Amazon is in discussions with OpenAI to invest $10 billion in the company while supplying more of its AI chips and cloud computing services, according to The Financial Times. The deal would push OpenAI’s valuation over $500 billion but is likely to raise more questions about the company’s circular investment agreements involving chips and data…
Baseline founders say they became ‘frustrated’ with the ‘institutionalisation’ of how start-ups are built in Ireland. Dublin-based private venture fund Baseline has closed a multimillion-euro round to invest in Irish and European start-ups. Emerging from the Baseline community – an independent workspace for early stage founders – Baseline Venture Fund I has closed a €4m…
Chromebooks have quietly become some of the most useful laptops for everyday tasks. They boot fast, stay secure with automatic updates and often cost far less than traditional Windows or Mac machines. Modern Chromebooks also look and feel better than ever, with brighter screens, stronger processors and designs that range from simple clamshells to flexible…
He may just be a lad from Letterkenny, but paramedic Declan Watters hopes to simplify patient care with his AI-powered medications app. If you’ve ever helped a sick family member, you’ll know the stress of remembering all their medications and what they’re for. For paramedic Declan Watters, this kind of stress is multiplied when he’s…
Co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi tells CNBC that Databricks could go public in 2026. Just a few months after raising a Series K round and crossing the $100bn valuation mark, software giant Databricks has raised a fresh $4bn investment in a Series L round, valuing the company at $134bn. The round was led by Insight…
The SEAI report provides definitive national data on energy supply, demand, and related emissions for 2024, with informed estimates for 2025. The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), which is the country’s national body committed to a more sustainable future, has today (17 December) published the Energy in Ireland 2025 report. Findings have shown that,…
Tesla’s sales in California should be suspended for 30 days because its marketing around Autopilot and Full Self-Driving misled consumers, a California administrative law judge has ruled. Back in 2022, the California DMV accused the automaker of using deceptive language to advertise those products and making it seem like its vehicles are capable of level…
Despite changing its name and using decidedly bird-free branding, X is trying to hold on to its original Twitter trademarks, TechCrunch reports. The xAI-owned social media platform has updated its terms of service to include references to Twitter after previously only mentioning X, and seemingly attempted to counter a startup’s petition to cancel the company’s…
‘Tis the season for gift-giving, family feasts and companies turning their harvested user data into lighthearted recaps. Valve’s take on the year-end rewind, Steam Replay, is now available. It follows similar offerings from Spotify, Apple Music, PlayStation and, increasingly, just about every service you use. Hell, even Uber and The New York Times somehow justified…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! OpenAI announced an update for ChatGPT Images that it says drastically improves both the generation speed and instruction-following capability of its image generator. A blog post from the company Tuesday says the update will make it much easier to make precise edits to AI-generated images. Previous iterations…