Peter Griffin

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.

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

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

Each funding decision NZ businesses make has an opportunity cost.

Odyssey has raised US$310m, valuing the startup at US$1.4b.

On this week’s episode, Peter talks to technologist Brandon Hutcheson.

Further public investment in quantum will produce good companies and jobs.

Microsoft CEO sits down for his only NZ interview.

The new coalition government has difficult decisions to make about R&D spending.

The tech giants have become the infrastructure of modern life. They mediate how we shop, communicate, advertise, store data, and increasingly use artificial intelligence. Yet the tools governments use to contain their power were designed for an earlier economic age.Professor Susan Watson believes we may be looking for solutions in the wrong place. An internationally respected corporate law and governance scholar, Watson is Dean of the University of Auckland Business School and Acting Dean of its

Peter Beck was never supposed to run a multibillion‑dollar space company from the bottom of the world. A self‑taught engineer without a university degree or NASA pedigree, he turned a childhood obsession with rockets into Rocket Lab, building a Nasdaq-listed business that has made New Zealand the world’s third‑largest launcher of payloads to orbit and which is now racing to become a fully integrated, end‑to‑end space company. The traits that underpin that journey are as distinctive as Rocket Lab

AI-driven price hikes for hardware mean it’s time to think smarter about replacing tech.

The engineer who helped make GitHub Copilot a global force is building its open alternative from Christchurch.For millions of software developers, GitHub Copilot was the moment artificial intelligence stopped being an abstract promise and became a practical colleague.Suddenly, AI could sit in the coding environment, suggest the next line, explain unfamiliar code and help turn an idea into working software. It changed expectations of what a developer tool could do, and opened the door to a new ge

The BusinessDesk CEO Index, driven by Range Rover, has returned for its second year. Our newsroom and a panel of independent judges have hand-picked 24 New Zealand chief executives and business leaders making a real impact in their sectors and beyond. This profile features one of 2026’s finalists.Peter Beck was never supposed to run a multibillion‑dollar space company from the bottom of the world. A self‑taught engineer without a university degree or Nasa pedigree, he turned a childhood obsessio

New Zealand is an ideal location AI workloads, but new capacity should be green.

BSI cut 238 roles as it shifted to a missions-led model of science.

Big Tech is in layoff mode. While the latest wave of redundancies at Meta, Microsoft and others reflects a broader post-pandemic correction, artificial intelligence is a major influencing factor. Big tech leaders keep talking up AI's ability to replace swathes of workers. But the reality is that the technology has not led to a collapse in the software developer workforce, where its effects are being most immediately felt. Developers are now typically handing off 30-45% of their coding tasks to A

US government decision to draw a border around intelligence triggers outrage.

Australian startup Heidi Health has become one of the most visible examples of artificial intelligence actually shifting the dial on healthcare productivity – and New Zealand is at the forefront of that story.In this week’s episode of The Business of Tech, I talk to Heidi co‑founder Yu Liu about the company’s journey from student training tool to artificial intelligence (AI) “care partner” for clinicians, and its audacious goal of doubling global healthcare capacity.Heidi didn’t start life in th