Companies rethinking approach of pushing staff to just use AI more
Incentives to use new tools are changing as costs start to hit home
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European shares rise as earnings offset Middle East worries
Indices advance despite escalating tensions in the region and uncertainty over US interest rates
E-scooters: What is available to buy and how difficult will the new rules be to enforce?
Amazon and AliExpress stopped selling vehicles not in compliance with speed limits but fast models remain on sale elsewhere
Computing giants ‘pivoting away’ from ‘constrained’ Dublin as data centre hub
Market here being ‘reshaped by power availability, grid access and political sensitivities’
Lorry driver who imported more than €1m of cannabis through Dublin Port is jailed
‘It’s all mine,’ he told gardaí after 50kg haul was detected
Airbus digital contract award highlights risks for Irish tech sector
Issues now around American authorities having access to data held by US tech companies, even if its located in Dublin or other European cities
Google burns through $6bn in cash as AI spending climbs again
Search giant says it will commit up to $205bn to AI investments in 2026
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in talks to join consortium seeking 30% stake in Liverpool
Billionaire keen to be part of Amit Bhatia’s £1.35bn bid
Why Ukraine is targeting Russia’s answer to Amazon
Online retailer Wildberries has had four of its logistics hubs struck in the past week
Oil tankers reverse course as Yemen’s Houthis open new front in US-Iran war
Washington continues attacks on Gulf nation with Tehran launching strikes at US sites in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan
The market is learning that the magnificent seven are no longer one
Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla are now behaving like separate companies
Looking for an e-reader that isn’t Kindle? Here’s an alternative from the ‘Amazon of Japan’
The Kobo Libra Colour has 32GB of storage, which can hold about 24,000 ebooks, 150 audio books or a mix of the two
Sony’s PS3 closure raises a big question: who actually owns the games you buy?
Consumers buying a range of digital media are discovering that continued access is far from certain
Not so magnificent: the mag seven become the lag seven
Microsoft has seen especially heavy falls, shedding a fifth of its value in June
Elle on Prime Video: 1990s nostalgists will find lots to admire but are they the target audience?
This Legally Blonde prequel raises all sorts of questions – to which there are no obvious answers
Everything you need to know about the new €3 customs charge
From Wednesday, an order of three items from outside the EU will become at least €9 more expensive
New €3 charge means online shopping is now a lot more expensive
From July 1st, an order of three items from outside the EU will become at least €9 more expensive
Trump rekindles his global trade war with 100% tariff threat on European countries
US president says he will ‘immediately’ place tariff on any country that imposes digital services tax on US companies
When the Revolution Comes: Exposing corporate America’s skulduggery
Modern-day Grapes of Wrath describes how Chris Smalls set out to unionise Amazon warehouse workers
Zara billionaire Ortega’s Irish property assets hit €324m
The fashion mogul’s real estate investment firms in Ireland swung into profit last year
Amazon backs AI start-up developing models to simulate physical world
Company joins investment arms of Nvidia and AMD in €267m funding round for Odyssey ML
Facing redundancy? Here are the smart money moves to make before you leave
Getting your finances in order is vital if you are looking at time unemployed
SpaceX leapfrogs Amazon to become world’s fifth-most valuable company
Elon Musk’s AI, rocket and satellite group also announces $60bn deal for AI coding app Cursor
Anthropic scrambles after Trump administration freezes its top AI models
Export controls on Fable and Mythos raise doubts over how US will police the most powerful AI systems
SpaceX is not just too big to fail. It is too essential to be allowed to
A firm that is a rocket-maker, broadcaster, chatbot and arm of the Pentagon is many things, but a foundation for national infrastructure is not one of them
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
June 7th to 12th highlights, including Backstory, Britney: In Ten Pictures, Total Football and Queen James
In a time of sky-high oil prices, should Ireland go nuclear?
Advocates say new, smaller reactors could deliver ‘abundant, cheap and clean power – the Holy Trinity’
Singapore mobilises international response over fears seabed becoming global battlefield
Underwater fibre-optic cables carry more than 95 per cent of intercontinental data traffic
007 First Light: Could the new James Bond from Greystones be exactly what the franchise needs?
Patrick Gibson, a former Gonzaga and Trinity College student, plays a grounded young Bond in a new video game
Data centre energy rules will boost green power development, says Amazon chief
Corporate deals will aid renewable projects raise the cash necessary to complete project development, conference told
AI is coming for tech jobs, but what will it mean for the Irish economy?
In the News podcast: Meta staff in Ireland face cull of 350 jobs and more firms may follow suit
Food for thought on data centres and their demands
Irish taxpayers and consumers seem to be subsidising big companies
I miss Daniel Craig already. Can the next James Bond really be Gen Z?
Amazon MGM Studios is searching for a young actor to take over as the spy
Artificial intelligence spells a real climate disaster
Despite the tech industry’s efforts to squash concern about the devastating climate impacts of AI, resistance is growing
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How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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