Vish Gain
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Meta to cut another 10,000 global jobs, Zuckerberg says
The latest layoffs are on top of the 11,000 job cuts announced in November to make Meta a more efficient business. → Read More
Y Combinator slashes late-stage funding and cuts 20pc of its team
Downsizing the Y Combinator team comes amid uncertainty for early-stage start-ups after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last week. → Read More
Dublin’s Tekenable to create 10 jobs with new ESG practice
Cloud engineering, data analytics and consulting are just some of the jobs on offer as Tekenable focuses its investment in ESG. → Read More
Pfizer acquires Seagen for $43bn in biggest deal of the year
Washington-headquartered Seagen expects to make around $2.2bn in revenue this year, while Pfizer cements its position in oncology. → Read More
UCC founders bag €3.27m to commercialise their innovations
Sarusha Pillay, Dr Justina Ugwah, Dr Alison O’Shea and Prof Ciara Heavin are the four women innovators to bag Enterprise Ireland funding. → Read More
Inclusio: Using ethical AI to realise diversity and inclusion at work
Founded in 2020, Inclusio is bringing a scientific approach to measuring diversity, equity and inclusion ‘through the voices of people’. → Read More
WhatsApp will risk being banned in the UK to save encryption
The Online Safety Bill in its current wants an end to end-to-end encryption. Messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Signal are not happy. → Read More
Grammarly takes to generative AI to improve writing assistance
Starting next month, Grammarly will start rolling out GrammarlyGO to help users write with more than just grammar help. → Read More
‘It’s an exciting time to be an engineer in Ireland right now’
HP exec Val Gabriel tells us about the booming engineering scene in Ireland and what engineers need to do to stay relevant. in the face of AI. → Read More
Bing crosses 100m daily users as AI gives it a new appeal
Yusuf Mehdi, marketing chief at Microsoft, said roughly a third of the millions using the new Bing AI preview are new to the search engine. → Read More
Spotify will soon look a lot like TikTok and Instagram
At its annual Stream On event, Spotify revealed plans to redesign the app in a way that draws more people in visually. → Read More
TikTok reveals new European data security measures amid ban fears
Project Clover, the data security programme run by TikTok in Europe, is getting updates to ‘set a new standard altogether’. → Read More
Irish-owned start-up Ufurnish bags £3.4m in seed funding
Co-founder Deirdre Mc Gettrick said she was ‘particularly proud’ that 30pc of Ufurnish investors are women. → Read More
Meta tests bringing back in-app messaging on Facebook
Since 2016, Facebook users wanting to use messaging on the app have needed to switch to Messenger. This may no longer be necessary. → Read More
Salesforce enters the generative AI race with Einstein GPT
The CRM software company is also launching a $250m fund for generative AI start-ups through its investment arm, Salesforce Ventures. → Read More
Atlassian, the company behind Jira and Confluence, cuts 500 jobs
Founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar said the layoffs were because Atlassian needs to ‘run faster at our company priorities’. → Read More
Irish DPC handed out fines of more than €1bn in 2022
Helen Dixon said the DPC issued two-thirds of fines issued across Europe last year on foot of ‘detailed and comprehensive investigations’. → Read More
WhatsApp commits to being more transparent on policy changes
Following a talk with EU consumer protection authorities, WhatsApp has committed to being more transparent on changes to its terms of service. → Read More
Dimply: Helping financial services better serve customers with data
Dublin-based fintech Dimply is on a mission to ‘help humans think and feel better about money’ using its engagement platform. → Read More
Brave Search now comes with an AI-powered summary feature
The new Brave AI Summarizer processes ‘multiple sources of information present on the web’ to avoid ‘unsubstantiated assertions’. → Read More