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Panopto launches AI tools to unlock video libraries
Users can now search and reuse recorded lectures and training clips faster, as Panopto's new tools turn video libraries into study aids and answers.

Contending, rebuilding or stuck in limbo: What AFL trade period says about your team’s flag hopes
We rate every club’s player movement window – and rank the teams from best to worst – as the draft picture takes shape.

SAS appoints Casey McGee as VP and Chief Sales Officer
The hire comes as software groups race to blend enterprise sales with AI partnerships, with customers demanding trusted commercial models.

Deja Vu: Dancing with The Pussycat Dolls was surreal
The band says: "Nicole did tell us that she was proud of us."

Debate doubts: Does anyone believe the two Chrises?
One of the few moments of agreement in last night’s NZME leaders’ debate came right at the outset, when both men insisted, hand on heart, they’d never told a porkie in politics.

Corrections staff missed warnings that may have helped prevent prisoner's suicide - coroner
Staff increased the prisoner's suicide risk by putting him in an isolated cell, says a coroner.

Sally Rooney books withdrawn in UK over Palestine Action support
The Irish writer is best known for novels such as Normal People, Intermezzo and Conversations With Friends.

‘Little General’ plotting world domination with star-studded Kiwis
All you need to know about the Rugby League World Cup’s blockbuster opener between the Kiwis and the Kangaroos

All Blacks to name different team for Bledisloe rematch. Will ‘unlucky’ Holland return?
All Blacks coach Dave Rennie will confirm his changes for their clash with Wallabies in Sydney on Saturday night.

The camera hasn’t finished rolling yet tourists are already booking their next LOTR NZ trip
While The Lord of the Rings franchise has consistently drawn fans to New Zealand, fresh hype surrounds production of The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum.

Sustained cost of living pressures sees spike in people choosing to go without
New research shows nearly 50% of people are not buying things they normally would because of cost-of-living pressures.

Danny Dyer in floating poo water protest on Thames
Along with the Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP, Dyer is calling for water companies to be nationalised.

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ASB finance debate gives platform for smaller parties to again show their stuff
Analysis - The finance leaders' debate has traditionally been a feisty and unpredictable event, where canny politicians go off script and feed off the energy of the often-boisterous live audience.

Wellington train crash: Answers will still take many more months
An interim report into the accident - released this morning - lays out only the facts of the event.

Toilet paper and secret recorders: What we know about the arrest of the Saudi OpenAI engineer
Abdulrahman Alfozan had worked for the AI giant for more than a year before he was arrested by the FBI.

Infantino to chair FIFA Council meeting as critics push to oust him
It is the biggest crisis of Infantino’s near 11-year presidency. He was cruising toward a fourth and final term through 2031 when the World Cup final was played July 19 near New York.