Niall Kitson

UCD School of Medicine spin-out has closed a €1 million seed funding round, led by private investors and Enterprise Ireland. This brings to just over €1.5 million the total raised by the University College Dublin (UCD) spin-out company this year.

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) and the Geological Survey Ireland are inviting the general public to become citizen seismologists through a new programme – Quake Shake. The outreach programme is calling on people of all ages across Ireland to get involved in observing and studying local and global earthquakes – helping them to develop [&hellip

In association with Exertis Ireland Exertis Ireland, a leading distributor of technology products, is proud to announce a strategic partnership with Armis, the asset intelligence cybersecurity company. This collaboration marks a significant milestone in delivering cyber solutions to businesses across Ireland that can help protect and manage physical and virtual assets to ensure the entire [&hellip

Leaf IT was one out of 44,000 global partners chosen by ConnectWise, a Florida-based provider of software solutions and support designed to help organisations to protect themselves from a range of growing cyber threats including phishing, ransomware, and malware. The Dublin company won the cyber security partner of the year award at the global software [&hellip

Last summer, Elon Musk launched his own alternative to the AI products of OpenAI (which has strong ties to Microsoft), Google and other competitors: xAI. He already managed to raise more than $100 million, but he is aiming much higher. According to documents filed with the US securities regulator SEC, Elon Musk wants to raise [&hellip

Google has announced new AI language models under the name Gemini. Gemini 1.0, the first version of the model, has three different variants right away: Gemini Ultra, Pro and Nano. Google said this is its most flexible model yet, which can run efficiently on everything from mobile devices to data centres. Until now, the standard [&hellip

Ireland-headquartered Invert Robotics has closed an investment round, raising €12.9 million. This follows the addition of more than €2.5 million from Irish EIIS fund, Business Venture Partners (BVP), and US technology investor, TechNexus Venture Collaborative. This brings the total amount raised by the company to date to €25 million. The investment will support the growth [&hellip

Yesterday, I witnessed something very interesting indeed. So interesting, in fact, that it might be world-changing. I say “might be” because it could as equally be something that appears like a mirage, shimmering briefly in front of our eyes, only to disappear from view as we come closer to the reality. That something is called [&hellip

Niall and Dusty give their final recommendations for the season Image: Tima Miroshnichenko via Pexels

Negotations over the EU’s AI Act have moved into a third, possibly final, day after a marathon 24-hour session addressed concerns raised by the bloc’s three largest economies, France, Germany, and Italy. Last November, these countries argued that the most powerful AI models, such as so-called foundational models (of which ChatGPT is the best-known example), [&hellip