A leaked Anthropic prospectus suggests the AI giant could release its IPO, and although it could shatter SpaceX's stock market record, there are concerns.

A major re-investigation of more than 50 child protection and adult sexual assault files has found 11 cases where further alleged offending occurred after the initial reports were made to police, it c...

Pacific leaders pulled no punches in their climate messaging at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York this month.

Christopher Luxon has walked back claims made by one of his ministers about the Greens, before then suggesting - wrongly - that they originated from the media.

There are concerns oral nicotine pouches like Zyns will bring the same problems as vaping, as young people look at alternatives for their nicotine hit

Woolworths New Zealand is going ahead with plans to cut 130 jobs in New Zealand and move them to Australia.

A Dutch environmental group claims New Zealand has broken its climate change promises in the free trade agreement with the EU and is lodging the first complaint of its kind through the European Commis...

African savanna elephants in southern Tanzania have an unusual habit: They climb mountains. Up to 1,000 of the pachyderms spend part of their time in the Udzungwa Mountains, clambering up and down ste...

An expert says there's a naive and embarrassing lack of political attention being paid to the acceleration of unregulated artificial intelligence

Fiji Police have launched an investigation after several blocks of cocaine that were being held at the Suva High Court as exhibits in a high-profile drug case went missing.

Forest and Bird are calling for a fast-tracked coal mining application to be declined after the Environmental Protection Authority found gaps in its conservation plan.

A new report released on Thursday highlights the pros and cons of vested-interest lobbying and spotlights the lobbied, including current and former ministers, MPs and ministerial staffers

A former Google DeepMind employee warned that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence could become uncontrollable and has "the potential to kill us all," adding to a growing list of industry insider...

Macklemore has long been pro-Palestinian and a critic of Israel's actions in Gaza and the West Bank.

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Analysis - Over the weekend the CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, published an essay with the headline We Must Pace the Frontier.

MSD has made a litany of mistakes over botched benefit decisions and more - but apologies in contrast are thin on the ground.

The United States just had its hottest summer in 132 years of recordkeeping, soundly beating the summer of 1936 - during the Dust Bowl era - as well as the summer of 2021.

It is the latest in a series of increasing warnings about the safety threat posed by artificial intelligence.

New Zealand First says it will be campaigning for conservation land to be opened up for economic development.

A police staffer is facing nearly 40 charges including rape, indecent assault, kidnapping and unlawful sexual connection, RNZ can reveal.

Officers told Gina Maka’a, a reporter for OCCRP member center In-depth Solomons, her questioning was aimed at uncovering the source behind a report published last year. The search also comes after IDS...

It was a big announcement for a tiny part of the Commerce Department.

The government has halved the time it takes to approve rocket launches as it chases the biggest global space boom in history.

Auckland police officer Amanuel Molla has been charged with sexually abusing a child.

Researchers have discovered that Western Australia’s iron-rich rocks can naturally generate hydrogen and that the process may be boosted to produce much larger amounts. If it can be scaled up, the vas...

The letter warns cyber-attacks which use AI will become more sophisticated in a matter of months.

The Opportunity Party's land tax proposal could cut house values by at least 10 percent, economists say.

The Opportunity Party's land tax proposal could cut house values by at least 10 percent, economists say.

The baritone-voiced British actor pranced to movie fame as a singing, lingerie-clad "sweet transvestite" in the 1975 cult classic.

Older adults who received the Shingrix shingles vaccine were 24% less likely to be diagnosed with dementia over four years in a study of more than 500,000 people. Researchers estimate the difference c...

The mining company Bathurst Resources has lodged its fast track application for approval to expand its coal mining operations on the West Coast.

A community is up in arms over plans to send stormwater runoff into a native forest where an 800-year-old kauri tree lives.

Backyard bird feeders could become unexpected hotspots for H5N1 as Australia’s bird flu outbreak spreads, bringing species together in ways that rarely occur naturally. Experts say stopping feeding is...

Larger audiences across radio and digital platforms have combined with stronger trust in RNZ than other outlets, new data suggest.