The Irish Games Fund has been expanded and relaunched by the Irish Game Makers Association and Screen Ireland Digital Games Portfolio for 2026 and will now consist of three separate funding strands designed to support developers at different stages of the production cycle: the Development Fund, Prototype Fund, and Release Fund. The first of those…
The Gist Schema doesn’t move citations. A matched Ahrefs study of 1,885 pages found JSON-LD structured data produced no measurable AI citation lift in AI Mode or ChatGPT, and a slight decline in AI Overviews. Mentions beat backlinks. Ahrefs’ analysis of 75,000 brands found branded web mentions correlate with AI visibility at 0.664, versus 0.218…
The Forum’s key outcomes included the launch of the Vulnerability to Viability Compact (V2V), designed to improve access to affordable development finance for climate-vulnerable countries, and the unveiling of the OPEC Fund’s US$1.5 billion Digital Transformation Action Plan, which will guide investments in digital infrastructure, capabilities and applications through 2030. OPEC Fund President Abdulhamid Alkhalifa…
Global prime broker EXANTE has launched Gecko Fund, a €1 million grant programme designed to support open-source software projects that play a critical role in trading systems, financial data infrastructure, and broader financial technology ecosystems. The initiative aims to provide direct funding to maintainers of widely used but often underfunded open-source technologies, including APIs, developer…
This press release is provided by Business Wire and is published as received. TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– INOVAIT, Canada’s image-guided therapy (IGT) and artificial intelligence (AI) commercialization network, today announced the latest recipients of its Pilot Fund at the Medventions Toronto Innovation Day, hosted at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. This research and development (R&D) funding program supports…
Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency via the Sovereign Tech Fund announced over €1 million in funding for KDE to work on the Plasma desktop, KDE Linux and more. A nice big win here for open source, and to help break people away from the American giants. If the EU truly wants to be more self-sufficient in…
Hi Cardinal readers, and thanks for scoping the latest edition of Tech Briefs, a weekly batch of items covering the digital and life sciences landscapes. The roundup goes live on Wednesdays. Got tips and/or questions? Reach out to me via tad@cardinalnews.org. Hackers’ work stealing, exploiting images is cheaper, simpler in generative AI era There is…
Almost all of the new £12m local news fund will go towards digital innovation initiatives, it emerged today as the government’s local media strategy was published in full. Culture, media and sport secretary Lisa Nandy unveiled her plan to revive local media in a speech at the Society of Editors conference in London. At the…
Barcelona, Dhaka and Islamabad, March 4, 2026: VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON”), today announces a partnership with the GSMA’s Mobile for Development Foundation (“GSMA Foundation”) to co-fund digital innovation projects in Pakistan and Bangladesh that are supported by the GSMA Innovation Fund. John Guisti, Chief Regulatory Officer of the GSMA and…
Media Cymru has invested £80,000 across five Welsh companies to research and develop innovative digital content for YouTube audiences, in partnership with BBC Cymru Wales. The Wales-based production companies – each awarded £16,000 – will creatively reimagine existing content for the online platform, thinking about how their returning series for BBC Cymru Wales can be…
