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Concern about impact of climate change falls sharply among Irish business leaders
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Majority of workers find AI positive, survey finds
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Seán Moncrieff’s on-air persona cracks, and a dishwasher meltdown follows
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The release of DeepSeek’s new model has shaken assumptions about who has the upper hand in developing the technology
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Dublin and Belfast company plans to increase workforce by a fifth amid demand for services
Irish schools struggling without guidance on safe AI use in the classroom
Mandatory training for teachers under EU law may be a challenge due to limited budgets and time constraints
Irish law firm Mason Hayes & Curran increases fee income to €122m
Company chief Will Carmody targets similar rate of growth for 2025 in bid to compete with big firms in Irish market
Nvidia’s painful Deepseek lesson: even disruptors get disrupted
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All change in the briefing room, as White House holds space for influencers and content creators
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The giant machine for plagiarism is now complaining that it has been plagiarised. Oh, the irony
DeepSeek may have been trained on OpenAI’s own software, it is claimed, but it sounds like fair use to me
Microsoft, Meta defend hefty AI spending after DeepSeek stuns tech world
Massive spending ‘key’ to staying competitive, tech companies say
Irish space race: domestic companies pushing the frontiers of AI, space stations and acoustic technology
Ubotica, Skytek and Lios are getting exciting projects off the ground
IT consultancy Auxilion to invest €10m as it plots UK expansion
Separately, catering and facilities management group Mount Charles plans to create 2,000 jobs
What is DeepSeek and why did it send global markets into meltdown?
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Free expression and privacy rights may not stop workers being dismissed over social-media posts - internet law experts
Personal opinion disclaimers on employee’s own social-media accounts ‘have zero value’
Trump’s tech bros face comeuppance amid DeepSeek panic
There is poetic justice in a small Chinese AI start-up challenging US giants. Washington is shooting itself in the foot with chip export restrictions and clampdown on tech talent visas
Tech stocks edge higher after Wall Street rout over DeepSeek fears
Nvidia shares steady following plunge sparked by Chinese AI start-up’s advances
Is DeepSeek any good? We road test the new Chinese AI technology
Ciara O’Brien road tests the new Chinese AI technology that wiped billions off the value of Big Tech companies on Monday
Why is Deepseek, a little-known Chinese AI start-up, causing waves in the tech world?
Chinese start-up upends global AI race
DeepSeek: US firms praise disruptive AI chatbot, try to poke holes in it
Chinese startup sparks a stock selloff and its free AI assistant overtakes OpenAI’s ChatGPT in Apple’s App Store
Remote and hybrid working job offers hit a record high last year
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What Ireland can learn from Finnish schools in tackling disinformation
The Nordic country is helping students learn about spotting false information. Is there space in the Irish curriculum to do the same?
Apple investors turn jittery as earnings loom
Concern about slow sales in China and roll-out of company’s AI system
Paschal Donohoe: As international risks heighten we must continue to run budget surpluses
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OpenAI struggles to price Microsoft stake in deal to become for-profit company
ChatGPT-maker in complex talks over splitting from its non-profit arm in move opposed by Elon Musk
Toyota turns up at Las Vegas electronics show CES not with a car but with a new city
First residents of the car maker’s Woven City, near Tokyo, will move in this year. The company views it as an experiment and a start-up hothouse
Digital garden planners are like spades — powerless unless masterfully steered by a human
AI garden-planning programs can be useful tools, but they can’t replace human imagination, experience — and the instinct to go rogue
Most secondary teachers will struggle to authenticate students’ work under Leaving Cert reforms, survey finds
Exam integrity will be compromised by access to artificial intelligence tools, ASTI says
AI to be used to examine CCTV for images of Noah Donohoe leaving home, court hears
Noah Donohoe was found dead in a storm drain in Belfast in June 2020 – six days after he went missing
‘We’re not going back to a world before AI’: how technology is changing the classroom
Teachers are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence – and navigating its pitfalls – with the help of new courses
Squid Game or Sweden? The choice Ireland faces as Donald Trump takes office
Unthinkable: Irish economic policy was once framed as ‘Boston or Berlin’ – our options today are much starker
Rich bosses’ isolation from poorer colleagues could come back to bite them
Wealthy managers are increasingly isolated from the less well-off at work and that’s not good news
‘Meta sees me as a golden goose.’ How Zuckerberg’s AI creations went rogue and gave the game away
Facebook and Instagram have pulled the plug on AI avatars Grandpa Brian and Liv but their successors will soon flood our lives with lies on a hitherto unimaginable scale
AI in the office: Trust gap with staff is a big hurdle for companies
In banking and insurance, 50% of the work that gets done today could actually be executed and completed by technology on its own, Accenture says
Brian Eno: ‘I don’t like being admired, being revered. That makes me feel very uncomfortable’
Eno, who has worked with everyone from Bowie to Coldplay, discusses his new book with Bette Adriaanse, the use of AI in art and his idea of ‘scenius’
Time to unfriend? Lawyer responds to Meta’s ‘descent’
Mark Lemley will stay on Facebook, he says. But there are other things he can do to salve his conscience
Nuclear comes back into fashion as AI and data centres manage their energy challenge
Cloud providers are interested in the potential of miniature nuclear reactors but they come with risks as well as potential
Amazon races to transplant Alexa’s ‘brain’ with generative AI
Rollout of upgraded voice assistant hit by delays as Big Tech group struggles to overcome technical hurdles
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