Taiwanese chip companies are expected to invest at least $250bn in the US. Read more: US, Taiwan agree to slash tariffs, boost US chip investments by $250bn
Ahead of a meeting with X today, Minister Niamh Smyth said she is confident that Ireland has adequate legislation in place to tackle the sharing of non-consensual sexualised images. Read more: Minister Smyth says laws adequate to tackle non-consensual Grok AI images
With applications for the BioInnovate programme closing on February 4, we speak to its executive director Prof Martin O’ Halloran about the Stanford-affiliated initiative. Read more: BioInnovate on the look out for Irish medtech innovators

Having spoken at the end of 2025 to a number of legal tech law firms leaders about their predictions for this year, Legal IT Insider has turned the microphone over to the vendor community, who have the advantage – albeit from their own lens – of deep insights gleaned from working with multiple private practice and in-house organisations. …
AICertified have said that the majority of global employers now regard artificial intelligence as critical to their strategy, yet skill investment lags behind adoption. Read more: Irish edtech ‘creating global standard’ for AI skills secures €1m
Research from The Conference Board highlights the challenges and opportunities for employees all across Europe. Read more: Ireland in top 3 of best European countries in which to hire, says report
Luna plans to sell its first consumer cycling product, a rear-facing AI camera device paired with a smartphone app. Read more: Dublin’s Luna bags €1.5m to bring its AI safety camera to market
Equal1 is behind Ireland’s first home-grown quantum processing unit, Bell-1, launched last March. Read more: Irish start-up Equal1 raises $60m to deploy its quantum tech
Elon Musk’s xAI has finally bowed to international pressure and blocked Grok from creating the sexualised images which have flooded the X platform in recent weeks. Read more: Musk’s xAI bows to pressure and blocks Grok from ‘nudifying’ images
According to Amazon Web Services, the European Sovereign Cloud will be ‘physically and logically separate’ from other AWS regions. Read more: AWS expanding in Belgium, Netherlands and Portugal, amid sovereign cloud launch