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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The deal comes as both OpenAI and Cerebras are reportedly gearing up for fresh funding rounds. Read more: OpenAI inks AI chips deal with Nvidia challenger Cerebras
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From costing companies billions to becoming more autonomous, here’s what experts expect from agentic AI this year. Read more: Expectations from AI ramp up as investors eye returns in 2026
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In this second episode of The Inside View podcast, Legal IT Insider’s editor Caroline Hill and Pinsent Masons Vario‘s head of client development for flexible legal services, James Lewindon, chat about how in-house teams need to evolve in order to manage – and benefit from – younger, tech-savvy members of the team. Lewindon, who…
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LEAP will provide for green energy parks co-locating energy intensive industrial development with renewable energy supplied by private developers. Read more: Ireland hopes to grow data centre investments with new LEAP strategy