Why don’t Irish people want to be Dublin Bus drivers any more?
Irish people’s expectations for their jobs have changed, but AI is set to disrupt what they perceive as normal
AI: Artificial intelligence
TikTok offering redundancy agreements amid plans to cut about 300 jobs at Dublin office
Social media giant to offset job losses with creation of 320 new posts, but about 300 workers to go overall
Bytes and Bullets: Study of AI arms race is meticulously researched and deeply disturbing
Steve Feldstein charts global technological-military rivalry whose implications are not fully understood
Stripe agrees more than $7bn deal to buy AI firm OpenRouter
Deal would give Irish-founded Stripe a stronger footing in the fast-growing artificial intelligence sector
Why you should quit the coding job and retrain as a philosopher for hire
US philosophy graduates are more likely to have jobs than their computer science peers
The Danube ran dry, and revealed an overblown metaphor
Its water levels have sunk so low that dozens of wrecked Nazi warships have been exposed. It’s hard not to see this as an extreme metaphor
Welcome to silly season, starring Dobby, James Bond, Count Binface and Brian May
One can hardly imagine a better example of a mid-August story than this week’s report poking fun at Harry Potter fans
‘You very rarely get home properly’: Two Irish managers on the realities of a precarious profession
Conor Hourihane and Joe Dunne detail the extraordinary pressures of patrolling the sidelines – and what makes it all worthwhile
Antique furniture adds personality to new homes – and auctioneers are using AI to show it
Bray auction house is catering for a younger clientele in newly built residential developments
Computer-generated corners? Robot caddies? As sport embraces AI, nothing is ridiculous
From soccer and GAA to baseball and Formula One, teams are exploring how artificial intelligence can improve decision-making - and trying to decide where boundaries should be set
China appears to have saved us from a global recession
Beijing’s decision to slash oil imports has kept a lid on prices, avoiding a wider economic fallout
Oliver Callan learns about keening: ‘They’d pull out hair, rip clothes, reveal their breasts’
Radio: Haunting radio on RTÉ, while Anton Savage’s guest warns against retinal burns and Claire Brock talks soft-launches
Freeze minimum wage until 2030, urges business advisory group
In budget submission, Azets also calls on Government to introduce €5bn investment fund for small business
Ireland’s tech workers are learning the hard way about the risks of our economic model
Jobs losses are accelerating with more AI-related cuts on the horizon. But there are things we can do
How can a Belfast mural help explain failures of scholarly gatekeeping in the age of AI?
Generative AI has changed the economics of academic paper mills – businesses that manufacture studies, fabricate data, and sell completed papers to researchers
Inside Intel: how America’s chip champion came back from the brink
The group’s shares have quadrupled, but it has yet to prove itself a serious manufacturing competitor to Taiwan’s TSMC
Who are BMC: the low profile Meath business that landed a €900m pay day?
Founder Brendan Meehan the dominant shareholder in engineering company transformed by demand for data
Women continue to bear the brunt of bad tech decisions
Meta’s smart glasses are just the latest example of technology being used in ways developers should have anticipated
Google unveils AI-enhanced Pixel 11 phones and new wearables
Company looks to win over consumers to its devices by touting the benefits of the advanced technology
OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves start-up less than a year after joining
Chloé Bakalar’s departure is one of several high-profile exits at the group in recent weeks as safety concerns mount
China’s clean-energy gamble is paying off
As disruption in Strait of Hormuz rattles energy markets, Beijing’s long push towards electrification is cushioning the impact and reshaping global power
Of course Hollywood is dying. It’s been dying for nearly 80 years
AI is cited as the latest threat to Hollywood’s survival, yet box office revenues are at record levels
The Irish Times view on AI regulation: Ireland is spreading the burden widely
Ireland has adopted a distributed regulatory model with 15 national competent authorities
Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Galway exit packages, and SMEs and AI
The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk
A ‘bananas’ order for 5,000 obscure titles from a bookshop in Galway fuels suspicion
Independent retailers are receiving vast orders for obscure titles, fuelling suspicions that AI companies are quietly building the next generation of chatbots
Children’s cute job hopes look unattainable, but they are still worth encouraging
In a world of AI and uncertainty over future careers, we should still encourage our children to aim for the stars
Ireland needs to widen scope of the R&D tax credit to attract more investment
Government should ease restrictions on accessing the incentive
Fewer than one in five small firms have built AI into their business models, survey finds
The Small Firms Association said a ‘significant gap’ remains between basic usage and strategic adoption
Ireland should invest in drones, not fighter jets and ships, says ex-British security official
Many European states face huge legacy issues because they have invested in military equipment now increasingly threatened by cheap, deadly drones
If Elon Musk is right and AI makes jobs extinct, what will we do with our free time?
Humans have three things the multibillionaire’s machines will never have
Evie Gaughan: AI companies are missing the entire point of writing or reading a book
There is a visceral sense of betrayal when it becomes clear we are being convinced to accept slop and be okay with it
Snap happy: Irish photographers on the story behind their favourite photographs
From supermodels to scenes of everyday life – powerful images chosen by those who captured them
A stranger knocked on my door because she heard I had a baby... she thought we could be friends
In a world where isolation and loneliness are on the rise, I’m lucky to have ‘mom friends’
I have yet to be convinced that the current zeal for AI is anything more than a bubble
I have yet to be convinced that the current zeal for AI is anything more than a bubble
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