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Rotorua principals receive life memberships for decades of leadership
Garry de Thierry, Phil Palfrey and Colin Watkins have received life memberships.

Bergerson hoping for special weekend with Bradman and Bosson
Grand National carnival takes centre stage, but racing also welcomes back champion jockey.

CISO report: AI, supply chain, & insider risks reshape security
CISO report reveals AI, supply chain, and insider threats prompt security leaders to adopt offensive strategies and continuous testing for better resilience.

Wayne Brown aims for re-election, targets councillors in Auckland race
ANALYSIS: Twelve candidates are running for the mayoralty, down from 23 in 2022.

On The Up: Awhi Trust helps Hastings youth thrive outside mainstream education
Awhi Trust supports rangatahi outside mainstream education in Hastings.

Sensitive data exposure rises with employee use of GenAI tools
A quarter of files and 4.37% of prompts shared with GenAI tools contained sensitive data, raising security risks as employees use more AI applications.

Jon Toogood on the day Black Sabbath’s Ozzy Osbourne poked fun at Shihad’s name
On the last night of the Australian leg of the tour, the rock legend shared his thoughts.

Shortland Street star Rebekah Randell returns to acting after welcoming baby daughter
After life in a baby bubble, the actress was terrified to be in front of the camera again.

‘Eight million sausages’: The law change that could ‘rip the heart out of’ Kiwi sport
NZ’s 30 biggest sports codes have united to oppose a law change they say could double player subs, and threatens the future of grassroots sport.

Open home planner: Thinking of a move to the prosperous South Island?
From a bespoke new build with mountain views, to a little settler cottage, with a cosy vintage feels, Southland has something for every buyer.

The big All Blacks selection questions ahead of the Rugby Championship
Head coach Scott Robertson will name his 36-man squad on Monday.

Like flying business, with better views: On board NZ’s thrilling scenic train
The Northern Explorer traverses some of the most spectacular rail routes on Earth.

Family ‘upset and disappointed’ after soldier’s plaque stolen from WW1 memorial
It took a century for the Tunneller’s Company to be recognised in Waihi, and only six years for a plaque to be stolen.

Does this ad about baldness offend you?
"You look better bald... said no-one ever." That's the sentence on a digital billboard in Auckland that's dividing views with one critic calling it cruel and "body shaming".

Hawke’s Bay retailers could suffer after ban on card surcharges
'Why would the business owner want to pay for that when they can’t on-charge?'

Wairoa to transport landfill waste to Omarunui with remaining cyclone funds
Wairoa to truck waste to Hawke’s Bay’s Omarunui landfill

Tauranga CBD businesses slam paid parking, call for free options
The council delayed the start of paid parking to explore resident permits.

ChatGPT is crushing all other AI chatbots, and the numbers prove it
It might seem that “ChatGPT” is all you ever hear about when discussing AI chatbots, also known as LLMs. As it turns out, that’s reflected in the real world, too. Statcounter, which tracks the market share of operating systems, browsers, social media sites, and more, has begun tracking the number of sessions by users who visit artificial intelligence sites like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude AI, Microsoft Copilot, and more. The winner, not surprisingly, is ChatGPT, by an enormous margin: over 80 percent and climbing, which coincides with our own chatbot tests. Statcounter began tracking the statistics in March, and they’ve roughly remained the same since then: ChatGPT absolutely dominates, with a cluster of smaller AI chatbots below. So far, the only major change seems to have been Perplexity AI, which captured 16 percent of U.S. users in March, but has dropped to about 6 percent since then. Microsoft’s Copilot has risen, beginning at under 1 percent and now capturing about 10 percent of the market. For the U.S,, the Statcounter numbers break down as follows: in July, 80.22 percent of U.S. chatbot sessions went to ChatGPT, 9.51 percent to Copilot, 5.61 percent for Perplexity, 2.67 percent to Google Gemini, and 1.56 percent to Claude, with Deepseek capturing just 0.43 percent. Statcounter Though those numbers reflect the market share for U.S. users, the picture doesn’t differ that much when viewed from a worldwide perspective. There, ChatGPT’s market share rises to 82.69 percent, followed by Perplexity at 8.06 percent and Copilot (4.56 percent). Gemini (2.2 percent) and Deepseek (1.59 percent) captured the remainder of the sessions Statcounter tracked, with Claude bringing up the rear at 0.91 percent. To be fair, however, it’s not clear how Statcounter arrives at its numbers for tracking AI chatbots. In terms of sample size, Statcounter’s global statistics are based on an analysis of more than 5 billion page views on more than 1.5 million websites per month, the company says. Cookies on those 1.5 million sites can track which devices access them, what operating system they use, and so on. For estimating search engine results, Statcounter says that it uses those tracking cookies to determine if a user arrived from Google, Bing, or somewhere else. Still, one of the challenges with AI chatbots is that they’re not sending users anywhere else, which is worrying to content creators with the rise of features like Google’s AI Mode and AI-powered search. Statcounter representatives did not immediately answer a request for comment.