13 Nov 2025

Tech: Chatfishing, Meta's scam profits, datacentres in space

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 13 November 2025
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Tech correspondent Bill Bennett joins Kathryn to talk about the rise of chatfishing - where people use AI to help them chat up prospective matches in relationship scams.

Meta admits ten percent of its revenue - that's US$16bn - was generated from ads for scams or banned goods.

And Google reckons solar-power satellites packed with orbital AI datacentres could be the way of the future.

Bill Bennett is an Auckland-based technology journalist