Is it time for NZ to be bolder with regulating big tech?
Peter talks to the European Union's envoy to Silicon Valley about how the EU's efforts to regulate big tech have been received and what NZ could learn from the massive government's imminent law changes.
We also ask if Microsoft's co-pilot can really be worth the price tag.
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Reading list
Relevant to the episode
- Images of the future: Daily life in a world governed by AI - Diplosphere conference, 29 August, Wellington
- EU Digital Services Act: Tech companies face a reckoning in Europe as new rules come into force - Euronews
- Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap. - Business Insider
Aotearoa matters
- Spark looks to fixed wireless to increase margin - BusinessDesk
- Chorus CEO questions telcos’ treatment of fibre products - BusinessDesk
- Bitcache liquidation: Kim Dotcom’s involvement probed, amount owing revealed - NZ Herald
- NZ crypto exchange Dasset’s meltdown: Liquidator’s first report finds $6.3m missing - NZ Herald
Global perspective
- Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers breaking the law in its first 3 days. | Business Insider
- The fight over what’s real (and what’s not) on dissociative identity disorder TikTok - The Verge
- AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, rules a US Federal Judge - The Verge
- Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule -How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire - and is now struggling to rein him in. - New Yorker
- As hospitals use AI chatbots and algorithms, doctors and nurses say they can’t be replaced - The Washington Post
Just for fun
- Scientists trap light in a metamaterial to make it magnetic - Interesting Engineering
