Trade Fintech funding takes hit as AI investments surge in first half of 2024 Finch Capital report finds Irish fintech companies raised just €22m in the first half of the year 3 Oct
Trade Ardanis Technologies creates 20 new jobs as AI offering for call centres goes live Generative AI solution creates emotionally intelligent responses to call centre queries 2 Oct
Pro Goldman Sachs predicts AI will significantly affect oil prices over next 10 years Investment bank estimates price per barrel to increase $5 over a decade 2 Oct
Trade AI services to become trillion-dollar industry by 2027 Bain & Company report notes emergence of nation states as big spenders in AI 26 Sep
Radio Eirmersive’s Camille Donegan on extended reality in 2024 New visions of work and the Dead Internet explained 20 Sep
Life OpenAI unveils AI model o1: human-like reasoning and improved logic Developer costs go up as latest version of chatbot touts greater reasoning abilities 17 Sep
Trade Valuation of OpenAI depends on structural changes with $6.5bn funding round at stake Move from non-profit to for-profit entity forces commercial reinvention 16 Sep
Life Chatbot helps people see sense by debunking conspiracy theories DebunkBot takes on misinformation and wins 13 Sep
Life CeADAR joins project for early detection of Alzheimer’s Disease Centre for AI one of 11 project partners on 2D-BioPAD project 11 Sep
Life International summit wants guidelines for responsible AI use in military applications Meeting won't have binding resolutions but will provide valuable talking shop for nation states 9 Sep
Pro Quarter of employers using AI to find staff IrishJobs.ie survey finds recruiters split on question of new tech making their jobs easier 2 Sep
Life Google updates AI image generation tools after ‘inaccuracy’ incident Third time lucky for Imagen following embarrassing results last February 29 Aug
Life Meta and Spotify warn of EU’s ‘complex’ AI legislation Meta, Spotify unify in effort to defang regulators 26 Aug
Trade Less than a third of business leaders consider AI a strategic priority, says IMI Talent retention seen as biggest challenge for next 12 months 23 Aug
Life Microsoft and Lenovo laptops put Copilot to the test Mobile tech delivers desktop performance in these new Copilot notebooks 22 Aug
Life Google brings AI Answers in Search to new countries, skips EU Mountainview sits out EU launch as concerns over accuracy remain 20 Aug
Life Artificial intelligence dataset taken offline after copyright owners raise objection BREIN Foundation asserts rights of Dutch creatives 13 Aug
Life Users return Humane AI Pin en masse Device failed to provide viable alternative to smartphones 8 Aug
Pro EU AI Act comes into force Much-debated legislation offers clarity but debate yet to be settled 2 Aug
Radio Taking AI to the bank with DCU’s Prof Michael Dowling CrowdStrike makes a powerful new enemy, Azure and 365 take a tumble, and GenAI coming to a high street near you 2 Aug
Life First test version of iOS 8.1 with Apple Intelligence made available to developers Beta version announced at WWDC available to US users 30 Jul
Pro Nearly a quarter of companies integrating GenAI into operations finds Capgemini report Survey of 940 organisations finds significant uptake of AI compared to 2023 29 Jul
Life Actors strike over AI threat in video games Unions call for similar terms that ended Sag-Aftra action 26 Jul
Life OpenAI unveils search feature to challenge Google’s dominance Search giant's shares tumble 3% on back of new product announcement 26 Jul
Radio Still CrowdStricken More fallout from last week's disaster and some unexpected results for Alphabet and Tesla 26 Jul
Pro Demand for AI professionals up 142% in six months Accenture analysis says data, AI account for nearly 42% of tech talent pool 23 Jul
Life Meta halts AI features in EU due to privacy rules The tech giant pauses AI development in Europe over regulatory concerns 19 Jul
Life British government pledges to regulate powerful AI models The UK government’s new legislative agenda includes proposed rules for powerful AI models, with experts divided on the urgency of implementing new... 19 Jul
Pro Analyst: Generative AI is a tax on software development A new spending forecast from Gartner says the technology is generating revenue, but much of it is going into the coffers of AI model providers 18 Jul
Blogs Investors warned of AI bubble Investment bank Goldman Sachs has poured cold water on AI, saying claims for it are “unlikely to hold up”, writes Jason Walsh 11 Jul
Life Cloudflare identifies Web’s hungriest large language models ByteDance the busit of tech giants when it comes to AI training but for what purpose remains to be seen 9 Jul
Life YouTube introduces policy to remove AI-generated content Policy change to address rise in deepfakes 8 Jul
Blogs Google’s outsized emissions remind us of the real nature of the Internet The tech giant’s growing environmental impact is a problem for everyone, says Jason Walsh 5 Jul
Life Meta puts AI plans in Europe on hold GDPR concerns over training data access stall rollout 3 Jul
Trade Better Futures secures €500k in pre-seed funding Start-up working on virtual assistants for engineers 27 Jun
Pro Fifth of Irish businesses creating new jobs to handle impact of AI International survey shows organisations keen to scale deployments 27 Jun
Life OpenAI delays release of voice chatbot as lawsuits lurk around the corner Security cited as reason for pause in feature rollout 27 Jun
Pro Job candidates want to know if AI have been used to assess job applications – report Hays Ireland survey finds applicants using AI to tailor CVs to specific positions 26 Jun
Trade Learnosity announces major AI investment and workforce expansion in Dublin Twenty jobs to be created under AI Labs initiative 25 Jun
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