AI Tools

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is reportedly building its first hardware device. According to a Bloomberg report, it is a screenless speaker with moving parts — designed to feel like a companion rather than a tool. Before you dismiss this as a quirky gadget story, it is worth thinking about what it signals. OpenAI is … Read more

A small research lab backed by cryptocurrency venture capital trained a competitive AI model in just four days. It matches or beats much larger, more expensive systems from some of the biggest names in tech. And they published everything — the model weights, the training code, the benchmarks — for anyone to use, modify, or … Read more

OpenAI has released its latest family of models: GPT-5.6 Luna, Terra, and Sol. They come in three sizes — from the budget-friendly Luna to the powerhouse Sol — and they represent a significant shift in how AI companies are thinking about pricing and capability. For Irish business owners trying to make sense of AI costs, … Read more

The CEO of Hugging Face, the platform that hosts most of the world’s open-source AI models, made a striking claim recently. Clem Delangue said that most enterprises do not want the most powerful frontier AI models. They want open models they can control, customise, and run themselves at a reasonable cost. This goes against the … Read more

Apple has released the iOS 27 public beta, giving everyone the chance to try the company’s completely revamped, AI-powered Siri before the official launch this autumn. For Irish business owners who use Apple devices, this update brings genuinely useful changes worth knowing about. The new Siri is powered by Apple’s own AI models running directly … Read more

When we talk about artificial intelligence in the workplace, the conversation usually revolves around automation, efficiency, and cost savings. But there is another side to AI that rarely gets mentioned: accessibility. For neurodivergent workers — people with autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and other neurological differences — AI tools can be the difference between struggling to get … Read more

You’ve got ChatGPT or another AI tool at your disposal. You’ve asked it a few things. Sometimes it gives you exactly what you need. Other times, it produces gibberish that’s no use to anyone. The difference between those two outcomes often comes down to one thing: how you asked. Prompt engineering is the art and … Read more

Salesforce Just Turned Slackbot Into a Full AI Assistant — Here’s What It Means for Your Small Business Team If your business uses Slack — and plenty of Irish small businesses do — you might have noticed the little Slackbot icon at the top of your sidebar. Until recently, it was a simple notification tool, … Read more

If you run a business with a website, you have probably been offered a chatbot. The pitch sounds good: customers get instant answers, you save on staff time, and the AI handles the routine questions so your team can focus on the complicated ones. But a new research paper raises a question that most chatbot … Read more

If you run a website for your business — whether it’s a letting agency page, a plumbing service site, or your trade shop — something is changing on September 15 that could affect how AI finds you. Cloudflare, the internet infrastructure company that sits in front of roughly one in five websites globally, is flipping … Read more