AI Ireland
Welcome to episode 236 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 guests are […]
Most companies now have AI pilots, but very few have AI in production. That gap is where advantage is won or lost. If your AI never leaves the lab, it never earns money and it never builds a moat. The decision for the CEO is simple to state and hard to do: stop counting pilots […]
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 […]
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 […]