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Watch live: PM and Health Minister make post-Budget announcement
Health Minister Simeon Brown will take questions following the announcement in Auckland.

Why the Blues face shortfall into ‘multiples of six figures’ with the Crusaders lurking
The Blues could miss out on a financial boost into “multiples of six figures” should their slump continue ahead of the Super Rugby playoffs.

Just like gold and oil, we’ll soon be able to trade AI token futures

Anthropic more valuable than OpenAI in latest funding round

Anthropic vaults to a $965 billion valuation with new funding as Claude demand surges

Law firm Kirkland to spend $500 million developing its own AI platform

Boy George receives lifetime achievement honour at LGBT Awards
The Karma Chameleon singer was surprised with the award by French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier.

Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code
Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output.

Developer pushes biggest new Christchurch office tower to 14 storeys
The developer of a planned office tower will add extra floors to what will be central Christchurch’s biggest new office building this century.

'Gracias, hermano': All Whites defender Tim Payne gets surprise social media boost from Argentinian influencer
A New Zealand footballer's Instagram profile is exploding in popularity - though he hasn't posted anything in months.

Kai's Education brings KaiBot to blind students in US
US blind and low-vision pupils will gain screen-free coding lessons as KaiBot reaches classrooms through a specialist education distributor.

Do you consider yourself a liar? How to pick one
As television's greatest game of lies and deception returns to screens this week, we ask, is it really possible to tell if someone is telling porkies?

Te reo, tributes and mis-timed toilet trips: the Aotearoa Music Awards
From the serious to the silly, there was plenty happening on and offstage besides who won the actual awards.

Samoan nationals could face death penalty over 'Coconut Cartel' killing of Sydney gang leader in Vietnam
Lorenzo Lemalu Tovia is believed to be the mastermind behind Sydney's 'Coconut Cartel', which reportedly broke away and declared war on rival Alameddine gang earlier this year.

New mothers to get legal guarantee of three-day hospital stay after childbirth
Extra funding will expand maternity beds and staff so families get support from day one.

Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Fund Just Bought This Nvidia-Backed Neocloud Stock

50,000 more children suffering from material hardship than three years ago
An expert on the impacts of child poverty says 14 percent of children were facing material hardship in 2025 and New Zealand was failing to move to its goal of reducing that to 6 percent by 2028.

Asian patients missing language support before surgeries
Researchers have found that some Asian patients at Waikato Hospital with limited English proficiency have not received language support before consenting to surgery.

Why tech billionaire Peter Thiel is decamping to the end of the world
New York Times: Thiel already has NZ citizenship – now he has a new 'Plan B'.

EU envoy seeks more vessels to secure Hormuz navigation once the war in Iran ends
LIMASSOL, Cyprus (AP) — The European Union’s foreign policy chief said Thursday securing freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz after the Iran war ends will require more ships, including more vessels from Europe, and the expansion of a current EU naval mission.

Fatal Christchurch house fire began in bedroom, no charges to be laid
The cause of the blaze which killed a three-year-old girl and her mother was not yet clear, but an electrical fault had been ruled out.