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Irish-language schools may be faced with an impossible choice: embrace second-rate AI or forgo the potential benefits of automation

Anthony McLoughlin and start-up Better Futures have set out to build a bridge to make it easier and cost-effective for engineers to identify how AI could improve what they do

Tech giant struggles to marry user privacy and data control with access to a locked-down cloud environment when required

This lifting of the barrier for AI in the art and entertainment industries might sound exciting for some, but for others the developments are setting off alarm bells

The Oxford professor of composition’s long use of artificial intelligence in her work makes her a good judge of its merits and its dangers

The chatbot takes mere seconds to come up with its versions of these bestselling authors’ work. How convincing are they?

Q&A: Apple unveiled its new AI this week. But what does it mean for end users?

Price gained 7.3 per cent, a first record high for the year and after an initial lukewarm reaction from investors

Artificial intelligence, new updates for iPad, iPhone and Mac - but no new hardware

If the postwar computer scientists who conceived of AI had chosen a different name such as ‘applied statistics’, we would be spared a lot of confusion

IPhone maker has been under pressure to match the likes of Microsoft in new technology

Study says conference call ‘noise’ can make it tougher to identify companies with good or bad news

Company partners with Sam Altman’s OpenAI

Sarah Friar to lead financial function after spell as NextDoor chief executive

Intel’s shares have lost more than half their value in recent years

But students cheating on essays is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to artificial intelligence and plagiarism

Google and OpenAI unveiled new tools to bring ‘intelligent systems’ a step closer. Will this be a milestone for generative AI?

More than two-thirds report using AI tools, with almost half using ChatGPT for school-related tasks

Zhipu AI, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and 01.ai lead pack of more than 260 firms challenging US rivals such as OpenAI and Anthropic

The likely message from the leading companies is: be patient

Students who outsource their thinking to AI tools pose a risk to future employers and more

Exam reform is badly needed. But not like this, with vague learning outcomes and too much scope for use of ChatGPT

Tech giant has been scrambling to respond to ChatGPT’s quick answers to questions, threatening traditional search engine links and advertising

Watered down legislation still puts Europe ahead on regulating AI but enforcement could be held back by technological gaps

Legislation would ban detection of emotions in workplaces and schools, and limit use in areas such as sorting job applications

Suit alleges the start-up’s original mission to build AI systems for the benefit of humanity has been compromised

Plus: Libel lawyer Paul Tweed’s mystery High Court action and sports agent Conor Ridge’s bid for solace

The Achilles heel of generative AI is its pervasive tendency to spoof. This is giving rise to mind-bending legal issues - along with complaints from authors and artists

Travel sector hopes generative AI can offer customers the best of the traditional agent model and the modern do-it-yourself approach

Sue Duke on dealing with lay-offs and the importance of good communication

Despite the cynicism, Davos remains the biggest meeting of business and politics anywhere in the world

Sustainable barbecues, parallel parking tech and hydrogen-powered Hyundais also feature at the Las Vegas tech toy show

Interview: the relentlessly positive former teacher is upbeat in the face of challenges such as culture wars, Leaving Cert reform and teacher shortages

An obsessive viewer surveys a year of ups and downs and finds there was an awful lot that was worth watching

TV review: What makes it to the screen is equal parts twee and hellish – it is telling just how much AI still gets wrong

While rivals race to add AI capabilities to products, AWS focuses on making it easier and more secure for firms to integrate it into workflows

The writer, who is giving this year’s TS Eliot lecture at the Abbey Theatre, on scientific advances’ ramifications for art, literature and the human race

Negotiators have agreed to a set of controls for generative artificial intelligence tools

Tech advances are nearing a crisis point, with big implications for how we live our day-to-day lives