Bronto raises more than €12m in seed funding round
Irish-founded company is targeting log data market, an area it says has been ‘fundamentally broken’ by AI
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AI use by doctors brings ‘significant’ challenges, says Medical Council
Technology is increasingly being used across the health system, particularly in medical imaging and diagnostics
Cheating in college: notes, smart watches, whispering, ignoring the clock, and someone else sitting the exam
Cheating during exams is almost always pre-planned, and the means of cheating remain familiar
Carl Kinsella on living with OCD: ‘It’s like having a puppet regime installed in your head’
The columnist and author on relating more to Generation X than his own age group, taking extended breaks from everyday life, and his existential dread of tech billionaires
Artificial intelligence chatbots replacing India’s call-centre workers
‘All IT services will be replaced in the next five years ... it’s going to be pretty chaotic’
AI bubble warnings abound, but over-caution can be costly
History has been harsher on ‘sideline-sitters’ than on disciplined investors who resist temptation to jump in and out of the market
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Michael Connelly: ‘AI will change the world for the better, but what’s scary is the lack of foresight’
The crime novelist on the LA fires, his lack of interest in tracing his Irish roots, and why he has turned the Lincoln lawyer into ‘the Chevy Bolt barrister’
The Irish Times view on online fraud: vigilance is essential
A recent leak has laid bare how Irish contact datails are actively bought, sold and weaponised for investment fraud
The Irish Times view on data centres: how many is too many?
They are are putting a heavy strain on Ireland’s efforts to meet climate targets
In the age of conversational AI, ‘scholarly bullsh*t’ floats to the surface
ChatGPT may be a real ol’ charmer but one that can produce ‘pointless and unnecessary’ works
Irish people among international scammers’ most sought-after targets
Investment scam losses have increased by more than a fifth in last three months, Garda figures show
Dublin-based Microsoft engineer quits over tech giant’s links to Israeli military
Pro-Palestine group protests outside firm’s Leopardstown offices after software worker resigns
Ryanair flight attendant used alleged AI-generated legal papers in €170,000 discrimination claim, WRC hears
WRC cites ‘abuse of process’ as it dismisses case
‘Fifteen million billion operations a second’: Ireland secures new national supercomputer
CASPIr will enable participation at leading edge of AI revolution, says Minister
Workday to create 200 jobs in new Dublin AI hub
US technology giant will invest €175m in the city over the next three years
Government working on plan to use AI and apps to solve public sector issues
Oireachtas committee hears concept being envisaged could ultimately lead to the creation of exportable intellectual property
Construction ‘one of strongest performers’ in jobs market amid housing push
Hiring ‘buoyant’ for quantity surveyors, engineers, project managers and design staff
Meet classically trained musician Rick Beato - one of music’s most influential YouTubers
The classically trained musician who went from signing a record deal to reshaping his approach to the industry through teaching
Inside Intel’s big bet to save US chipmaking – and itself
Claims of a breakthrough at the chip company’s new Arizona facility will be tested by sceptical Big Tech customers
OpenAI’s network of deals is propping up the AI boom
Obvious risk is if ChatGPT growth falters, mutual benefit could flip into mutual impairment
Not even generative AI’s developers fully understand how their models work
Serious questions remain about what will happen if we do — and don’t — replicate human intelligence
Connolly keepie-uppies, Humphreys’s ‘quality videos’: The presidential social media battle
In online battle for support, Catherine Connolly is beating Heather Humphreys
‘AI will change the way we work. But it will take time, and then it will go fast’
State Street chief Ron O’Hanley believes AI will change the ‘nature of work for the positive’
Apple brings Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s Babel fish to life, sort of
Live translation feature on AirPods promises on-device translation into audio for the user
Real reviews, not robots: Irish start-up Marker Video takes on AI ads
Greta Dunne’s platform sells short, authentic product clips from everyday consumers to brands hungry for trust
Kingspan spinout a big bet on the biggest bet in the history of bets
Kingspan’s Advynsys is riding the AI bubble but for how long?
Google brings AI Mode search feature to users in Ireland
Tech giant rolls out new search system using Gemini AI model
Tron Ares review: Great music, but it is deja vu all over again for sequel nobody wants
Fabulous styling and camera work cannot save drama about AI program that wants to become human – just like Pinocchio did
Women and hybrid workers face more obstacles to promotion, data shows
Men consistently advance faster than women, with 10% of men promoted within 65 months, compared to 74 months for women
Tilly Norwood, the AI ‘actor’, has got Hollywood alarmed
If you make the whole world run by fakes and simulations, everybody becomes increasingly more dysfunctional
Tilly Norwood, the AI actor with a hint of Meghan Markle
Reaction from industry professionals demonstrates how enormously jumpy everyone is about the threat
New crime fiction: From a strong Michael Connelly work to a darkly funny Finnish road trip
The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly; Silent Bones by Val McDermid; Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson; The Knives by Sean Phillips and Ed Brubaker; The Winter Job by Antti Tuomainen
Kieran Cuddihy hosts a zinger of a presidential debate. Just not the one you saw on TV
Radio: Newstalk host has lively exchanges on ballot papers, while Séan Moncrieff gets scientific and saucy
Gen Z want managers to change the way we work
Young people value physical and mental health and personal development over career advancement according to recent reports
AI is smart, just don’t ask it to speak the Irish language
Chatbots inability to grasp Irish underscores gaps in AI systems
Longford start-up wants to be small firms’ digital marketing secret weapon
Reactable AI promises SMEs the tools to compete with big brands without the big budgets
Smurfit alumni see 91 per cent increase in salaries within three years
Ireland’s top-ranking MBA programme develops future leaders with targeted career development and skills across sustainability, AI and emerging business topics
AI a potential career driver, but access remains uneven, survey says
More than 60 per cent of workers say they want structured artificial intelligence training to speed up adoption
Elon Musk hit by exodus of senior staff over burnout and politics
Churn at Tesla and xAI comes amid disillusionment with billionaire’s activism, strategic pivots and mass lay-offs
Avoiding the temptation to replace journalists with AI is crucial for news media
Publishers are feeding press releases into large language models that churn out hundreds of finished stories
Going to hell in a handcart pushed by sentient AI: Time to act, or fold by default
‘An Armageddon is coming. Artificial intelligence will turn on us, inadvertently or nonchalantly’
AI analysis finds €81,000 painting dismissed as copy is a work of Caravaggio
Testing determines 85.7% probability that work, entitled The Lute Player, is an original by Italian master painter
Kingspan chases Magnificent Seven energy with plan to float unit riding on AI boom
Close to $7 trillion will need to be spent on data centres globally by 2030
There is too much content, too much culture - and that’s just the stuff made by us humans
It’s time someone invented a slop filter
Dr Bot: Why doctors can fail us, and how AI could save lives - but is a chatdoc the medic for you?
The recent underwhelming launch of the latest OpenAI iteration, GPT-5, suggests progress with chatbots is slowing
Accenture to ‘exit’ staff who cannot be retrained for age of AI
Dublin-based group details $865m restructuring programme and outlook reflecting sluggish corporate demand for consulting projects
Top companies keep talking about AI – but can’t explain the upsides
Analysis of hundreds of filings suggest the S&P 500 businesses are clearer about the risks than benefits
Is sovereign AI the answer for Ireland?
Countries are increasingly looking to retain control over sensitive data rather leave it in the hands of private operators driven by profit
AI begins to bite: Recruiters attribute a slump in professional services hiring to job automation
We have long been told that AI will create more jobs than it destroys, but will these optimistic predictions come to pass?
Meet the philosopher who thinks AI ought to have the same moral rights as humans
Unthinkable: Better start sucking up to your microwave
Students’ complicated relationship with AI: ‘Avoiding using it probably put me at a bit of a disadvantage’
As students get stuck into the academic year, there are strong feelings about whether artificial intelligence should play a role in their education
AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities
Large language models reflect biases that can lead to inferior healthcare advice to female, Black and Asian patients
Meta unveils new smart Ray-Ban glasses with augmented reality display
Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg showed off three new pairs of smart glasses at Meta Connect
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