AI Ireland
Most boards are still asking when AI agents will complement headcount. After six months of building with leaders across financial services, hardware and professional services, that is the wrong question. The right question is whether the business can govern a digital workforce that does not sleep, does not forget and does not always get it […]
In a significant move that has sent ripples throughout the tech industry, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, has announced plans to lay off around 20% of its Irish workforce. This decision, driven by Meta’s considerable investments in Artificial Intelligence, raises important questions about the future of work in an increasingly automated […]
The chatbots are officially retiring. If there was one definitive takeaway from Google I/O 2026, it is that the tech industry has breached a new frontier. We are moving rapidly past simple prompt-and-response text windows and entering the era of autonomous, background-running AI agents and multi-modal simulation. Google CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind CEO Demis […]
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 […]