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Reaching for the stars: Alumni secure $1.5m for start-up

28 July 2026

Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland alumni have raised $1.5 million to grow their AI tech start-up Hyades.
Could AI bottle a memory? Engineering students take fragrance concept global

17 July 2026

A University of Auckland engineering team has earned a place among the world’s top young innovators, taking its AI fragrance concept Mémoire to the global finals of L’Oréal’s Brandstorm competition in Paris.
AI driving experts from online community – study

6 July 2026

The rise of generative AI is causing some expert contributors to leave the online communities they helped build, according to University of Auckland research.
The student startup changing heart care

30 June 2026

A conversation about the frustrations of analysing heart scans inspired first-year University of Auckland student Will Hewitt to put his degree on hold and launch HeartLab.
From HAL to healthcare AI

25 June 2026

As a student in the 1970s, Omar Garcia imagined computers that could think like HAL 9000 in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Decades later, he's researching AI, but for the benefit, not the destruction, of mankind.
Big Tech’s AI agents pose risks for businesses

22 June 2026

Analysis: AI agents are more than chatbots — they could transform how businesses operate, writes Guy Bate.
Artificial intelligence’s limited ‘intelligence’

15 June 2026

Commentary: AI is an amplifier not a replacement, and will always require human oversight says Reza Shahamiri.
Four PhDs, four big questions, three minutes each

11 June 2026

Four Business School PhD candidates distilled years of research into three-minute presentations.
Is OpenAI putting profit over public safety?

8 June 2026

Analysis: A growing number of cases against OpenAI and other tech giants investigate harms their products are alleged to have caused. Alexandra Andhov discusses.
Musk loses case but OpenAI questions remain

25 May 2026

Analysis: Elon Musk sued OpenAI and lost. But the core question of the case remains unanswered.
AI data centre boom: who benefits from the build-out?

13 May 2026

Opinion: The benefits can be uncertain for countries hosting data centres, writes PhD student Angus Dowell.
Exploring AI’s potential to improve access to justice

8 May 2026

Law and commerce graduate Jemma Barber explored how AI tools might help workers who can’t afford legal representation.

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