The AI boom is not a bubble
Valuations may be spectacular and a bust could come — but while there’s exuberance there is no mania or irrationality
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YouTube rips up the script with Oscar coup
Streaming the ceremony free and globally on the platform gives the Academy an opportunity to find new viewers
Online child safety could prove a major test for EU in battle with Trump
Anyone expecting a social media ban for Irish teenagers will be waiting and it’s not because we are bad parents
Scam calls from UK +44 numbers in Ireland: Who is it and what should I do?
Ireland is experiencing a significant rise in scam calls that appear to be coming from the UK, according to ComReg
EU opens investigation into Google’s use of online content for AI models
Investigation is bloc’s latest challenge to US big tech companies
Storm Éowyn and how to pronounce it tops 2025 Google searches
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Gadget gifts for Christmas: Options for family (and friends) in our festive tech guide
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Meta’s ‘optional’ AI chatbot that you can’t disable
If I wanted your tedious advice on how to do the simplest thing online, I would have asked for it
Google’s surge shows how quickly AI narratives turn
The pendulum has swung again, with Apple recently climbing back to the point where it was within reach of Nvidia’s valuation
Irish company behind Google Play Store records €2.9 billion in income with no staff
Turnover largely static year-on-year
AI shakes up competition in the internet search market
Established browsers are looking to retain their advantage as new challengers enter the market, but security remains a big issue
Google Ireland pays out €4.5bn dividend as revenues rise 12%
Growth driven by increased advertising revenue on YouTube and Google Search
Ireland can’t credibly regulate AI while also living off Big Tech’s taxes
We missed the chance to shape social media before it shaped us – with AI there will be no second bite of the cherry
Government department fights move to clamp down on online fraud
Enterprise wary of upsetting social media giants by asked them to verify promoters of investment products on their platforms
Google’s gains and Meta’s woes show a more cautious AI market
Markets appear to be increasingly wary of big AI promises unsupported by cash flow or path to profitability
Irishman who went in search of Genghis Khan’s tomb now applying AI to weather forecasts at Google
Luke Barrington heads up Google Earth AI, which is working on a better way to map natural disasters
How AI and social media contribute to ‘brain rot’
Academic studies found that people who rely heavily on AI for tasks like writing generally perform worse than those who don’t
Google sues Chinese group selling software behind text message scams
Tech giant aims to dismantle the ‘Lighthouse Enterprise’, which it claims has tricked 1mn victims out of $1bn
Cold comfort at Athens forum on democracy in face of threats and rising tide of populism
Organisers express hope for ‘rule by the people’, but speakers take more pessimistic line
Supreme Court judge critical of bank in appeal case, and the $20,000 robot butler
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Google’s Pixel Watch 4 review: best option for Android users not with Samsung
New charging process breaks the mould and is much faster but it does mean legacy accessories are now redundant
Cairn Homes’ Dublin apartments and learning a language later in life
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Google’s revival shows the risks of early AI judgments
AI integration has boosted Google search, which generated $56.6 billion in revenue
Big Tech tests investors’ patience with $80bn AI investment spree
Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft divide the market over whether they can translate huge capital expenditure into income
Alphabet sales beat estimates on cloud growth
Company is investing record amounts to try to push progress in AI
Enshittification: the word that sums up how we live now
It seems to convey a sense of promises broken, not just in technology but in culture and politics too
‘This isn’t my first start-up, but it will be my last’: Tom Marren on his renewables business
Astatine secures planning permission for renewable energy infrastructure projects and is involved in the delivery and operation of these assets
Anthropic, Google in talks on multibillion-dollar cloud deal
The plan would involve Google providing cloud computing services to Anthropic
Amazon says most cloud services restored after widespread outage
Snapchat among popular sites hit by outage
Risk rises as market highs again powered by the magnificent seven tech stocks
Concentration at the top is ‘extreme’, as the five largest S&P 500 stocks account for more than 25% of index’s value
Not even generative AI’s developers fully understand how their models work
Serious questions remain about what will happen if we do — and don’t — replicate human intelligence
Connolly keepie-uppies, Humphreys’s ‘quality videos’: The presidential social media battle
In online battle for support, Catherine Connolly is beating Heather Humphreys
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