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Nick Mowbray posted on LinkedIn a few days ago about "the criticism we receive for donating to National and ACT" I'd be curious to know what source of criticism he's referring to that apparently struck enough of a nerve that he compelled to write a whole post

A screenshot of a LinkedIn post from Nick Mowbray that says:

I'm aware of the criticism we receive for donating to National and ACT. I'm also aware of the false narrative that we lobby the government and expect something in return.
So let me be clear: we have never lobbied the government.
Less than 1% of ZURU's revenue is in New Zealand.
We donate because we care about this country's future and believe National and ACT have the right talent and strategy to move it forward.
We grew up with that Kiwi number 8 wire mentality. Work hard figure things out and believe you can build something from nothing.
These photos show our second small factory on my parents' dairy farm in Tokoroa, my brother winning the NZ science fair and our first factory in China. We used fibreglass matting from the Kinleith paper mill as flooring because we had no money. We sprayed weeds and milked cows on weekends to help pay the rent.
Then we moved to China and lived on US$1 a day for many years. No exaggeration. My brother spent close to a decade living in a tiny room inside our first factory. For a decade we worked almost every day from morning until late at night sacrificing pretty much every comfort to keep building.

Today, we compete globally with some of the biggest companies in the world. We employ thousands of people globally including hundreds of Kiwis, and aim to employ thousands more in New Zealand over the next five years.
We will surpass NZ$10 billion in revenue next year and are investing heavily back into New Zealand.
That's the future we want more Kiwis to have the opportunity to build. A New Zealand that rewards hard work and sacrifice backs people willing to take a chance and encourages them to compete globally and bring that success home. A country ambitious about becoming better and more prosperous.
New Zealand gave us a lot. We care deeply about its future. We expect nothing personally in return from any party. We simply want the next generation to have the opportunities we had and the chance to take them even further.
We want NZ to WIN! build a country of makers not takers

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 27/09/2026

Labour sent out an email about 10 minutes with this handwritten letter from Chris Hipkins saying he has "just come off the stage" The image metadata (which wasn't removed) shows a Sony ILCE-7CM2 took that photo at 1:45pm so a bit before the 3pm campaign launch actually kicked off 😄

A screenshot of an email with the subject line "A personal request - and a note to say thank you"

The letter says "Kia Ora I've just come off the stage at our campaign launch and wanted to thank you. Your support could be the difference between winning and losing. If you can I'd really appreciate it if you can click the buttons below and contribute"

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 22/09/2026

Here's the Table of Contents for anyone interested. It's definitely not the longest book in the world but you won't hear me complaining 😄

A photo of the Contents page in Dirty Work by Nicky Hager

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 22/09/2026

Unity Books on High Street, Auckland has plenty of copies! In fact, the bookstore was quite empty so a very different scene compared to Wellington last night

A photo of the book Dirty Work by Nicky Hager. Visible in the background is a window insert of Detective Beans.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 19/09/2026

I happened to be near Whenuapai today so I crossed glancing at the all-of-government data centre off my todo list. It's visible from a small cul-de-sac outside the airbase. I waved at someone to try signal that I wasn't a cooker and just found it interesting but I'm not sure they were convinced 😄

A photo showing the top of a grey tin roof mostly obscured by flaxes, trees and other vegetation

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 11/09/2026

If you mean in terms of web design, presumably a lot of heavy lifting from Claude/OpenAI based on the code comments 😄

A screenshot of an HTML code comment that reads:

Live departures. Dormant until <html data-departures="on">: with the switch off nothing is fetched, nothing is rendered and no space is reserved, so the AT links in the markup remain the only behaviour. Also the behaviour with JavaScript off and when the endpoint is absent.

Contract: 02-Working-Files/city-ale-link-departures/docs/ENDPOINT-CONTRACT.md

Reviewed 2026-09-08; this revision addresses that review.

Silence while the endpoint has never answered -- that is "not deployed", not "broken". Once it has answered, say so plainly rather than leaving someone waiting for times that will not arrive.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 10/09/2026

I got a new doorstop the other day

A photo of Parliamentary Practice in New Zealand Fifth Edition by David Wilson. Part of an LED keyboard is visible on the right of the screen. A Japanese AWS book is visible in the background.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 05/09/2026

TIL NZ Herald have a Sponsored Stories section where they just run straight advertorials They also loosened their robots.txt file a few days ago which now signals to LLM providers that sponsored stories can be crawled Not that robots blocks anything but it's an explicit open invite now

A screenshot of an NZ Herald sponsored story titled "The new shape of your next smartphone". Highlighted text states "This content was prepared by Samsung and is being published by The New Zealand Herald as Advertorial"

A screenshot of a ChangeDetection diff for the NZ Herald's robots.txt page. An Allow claude is added to a bunch of blocks allowing "/sponsored-stories/*" for a number of LLM providers (Anthropic and OpenAI are visible)

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 05/09/2026

We need to ensure that laundered money can not make its way into the hands of *checks notes* tourists

A screenshot of two browser windows side by side. On the left is the justice.govt.nz Advice on Bill consistency with BORA table showing a bill titled Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Tourism (Omnibus) Amendment Bill. On the right is the bill which clarifies that this should be "Terrorism" and not "Tourism". A red double-headed arrow points this out.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 26/08/2026

It looks like the legislation website's WAF has blocked my home IP 😔 It's probably something dumb but the precedent that you can get blocked from being able to read laws is pretty wack

A screenshot of Safari open to legislation.govt.nz. A 403 Permissions Error page is visible.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 25/08/2026

I think Ethan should get a fourth computer for his desk

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 25/08/2026

rECREATE THIS WITH THE CHARACTERS HAVING DIFFERENT

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 25/08/2026

Why is the b-roll in this video showing a trading dashboard in Russian. The end of the video feels pretty ironic given the start.

A screenshot of a video with the text "When AI tools operate with more independence". The background image in the video is a financial trading dashboard in Russian.

A screenshot of a video still. The text overlay says "A final thought: If you aren't sure, look more closely before relying on the output of the AI".

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 25/08/2026

Fix this so the driver is sitting in his seat

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 25/08/2026

I like how the filenames for some of the images appears to just be whatever the prompt is that was used to generate them

A screenshot of Google Chrome showing an image of a laptop with a red alert sign and a robot. The address bar contains the image URL. Highlighted is the filename which is "Create an image for this scenario Make it really_.jpg"

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 25/08/2026

They got government websites with anime now? We really are living in the future www.ldc.govt.nz/learning-mod...

A screenshot of an AI LDC course. An image of an anime-style woman in a nurse outfit is visible on the left. On the right, text says "Deep Learning. An advanced machine learning technique which can process and learn complex patterns from large amounts of data"

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 24/08/2026

I'm curious to know what you think but my interpretation of this is that you could provide say; a passport but to meet the criteria, it's not that further ID is required (eg facial scan) but instead you need to do some additional arbitrary step that would be considered within the spirit of the bill?

A screenshot of Section 11 of the Online Safety (Minimum Age and Child Safety Risk Assessment) Bill. "if the only step it takes in respect of the duty" is highlighted.

11 Operators must take steps to prevent persons under 16 years from having accounts

(1) An operator of an age-restricted platform must take reasonable steps to prevent a New Zealand person under the age of 16 years from having an account with the platform.

(2) Requiring manual entry of age or date of birth is not a reasonable step for the purposes of subsection (1).

(3) An operator does not satisfy the duty in subsection (1) if the only step it takes in respect of the duty—
(a) is to require provision of an approved evidence of age document; or
(b) is to use a digital identity service; or
(c) is to do both of those things.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 19/08/2026

As part of their requirement to vet that advertisers of financial services are actually licensed, Meta asked the Companies Office for access to the Financial Service Providers Register (to know if advertisers are licensed) which was granted but they also asked for PII in addition which was declined

Meta have requested that data provided by the Companies Office for the financial services advertiser verification service includes information such as phone numbers, names and other personal details, to strengthen the verification service. This data is personally identifiable information.

The Companies Office have decided not to provide personally identifiable information to Meta, due to Privacy Act 2020 compliance considerations. Meta have assured officials that the financial services advertiser verification service can be provided without personally identifiable information.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 19/08/2026

Apparently Chris Penk set up a process where small businesses who are suspended by Meta can contact MBIE to get their appeals escalated

Account Suspensions: Over the past year, Meta has strengthened its approach to suspending accounts that host objectionable material. This has resulted in some small businesses having their accounts inadvertently suspended. A process established by your predecessor, Hon Penk, enables affected businesses who have not had any success though the normal Meta channels to contact MBIE, with cases passed on to Meta for review where appropriate. You have agreed to continue this approach.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 09/08/2026

@exocomics.com Every Detective Beans release, I think to myself I need to go to the bookstore and then I forget so I have finally atoned for my sins The cashier at Little Unity asked if I wanted a loyalty card and I said despite appearances, I don't find myself shopping for kids books *that* often

A photo of three Detective Beans books by Li Chen spread out on a table

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 07/08/2026

@apenwarr.ca Between the cookie banner and the conference banners, my reaction was surprise at first but actually I guess it means you successfully crossed the chasm and been forced into needing the marketing signals that the slow adopters require so it's actually secretly a good thing (?)🕴️

A screenshot of the Tailscale homepage. There is a cookie banner at the bottom.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 21/07/2026

As part of this, I had ordered a shirt with the TOP logo rotated upside down but only to receive a regular TOP shirt instead. Anyway, I received an email this morning from the TOP merch store saying they received conflicting advice on hats and that if you have a TOP hat, you should hide it for now

An email from Iain Lees-Galloway at 6:46 AM

It says the following:

Kia ora Marcus,

You have received this email because you purchased merchandise from the Opportunity Shop earlier this year.

This email is only for people who purchased Opportunity Party branded caps. If you did not purchase a cap, please disregard this email.

We have received conflicting advice from the Electoral Commission regarding the caps.
Previously, they were not considered election advertisements and did not require a "promoter statement" (the text that starts Authorised by...").

However, recent advice has called that into question. Right now, it is unclear to us whether caps require the promotor statement. The cap(s) you purchased do not have the promoter statement.

While we clarify this, please keep your cap(s) out of sight. Put them away in your wardrobe or a drawer. Displaying an election advertisement without the promoter statement is a criminal offence and could be referred to the Police.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 20/07/2026

This TV has a casting feature in the hotel menu but it doesn't seem to work with the apps I wanted to cast from because they just buffer forever. The hotel menu is boring HTML served via a network so what if I just served my own HTML instead...

A photo of a Macbook Pro. An ethernet cable is plugged into it via a USB-C to ethernet adapter. An ethernet cable runs from the laptop behind an LG TV. The TV displays a poorly drawn screen that reads "Marcus's better hotel menu :)" with a single "play content" button below it.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 13/07/2026

DIA published 304 pages of advice documents around the citizenship test changes which had this fun little reminder www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.n...

Heading: The Ministry of Justice highlighted differences in how the responsibility relating to obeying the law is worded in citizenship material

31. In the current citizenship by grant application form and in guidance on govt.nz, one of the responsibilities of New Zealand citizenship is listed as 'obey and promote the laws of New Zealand'. The Ministry of Justice has highlighted that there is no legal obligation on citizens to promote New Zealand laws, only to obey them.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 26/06/2026

I got a copy of the Patlabor 2 4K remaster bluray, which is one of my favourite films, and I was surprised to find it came with a copy of the entire storyboard in booklet form!

The box for Patlabor 2 The Movie 4K Remaster Collection sitting on a desk

A copy of Patlabor 2 The Movie Storyboard, a grey book sitting on a desk. The cover shows the white head of a Patlabor

A photo of the Patlabor 2 storyboard minibook showing 10 different sketched frames. Visible is a woman loading a gun and looking out at decaying buildings while on a boat.

A photo of the Patlabor 2 storyboard book showing 10 sketched frames. A news reporter can be seen presenting a broken bridge which is then bombed by a fighter jet

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 22/06/2026

Here's an oddity from the recent PSC Briefing to the Incoming Minister The left image comes from digital.govt.nz published in February 2026. The right redacted image is from the April 2026 briefing. How is that commercial? They're generic concepts?! www.publicservice.govt.nz/assets/Direc...

A screenshot of the Digital Target State diagram. In the centre is a box titled Digital Public Infrastructure which contains generic software concepts such as "Notifications & Messaging System", "Data Dictionary", "Rules Library" and so on.

A screenshot of the Digital Target State diagram. In the centre is a box that is redacted with "9(2)(i) Prejudice to commercial activities" and "9(2)(j) Preduce to negotiations" marked as reasons.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 17/06/2026

Just wait until you play P4 and hear "The Almighty" at which point you'll be able to cry on demand simply by listening

A photo of Persona 4 Golden for the Playstation Vita. It's signed by David Farrier of Tickled Fame in the bottom right corner.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 17/06/2026

I thought this headline seemed to contradict the recent move-on orders unless...

A still from the TV series Trailer Park Boys where the character Ricky is handing Jim a $100 Canadian bill. The subtitles read "I'm gonna pay you $100 to fuck off"

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 15/06/2026

For the nerds, I got some .hack books today 🫡

A photo of Encyclopedia .hack and .hack//Analysis on a white desk

A photo of .hack//Analysis open across two pages. The left page contains two columns of text in Japanese with headings that use an email icon. On the right is a black page with two yellow strips that read "GATE HACKING" and above the centre is some Japanese text in red bold letters. It's unclear from the photo but the right page looks almost like a static-filled CRT image due to some transparency paper in front of it.

A photo of .hack//Analysis open to two pages. The right page contains a number of .hack world concepts such as "The World: 2000" and a FMD virtual reality headset

A photo of Encyclopedia .hack although only the right page is really visible. It contains a few screenshots of various .hack concepts with explainer text in Japanese.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 15/06/2026

I wonder if there's a limit to how long a question response can be? questions.parliament.nz/written-ques...

A screenshot of a Written Question to Parliament which says the following:

Teanau Tuiono to the Minister for State Owned Enterprises: What advice, reports, briefings, emails, aide memoires, or any other documents has the Minister or any member of their Office seen, if any, about WorkSafe New Zealand safety requirements for fuel storage tanks?
Hon Simeon Brown: As I said in Written Parliamentary Questions 10889 (2025), 11147 (2025), 14770 (2025), 18421 (2025), 19559 (2025), 20746 (2025), 22412 (2025), 27507 (2025), 28436 (2025), 30419 (2025), 30991 (2025), 31535 (2025), 32421 (2025), 33193 (2025), 34522 (2025), 35938 (2025), 37794 (2025), 38920 (2025), 39747 (2025), 41640 (2025), 42857 (2025) , 44980 (2025), 4594 (2025), 48408 (2025), 49591 (2025), 50437 (2025), 51143 (2025), 51949 (2025), 52883 (2025), 53446 (2025), 54774 (2025) 55541 (2025), 57127 (2025), 982 (2026), 723 (2026), 4196 (2026), 4299 (2026), 4402 (2026), 4507 (2026), 5769 (2026), 5875 (2026), 6395 (2026), 7771 (2026), 7877 (2026), 8911 (2026), 10970 (2026), 11077 (2026), 9128 (2026), 9247 (2026), 11485 (2026), 11558 (2026), 12455 (2026), 12597 (2026), 13459 (2026), 13609 (2026), 16629 (2026), 17535 (2026), 18356 (2026), 19298 (2026), 24632 (2026), and 27221 (2026) I refer the Member to the answer to Written Parliamentary Question 6125 (2025).

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 10/06/2026

I updated to the iOS 27 Developer Beta yesterday and was cropping a screenshot of a manga panel just before when Apple Photos suggested that I could "extend" the image using on-device AI Unsurprisingly, it invented two whole characters out of nowhere visible on the bottom left and far right

A panel from Chapter 35 of Smoking Behind The Supermarket With You. Sasaki is caught red handed overspending on fish out of jealousy.

The same panel from Chapter 35 but with an extra panel on the far right. In it, a man in a suit says something like "Yey Yer Eorpreny Sere?". He is slightly translucent with barbed wire as his suit material. He is clearly a weird clone of Sasaki, not that it's intentional. On the far left is half a frame. Half of a man looking right is visible with the cut off text "cat" above his head.

A screenshot of the iOS Photos UI with the Tools feature selected and the Extend tool in use. An Original label suggests that the visible manga panel is pre-extension by AI

A screenshot of the iOS Photos UI. The extended manga panel is visible with text at the bottom saying "Your photo has been extended"

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 08/06/2026

I like whatever the hell this is

A bookshelf with a number of books facing the camera. One is bright red with a smiley face on it.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 27/05/2026

The Privacy Commissioner's Phase 2 report is expected to cover the following www.privacy.org.nz/focus-areas/...

Phase two of the Inquiry is likely to cover:

- Whether patients were properly asked for authorisation before a MMH account was established for them and information was stored in that account.
- Whether patients received adequate information about how the portal would be used.
- Retention and deletion of information within the portal.
- The quality of communications about the breach.
- Whether the notifications to OPC and to affected patients met the requirements of the Privacy Act.
- Whether the breach caused a disproportionate impact on any group, particularly Northland Māori.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 26/05/2026

Big fan of searching random keywords in Hansard and seeing what falls out Too bad Parliament TV doesn't seem to go back that far

What did John Key say yesterday? Oh, they have issued them with iPads. They have issued them with iPads. That is going to help when you are faced with somebody screaming and ranting, high on P—when you hold up your iPad! I hope that it is on Pokémon GO and you can get the nearest Zubat. Is that what it is going to be? Is that what the answer is to out-of-control crime because of this Government’s failure to resource the police properly? Well, I tell you what: the rest of New Zealand cares. And, of course, the Government has now discovered, because David Farrar has told it, that the rest of New Zealand cares and expects something better.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 24/05/2026

"We need to ensure that these fantasy stories are accurately summarised and cited"

A table with the title "Principle 8: How will you ensure that the information used is correct?"

It says: We rely on the information in the nomination and the letters of support and do not check their accuracy. This is a feature of the current system and we do not propose to change it. As to whether Parata's citation is accurate, an Honours Unit staff member will check the citation for accuracy against the original nomination and letters of support before it is considered by the APH Committee. The same (or similar) prompt will be used in Parata to instruct it to prepare the summary, for consistency and to reduce bias.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 23/05/2026

WorkSafe NZ would like to use Microsoft Copilot to aid in preparing OIA responses

A screenshot of a table with the heading "WorkSafe NZ" and the subheading "CoPilot Chat Proof of Concept"

The summary reads "Demonstrate the value of introducing CoPilot Chat with two use cases including OIA responses and guidance material"

It is in the "Plan & Design" activity stage with Microsoft and other government agencies as their key partners.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 23/05/2026

Statistics New Zealand would like to use an OpenAI model to aid in scraping ecommerce websites A similar entry for Stats explicitly mentions extracting pricing metadata from ecommerce websites

A screenshot of a table with the heading "Statistics New Zealand" and the subheading "Price Web Scraping"

The summary reads "Web Scraping in our unit is difficult due to websites changing often. In order to fix it currently we go back to our scrapers and manually adjust the HTML selectors and code. The idea is to use a GPT model as a 'processor' to extract price data from HTML body text. This will hypothetically eliminate the need for HTML selectors and specific code"

It is in the "Operate & Use" activity stage with OpenAI as their key partner.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 23/05/2026

Statistics New Zealand would like to use Generative AI to create illustrations for internal communications

A screenshot of a table with the heading "Statistics New Zealand" and the subheading "AI Image Generation for Communications"

The summary reads "Need for engaging and illustrative images to improve internal communications and articles. Using AI image generation tools to create visual content for internal communications, articles, and publications"

It is in the "Plan & Design" activity stage with Microsoft Copilot as their key partner.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 23/05/2026

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand would like to use AI to analyse public submissions

A screenshot of a table with the heading "Reserve Bank of New Zealand" and the subheading "Digital Cash - Public Consulation"

The summary reads "The Digital Cash programme has been exploring the high level design options for digital cash, and asking for public feedback on the proposed design features. We received over 18,000 survey responses, and over 500 written responses. This was identified as a good candidate for an AI Proof of Concept (PoC) because of the otherwise heavy manual effort required to analyse the responses and because the nature of the data lent itself well to standard Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) approaches. The AI PoC had the following objectives: Explore AI for analysing Digital Cash Consultation responses and performing sentiment analysis of unstructured datasets. Determine AI's potential to reduce manual effort and uncover new insights. The team approached the PoC by: Using generative AI tools, specifically Microsoft Co-Pilot Studio, to build a chatbot that was deployed as a Microsoft Teams application. Leveraging RAG technique to quickly build an AI application without having to train the AI on submission data."

It is in the "Plan & Design" activity stage with Microsoft, Azure and Copilot as their key partners.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 23/05/2026

The New Zealand Trade and Enterprise would like to use AI to build a CRM Agent whose purpose is redacted under Section 9(2)(ba)(i) of the Official Information Act, which is to do with protecting information supplied in confidence, where revealing it would prevent further information being supplied

A screenshot of a table with the heading "New Zealand Trade and Enterprise" and the subheading "CRM Agent"

The summary is redacted under Section 9(2)(ba)(i) of the Official Information Act

It is in the "Plan & Design" activity stage with TBC as their key partner. That is not a name, it is to be decided.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 23/05/2026

New Zealand Qualifications Authority are using AI to mark literacy exams

A screenshot of a table with the heading "New Zealand Qualifications Authority" and the subheading "Automated text scoring"

The summary reads "Use of essay scoring model powered by AI to mark the literacy exam"

It is in the "Operate & Use" activity stage with New Data Solutions as their key partner.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 23/05/2026

The New Zealand Defence Force has 3 different AI use-cases redacted under Section 6(b)(i) of the Official Information Act, which is to do with the entrusting of information to the NZ Government in confidence by an agency or government of another country

A screenshot of a table with the heading "New Zealand Defence Force" and the subheading is redacted under Section 6(b)(i) of the Official Information Act

The summary is redacted under Section 6(b)(i)

It is in the "Plan & Design" activity stage with redacted key partners.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 23/05/2026

The New Zealand Defence Force has 4 different AI use-cases redacted under Section 6(a) of the Official Information Act, which is to do with security and defence of NZ, or international relations of the Government

A screenshot of a table with the heading "New Zealand Defence Force" and the subheading is redacted under Section 6(a) of the Official Information Act

The summary is redacted under Section 6(a)

It is in the "Plan & Design" activity stage with redacted key partners.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 23/05/2026

Nelson City Council is using LLMs to analyse public submissions

A screenshot of a table with the heading "Nelson City Council" and the subheading "Analysis of submissions"

The summary reads "Problem Statement: With limited time to process community feedback on the Long Term Plan, an innovative approach was needed to efficiency review submissions and deliver insights to elected members. AI Solution: Partnering with a local AI specialist, a secure tool was developed to streamline the analysis of public submissions. Using OpenAI technology, the tool processed over 1,500 entries from a submissions database, undertaking sentiment analysis and identifying key themes. While staff reviewed and verified outputs, the AI tool provided structured, auditable data that informed reporting and supported decision-making. The tool also enabled real-time responses to queries during meetings and was later used to draft personalized replies to submitters, reflecting Council decisions. Benefits and Outcomes: Enabled deeper understanding of community feedback to inform decision making; Reduced manual workload, allowing staff to focus on strategic tasks; Designed for reuse across various consultation types; Delivered timely, data-driven insights that improved the quality speed of Concil deliberations"

It is in the "Operate & Use" activity stage with AI Factory as a key partner.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 23/05/2026

The Natural Hazards Commission is using LLMs to analyse file notes for settlement claims

A screenshot of a table with the heading "Natural Hazards Commission" and the subheading "Land Assessment Data from Claim File Notes"

The summary reads "Analysing file notes for settlement information. The goal is to identify whether claims were settled based on remediation or valuation. This involves using AI to parse through the settlement notes and extract key information, such as the basis of settlement and specific details like square meterage. This use case aims to automate the extraction of structured data from unstructured text in settlement notes."

It is in the "Plan & Design" activity stage with no key partners.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 23/05/2026

The Ministry of Social Development would like to use AI to summarise and search through case notes when a case is opened for investigation

A screenshot of a table with the heading "Ministry of Social Development" and the subheading "AI Client case note search"

The summary reads "Cases are opened for investigation. Part of the investigation process is reading large volumes of case notes from a client management system. This is a challenge due to the large amount of case notes, as well as the inconsistent structure of case notes. AI can create a summary of a case note that is: Neutral in tone, Consistent in language, highlights important setences, create(s) a narrative sumary. In addition, it can help people find information inside of unstructured case notes. This includes the generation of synthetic case notes as part of the testing process."

It is in the "Develop" activity stage with Deloitte as key partners.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 23/05/2026

The Ministry of Māori Development would like to use AI to review public submissions

A screenshot of a table with the heading "Ministry of Māori Development - Te Puni Kōkiri" and the subheading "Submission review"

The summary reads "We are in the early stages of considering how we can use AI to review submissions to various legislation changes, to speed up the processing of public submissions"

It is in the "Plan & Design" activity stage with no key partners.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 23/05/2026

The Ministry of Justice is experimenting with AI to speed up retrieving and collation of responses for OIAs

A screenshot of a table with the heading "Ministry of Justice" and the subheading "Copilot trials - OIA agent"

The summary reads "Actively exploring and utilising an AI Agent for OIA's to achieve efficiencies and service improvement. This agent speeds up retrieval and collation of responses to OIA and PQ requests to reduce staff effort, improve response speed and accuracy, and lower risk of errors"

It is in the "Develop" activity stage with Microsoft and Engage Squared as key partners.

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Marcus @utf9k.net · 23/05/2026

The Ministry of Justice is using AI to generate first drafts of Disputes Tribunals decision summaries

A screenshot of a table with the heading "Ministry of Justice" and the subheading "Copilot for Generating abstracted for publishing judicial decisions"

The summary reads "The Ministry publishes approx. 800 Disputes Tribunals decisions annually. Summarised case notes of each decision are manually created which take approx. 20 minutes per document. AI technology is being used to provide a first draft of summarised decisions, before they are fact-checked, edited and published"

It is in the "Operate & Use" activity stage with Microsoft and Engage Squared as key partners.

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