AI Ireland
Last week, Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business. It is a single toggle that puts Claude directly inside the everyday tools that small businesses already use. It ships with 15 ready-to-run workflows and 15 skills built for the jobs that pile up after hours: payroll, the monthly close, invoice chasing, campaigns and contracts. For Irish […]
AI literacy now sits beside financial literacy as a core director competency. Three forces in 2026 – budget exposure, EU regulation and a widening talent gap – have moved AI off the IT roster and onto the board agenda. Irish directors who cannot read an AI invoice, name their top three AI risks or assess […]
The European Union AI Act is no longer something organisations can treat as a future compliance problem. In 2026, the regulation is actively reshaping how businesses develop, deploy, procure and govern artificial intelligence across Europe and beyond. While many organisations focused on the initial headlines around banned AI systems and generative AI regulation, the real […]
Boards are now signing off on AI agents that touch customers, code, contracts and cash, but few of those agents have a proper harness around them. Harness engineering is the discipline that decides whether your AI investment becomes a competitive moat or a board-level liability. Treat it as a governance issue, not a developer issue. […]
Taylor Swift is using trademark law to protect her voice and image from AI cloning. This is not a celebrity story. It is a warning for every leader, every brand and every business that has a reputation worth protecting. What Is Actually Happening Taylor Swift has filed for three new trademarks in the United States. […]
Every time a leader opens a new AI tool, they re-explain who they are, what they do and how they like to work. This hidden cost is the Context Repetition Tax. The fix is a simple set of files we call The AI Context Blueprint. Write it once; reuse it everywhere. Boards and executive teams […]