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AI: Artificial intelligence
Bank of Ireland ‘accelerating’ AI’s role in fraud detection and financial guidance
Bank says generative artificial intelligence tool has identified €55m in potential tax refunds to customers since April launch
Human heart could hold key to energy efficiency
Small science can beat Big Tech at finding solutions to the real problems facing the planet
Concerns over living longer
I worry about a future full of people succumbing to senility in their 60s
Artificial intelligence can’t replace the benefits of nature intelligence
As AI changes what and how we learn, real world learning will grow in value
Merz hopes to cash in chips with Nvidia investments
Jensen Huang was guest of honour at the inaugural Invest in Germany event
What the Philip K Dickens is Marvel up to with VisionQuest?
Can the MCU’s latest TV offering match the depth of much-celebrated predecessor WandaVision?
AI start-up aims to cut assessment and feedback workload for educators
Irish education technology venture Diotima is preparing to bring its AI-powered assessment platform to market
‘Critical vulnerabilities’ found in computer code supporting up to 70% of internet
Websites worldwide pulled offline in effort to prevent cyberattacks on companies’ systems
‘Mania’ for adopting AI to cut costs poses long-term risks, Ibec chief warns
Profits could be diverted to the tech giants
Legal technology start-up Estatemin raises €1m in pre-seed funding
Irish-founded company is focused on US market
SpaceX and Tesla boards explore potential merger
Elon Musk says combining his two public companies would be a ‘good idea’ as the world approaches an AI singularity
Auto-enrolment changing pensions landscape as employers make schemes mandatory, says Ibec
Employers also increasingly requiring hybrid workers to attend office, according to survey
HR bosses predict AI will not cause ‘significant reduction’ in employee numbers
Quarter of HR specialists expect artificial intelligence will cause ‘minimal impact’ on workplace structures
Leaving Cert reforms too risky for student learning and teachers’ health
School labs lack adequate facilities for proposed physics, chemistry and biology studies to be done safely
I’ve been emailing obscure academics seeking radio interviews. Except I haven’t
I’ve been impersonated online, but how long before we can’t spot a fake?
Partita by Barbara Kingsolver: What keeps people from their birthright in beauty?
This story of aspiration, romance, disappointment and reconciliation drags in the middle
Live commerce platform Whatnot to double Irish workforce in 18 months
Company to expand European headquarters in Dublin
More than half of Irish business leaders worried over ‘sophisticated cyber attacks’ by AI
Artificial intelligence seen as a risk to firms, not a benefit, survey finds
Turnkey homes will no longer be bought by local authorities for social housing
Cabinet also to be briefed on planned Government apology for failings in Brian Stack murder investigation
China’s economic growth picks up but consumers prefer to save not spend
Helped by AI, China’s economy grew by 4.5% in the third quarter
The best and worst companies in Ireland for customer experience
While Irish companies overall seem to be doing better than counterparts abroad, there are recidivist offenders and a notable debutant on the naughty list
Irish firms lag behind global peers in managing cyber risk, PwC finds
Less than a fifth of Irish respondents strongly agree cybersecurity is integrated into overall risk management
‘Nobody ate, nobody drank’: Inside the strange culture of San Francisco’s AI boom
Soaring wealth, rising rents and widening social divides are changing the city again
Who was George Gabriel Stokes? The Irish mathematician whose 180-year-old puzzle has AI giants at war
OpenAI claims to have found proof of Sligo scientist’s equations but tech rivals are less than impressed
Ireland can capture the AI dividend while mitigating the risks
The IDA’s role is to work with the 1,800 multinationals already here to expand their mandates and attract the next generation of AI investment
AI fever is producing some strange symptoms
Some AI researchers reported to have taken up smoking to show conviction that AI will cure cancer
How HR teams are combatting AI and other security threats in recruitment process
Fraudulent use of AI in the jobs process is forcing the warm and fuzzy realms of the former to work with the suspicious minds of the latter
Gulliver’s Travels at 300: Did Jonathan Swift predict AI?
Satirical masterpiece has been irresistible to illustrators, abridgers and adaptors since its sensational arrival - and its lessons on human nature remain prescient
AI ecosystem may be booming but at what cost?
The technology’s threat to junior positions could lead to companies creating their own future skills gap
Elif Shafak: ‘This is the age of anger, anxiety, and AI’
The author reimagines Gustave Flaubert in her new novel, asking what literature can offer us in a time of war, political upheaval and uncertainty
The Last Good Day on the Internet, and The Internet We Could Have Had: How it started vs how it’s going
Books by Mark Little and Christopher M Kelty take radically different approaches to the web’s lost promise
‘Hands off’: Brazilians protest outside Meta in Dublin over claims of election bias
Brazil’s top electoral court ruled on Thursday Meta must adopt measures to immediately secure equal treatment of the two candidates
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