Peter Griffin

A wearable can help someone recognise they are running on empty.

This week, Peter speaks with Roman Reyhani of the NZ Institute for Advanced Technology.

The sooner we close the capability gap, the sooner we’ll reap the benefits.

43% of New Zealand employees said their employer restructured last year.

Its chef-led sales strategy has secured Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.

Labour wants platforms to offer feeds showing only accounts users follow.

Hayden Scott was the bloke who got things done. Fixed problems, kept going, and didn’t make a fuss.Then he started feeling sick on the drive to work.After 25 years as a chef, including 15 working alongside acclaimed restaurateur and chef Al Brown, something had shifted. The anxious, unsettled feeling Scott associated with giving a big speech was turning up on an ordinary commute.“Why am I feeling this driving to work every day?” he asked himself.For someone accustomed to delivering under pressur

The people building the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence systems promise extraordinary gains. They also warn those systems could escape our control.That is the ethical fault line running through this week’s episode of The Business of Tech.My guest, New Zealander Peter Barnett, works at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute in Berkeley, California. The University of Otago physics graduate develops governance plans aimed at preventing catastrophic outcomes from advanced AI. He p

Last week, I had the honour of being inducted as a Companion of the Royal Society Te Apārangi – the not-for-profit which acts as the country’s national Academy of science, technology and the humanities.Having spent 10 years working there, mainly as director of the Science Media Centre, with a stint on the society’s executive team as well, the companions’ ceremony in Wellington felt like a homecoming of sorts.But being among some of our country’s most esteemed scientists again also left me uneasy

On this week’s episode, Peter speaks with Auckland University’s Frank Bloomfield.

On this week’s episode, Peter talks to Professor Susan Watson.

In business, and in the innovation game, experience is valuable. But sometimes, not knowing how exactly things are supposed to be done can be a superpower.This week’s episode of The Business of Tech celebrates three young New Zealand designers tackling problems that established businesses have overlooked, with fresh eyes, tight budgets and a willingness to ask basic questions.Sophie West, the national winner of the 2026 James Dyson Award (with around $10,000 in accompanying prize money), and run

Working Well is an ongoing series from BusinessDesk in partnership with Southern Cross Health Insurance, exploring the issues that shape employee health and wellbeing – and the practical solutions for happier, healthier workplaces.Hybrid work is settling into a more realistic rhythm in New Zealand as memories of pandemic-era days spent working from the dining room table recede.Recent employer data suggests 43% of New Zealand employers operate hybrid workplaces, while just over half of remote wor

The Australian Federal Police’s grim assessment of New Zealand Police cyber crime investigations capability is not a surprise.Drawing on documents obtained under the Official Information Act, RNZ’s Phil Pennington reported over the weekend that an AFP review undertaken in 2024 found NZ Police lacked “the capability and capacity” for high-level cyber-dependent investigations.Our police force has no formal strategy for investigating cyber crimes, clear performance indicators or sufficient speciali

Working Well is an ongoing series from BusinessDesk in partnership with Southern Cross Health Insurance, exploring the issues that shape employee health and wellbeing – and the practical solutions for happier, healthier workplaces.New Zealand startup Seeo is turning ordinary workplace CCTV into an AI-powered early-warning system for injuries, unsafe practices and operational bottlenecks – while insisting it is not building a digital panopticon for the factory floor.Factories, warehouses, ports,

Salesforce New Zealand country manager Richard Phillimore-Smith says the next phase of artificial intelligence will hinge on whether organisations can put trusted data, established workflows and people together to solve real business problems.Speaking to The Business of Tech at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Phillimore-Smith said the event reflected an industry at a turning point. The gathering brought together some of AI’s most influential figures, including Nvidia’s Jense

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon entered Parliament’s final sitting week before the House rises ahead of the election, doubling down on his plans to slash the public sector workforce.“I mean we’ve got a 1990 public service when we really need to have a 2040 public service,” he told Newstalk ZB host Mike Hosking.The plan is still to reduce the Government workforce to 55,000, or 1% of the population, by 2029, with up to 9,000 jobs needed to go to achieve the target.“I’m wanting us to reimagine the

The bill shock may be coming.

Each funding decision NZ businesses make has an opportunity cost.

An impressive debut here of a new TV format with huge promise.