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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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AI Office of Ireland: What the New Authority Means for Irish Businesses and the EU AI Act

Ireland has reached a significant milestone in its AI journey. The AI Office of Ireland (Oifig IS na hÉireann) has officially been established under the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Act 2026, with Paul Byrne appointed as its first Chief Executive Officer. The new Office will become the central coordinating authority responsible for implementing the EU […]

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Small Language Models (SLMs): Why Smaller is Better for Enterprise AI Cost and Control

Small Language Models (SLMs) cut AI costs by 80% while improving accuracy and compliance. Learn why enterprises are abandoning massive cloud models for specialised, localised AI. For years, the enterprise AI playbook rewarded only one metric: size. Companies raced to connect operations to massive, resource-heavy public cloud models, assuming bigger automatically meant better business value. […]

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E240 Ireland’s AI Opportunity Agents, Jobs & the Future of Work with Salesforce’s Mick Costigan

Welcome to episode 240 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 Board Governance: Why Your Company Needs a Dedicated Committee Now

Artificial intelligence is no longer managed quietly in IT departments. It’s a board-level strategic priority with immediate regulatory, financial and reputational consequences. However, many organisations still handle AI oversight by adding it to an already-overloaded audit or risk committee. Discussing AI for fifteen minutes per quarter means your board is governing blind, missing both critical […]

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Boards Audit Their Finances Independently. Why Not Their AI Strategy?

Before your board signs off the next AI budget, get the plan independently reviewed, the same way you would never accept unaudited accounts. Every board understands this principle for the numbers. Management prepares the accounts and an independent auditor checks them. Nobody calls that mistrus, it is simply good governance. Yet most boards approve AI […]