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Every software company knows the drill. A request for proposal lands in your inbox. You spend three to five days pulling requirements from scattered emails, PDF briefs, and meeting notes. A solutions architect assembles the estimate. Someone formats it into a document. By the time the proposal reaches the client, the assumptions may already be … Read more

Most businesses treat AI as a tool you add on top of existing work. You keep doing your job the same way, but you occasionally ask ChatGPT to draft an email or summarise a document. Haynes Boone, a major US law firm, has taken a different approach. They treat working with generative AI as a … Read more

HSBC UK is working with Visa to test a new kind of shopping experience. Instead of a human browsing a website and clicking “buy,” an AI agent could do the shopping on your behalf. The agent would search for the best product, compare prices, and complete the transaction — all without the customer touching a … Read more

Uber’s chief product officer recently walked through the company’s ambitions for AI, and there is a clear lesson for business owners. Uber is not trying to use AI for everything at once. Instead, it is picking specific areas where AI makes a real difference to its customers and drivers, and building from there. That approach … Read more

Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired Shaped, an AI startup that specialises in real-time recommendations and search. The deal is small in the grand scheme of tech M&A, but it points to something important: the arms race in AI-powered personalisation is accelerating. For Irish small businesses, especially those in retail, this is a development worth … Read more

An Eye-Opening Discovery Security researchers at Cereblab made an unsettling discovery in July 2026. They found that Grok Build — an AI coding tool from SpaceXAI — was quietly uploading entire code repositories to Google Cloud servers, including files it was told not to open and secrets that had been deleted from the project’s history. … Read more

The Cost Problem in Legal AI One of the biggest barriers for small and medium businesses using AI for legal work is cost. AI tools that review contracts, draft clauses, and check compliance are powerful, but they burn through tokens — and that means a growing bill. For a business that sends a handful of … Read more

A New Kind of Risk When you take out insurance for your business, you know roughly what you are insuring against. Fire, flood, theft, public liability — these are well-understood risks with decades of claims data behind them. But what happens when the thing you are insuring is an AI system that makes decisions, interacts … Read more

Knowing when to say “I don’t know” is one of the most important skills in business. It keeps you from making decisions based on guesses. It protects your credibility. And according to new research published on arXiv, AI assistants are systematically undermining that instinct. Researchers ran five experiments with over 3,100 participants. They gave people … Read more

What if a handful of engineers could do what used to take a team of dozens of consultants? That’s the bet behind Ode, a new joint venture backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs. The company embeds small teams of forward-deployed engineers into large enterprises, armed with AI tools, to solve problems … Read more

A challenger to the big cloud providers Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform, raised $100 million in Series B funding as demand for AI applications exposes the limits of traditional cloud infrastructure. The startup, which has amassed two million developers without spending a cent on marketing, is positioning itself as the infrastructure layer for the … Read more

The AI agent promise vs reality Almost every large business is trying AI agents right now. Cisco’s data shows 85% of enterprises are running pilot programmes. But here is the number that matters more: only 5% have actually shipped these agents to production. At the VB Transform 2026 conference in San Francisco, Bryan Silverthorn — … Read more