AI in Business

When something goes wrong in your organisation, how many people can honestly say they own the outcome? Not attended the meeting. Not contributed to the discussion. Owned it. If the answer is nobody, you have a diffusion problem that is costing you speed and accountability. Apple popularised a management concept decades ago called the Directly … Read more

LiteLLM is the default choice for a lot of teams. It is free, open-source, supports over 100 providers behind a single OpenAI-compatible format, and the community behind it is massive. It works great for routing API calls and tracking costs across multiple AI providers. But LiteLLM also leaves gaps. Role-based access control, budget enforcement, MCP … Read more

If you build software that processes faces, your architecture just got a regulatory dependency. The EU AI Act does not treat all biometric systems the same. It draws a hard line between verifying someone is who they claim to be and identifying an unknown person against a database. That distinction is now a legal constraint … Read more

New York Just Paused Data Centre Construction — What Ireland Can Learn Last week, New York became the first US state to impose a one-year moratorium on new data centre construction over 50 megawatts. Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order pausing permits until the state figures out consistent standards for responsible development. The decision … Read more

Getting the Best AI Without Paying Premium Prices — A New Approach Here is a problem that Irish businesses using AI are starting to notice: not every task needs the most expensive AI model. Asking a premium AI to write a simple email reply is like hiring a Michelin-starred chef to make toast. It works, … Read more

AI Doesn’t Have to Break the Bank — Free Alternatives for Irish Businesses Anthropic’s Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. OpenAI subscriptions add up fast. And as Irish businesses begin to rely more heavily on AI tools, those monthly bills can quickly turn into a significant line item. But what if you could … Read more

Is Your Irish Business Losing Track of AI Spending? You Are Not Alone Remember when cloud computing bills crept up on everyone? One month you were paying a few hundred euro. The next, you were staring at a five-figure invoice and wondering where it all came from. According to 1Password, who just launched a new … Read more

When AI Sounds Certain but Gets It Wrong — What Irish Businesses Need to Know A recent survey found that 57% of enterprises have traced a confidently wrong answer from an AI agent back to missing or inconsistent business context. Nearly a third said it happened more than once. For Irish small businesses starting to … Read more

DeepSeek recently slashed the price of its V4-Pro model by 75 percent. On the surface, that looks like unambiguously good news. Cheaper AI means lower costs for businesses, right? The reality is more complicated, and it contains a lesson every Irish business owner should understand before investing heavily in AI tools. The problem is what … Read more

A senior vice president at Meta told a conference audience this week that businesses have roughly twenty months to rebuild their infrastructure for a world where AI agents — not humans — are the main users of their systems. The warning is aimed at large enterprises, but the implications for Irish small and medium businesses … Read more

Every Irish small business owner has faced the same question: should I pay a developer thousands of euro for a website, or struggle with a DIY builder that makes everything look like it was designed in 2008? Canva thinks it has found a third option, and it costs nothing. Canva Code 2.0, launched this week, … Read more

Imagine an employee who never takes a coffee break, never calls in sick, and can sort through a pile of receipt screenshots to produce a proper spreadsheet in minutes. That is the promise of Cowork, a new AI agent from Anthropic that launched this week — and it is the first time a genuinely useful … Read more