7 New Copilot Features That Quietly Changed the Game

by Andrew Hunt | Aug 10, 2026 | AI, IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates

For the last couple of years, most of the talk about Microsoft Copilot has been about drafting emails, summarising meetings and helping with documents. Over the past few months, though, Microsoft has quietly added a new set of features that go well beyond personal...

New Zealand’s Cyber Security Agency Warns Businesses to Get Control of AI Usage

by Andrew Hunt | Jul 13, 2026 | AI, IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates

If you’re like most business leaders I talk to, you’re experimenting with AI and thinking of it as something to tackle properly later. The reality is your staff are almost certainly using it already. They’re drafting emails, summarising documents,...

What Is Fable 5? Why Can’t You Access It Any More?

by Andrew Hunt | Jun 29, 2026 | AI, IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates

If you’ve been following AI news, you’ll have heard of Fable 5, one of the most capable AI models released so far. And if you’ve tried to use it recently, you’ll have found it isn’t available. Here’s what’s going on. What is...

Where Do You Start With AI?

by Andrew Hunt | Jun 3, 2026 | AI, IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates

A practical AI journey for NZ businesses AI doesn’t have to be complicated, but it does need a clear path. The businesses doing best with AI don’t try to do everything at once. They work through it step by step, building capability as they go. AI...

Webinar Replay: Microsoft Copilot Updates, Agent Mode, Claude and Tasks

by Andrew Hunt | May 20, 2026 | AI, IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, TIPS TRICKS AND HINTS

Copilot is moving fast, and a few of the newest features really are game-changers for busy teams. In this practical 30-minute session, Rhys Kerrigan and Ben Fish from the Kambium productivity team (part of Kinetics Group) run through some of their favourite new...

Is Apple’s AI Reboot Anything to Be Excited About?

by Andrew Hunt | May 13, 2026 | AI, IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates

For years it looked like Apple was watching from the sidelines while Microsoft, Google and OpenAI raced ahead with AI. Now Apple has made a very deliberate move back in with “Apple Intelligence”. It’s less about flashy chatbots and more about quietly...