Eight months into his role at the helm of Research Ireland O'Brien speaks about why he left University of Cambridge, the role research will play in driving Ireland's economy, and why Ireland should have its own Station F.
The industry that spawned Kerrygold and Kerry Group projects a cutting-edge image, from R&D to marketing. Yet it has fallen one-third short of a modest innovation spending target.
Intercom’s $3.6 billion sale to Salesforce is not just a huge sum of money. It is also an incredible story of restarting a start-up that had plateaued by reinventing it for the AI-age.
Manna Air Delivery has ended its Irish delivery business, saying the lack of a national policy framework makes it impossible to trade. It will continue investing in R&D in Ireland but its drones will now fly elsewhere.
Eoghan McCabe bet his plateauing Intercom business on creating a groundbreaking AI agent called Fin. In March, Fin hit $100 million in sales, causing Salesforce to swoop in. Now those who built it stand to reap big rewards from the deal.
Startups and tech giants alike are mixing and matching AI models to avoid the premium prices charged by industry leaders, write Bradley Olson and Tina Li, The Wall Street Journal.
The Dublin office of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter has lost revenue, haemorrhaged staff and accumulated legal disputes under Elon Musk’s ownership. Meanwhile, its competitors thrived.
Travelling between Delaware and Philadelphia, Quinlan reflects on the arc of his career from a chance opportunity in Asia to his exit from Taoglas.
Tech multinationals pay a disproportionate amount of income tax, USC, and PRSI. While the spotlight has been on potential swings in corporation tax, AI-driven job cuts, too, could threaten Ireland’s budget balance.
World-class equine yards and riders are backing Irish start-up TrojanTrack. As it seeks to close a seed round, its founder biomedical engineer Stephen O’Dwyer explains how it is targeting a global market.
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