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AI Agents Shopping for Your Business: What Every CFO Must Decide

AI agents are beginning to change how businesses buy. They can research suppliers, compare quotes and prepare orders. With the right integrations and permissions, they can also complete purchases. For CFOs, this raises a practical question: What data, rules and spending limits should an AI agent have before it buys on the company’s behalf? Get […]

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Ireland’s AI Moment: Everything You Need to Know About the International AI Summit 2026

The International AI Summit 2026 brought approximately 1,500 leaders, policymakers, researchers and entrepreneurs to the RDS in Dublin to explore a central question: how can Europe turn its AI ambition into economic and societal impact? From the Taoiseach’s announcement of Ireland’s new Intelligence programme to contributions from Demis Hassabis, Brad Smith and Sarah Friar, the discussions […]

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AI Awards 2026 Finalists Announced

AI Ireland is delighted to announce the finalists for the Irish AI Awards 2026, recognising excellence, innovation and the real-world impact of artificial intelligence across a diverse range of industries. This year’s awards attracted 276 applications, highlighting the growing strength and ambition of Ireland’s AI ecosystem. From healthcare and cybersecurity to sustainability, education, financial services […]

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OpenAI’s AI Text Watermarking: What Irish Business Leaders Need to Know

Your team may soon paste text from ChatGPT into a customer proposal that carries an invisible signal of AI involvement. That signal will not tell you whether the proposal is accurate, who reviewed it or whether it should have been sent. Equally, the absence of a detected watermark does not prove that a human wrote […]

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OpenAI DevDay: Autonomous Agents, Enterprise Collaboration and What It Means for Ireland’s AI Ecosystem

OpenAI’s latest DevDay reinforced a significant shift in how businesses could use AI: from answering individual prompts to carrying out ongoing work across connected systems. For Ireland’s technology sector – from multinational employers in Dublin’s Silicon Docks to scaling SMEs and regional tech hubs – the implications extend beyond faster content creation. AI agents could […]

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AI Agent Security Has Become a Board-Level Issue

AI agents are beginning to change how organisations use Artificial Intelligence. Unlike a standard chatbot, an AI agent can be given a goal and allowed to complete a series of tasks. Depending on its permissions, it could search company systems, analyse documents, call software tools, update records or communicate with other services. This capability creates […]