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

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

Streaming the ceremony free and globally on the platform gives the Academy an opportunity to find new viewers

Anyone expecting a social media ban for Irish teenagers will be waiting and it’s not because we are bad parents 

Ireland is experiencing a significant rise in scam calls that appear to be coming from the UK, according to ComReg

Investigation is bloc’s latest challenge to US big tech companies

Questions that baffled search engine users included: what is 6/7, Dubai chocolate and how to spoil a vote

Whether you want to boost health and fitness, keep the kids busy or just upgrade your phone, there’s lots to choose from

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

Turnover largely static year-on-year

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

Chipmaker hit by $200bn sell-off

Growth driven by increased advertising revenue on YouTube and Google Search

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

Enterprise wary of upsetting social media giants by asked them to verify promoters of investment products on their platforms

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

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

Academic studies found that people who rely heavily on AI for tasks like writing generally perform worse than those who don’t

Tech giant aims to dismantle the ‘Lighthouse Enterprise’, which it claims has tricked 1mn victims out of $1bn

Tech giant is pushing to expand infrastructure

Organisers express hope for ‘rule by the people’, but speakers take more pessimistic line

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New charging process breaks the mould and is much faster but it does mean legacy accessories are now redundant

The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

AI integration has boosted Google search, which generated $56.6 billion in revenue

Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft divide the market over whether they can translate huge capital expenditure into income

Company is investing record amounts to try to push progress in AI

It seems to convey a sense of promises broken, not just in technology but in culture and politics too

Astatine secures planning permission for renewable energy infrastructure projects and is involved in the delivery and operation of these assets

The plan would involve Google providing cloud computing services to Anthropic

Snapchat among popular sites hit by outage

Concentration at the top is ‘extreme’, as the five largest S&P 500 stocks account for more than 25% of index’s value

In online battle for support, Catherine Connolly is beating Heather Humphreys

Serious questions remain about what will happen if we do — and don’t — replicate human intelligence

Wide choice of video doorbells, alarms, cameras and smart locks are now available to suit all budgets and make your home a tougher target

Latest addition to the fold-phone market has some impressive features

Tech giant rolls out new search system using Gemini AI model

Campaign history will be wiped out as providers of digital political ads press delete on their archives

Chatbots inability to grasp Irish underscores gaps in AI systems