From the archive
Follow the latest AI news and artificial intelligence developments across models, agents, robotics, research and the wider industry. Explore new AI tools, advances in computing, business moves, safety and policy, with clear reporting and useful sources. Read the stories, catch up with News in Brief and join the conversation.
Lead story
An AI hiring agent at law firm Addleshaw Goddard ranked unusually polished CVs highly, while a working paper suggests candidates using the same AI model as a recruiter may be more likely to make the shortlist. The findings raise a practical concern for applicants and employers: AI-written applications…
Read the report & discussion ↗Watch Desk
Irish AI companies raised €256 million across 75 venture-capital deals so far in 2026, according to PitchBook figures reported by The Irish Times. That is down on last year’s record, but the market is still drawing substantial investment, with the median deal remaining above levels seen before 2025.
Watch Desk
The technology industry faces a 2027 test: turn years of investment into measurable returns, while dealing with supply-chain pressure and bigger questions about control of technology. Research firm Omdia expects AI spending to keep growing, but says businesses will be judged increasingly on productivity and return on investment.
Watch Desk
OpenAI’s Dot and Meta’s Muse are both designed to keep working after you leave, but their prices, permissions and availability differ sharply. Engadget’s comparison puts the choice less in the realm of sci-fi and more in the familiar territory of what you’ll pay, and what you’re willing to…
Watch Desk
Butterfly Effect, the company behind AI agent Manus, has raised more than $500 million in a funding round led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, according to Asia Tech Review. The round gives the company fresh backing as it establishes itself as an independent business less than a…
Watch Desk
Researchers have built an AI model that identifies individual satellite components in radar images and tracks them across a sequence, even when a satellite rotates and a part disappears from view. The work, involving the Alan Turing Institute and the University of Birmingham, could help improve space monitoring…
Even Realities Watch
Even Realities founder and CEO Will Wang is calling for temporary restrictions on camera-equipped glasses in public until stronger safeguards are in place. His argument puts privacy concerns around recording and AI training at the centre of a growing product debate, though the proposed restrictions are his position,…
Meta AI Watch
Meta has released an open-source SDK that connects its Muse AI agent to ESP32 boards and Linux devices such as Raspberry Pi computers. It gives developers a way to link Muse with screens, audio, sensors and other connected hardware, extending the agent beyond a phone app and into…
Mistral AI Watch
Germany has no current procurement plans for an AI framework agreement with Mistral and SAP, putting a public-sector project announced in 2025 on hold. The companies say their separate commercial collaboration continues, so this is a government pullback, not the end of their partnership.
Watch Desk
AI decision models are spreading from startups to major cloud and AI companies, offering a faster, cheaper way to make defined choices than asking a general-purpose model to write an answer. The catch: a neatly formatted decision can still be the wrong one.
Moonshot AI/Kimi Watch
Moonshot’s chief executive and chief technology officer are in talks to settle a shareholder dispute ahead of the Chinese AI company’s planned Hong Kong listing, Reuters reports. The dispute centres on allegations about Moonshot’s founding and the handling of company assets, raising questions investors may want answered before…
Watch Desk
The Trump administration has reversed a request that US AI developers keep new models from Britain’s AI Security Institute before release, Reuters reports, citing the Telegraph. If confirmed, the change gives developers more room to share models with UK safety testers before launch, a useful opening for international…
Watch Desk
Securonix has introduced a security capability that looks for AI agents behaving out of character, including using unexpected tools or accessing data beyond their intended purpose. The aim is to give security teams more context for investigating threats, while keeping consequential response actions subject to human approval.
Watch Desk
CaixaBank is expanding its Google Cloud partnership through 2033, with Gemini Enterprise agents set to help bank teams handle complex information and routine work. The agreement makes AI part of a wider banking technology programme, not a standalone chatbot launch.
Watch Desk
A Christchurch restaurant owner says a Google review carried a photo of rats that she believes was altered with AI, and fears the allegations are hurting her business. The report also describes a police file now closed, despite the owners’ request for an investigation.
Watch Desk
PhysicsX has established its Asia-Pacific hub in Singapore, where the London-based company aims to use AI models to speed up engineering simulations and industrial work. The expansion puts a substantial AI-for-engineering business closer to manufacturing and semiconductor customers, though its productivity claims still need to be judged by…
Watch Desk
Adtran has launched Mosaic One Agents, a suite of AI agents intended to investigate network problems, coordinate work and advance tasks towards resolution. The notable promise is that teams can set how much autonomy the agents have, from recommendations to actions within defined boundaries.
Watch Desk
Accenture and Dell have formed a dedicated business group to help organisations deploy AI on private infrastructure, including in regulated industries. The expansion pairs Accenture’s industry and services work with Dell’s AI-ready systems, and Accenture plans to train more than 3,000 practitioners on Dell’s portfolio.
Cloudflare Watch
Cloudflare’s Clef-omni can score text, images, audio and video in a single decision call, according to MarkTechPost. The model could spare developers some transcription and captioning work, but the reported tests also show it is not a reasoning upgrade across the board.
Watch Desk
Elecrow’s CrowPi 3 is a Raspberry Pi learning station with 41 built-in sensors and lessons in computer vision, speech recognition and chatbots. The useful catch: its larger language models connect to online services, rather than running locally on the Pi.
Watch Desk
AI is spreading through businesses faster than it is changing how they work, according to Fortune commentary by Ming Lu. The gap is striking: 88% of organisations reportedly use AI in at least one function, but only 6% qualify as high performers with more than 5% EBIT impact.
