The Irish Times view on the AI Summit: who controls the machines?
The questions raised by the acceleration of the technology are real, serious and potentially existential
AI: Artificial intelligence
AI firms should ‘sell solutions’ rather than ‘fear’, OpenAI executive tells Dublin summit
Cybersecurity could be future growth driver for OpenAI, executive tells tech summit in Dublin
Tech leaders outline AI dangers and opportunities at Dublin summit
Recent incidents ‘early warning shots’ of tech’s potential for harm, says Google DeepMind co-founder
Microsoft president Brad Smith: Ireland is ‘well-positioned for future of AI’
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AI will not bring about ‘displacement’ in public service, says Taoiseach
Martin urges critics of technology to focus on positives as he announces new forum on workplace effects
AI systems should adopt safety lessons from nuclear industry
Balance needs to be struck between regulation and opportunity, Google DeepMind chair says
Entry-level hiring in AI-augmented sectors drops by 16%
Latest Labour Market Pulse survey highlights risk posed by advent of new technology
Deaths in Waterford attack put focus on increase in drug-related intimidation
Inside Politics: Public sector workers strike, with Government and unions yet to agree on talks process
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta has reached AI ‘frontier’
Company is committed to further vast spending to challenge rivals
Will Dublin-headquartered Accenture survive or thrive in the age of AI?
The technology consultancy seeks to calm jitters with an investor day this week
Anthropic warns rogue AI agents may soon hijack your smart TV or oven
Claude maker suggests models could act as ‘worms’ in future cybersecurity threat
Childcare fees and the budget, and Patrick O’Donovan’s row with RTÉ
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Taoiseach to chair new Cabinet AI committee on regulation and impact of technology
Plans for new committee come as AI summit takes place in RDS as part of EU presidency
Dublin AI start-up Dubsof raises more than €5m in round led by BlueYard Capital
Tech entrepreneurs and execs, including Meta’s David Singleton and Dylan Collins, have backed the company
International Monetary Fund warns of AI-driven market correction in global economy
Annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank take place in Bangkok under the shadow of war and AI-driven investment
Workers as well as employers need to feel AI benefit, union leader tells conference
HSE’s AI strategy featured input from 30 organisations, but not one represented works, Callinan says
OpenAI to create 200 jobs in Dublin
This latest move will bring to 450 the number of roles OpenAI will have in Ireland
Cork scientist wins top international physics prize
Professor JC Séamus Davis honoured for pioneering work in quantum physics
‘A slow-moving tsunami’: IMF chief alarmed at AI threat to jobs and taxes
Georgieva warns technology risks tilting economy toward capital and away from labour
Tech company Tines to create 100 jobs in Ireland over two years and open new facility
More than half will be entry-level positions
AI being used by employers to more closely monitor their staff, Dublin conference hears
Moves are also afoot in some sectors, such as the legal profession, to ‘completely eliminate’ a lot of entry levels roles and work
No, you don’t need AI to read your child a bedtime story
Sam Altman’s self-satisfaction about utilising an LLM to raise his child wouldn’t even make the top 20 of his all-time nonsense
Irish AI firms raise €256m across 75 venture capital deals in 2026
Deal volumes and values ‘settling’ after bumper year in 2025
The signs are AI prefers AI-written CVs, and one law firm’s experience is revealing
The signs are that it does, and one law firm’s experience is revealing
Letters to the Editor, October 12th: On Wednesday’s strike, prisoner rehabilitation and growing fruit and veg
Government’s approach reflects ‘staggering disconnect from frontline realities’
More needs to be done to help home-grown companies scale and offset reliance on FDI
There are several ways Ireland can enhance its supports for indigenous private businesses
How much are we being watched in our everyday lives without realising?
How much are we being watched in our everyday lives without realising?
Never mind the ‘risk to humanity’, Anthropic’s IPO raises more prosaic concerns
Anthropic has plans to raise up to $100bn, part of a trend that could result in too much stock coming to market
Fontaines DC: ‘We just hang out with ourselves and don’t really interact as much with other people’
Conor Deegan and Tom Coll on Dopamine Chamber, which the band’s lead singer, Grian Chatten, says needed to be a ‘catastrophic warning’
What Should My Children Do? by Daniel Susskind: An optimistic book about AI
Susskind leans heavily on the analogy of the calculator as a disruptor to maths education
Ply by Hernan Diaz: Sci-fi thriller and philosophical treatise a marvel of breadth and concept
Multiple threads converge into a research-crammed, physics-dense exploration of consciousness and human essence
OpenAI tells investors revenue run rate is $20bn below earlier indication
The AI firm previously indicated its annualised revenue for September was $70 billion (€62.36 billion)
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