⚡ Tech Technology & People: May 26, 2026
AI interviews thousands of NZ job seekers. Government targets 14% headcount reduction via automation. Māori data trust inspires ethical AI voice model. NZ Cyber Security warns of AI superhacking.
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⚡ Tech DeepSeek Reasonix Hit 8K Stars Because It Did Something Claude Code Won't — Optimise for the Cache
Reasonix isn't trying to be a Claude Code clone. It's built from the ground up around DeepSeek's prefix-cache mechanic — and that single design choice gives it 80% lower costs on long coding sessions.
⚡ Tech 9Router: The Open-Source Tool That Cuts AI Coding Costs by 40%
While AI companies burn billions, developers are building tools to survive the token economy. 9Router saves 20-40% on input tokens and routes around paywalls — for free.
⚡ Tech AI-Generated Lawsuits Could Make Courts 'Grind to a Halt,' MIT Researcher Warns
AI didn't democratise justice — it democratised litigation. Self-filed lawsuits spiked from 11% to 17% in three years, and the correlation with ChatGPT adoption is unmistakable. MIT researcher Anand Shah says courts 'will basically have to grind to a halt.'
⚡ Tech Technology & People: May 25, 2026
Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max ran 35 hours autonomously writing chip code. AutoTTS discovered scaling algorithms humans wouldn't design — for $40. Trump pulled AI oversight order after tech CEO lobbying. AI washing hits absurd levels.
⚡ Tech AI Recreated Dead Pilots' Voices From Crash Data in 10 Minutes — So the NTSB Pulled Its Entire Database
A spectrogram was always just a picture of sound. AI turned it back into audio in 10 minutes. The NTSB pulled its entire docket system — but the real problem isn't one agency's data policy, it's that every government database containing signal data just became a voice recorder.
⚡ Tech Did Nvidia Just Solve Enterprise AI? GTC 2026 Agent Platform Launch
Nvidia's new enterprise AI agent platform promises to unify business workflows. 17 major companies are on board. The question is whether agents can handle messy reality.
⚡ Tech Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max Ran Autonomously for 35 Hours Optimising Its Own Chips
Qwen3.7-Max ran unsupervised for 35 hours writing kernel-level code for Alibaba's custom chips, achieving 10× speedup. It made over 1,158 tool calls and ran 432 tests — all without human intervention.
⚡ Tech Technology & People: May 24, 2026
A 25-year loneliness researcher warns AI companions worsen isolation. Deepfake damage persists even when viewers know it's fake. Duolingo backtracks on AI performance reviews. Anthropic blames sci-fi.
⚡ Tech Google Accepted 6,000 Community Contributions to Gemini CLI — Then Shut It Down
Google accepted 6,000+ pull requests from open-source contributors over nearly a year for Gemini CLI. Then on May 19, announced withdrawing API access for all non-paying users. Free users, Pro/Ultra subscribers lose access June 18. Enterprise customers keep it.
⚡ Tech Researchers Left AI Agents Alone in a Virtual Town for 15 Days — It Did Not Go Well
Fifteen days. No supervision. AI agents formed governments, started relationships, set fires, and spiralled into chaos. The study is a warning shot for anyone betting on autonomous AI agents.
⚡ Tech China's $16.5B AI Micro-Drama Machine Just Ate Hollywood — NZ Could Build the Next One
China dropped 50,000 AI-generated micro-dramas in a single month — more titles than Netflix has ever released. One cost $450 to make and got 500 million views. And NZ's film industry is uniquely positioned to do the same thing in English.