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Ireland's National AI Strategy launched in 2021 and has received a refresh recently. The National AI Strategy charts a course for the Ireland to harness AI's potential while maintaining a hashtag #peoplefirst approach to AI. The strategy positions Ireland as a future hashtag #AI leader focused on enhancing business productivity, tackling social challenges, and improving public services. The AI landscape is changing rapidly and this updated strategy responds to these technological advances and EU AI regulation changes. It reinforces Ireland's commitment to responsible AI development and aims to establish the country as a leader in capturing AI's benefits for society and the economy. Here are some of the main points from this document; - Lead in EU AI Act implementation through active participation in EU governance and establishing national standards. - Study AI's economic impact across Irish industries, with special focus on generative AI technologies. - Launch SME-focused campaign to boost AI adoption by highlighting benefits and available resources. - Create an AI sandbox environment to encourage technological innovation Build a centralized national AI research hub. - Strengthen AI expertise through Research Ireland's programs. - Develop protected testing environments for government employees to explore AI applications. - Refresh AI skills assessment with focus on EU Digital Decade targets, particularly gender balance. - Broaden digital training opportunities through Skill-net Ireland, Springboard+, apprenticeships, and other initiatives. - Enhance accessibility to advanced AI computing resources. - Develop supporting infrastructure, including data centers, to prepare for emerging AI technologies.

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What is Tao Climate? Tao Climate is a FinTech company, building a next generation carbon removal MRV (measurement, reporting and verification) platform, for the creation and sale of carbon removal credits in real time, a real breakthrough. We're working with Google and the European Space Agency (ESA BIC Ireland member) to build our tech, which will use satellite imaging, AI and field data to deliver trust to carbon removal markets. Our main mechanism is industrial hemp, so we measure all aspects of our partners' farming and manufacturing processes, with the hemp carbon fibre used to make sustainable housing and infrastructure from hempcrete. Our pilot project is in Ukraine, and we also have a live project in the EU, with multiple other partners waiting to supply the demand we're creating. Our go-to-market strategy is to help decarbonise aviation, and we're talking with multiple airlines and airports. We're in Elon Musk's XPRIZE Carbon Removal Top 100 in the world, and our breakthrough technology will also enable the supply of SAF (sustainable aviation fuel) from hemp seed oil feedstock, with full MRV. Let's deliver the Green Age of Aviation, together! https://lnkd.in/e_eEXGD3

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At Quantum, we recognise the potential of Generative AI to transform consumer research and strategy. We support experimentation while also acknowledging the importance of key factors, including data privacy, security, compliance, copyright, and intellectual integrity. As we explore the possibilities, we must do so responsibly. By balancing creativity with caution, we can harness the power of Generative AI to drive meaningful insights and effective strategies for our clients. Stay tuned for more updates on our groundbreaking work in AI. #Quantum #AI #GenerativeAI #Innovation #BraveNewThinking

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#fundingalert 💼Company: Moleculent 💰Funding: $26Million ⚡Round: Series A 👥Investors: ARCH Venture Partners (ARCH) and co-led by Eir Ventures with participation from the company’s existing investors. Moleculent is on a mission to develop advanced technology-enabled products that leverage new insights into the molecular foundation of human biology. Moleculent’s functional biology platform detects cell-cell interactions and profiles their communication directly within their tissue environment. This novel approach allows scientists to see how healthy cells function and how diseased cells differ at a complex, networked level. Olle Ericsson, Fredrik Roos, Sara Jupiter, Florian Baumgartner Read more - https://lnkd.in/gYM6AsuM To share your startup story write us on - [email protected] #Moleculent #biology #technology #healthy #news #funding #fundingnews #startup #startupnews #startuprise

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"It's important to build for longevity and set the right foundations. Although on Day 1 you think you have an idea for a business with longevity, that idea may change. Whatever it is, if you are passionate about it, start building and the rest will come." That's Luca Franchi, CEO and co-founder of Ambient Network, a decentralized network of air quality sensors, on this week's episode of MoneyNeverSleeps. Blockchain has grown up. This is my second interview with an emerging DePIN (decentralized physical infrastructure network) founder, and I'm talking to masters of their respective crafts building platforms, networks and yes, businesses, with longevity in mind. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favorite podcast platform 👇👇👇 🎧Apple, Spotify, or web player:  https://lnkd.in/eZExgn7H 🎧MoneyNeverSleeps Website: https://lnkd.in/deWZxZk 📰MoneyNeverSleeps Newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eRTiXyU 📣 On-air shout-outs to Jamie H. Finn, Carlos Domingo, Martin Olczyk and NATIX Network. #depin #web3 #blockchain #founder #climatetech #environment

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🔥 At ACQUAINTED, we specialise in upskilling and strategising in the AI age. Our three-tiered offering encompasses every element of the AI adoption process, and depending on our client, we work on building and adopting the solutions (both horizontal and vertical) that suit them best. 🤖 But what does this mean for news publishers? It depends. For larger organisations, it means harnessing their masses of high-quality data in ways that improve the user experience and building new services into their offering. At the same time, this means opening up new revenue streams for their business models through licensing. 🔐 As we tell all of our clients, in order to prevent vendor lock-in, we suggest model-agnostic solutions built with interoperability in mind. This means that you will not be wedded to any particular platform provider, and ultimately have more journalistic freedom as a result. Eventually, we will see more domain-specific models become the norm, wherein we forfeit the wrangling of LLM’s (which are massive maelstroms of information) and instead opt for more accurate models that are more efficient and easily trained. 🚿 For smaller outlets, we foresee GenAI providing an oasis effect: potentially reversing the desertification of the news of the past decades. It will do this by allowing for the publication of information at a much cheaper and efficient level through horizontal, off-the-shelf solutions — democratising publishing as a result. Elsewhere, smaller outlets from lesser-used languages will be able to license their content to bolster their incomes, helping aid their survival in an increasingly dogmatic information environment. 📰 Read more about Publishing in the AI Age by downloading our free e-book below.

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In his latest blog, Ollie Binks, Operations Director of Innovation at Hall & Partners, asks the big question: Is AI living up to the hype, or have we set our expectations too high?    Drawing comparisons to the art of stage magic, Oliver explores the challenges of adopting AI in research – tools that promise innovation but often require immense preparation for modest returns. Yet, despite the hurdles, he believes the true potential of AI lies in how it enables researchers to refine their craft, uncover deeper insights, and challenge the norms of our industry.     "By taking small incremental steps, reinventing a wheel or two, challenging the norms, I think I can still find my showstopper," Oliver writes.     Curious about his perspective? Read more to discover why nuance, collaboration, and a healthy dose of curiosity could be the key to unlocking AI’s true magic. https://lnkd.in/giMN6Chn   Escalent | C Space #Innovation #ArtificialIntelligence #MarketResearch #DataInsights #ResearchTools 

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This is definitely a step in the right direction, but how will it work from a cradle-to-cradle perspective? 🔄 Straight from the horses mouth William McDonough: “Everything is a resource for something else. In nature, the “waste” of one system becomes food for another. Everything can be designed to be disassembled and safely returned to the soil as biological nutrients, or re-utilised as high quality materials for new products as technical nutrients without contamination” This is a decent move, but will drinks containers qualify as technical nutrients? Have they been manufactured in a way that will allows them to reenter the production cycle easily? I have no idea, but thats surely what we should be aiming for?

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AI may be learning fast, but it’s not quite ready to eat our lunch! 🍴 Greencore's Kerry Jones and Bulbshare's Julia Brannigan share their recent study into a niche food product, to show the power - and limits - of synthetic personas in market research. Curious to learn more insights from this study? Read the full article in The Grocer for a deeper dive! #AI #MarketResearch #ConsumerInsights #Innovation

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🤯 So there we have it. We now have the coined phrase 'AI Water'. 🤯 Tech giants are set to be the biggest commercial consumers of water due to the cooling requirements of servers and in some cases - Direct to Chip - semiconductor technologies. In the attached article - not only are the environmental considerations hard hitting but the behavior of big tech is setting a precedent that should be sending alarm bells: 'Amazon has not release its total water consumption figures, believing it to be the wrong metric. “Amazon — I think it probably consumes more water than Microsoft,” said Ren, adding that the company was “very secretive” compared with other tech firms.' Intervention is needed. Innovation is well placed to solve this. Political will is the precursor. #SustainableAI #DecentralizedComputing #GreenTech #DataCenter #RedsandVentures Redsand Ventures Sandeep Dama Christos Kassianides @

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Curious to learn a bit more about what we do? In this webinar for Innovate UK, our co-founder Jack presents a 10 minute summary of our case studies and some thoughts on building resilient AI. https://lnkd.in/g-guHi_s

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To meet the urgent challenge of the climate crisis, we need a paradigm shift in our approaches, and decentralized technologies of web3 are the solution, argues Luca Franchi. https://lnkd.in/gyFgqbeS

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In this new blog series, Mark Palmer explores the concept of the AI Factory and how to implement your own ‘AI-age innovation system.’​ Using the metaphor of a restaurant kitchen, Mark describes the five key stages of the AI Factory and how together they make a healthy decision-making meal:​ - Data Pipeline​ - Algorithm Development​ - Experimentation and Experience​ - Software Infrastructure​ - Deploy and Learn​ ​ Examples from some early adopters, like Netflix and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, provide intel on how businesses are already creating healthy factories of AI algorithms.​ ​ Read the blog to learn more about the AI Factory:​ https://bit.ly/3w78azJ ​ ​#FutureOfBusiness #KX #AIFactory #GenAI #AI #Innovation #DataAnalytics

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Yesterday House of Hackney founder Frieda Gormley joined Anuradha Chugh former CEO of Pukka Herbs, Patagonia’s Alex Beasley, co-founder of Flora Verônica Manguinho de Souza and Eden Project Trustee and co-founder of Regenerative Governance Erica Neve FRSA in a Bio-Leadership Project panel discussion about navigating the tensions between purpose, profit and planet. The biggest takeaway from this panel was that there is a clear correlation between economic and ecological problems. In the current economic climate, each sustainable problem is first a social problem; people don’t have the time and money to invest in regeneration if they are worrying about getting through the next few weeks. We, as a society, need to create a system in which people are stable as a first step, which will then provide the capacity to invest in community, the environment and Nature. Also discussed was the balancing act between profit and purpose. With many businesses owned through private equity, (especially in the West), should we be looking at different ownership models? Ones that align with our brand missions and purpose? We hope that by more and more people and businesses coming around to these ways of thinking, we, as a whole, can stop the trajectory of overconsumption, overcapitalisation and over extraction. We hope that we can all learn to make less, to take less, and work more in harmony with the natural world.

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🤖 Who is responsible for the brand governance when it comes to AI models? 🤖 LLM's can be tailored to respond in all sorts of ways and can generate all sorts of subtle reflections in terms of tone, authority, and interaction. Ian Smith and Ben Lowe discuss this as part of a larger podcast on the use of AI in enterprise environments, arguing that overlaying technologies can be used to inject an organisation's brand values firmly into these solutions, just as they would with all other company activities. It is in fact not only the responsibility of the business, it is an opportunity to continue to strengthen the brand throughout the customer experience. . 🎙️Have you listened to our podcast yet? We aim to demystify all the techtalk and bridge the gap between theory and practice by sharing real life use cases - where the tech is being used to produce genuine benefits to both the employee experience and customer experience. 🔍 What to Expect: - Industry Applications: Discover how AI is revolutionizing manufacturing, biotech, transportation, and more. - Expert Guests: Hear from pioneers and thought leaders from leading vendors, our partners, and organizations that are leveraging AI for transformative success. - Hands-On Insights: Gain practical knowledge on what’s working in generative AI across different sectors. 🎧 Tune In: Our first episode is now live, featuring our hands-on experiences with generative AI and its impact on various industries - see the link in the comments or search "Lighthouse Technology" on Spotify Don’t miss out—subscribe, listen, and engage with us as we explore the human side of AI on the front lines of business. #AIinBusiness #PodcastLaunch #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #BusinessTransformation #TechPodcast #GenerativeAI IBM Apptio, an IBM Company IBM Turbonomic Envizi IBM Maximo Asset Management and Space Management

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🆕 AI: Perspectives on change In a new blog, Dan Sutch introduces a new diagram that we at CAST have been using as a basis for contextualising the different perspectives at play when thinking - and talking - about Generative AI (GenAI). Incorporating four key elements - Efficiencies within existing workflows; New processes & ways of working; Changes to mission and Context change - we have found that the diagram can be useful when starting or guiding discussions around the full scale of opportunities and challenges presented by GenAI 👉 https://buff.ly/3R9MEBO And we'd love your input: would this be useful as a visual reference point for your own AI discussions? Is there anything else you have been using to guide and contextulise conversations around AI? We're always keen to join up and work collaboratively with others, so please do get in touch: comment here or email us at [email protected] #AI #GenAI #charity #digital #resource

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“If a founder’s network doesn’t provide, there are also plenty of accelerator programmes and grant schemes that hook up startups with corporates. “We’re seeing quite a bit of commercial R&D and commercial trial partnerships,” says Pilgreen. “It’s a great way [for] an early-stage software company that may or may not have defensibility in place to work out the MVP with the potential customer as they go, in a low-risk environment.” “We love the validate stage, because a lot of the time [founders] have the wrong idea about why their product or service is valuable,” she adds. “You think it sells in learning and development, for example, but actually it sits in procurement or logistics.” Check out these insights and more from our very own Lauren Pilgreen in Sifted’s recent report on how to create a standout B2B startup. Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/eXPqfPkY

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