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Week of 8 Jun 2026
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Topic

Ai-Driven Hardware Costs

3 items · 3 aliases · peaked week of 3 May 2026 · first seen 9 May 2026

A podcast episode discussing rising tech costs due to AI, a rare example of a natural Kiwi accent in film, and critical commentary on Shane Jones' offensive remarks about homelessness.

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

Alias drift

How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 1 article from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 1 article
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Heard on radio

Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.

  • we go uh one more one before we get going women says goldsmith equals updating bsa too hard let's can it i mean i mean if i have if i was brainier and i could hold more stuff in my brain i'm sure there's many things that we could go oh we'll just can it what are you replacing with may haven't thought of that in fact that's been one of our big criticisms of this government all the way through like no one no one says that maybe you think you have the best answer or the best solution for something right all political parties do so in other words yes there's going to be changes with different governments we may like them we may hate them they may make no difference but the idea of just going we're stopping that what are you starting it with we'll figure it out that that is inexcusable i mean the fear the theories is the best example the theories is the best example i will cancel it via a text we don't need a secondhand corolla or we can have a secondhand corolla sorry we don't need the ferrari when's that all happening what's it going to cost like nothing well that's the that's the best example best example
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ai reduces energy and time in materials science simulations

There’s value in AI, but not in replacing us
2 Jun
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