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August 29, 2025

OpenAI Rolls Out New Advanced Voice Mode for ChatGPT

Image by The Crypto Times   OpenAI is beginning to roll out its new advanced voice mode for ChatGPT to a limited group of ChatGPT Plus subscribers. A select group of subscribers will have access to a variety of voice ...

August 14, 2025

FinCEN, Fed planning another swing at self hosted crypto AML?

Image by Ledger Insights   On Friday the US Treasury published its semi-annual regulatory agenda. It includes two issues affecting cryptocurrency that may be related. In late 2020 the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) proposed a controversial rule change requiring ...

August 14, 2025

AI search answers are the fast food of your information diet – convenient and tasty, but no substitute for good nutrition

If you have used Google lately and been lucky – or unlucky – enough to encounter an answer to your query rather than a bunch of links, you have been subjected to something called AI Overviews. This is a new ...

August 14, 2025

Google’s use of AI to power search shows its problematic approach to organizing information

From government documents to news reports, commerce, music and social interactions, much of the world’s information is now online. And Google, founded in 1998 with the mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” is ...

July 30, 2025

ICMA updates repo agreement for digital assets

Image by Ledger Insights The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) has published a digital assets annex for its Global Master Repurchase (repo) Agreement (GMRA). The Annex follows work by ICMA and ISLA in the Digital Assets Legal Working Group, with ...

July 30, 2025

False friends or good ends? The CIO’s four-point guide to navigating technology trends

By Oliver Bossert, Klaas Ole Kürtz, and Gérard Richter Not all tech trends are created equal. Keeping a clear eye on what matters can help steer to better decisions. Many who work in IT have heard variations of these statements ...

July 30, 2025

AI search tools and chatbots may make NZ news less visible and reliable – new study

Evidence is mounting that the new generative AI internet search tools provided by OpenAI, Google and Microsoft can increase the risk of returning false, misleading or partially correct information.   Despite the implications of this for the news industry and ...