Giant robot flicking tiny man. Ai technologies and unemployment problem concept. Vector illustration. getty The builders of artificial intelligence have made AI job displacement and AI workforce disruption much harder to ignore over the last week. The warning was not given by critics, unions or policy groups. The warnings were from the builders. In just…
It’s been another week of grim news headlines – so it should perhaps have come as no surprise that news avoidance is at an all-time high among Irish people. The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2026 revealed that almost half of us (47%) find ourselves actively trying to avoid news, a significant rise on last…
Concerns about the impact of social media on young people have intensified in recent years, with parents, educators, and child development experts increasingly questioning how digital platforms shape wellbeing, learning, and social interaction. While restricting access is often presented as a way to reduce online harms, some experts argue that limiting social media use alone…
Social media is the world’s leading news source across all groups, overtaking conventional news sources for the first time, according to a sweeping report from Oxford University in the United Kingdom. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Digital News Report, published Tuesday, asks 100,000 news consumers in 48 countries about where they get their information and while social…
News sites are rapidly becoming the newspapers of the digital age. And you know what happened to newspapers. Worldwide, people in all age groups are ditching news sites and publishers’ apps in favor of social media and video networks. In fact, 18- to 34-year-olds are abandoning content on publishers’ platforms even more quickly than they’re…
Marshall Dennehey shareholders Sara Mazzolla and Frank Wickersham spoke at the RISKWORLD 2026 conference, which will be held in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Mazzolla, who …
AI tools without the right people may keep businesses in pilot mode Most U.S. businesses are running at least one AI tool. Many are running several. The expectation is generally that AI will handle the routine work, your team will focus on the important stuff, and productivity will go up. But for many companies, that…
Netflix is launching an animated AI studio, dubbed INKubator, aimed at producing AI generated content, according to both news reports (1) and recently published company job listings. (2) INKubator, at least in the beginning, will seemingly focus on short-form animated content. But at least one job listing indicates the company has ambitions to expand its…
Generative AI (GenAI) is a type of artificial intelligence that creates new content – like text, images, or ideas – by learning patterns from existing data. GenAI, particularly through large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek, is rapidly becoming part of everyday urban design research and practice. The models can summarise literature in seconds,…
As AI adoption grows, users are exploring alternatives to ChatGPT and Gemini for different tasks. Chatbots like Claude, Perplexity AI, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek and Meta AI are gaining popularity for writing, research, coding, workplace productivity and everyday social media interactions Published Date – 19 May 2026, 03:01 PM Hyderabad: As AI tools…
