NZ Tech News

Virtual IT Group appoints Maurice McCarthy as chief executive to drive ANZ expansion and embed AI across its managed IT and security services.

V2 AI names new Asia Pacific leaders as it doubles consultants and rides surging enterprise demand for large-scale agentic AI projects.

Rockwell Automation names Karen Hannify to lead Asia-Pacific EPC alliances as it ramps up engagement on major industrial and infrastructure projects.

QSIC adopts Datadog to monitor 17,000-store audio network, slashing incident recovery from days to hours and boosting retail media uptime.

AI’s promise for 2026 hinges on fixing decaying, duplicate customer data to curb hallucinations and unlock sharper, revenue-driving insight.

Elevate NZ backs Altered Capital with a USD $25m commitment to its USD $100m Fund II, boosting Series A and B funding for Kiwi tech.

New Zealand tightens health advertising code, curbing influencer endorsements, tougher evidence rules and stricter protections for vulnerable people.

HR, IT and finance must align on corporate travel or risk frustrated staff, weak compliance and poor cost control, SAP Concur warns.

Chainguard launches a Fulfilment Dashboard and expands its vetted Helm charts, aiming to streamline and secure Kubernetes deployments.

Google extends its Gemini 3 Deep Think reasoning mode to researchers and developers, opening early access through the Gemini API for advanced work.

Arctic Wolf says attackers are actively exploiting a critical BeyondTrust vulnerability in self-hosted remote access systems.

Anthropic raises USD $30bn in new backing, lifting the AI group’s valuation to USD $380bn as demand for its Claude models surges.