Apple brings Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s Babel fish to life, sort of
Live translation feature on AirPods promises on-device translation into audio for the user
AI: Artificial intelligence
Real reviews, not robots: Irish start-up Marker Video takes on AI ads
Greta Dunne’s platform sells short, authentic product clips from everyday consumers to brands hungry for trust
Kingspan spinout a big bet on the biggest bet in the history of bets
Kingspan’s Advynsys is riding the AI bubble but for how long?
Google brings AI Mode search feature to users in Ireland
Tech giant rolls out new search system using Gemini AI model
Tron Ares review: Great music, but it is deja vu all over again for sequel nobody wants
Fabulous styling and camera work cannot save drama about AI program that wants to become human – just like Pinocchio did
Women and hybrid workers face more obstacles to promotion, data shows
Men consistently advance faster than women, with 10% of men promoted within 65 months, compared to 74 months for women
Tilly Norwood, the AI ‘actor’, has got Hollywood alarmed
If you make the whole world run by fakes and simulations, everybody becomes increasingly more dysfunctional
Tilly Norwood, the AI actor with a hint of Meghan Markle
Reaction from industry professionals demonstrates how enormously jumpy everyone is about the threat
New crime fiction: From a strong Michael Connelly work to a darkly funny Finnish road trip
The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly; Silent Bones by Val McDermid; Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson; The Knives by Sean Phillips and Ed Brubaker; The Winter Job by Antti Tuomainen
Kieran Cuddihy hosts a zinger of a presidential debate. Just not the one you saw on TV
Radio: Newstalk host has lively exchanges on ballot papers, while Séan Moncrieff gets scientific and saucy
Gen Z want managers to change the way we work
Young people value physical and mental health and personal development over career advancement according to recent reports
AI is smart, just don’t ask it to speak the Irish language
Chatbots inability to grasp Irish underscores gaps in AI systems
Longford start-up wants to be small firms’ digital marketing secret weapon
Reactable AI promises SMEs the tools to compete with big brands without the big budgets
Smurfit alumni see 91 per cent increase in salaries within three years
Ireland’s top-ranking MBA programme develops future leaders with targeted career development and skills across sustainability, AI and emerging business topics
AI a potential career driver, but access remains uneven, survey says
More than 60 per cent of workers say they want structured artificial intelligence training to speed up adoption
Elon Musk hit by exodus of senior staff over burnout and politics
Churn at Tesla and xAI comes amid disillusionment with billionaire’s activism, strategic pivots and mass lay-offs
Avoiding the temptation to replace journalists with AI is crucial for news media
Publishers are feeding press releases into large language models that churn out hundreds of finished stories
Going to hell in a handcart pushed by sentient AI: Time to act, or fold by default
‘An Armageddon is coming. Artificial intelligence will turn on us, inadvertently or nonchalantly’
AI analysis finds €81,000 painting dismissed as copy is a work of Caravaggio
Testing determines 85.7% probability that work, entitled The Lute Player, is an original by Italian master painter
Kingspan chases Magnificent Seven energy with plan to float unit riding on AI boom
Close to $7 trillion will need to be spent on data centres globally by 2030
There is too much content, too much culture - and that’s just the stuff made by us humans
It’s time someone invented a slop filter
Dr Bot: Why doctors can fail us, and how AI could save lives - but is a chatdoc the medic for you?
The recent underwhelming launch of the latest OpenAI iteration, GPT-5, suggests progress with chatbots is slowing
Accenture to ‘exit’ staff who cannot be retrained for age of AI
Dublin-based group details $865m restructuring programme and outlook reflecting sluggish corporate demand for consulting projects
Top companies keep talking about AI – but can’t explain the upsides
Analysis of hundreds of filings suggest the S&P 500 businesses are clearer about the risks than benefits
Is sovereign AI the answer for Ireland?
Countries are increasingly looking to retain control over sensitive data rather leave it in the hands of private operators driven by profit
AI begins to bite: Recruiters attribute a slump in professional services hiring to job automation
We have long been told that AI will create more jobs than it destroys, but will these optimistic predictions come to pass?
Meet the philosopher who thinks AI ought to have the same moral rights as humans
Unthinkable: Better start sucking up to your microwave
Students’ complicated relationship with AI: ‘Avoiding using it probably put me at a bit of a disadvantage’
As students get stuck into the academic year, there are strong feelings about whether artificial intelligence should play a role in their education
AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities
Large language models reflect biases that can lead to inferior healthcare advice to female, Black and Asian patients
Meta unveils new smart Ray-Ban glasses with augmented reality display
Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg showed off three new pairs of smart glasses at Meta Connect
John von Neumann: Computer wizard and AI visionary
That’s Maths: Einstein said von Neumann was ‘one of the most agile minds that ever graced Princeton’
Tech titan Larry Ellison: ‘No one else has prospered in Silicon Valley for 50 years’
At 81, Oracle’s co-founder has reinvented himself as a power in AI to become (briefly) the richest person in the world
Ireland’s data centre appeal ‘fading’ due to pressure on electricity grid, report says
Government reforms to sector likely to lead to short-term reliance on fossil fuels, Barclays finds
Google to invest £5bn to boost AI development in UK
Spending will cover DeepMind and AI research related to science and healthcare
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