AI: Artificial intelligence

Firms tend to issue stock when they think it’s expensive and repurchase when it’s cheap. That’s not what’s happening now

Niclas Mårtensson says roads around Rosslare Europort are not suitable for heavy goods vehicles transporting goods from exporters

Teachers are wearily getting on with the reformed Leaving Cert, but there are some things they just can’t do – like stopping students cheating

Parents and schools are working together to impose community-wide bans on smartphones until their children reach certain ages

Economist Nouriel Roubini’s surprisingly positive take on US economy is based on the notion that tech trumps tariffs

Brussels expected to announce investigation in coming days in its latest challenge to big tech

People thought Furbys were spying on them, but today’s AI-powered toys may not be all that innocent

Number of companies expecting to increase R&D spend over the next year rose by a third after budget increase in tax credit

Examinaite already has 1,000 users and plans UK expansion after strong early growth

British Medical Journal article cites security and privacy breaches as another risk posed by tech

Watchdog cites need to combat ‘extremely challenging and (unfair) narrative’ that it was soft on Big Tech

Study from PwC calls on firms to move beyond pilot programmes and roll out wider use of new technology

Nasry Asfura, a conservative favoured by the US president, holds slim advantage over rivals

Productivity gains from technology are spurring debate about reliance on large numbers of junior advisers

If I wanted your tedious advice on how to do the simplest thing online, I would have asked for it

The pendulum has swung again, with Apple recently climbing back to the point where it was within reach of Nvidia’s valuation

James Reed warned vacancies ‘haven’t even hit rock bottom yet’, but impact is being felt

Few corporate records come close, and the scale of Cook’s achievement makes Apple’s succession process a delicate one

Facebook parent company seeking about 400 redundancies with area of content moderation likely affected

More than $1tn has been wiped off the combined $3.2tn crypto market in recent weeks and analysts think it could fall another 20%

Huge improvements in the decades since are a reminder that even really knotty problems can get better

Country head says artificial intelligence and digital skilling in the economy critical to making sure Ireland is competitive on global level

Alibaba and ByteDance shift development to south-east Asia to sidestep US curbs

Company, which is celebrating 40 years here, initially established a presence in Dublin with an operation of fewer than 100 people

Established browsers are looking to retain their advantage as new challengers enter the market, but security remains a big issue

Despite record expansion and growing ambition in the continent, the US is surging ahead again

Son says his father was ‘groomed’ by fraudsters who conned him three separate times and called him daily

Chipmaker hit by $200bn sell-off

European Union needs cheaper energy, more uniform regulation, and an integrated capital market to channel risk, ECB president says

We missed the chance to shape social media before it shaped us – with AI there will be no second bite of the cherry

AI valuations look very stretched. But historically, markets that are worried about being in a bubble tend not to be, according to new study

US boycott and Ukraine talks deflected attention from Cyril Ramaphosa’s agenda

The more advanced our technologies become, the more effectively they channel primordial desires, terrors, delusions

“If England concludes expanding coursework is unsafe, why is Ireland going down this path?”

Markets appear to be increasingly wary of big AI promises unsupported by cash flow or path to profitability

Dublin market lagged behind neighbouring markets

Luke Barrington heads up Google Earth AI, which is working on a better way to map natural disasters

Hopsworks founder Jim Dowling followed the example set by Chris Horn in moving innovation from academia into the business world

Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

Chips giant to report financial performance in the face of market ‘angst’ about an AI bubble