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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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Cybersecurity

E253 How Business Leaders Can Defend Against Faster Attacks with Microsoft Ireland’s David Keddy

Welcome to episode 253 of the AI Ireland podcast, the show that explores the applications and research of Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence on the island of Ireland. Our mission is to increase the use of AI for the benefit of our society, our competitiveness and everyone living in Ireland. Today’s guest is […]

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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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Data Governance

E252 How Businesses Can Build Trustworthy and Responsible AI with Disseqt AI’s Cyril Treacy

Welcome to episode 252 of the AI Ireland podcast, the show that explores the applications and research of Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence on the island of Ireland. Our mission is to increase the use of AI for the benefit of our society, our competitiveness and everyone living in Ireland. Today’s guest is […]

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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 […]