AI: Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk-owned Grok app has been widely downloaded following news it could create illegal sexual images and videos

Funding and securing top talent will remain key challenges for start-ups and international expansion needs to be a focus from the off

EU executive tried to keep correspondence between union’s tech enforcer and US multinationals under wraps

Looking too far into the future can make fools of us, but data-centre power shortfall and social media regulatory wrangles lie ahead

Annora is tackling legacy software by rethinking how factories quote, price and sell

Exhibition features 550 projects that have reached the finals of the competition

Damage caused by US tariffs has so far been muted but that won’t last

The Protection of Voice and Image Bill would target AI deepfakes and identity ‘hijacking’

Cavan-based group will retain 100% ownership of Advnsys despite strong ‘investor appetite’

For an industry which seems to have taken so much of its business plan from science fiction fantasy novels and films, it seems to have forgotten the bit where humans turn-off the machines

Early Edition with Aideen Finnegan

Meta contractor announced 420 job losses last year but subsequently reduced that number

Technology’s implications for everything from education to dark matter feature in student studies

Regulator, Rape Crisis Ireland and civil liberties campaigners criticise generated images using Grok

Company also shows off new Rubin chip designed to fulfil AI requests more quickly and cheaply

New AI chip for laptops, Panther Lake, uses 18A next-gen manufacturing process

Greece Letter: As physical books give way to ‘multipurpose spaces,’ students and academics fear the loss of the university’s intellectual heart

Irish MEP calls on EU to investigate 'deeply disturbing' trend

Challenges to Google, Meta, Apple and X will test Brussels’ willingness to stick with digital rule book

How sounds, not signals, governs the world’s most chaotic traffic

Think of the movies Atlas or the deafeningly forgettable Red Notice

‘After a year of cautious pilots, 2026 will see the Irish public sector accelerate AI adoption, with healthcare at the forefront’

Manufacturers and analysts warn AI data centre build-out is crowding out market for semiconductors

Wind, solar, green hydrogen - every scalable option shown to work at reasonable cost is required

Roles in back and middle offices will bear brunt, analysts at Morgan Stanley predict

Valuations may be spectacular and a bust could come — but while there’s exuberance there is no mania or irrationality

Micheál Martin was told application had been rolled out to all secondary school students in Estonia ‘to complement the curriculum’

Global trade tensions and infrastructure issues could be inhibiting factors, KPMG says

‘Oral verification’ encouraged as way to make sure work has been done by students themselves

From the US economy to an AI-fuelled bubble, there are pressure points that could yet become global crises

Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

There is a sense of being caught between outdated structures and increasingly unstable new realities

The early modern Europeans had the printed book. We have videos of guys talking on podcasts

Decisions made today will have stark consequences in 25 years. A panel of experts offer their predictions on politics, health, housing, tech and more

The weird billionaires behind artificial intelligence are desperately trying to shoehorn AI chatbots into every bit of technology you own

This year has seen yet more companies leave the Irish stock market, including travel software group Datalex and hotel chain Dalata

Figure surpassing expectations was boosted by spending related to healthcare and artificial intelligence

If we can develop zero-emission data centres, Ireland will have an industrial skill the rest of the world needs

The Washington Post’s issues underline the problems of news personalisation

New community beds, acute beds and surgical hubs expected to be rolled out next year