Substack has tried to look into the community fundraising model before but its plans were thwarted. Its fundraise has already beaten its target. Read more: Substack’s community fundraiser lets writers take a slice of the start-up ..read more

Ireland’s Connecting Government 2030 strategy aims to create 'a trusted, human-driven, intuitive and inclusive, world-leading digital' public sector. Here, George Maybury, from Dell Technologies Ireland, discusses the advantages of increased digitalisation of the public sector, both for workers and for citizens, and how the State can make progress towards this transformation. Read more: Digital transformation essential to deliver ‘innovative public services ..read more

Lemon8, a ‘lifestyle community’ app created by China’s ByteDance, is now in the US App Store’s top 10 apps. Read more: Instagram rival app Lemon8 by TikTok parent enters US top charts ..read more

The UK's CMA has begun a deeper 'phase two' investigation into the deal due to concerns it could restrict competition, which has also been highlighted by the European Commission. Read more: UK begins in-depth probe into Broadcom’s VMware bid ..read more

Deloitte’s Adrienne Bolger spoke to us about the Return to Work programme and how it helped her re-enter the workforce post-Covid. Read more: How Deloitte’s Return to Work programme helped this solutions manager ..read more

The latest funding will be used to support training programmes in Dublin to help address long-term unemployment. Read more: Google gives €300,000 to support local employment in Dublin ..read more

More than 30pc of code written by developers on Replit is generated by Ghostwriter, its AI assistant. Read more: Google partners with AI start-up Replit to rival GitHub Copilot ..read more

Microsoft has launched an AI assistant called Security Copilot, which uses OpenAI software and can integrate with other Microsoft Security services. Read more: Microsoft is bringing GPT-4 to its cybersecurity products ..read more

The report claims that roughly two-thirds of all US and European jobs are exposed to ‘some degree of AI automation’, but also highlighted the economic boost these systems could create. Read more: Generative AI could replace 300m jobs, Goldman Sachs predicts ..read more

The open letter is calling for a six month pause to the training of AI models more powerful than GPT-4, in order to develop new safety protocols for AI design. Read more: 1,100 signatories call for a pause in training ‘giant AI systems ..read more