Consumers recycled a record 21.1 million electronic and electrical waste items in Ireland in 2025, up from 18.8 million in 2024, new data shows. However, despite the record performance, the country’s largest e-waste recycling scheme warned that the European measurement system fails to capture the full picture of the nation’s recycling progress. Waste Electrical & [&hellip

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Sponsored content The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), operational arm of the Department of the Justice, Home Affairs and Migration is responsible for leading in the management of major cyber security incidents across government. It is also tasked with providing guidance and advice to citizens and businesses on major cyber security incidents and developing strong [&hellip

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Landmark Technologies, an Irish provider of IT and cybersecurity services, has appointed Adrian Kelly as sales and marketing director. In this role, he will lead the commercial function of the business and help to steer the company through a new phase of expansion. Kelly will be responsible for driving growth into new market segments and [&hellip

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Integrity360 added Venari’s Adaptive Cryptographic Intelligence Platform, to its managed security service offering. The partnership will support organisations in moving beyond one-off discovery exercises and towards a more continuous approach to cryptographic risk management. This includes helping clients discover and understand cryptographic assets and dependencies; identify weak, legacy or potentially non-compliant cryptographic implementations; build visibility [&hellip

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A new healthcare innovation that aims to predict which concussion patients are most at risk of prolonged recovery has been unveiled at the 2026 BioInnovate Ireland Symposium in Galway. Developed during the BioInnovate Ireland programme at University of Galway, and supported by Enterprise Ireland, BrainForecast is an AI-powered digital health solution designed to address one [&hellip

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For the first time since 2021, Nvidia is returning to the corporate bond market with the aim of raising at least $20 billion (€17 billion). This financial step involves the issuance of bonds in seven different categories, with maturities ranging from two to 30 years. According to sources familiar with the transaction, the bonds with [&hellip

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News consumers around the world are now turning more to social media and video platforms than traditional outlets for information, a report said Tuesday. The year 2026 marks “a significant milestone: for the first time, social media and video network consumption is now ahead of other news sources as the most widely used source of [&hellip

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The American media group Fox Corporation has announced that it intends to acquire the streaming platform and streaming device manufacturer Roku for around $22 billion, which amounts to $160 per Roku share. The acquisition still needs to be approved by regulators and shareholders. Fox chief executive Lachlan Murdoch described the deal as an important moment [&hellip

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The French AI lab Mistral is reportedly talking to investors about a capital injection of three billion euros at a valuation of €20 billion. News agency Bloomberg reported this shortly before the weekend on the basis of anonymous sources. The money would be on top of the €4 billion previously raised. The French are building [&hellip

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The British government has drawn a line in the sand: no more social media and live streams for children up to 16. Parents are getting back control over their responsibilities, argues Prime Minister Keir Starmer. “Children are getting their childhood back. Less time for scrolling, more for playing”, is the resounding message from London. Access [&hellip

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There is a clear wipe-out taking place among news sites, as British figures show. AI search is siphoning off so much traffic that the top 20 news sites in England lost 26% of their traffic over the past year. Compared to last month, the weighted decline amounts to 8%, according to figures from Press Gazette. [&hellip

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OpenText, an Ontario, Canada, headquartered global leader in data management for enterprise AI, have announced a €105 million investment that will create 400 new jobs across the company’s sites in Ireland over the next three years. The commitment, which doubles OpenText’s investment in Ireland, will significantly expand the company’s agentic AI, cyber security, sovereign cloud, [&hellip

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CameraMatics, a company supported by SETU Xcelerate, has secured a €49 million investment to fuel the next phase of its international expansion and ongoing product innovation. The Irish technology company, which uses artificial intelligence to improve safety and efficiency across commercial vehicle fleets, secured a significant growth investment from a consortium led by Blume Equity, [&hellip

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Jeff Bezos has returned to a CEO role, an experience he described as as “Type 2 fun” in an interview with CNBC. This is his first official operational leadership position since he handed over the reins at Amazon in 2021. The 62-year-old billionaire is now co-CEO of AI start-up Prometheus and runs the company with [&hellip

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The US government’s order for Anthropic to withdraw its most powerful artificial intelligence models has sparked a wave of criticism from both advocates and opponents of AI regulation. On Friday evening, the San Francisco-based company announced that the US Department of Commerce had ordered it to suspend Mythos 5 and Fable 5 for “national security” [&hellip

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SpaceX’s shares opened at $150 on Friday, an increase of 11% compared with the issue price, and ultimately ended the day almost 20% higher. The share price initially rose by more than 30% after the opening, but later gave up part of those gains and closed at $160.95, a daily gain of 19.2%. The space [&hellip

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The 23 largest tech companies spent a total of €73 million on political lobbying activities in Brussels in 2025. That is 60% more than five years ago. Financial institutions spent €67 million, parties in the energy sector €52 million and chemicals/agri €47 million. In total, at least €382 million was spent on political influence last [&hellip

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Business leaders from across Ireland gathered in Dublin this week to discuss one of the most pressing risks facing organisations today – cyber resilience. At an executive briefing hosted by Leaf IT in partnership with Dublin Chamber, over 50 senior executives, IT leaders and risk professionals came together to discuss the cyber threat landscape facing [&hellip

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Alltech, a global leader in animal health and nutrition, has established an expanded EU applications laboratory at the company’s European headquarters in Dunboyne, Co. Meath. The new lab will bring together practical agricultural innovation, climate action and renewable energy research within a single applied research facility. “From this lab in Ireland, we will advance our [&hellip

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Bank of Ireland has recently launched a new EV Marketplace, the first of its kind in Ireland. Developed in partnership with Nevo – Ireland’s only dedicated EV platform, designed to help drivers research, compare, and transition to electric motoring – the new digital marketplace aims to make it radically simpler and quicker for consumers to [&hellip

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Research Ireland has announced the creation of a network of seven new research centres, representing an investment of €460 million. The Rinn network of centres reflects a step change in the scale and breadth of collaboration, governance, and funding, supporting a more coordinated and internationally engaged research system. The new centres will span advanced therapies; [&hellip

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Generative AI has already been sitting in lecture halls for over three years now, and the higher education sector has finally stopped treating it as a novelty and started treating it as what it is: a governance problem touching on everything from assessment integrity to data privacy to staff training. The response, however, has been [&hellip

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Proveye, an Irish agri- and climate-tech company headquartered at NovaUCD in Dublin, is working with Grassland Agro, a provider of agronomic and animal nutrition solutions to farmers across Ireland. Under the partnership ProvGrass, Proveye’s satellite-powered grass measurement platform will be deployed on Grassland Agro’s trial farms providing paddock-level grass intelligence alongside field-specific soil and fertiliser [&hellip

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A new AI-enabled platform at Maynooth University was launched at the Innovation Value Institute’s IVI Summit. Building upon IVI’s Capability Maturity Framework, developed over the past two decades, Atlas aims to make IVI’s multidisciplinary research accessible and applicable to organisations, to allow assessment and improvement. This is achieved through combining research knowledge, AI-enabled insights and [&hellip

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Markets drifted upwards last night in expectation of the floatation of rocket and artificial intelligence (AI) company SpaceX. The Elon Musk venture will debut its shares today, with trading beginning on Wall Street after raising $75 billion (approx. €65 billion) through its initial public offering (IPO), including having successfully sold 555,555,555 shares of its Class [&hellip

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Oracle’s share price has dropped sharply follows reports that the company’s spending on data centres has exceeded earlier forecasts, raising concerns among shareholders about the eventual profitability of its AI initiatives, Bloomberg reports. Financial data for the period ending 31 May showed that capital expenditure amounted to $16.5 billion dollars (€14.3 billion), bringing the annual [&hellip

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As SpaceX lists on Wall Street today, Elon Musk will serve simultaneously as chief executive, chief technology officer and board chairman of the rocket and AI company. He will control more than 82% of its voting shares. There is no designated successor, no deputy and no key-person life insurance written into its filings.  The world’s [&hellip

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Driven by strong growth in the development of infrastructure for AI, ASML has grown into the most valuable listed company in European history. This is reported by Bloomberg. The Dutch supplier of semiconductor equipment has seen its shares rise by 60% since the beginning of the year, reaching a market value of about 674 billion [&hellip

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This week Dusty breaks down Apple’s WWDC, including a hint at a foldable iPhone, and what SpaceX’s flotation has in common with Ticketmaster’s demand-led pricing. We’re also joined by author and host of Tech Humanist Show podcast Kate O’Neill revealing why keeping humans (and not tech) at the centre of business is actually your company’s [&hellip

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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the subject of market development funds (MDF) and confessed that I was old enough to remember when MDF was introduced (although my memory does not extend to recalling the exact date of inception). What I can remember is that there was a degree of opposition from channel [&hellip

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Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment Peter Burke announced that a further €40 million will be made available under his Department’s Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF), which will open for applications on 1 October this year. DTIF seeks to invest in the development and deployment of disruptive technologies on a commercial basis; drive collaboration between [&hellip

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The EU ordered Meta on Tuesday to give rival AI chatbots access to its WhatsApp platform for free within five working days as it carries out an antitrust probe, or risk a heavy fine. Meta said it would appeal the order, which follows the launch in December of an EU investigation into the US firm’s [&hellip

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Anthropic has introduced Claude Fable 5, giving the general public access for the first time to technology derived from the powerful Mythos model. Although the model demonstrates superior capabilities in image processing, professional knowledge work and software development, it is being launched with strict safety protocols. To prevent misuse in sensitive sectors such as chemistry, [&hellip

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Driven by massive demand for advanced semiconductors and artificial intelligence hardware, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) saw its profit in May increase by 30.1% compared with last year. The world leader in contract-based chip manufacturing announced that monthly revenue came to 416.98 billion New Taiwan dollars (€11.4 billion euros), a modest increase of 1.5% compared [&hellip

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Sponsored content The Civil Service has opened applications for the position of digital business engagement – senior ICT specialist. The successful candidate will be directly involved in delivering on a range of Government strategies within their appointed organisations. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a larger team delivering on the ambitions of [&hellip

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It’s no secret Meta has been exploring facial recognition technology for its platforms, like Facebook. It’s even cost the company millions in settlements. But a new Wired report has detailed how Meta secretly is going even further by integrating facial recognition software into an app linked to its glasses tech, despite the company recently stating [&hellip

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OpenAI has filed a confidential application for an initial public offering with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). To facilitate this potential move to the public market, the organisation is working with Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. Although a listing could take place this autumn, the company has clarified that no definitive timetable has [&hellip

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In association with Digital Technology Skills Digital Technology Skills is a lead Irish partner in the pan-European Digital4Business programme, and plays a prominent role in the ongoing development and rollout of other high-profile EU-funded upskilling initiatives, such as GreenShift (AI & HPC applications for the transport sector), Digital4Security (pan-European Master’s in cybersecurity management), Digital4Sustainability (digital [&hellip

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OpenAI is preparing to launch new products that strategically move away from ChatGPT as its core product. The chatbot will be further developed into a super-app that combines coding tools and AI agents. With just a smart chatbot, OpenAI is not going to win the proverbial war, because Claude, Gemini and also Grok already offer [&hellip

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Dublin-based healthtech company, Zendra Health is on track to reach €1 million in turnover by 2026 and a significant year-on-year growth of 600% since 2025. The company’s Navigator platform uses automation and AI to unite clinicians, parents, and teachers for safer, faster, and smarter ADHD assessment and treatment. With a leadership team that has built [&hellip

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