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Deferred payments, including a top-up tax to reach the new 15% rate, are not included in the software multinational’s record corporation tax figures.

Country-by-country EU reporting requirement forces companies to offer additional public tax details, write Richard Rubin and Theo Francis, The Wall Street Journal.

In interview, Microsoft’s CEO offers a blistering critique of AI power balance and calls for earning society’s permission, write Bradley Olson and Tina Li, The Wall Street Journal.

The EU warns Irish State coffers depend on “a few individual companies”, as confirmed in new Exchequer figures for May.

The billionaire philanthropist was once ranked the world’s most admired man—but the revelations of his Jeffrey Epstein ties are eroding efforts to burnish his reputation, writes Emily Glazer, The Wall Street Journal.

At Microsoft’s annual AI Summit in Dublin, partners showed how the rapid pace of AI has moved far beyond adoption, with the focus now on embedding AI and richer outcomes.

The ICCL challenge to the tech giant's use of data is the first case brought under the Representative Actions Directive that allows for collective consumer cases, similar to class actions, to be brought.

Microsoft recently hosted its AI Tour Dublin, helping companies to gameplan their strategies for Copilots and agents.

Restricting kernel access might seem like a quick and dirty fix to prevent similar incidents in the future. Apple did this for its operating system in 2020 but experts in the area are not so sure. 

In a month when only two multinationals pay significant tax bills, the surge in their contributions accounted for the entire Exchequer surplus recorded so far this year. The budget is only around the corner.