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InsTech.ie’s CEO Gary Leyden explores the opportunities that AI presents to the Irish insurance industry. Read more: Opinion: The future of insurance is AI, so why the hesitation?
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AI rival Anthropic has also agreed to rent data centre capacity from CoreWeave. Read more: Meta to pay CoreWeave $21bn for additional cloud capacity
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Forrester’s research has shown that a failure to commit to long-term, inclusive AI education, can greatly impact an organisation. Read more: Investing in part of the workforce creates an AI skills gap, finds report

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In the Orange Rag newsletter out at the end of March, we featured our monthly product news table, incorporating the launches and updates of the past few weeks. A key theme that we see time and time again in new product launches at the moment is the continued “platformisation” of legal tech. Providers such…
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The nonprofit organisation will remain active on other social media platforms. Read more: Digital rights group EFF leaves X
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HappyHorse 1.0 shot up to the top ranks in the Artificial Analysis leaderboard. Read more: Alibaba leads $293m round in Chinese AI start-up after HappyHorse reveal
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Claude-creator Anthropic is considering designing its own chips, as advanced AI systems drive shortage, sources told Reuters. Read more: Anthropic reportedly mulls designing own chips amid shortage

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US enterprise marketing and content compliance startup Haast has raised $12m in Series A funding led by Peak XV Partners to scale its agentic flows, accelerate product development, and expand its global enterprise footprint. Haast, headquartered in New York, automates compliance reviews, reducing content review times by, it says, 80%. While AI has make…
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BearingPoint’s Karl Byrne, Holly Daly and Fiona Eguare discuss the effects of AI on software engineering and how it has affected graduates in particular. Read more: How are software engineering graduates adjusting to AI?

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The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has said that it is has not been able to meet its commitments on the time it takes to review complaints against barristers due to a significant increase in the volume and complexity of reports, with AI-generated reports a “contributing factor.” In the introduction to the BSB’s annual business…