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A new study is raising serious questions about the corporate rush to replace human workers with artificial intelligence after researchers found that companies cutting jobs in favor of AI-driven automation are often failing to achieve the financial gains they promised investors. By David Lindfield · As executives across America tout AI as the future of business and announce wave after wave of layoffs, the findings suggest that replacing workers…

The Free Speech Union is calling on Parliament to narrow the Summary Offences (Move-on Orders) Amendment Bill, warning it hands police open-ended discretion to move people on, and prosecute them, for peaceful conduct in a public place. The Bill lets an officer order anyone aged 14 or over to leave a public place for 24 hours on grounds as vague as “disorderly” or “disruptive” behaviour, or for begging. Whatever you think about begging, the Free…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he sees “no sense” in meeting with Vladimir Zelensky, responding to an open letter from the Ukrainian leader. The “author of the letter” has done everything to make such talks impossible, Putin stated at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), adding that even his latest call for talks included “elements of insolence.” Source: RT International · On Thursday, Zelensky published what was…

Russia says Ukraine's latest terror attack which left 21 students dead was the last straw, announcing it will now carry out a series of systematic strikes on Kiev's military industrial complex. · Russian Federal Security Service clearly lays out what's happening in Ukraine, saying the nation is being used as a testing ground for new types of warfare under a foreign flag. · Tehran says the US is violating the ceasefire, as Donald Trump…

By Mike Hosking · I asked for the surplus to arrive sooner than previously forecast and, as though she was listening this time yesterday, the first words out of Nicola Willis' mouth were it will be a year ahead of schedule. · You can't ask for more than that. · That’s not an election year lolly, but I'm increasingly of the belief that a growing number of New Zealanders have got the message. · A growing number of us have been shaken into the…