matched by performance and productivity improvement showing the structural risk is not AI lacking value...
San Francisco’s Argonaut Hotel: 2026 Green Key Global Property of the Year
San Francisco’s Argonaut Hotel was named the 2026 Green Key Global Property of the Year at the American Hotel & Lodging Association’s Responsible Stay Summit. The hotel now holds five consecutive Green Keys, a rating it will retain through 2028,...
GPT‑5.4 Launches with 1M‑token Context, Native Computer Use
GPT-5.4 is launching, available now in the API and Codex and rolling out over the course of the day in ChatGPT. It's much better at knowledge work and web search, and it has native computer use capabilities. You can steer it mid-response,...
Sierra Space and Vast Detail Their Series C Investment Rounds
Sierra Space closed a $550 million Series C round, lifting its valuation to roughly $8 billion and marking a strategic pivot toward national‑security satellite programs. The funding will support new product development and expanded production capacity, including contracts worth up to $1.19 billion with...
Is Neurodegeneration a Systemic Metabolic Condition?
British biotech Vesalic reports a breakthrough that links amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) to a systemic metabolic dysfunction detectable in blood extracellular vesicles (EVs). The company says the EVs carry a toxic lipid cargo that harms motor neurons, and its blood‑based...
PeakDo LinkPower 2 Review: Untethering the Starlink Mini
The PeakDo LinkPower 2 is a 99 Wh battery pack engineered to mount directly onto the Starlink Mini, keeping the combined unit under the 100 Wh airline carry‑on limit. It offers three charging interfaces—USB‑C Power Delivery, a magnetic DC connector, and a standard...
Konodrac Launches Smart TV Self-Promotion Platform
Spanish tech firm Konodrac has introduced Smart Self-Promotions, an automated platform that turns traditional TV self-promotion into data-driven campaigns for linear, HbbTV and OTT environments. The solution leverages census-level audience data to segment viewers, deliver interactive calls-to-action, and provide full-funnel...
Lunit to Be Featured in 21 AI Imaging Studies on Breast Cancer, Lung Disease at ECR 2026
Lunit will showcase 21 AI imaging studies at the European Congress of Radiology 2026 in Vienna, including oral and poster presentations of its INSIGHT MMG, Scorecard and INSIGHT CXR solutions. A breast‑cancer risk‑assessment trial of 67,686 women showed risk scores...
Regular Drills Prevent Security Skill Decay
In winter survival training they call it 'dirt time'. You need to get hands-on and practice. Skills decay if you do not practice them. The same is true in security: Tabletop exercises, incident response drills, access reviews. If you only touch...
Researchers Are Combining Drones and AI to Make Removing Land Mines Faster and Safer
Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology have combined drone‑borne multisensor imaging with artificial intelligence to dramatically speed up land‑mine detection while reducing risk to human deminers. Their field trials showed that drone‑mounted magnetic sensors match ground‑based accuracy and can survey...
OpenAI’s New GPT-5.4 Model Is a Big Step Toward Autonomous Agents
OpenAI has launched GPT‑5.4, its latest model that combines advanced reasoning, coding, and professional‑task abilities with native computer‑use capabilities, allowing it to issue keyboard and mouse commands from screenshots. The model, available via the ChatGPT web app, Android, API, Codex,...
Syensqo Advances Circular Carbon Fiber Composite Recycling Partnership with Fairmat
Syensqo and Fairmat have signed a multiyear industrial partnership to recycle carbon‑fiber composite waste from Syensqo’s Östringen plant in Germany. The recycled fibers will be re‑introduced into Fairmat’s markets, including sports, mobility, construction and energy, while preserving high technical performance....
AI Spots Heart and Lung Conditions in Eye Images of Premature Infants
Researchers have developed a deep‑learning algorithm that reads retinal photographs taken during routine retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) screenings to flag serious lung and heart conditions in preterm infants. In a study of 493 infants across seven NICUs, the model achieved...
Ex-Comscore Innovation Head Resurfaces At Tenetic
Tenetic, an AI‑powered insights platform for advertising buyers and sellers, announced the hiring of former Comscore innovation head David Algranati as Chief Research and Production Officer. Algranati is known for leading initiatives aimed at attracting Nielsen’s customers. The move is...
Not so Fast: Anthropic and US Military Might Do Business After All
Anthropic has resumed negotiations with the Trump administration to allow the U.S. military to use its Claude AI models after a $200 million Department of Defense contract fell apart over surveillance and autonomous‑weapon clauses. CEO Dario Amodei aims to avoid a...
Policy Choices That Will Shape Our Lunar Future
The Beyond Earth Symposium highlighted a strategic shift from viewing lunar exploration as a symbolic race to focusing on durable infrastructure. Keynote speaker Bhavya Lal argued that lasting impact depends on power systems, logistics, governance, and commercial frameworks rather than...
Wolfspeed Launches First Commercially Available 10kV SiC Power MOSFET
Wolfspeed announced the industry’s first commercially available 10 kV silicon‑carbide (SiC) power MOSFET, the CPM3‑10000‑0300A die. The device promises a 158,000‑year dielectric lifetime, sub‑10 ns rise time and up to 99% conversion efficiency. Wolfspeed says the technology can cut system cost by...
New $250M W.Va. Gas Pipeline Set to Begin Construction
West Virginia officials announced a privately funded $250 million Hope Gas natural‑gas pipeline in Mason County. The 30‑mile, 24‑inch line will break ground in April 2026 and finish by year‑end, delivering fuel to the Monarch Compute Campus. The campus aims to...
FCC to Unlock Billions for Modern Broadband Infrastructure
Unleashing new infrastructure builds. For too long, regulations have actually *required* providers to keep communities on slow, aging, & outdated copper networks—instead of allowing them to invest and build the modern, high-speed ones that consumers want. The FCC will vote this month...
IRS Alerts: New Tax Scams Evolving Beyond Phishing
From phishing emails to bogus tax credits, the IRS warns that scammers keep changing tactics. Here’s what you should know about the most common tax scams now. https://t.co/0ciX8gUJKy
Data Supply Chains: The New Framework for Managing AI, Analytics, and Real-Time Insights
Enterprises are shifting from static data warehouses to a data supply chain model that manages information as a continuous, end‑to‑end flow. The framework defines stages—ingestion, transformation, storage, distribution, and consumption—optimizing each to support AI, analytics, and real‑time insights. By integrating...
ChatGPT Carousels Align with 83% of Top Google Shopping Results
“Over 83% of ChatGPT carousel products were found as strong matches in Google’s top 40 organic shopping results.” Another article showing how ChatGPT uses Google’s results - this time for Google Shopping. Great new research by Tom Wells at @peec_ai https://t.co/ABBzFlGH55
IBM Db2 Becomes Autonomous Database Standard for Agentic AI
.@IBM Db2 sets the new standard as the autonomous database for the agentic #AI era https://t.co/ZFKZTp30oA >> Congrats - good to see the innovation and the step-up in the competitive landscape. #NextGenApps #NextGenDB
Gemini Live Adds Combined Video‑share Button and Fullscreen Drag Handle
Gemini Live has some more tricks in the works for its overlay bar Combined video and screen sharing buttons and a drag handle to go full screen ✅ Details and screenshots - https://t.co/sBIpPy2cH1 https://t.co/4JSPOgTwna
States Pilot Agentic AI to Revolutionize Government Services
A report from the National Association of State CIOs outlines how states are beginning to explore ways to use agentic AI across state agencies in ways that could transform how government work gets done and how citizens interact with government. https://t.co/6cNwEmicvl...
UK Coal Use Hits 400‑year Low, Emissions Drop 2.4%
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet. All the...
ROS By-the-Bay Meetup Features Ouster Leaders & AI Hackathon Winners
We just scheduled a special edition of our ROS By-the-Bay meetup for after @nvidia GTC at the @circuitlaunch co-working space. Our guest speakers will be senior leadership at @ousterlidar & we'll also have a physical AI showcase featuring the...
Digital Features Aren’t Transformation; Culture and Process Matter
The industry has confused adding digital features with true transformation. Having a mobile app and digital account opening doesn’t make you digitally mature. Real transformation changes culture, processes, and mindset. Download the free report now: https://t.co/gNGFxphUMy https://t.co/bz0SeOWTSW
Seeking Open-Source Claude Cowork Clone Alternatives
ok are there any open source Claude Cowork clones because I can no longer function without a cowork pls recommend or i will build https://t.co/WZtWhjZoH9
Medicare Chief Outlines Flat MA Rates, AI Integration
For Second Opinion, we had a long sit-down with Medicare chief Chris Klomp. We covered: -- MA rates staying flat -- Steps to thwart info blocking -- Bringing AI into healthcare outside of the fee schedule -- The ACCESS model & more https://t.co/dZEzyUtWbz https://t.co/PGO80SlZ9T
AWS Model Privacy: Risks of Insider Access and Data Leakage
Although I’m in 🩷 with Kiro CLI and like that AWS makes a copy of the model so your data doesn’t reach the model providers, I want to know more about AWS internal access to such things, customer segregation with...