Category: #AI

Samsung Launches First-Ever Perplexity AI-Powered TV App

Samsung Electronics today announced the launch of the Perplexity TV App, the first-ever Perplexity AI-powered TV app on the market. Elevating Samsung’s Vision AI Companion, which brings smart, generative AI support to the largest communal screens, the Perplexity TV App offers a new and innovative AI-powered experience to help users quickly find what they’re looking for and discover new favorites.

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that draws from credible sources in real time, accurately answering questions, performing deep research, and suggesting additional questions that allow curious users to engage more deeply with the content they consume.

“The first-of-its-kind Perplexity AI-powered app, now available only on Samsung TVs, broadens our Vision AI Platform offering for a more unique and personalized user experience,” said Dan Glassman, Senior Director & Head of New Business Development for Samsung Electronics. “Samsung continually brings innovative and first-to-market experiences to our device owners, and this partnership with Perplexity is the latest that will deliver cutting-edge AI technology, redefining how Samsung owners interact with their TVs.”

“Curiosity can strike at any time. Perplexity’s mission is to serve the world’s curiosity by bridging the gap between traditional search and innovative AI-driven interfaces,” said Ryan Foutty, VP of Business at Perplexity. “Samsung is the number one television brand in the world, and we are excited to bring the functionality that Perplexity users know and trust to Samsung’s television screens and device owners around the world.”

Elevating the Vision AI Companion Experience
Unveiled earlier this month at IFA 2025, the Vision AI Companion brings the next evolution of AI-powered displays to Samsung TVs and smart monitors by integrating Samsung’s most advanced AI features into a single, intuitive AI experience. As part of the Vision AI Companion, the Perplexity TV App is now available as a standalone AI agent, offering even more innovative AI-powered experiences to Samsung users.

Navigate to the Perplexity TV App on your TV’s home screen and click on it to launch. From there, Perplexity can help with planning a trip, finding which movies were directed by the Russo Brothers or creating the ultimate fantasy lineup, all directly from your TV.

 

Getting Started

The Perplexity TV App offers a sleek and visually appealing experience, going beyond text-only responses. When you ask Perplexity a question, results appear with high-quality, glanceable cards made just for Samsung TVs.

How It Works:
Access: Navigate to the Perplexity TV App via the Apps Tab or in Samsung’s Vision AI Companion, accessible via the AI Button.
Activation: Users must accept the terms and conditions and allow Perplexity to access their microphones before using the AI voice component.

(Optional): For those who don’t want to use voice commands, the onscreen keyboard or USB keyboard can be used to search with the Perplexity TV App.
Ask for anything: Whether you want recommendations for Halloween entertainment or help with an everyday task, Perplexity knows the answer.

Availability
The Perplexity TV App is now available on all 2025 Samsung TVs and will be available on 2023 and 2024 TVs with the latest OS upgrade later this year. As a bonus, Perplexity is offering a free 12-month subscription to Perplexity Pro for all users. Simply scan the QR code on the Perplexity TV app to redeem.

To learn more, visit www.samsung.com

Workday To Invest €175M in Dublin AI Centre of Excellence, Adding 200 Jobs

Workday, Inc. the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, today announced a three year €175 million investment and 200 specialised roles to establish its AI Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Dublin.

The investment, supported by IDA Ireland, expands the role of Workday’s EMEA headquarters in the company’s product research and development globally.   Since 2008, Workday’s Dublin-based teams have driven impactful R&D, including AI-driven solutions like Workday Learning and Workday Assistant.

The AI Centre of Excellence will focus on four key areas:

 

  • Product Development: Over 200 roles will be added in Dublin, helping to ensure  regional AI, cybersecurity, engineering and research expertise is reflected in Workday Illuminate, the company’s AI platform. Workday currently employs 2,200 people here, of which approximately 80% work in product research and development.

 

  • AI Upskilling: Workday has partnered with Technology Ireland Digital Skillnet to upskill 300 current employees through its AI Business Academy. In addition, through partnership with TU Dublin, over 285 employees have already graduated with certifications in AI relevant themes including Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Entrepreneurial Leadership, Leadership and Team Enablement and Creating Successful Products.

 

  • AI Academic Fellowships & Partnerships: Workday’s Industry Fellowships, in collaboration with universities such as Trinity College Dublin and Dublin City University (DCU) and Research Ireland will directly embed post-doctoral researchers within R&D teams in the company. This allows top-tier academic talent to apply their expertise to real-world AI and machine learning challenges.

 

  • Partnership With Irish Tech Scale-Ups: Through the Workday Innovation Network – created with Enterprise Ireland – the organisation will collaborate with Irish AI start-ups, SMEs and industry leaders such as Wrksense and Workhuman to drive innovation.

Welcoming the investment, Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment Peter Burke T.D. said: “Since Workday acquired Irish tech innovator Cape Clear in 2008, it has evolved into a research and development powerhouse, based on a blend of talented people, technology and innovation which Ireland can uniquely provide. Workday’s decision to expand its AI footprint in Dublin is a testament to Ireland’s reputation as a global leader in technology and innovation. We are very pleased to support this investment and partner with Workday to maximise its new AI Centre of Excellence.”

“Dublin has been a cornerstone of Workday’s innovation for close to two decades,” said Graham Abell, Vice President, Software Engineering & Ireland Site Lead, Workday. “This latest investment will power our next chapter—pioneering the next generation of ERP, built for the AI era.”

“Workday’s decision to expand its AI footprint in Dublin is a testament to Ireland’s reputation as a global leader in technology and innovation. This investment of €175 million and 200 jobs over the next 3 years will further strengthen Ireland’s position at the forefront of AI research and development. I would like to wish Workday every success for this AI Centre of Excellence and I look forward to our continued partnership,’’ said Michael Lohan, CEO, IDA Ireland.

To support its continued growth in Europe, Workday will open a new, state-of-the-art EMEA headquarters at College Square, Dublin 2. The headquarters will include a new Customer Experience Centre (CXC) – an immersive space for European customers to collaborate alongside Workday product experts and senior leaders. Current career opportunities can be viewed at Workday’s online careers centre here.

Building Cyber Resilience in the AI era: Five ways Irish organisations can stay ahead

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping the cybersecurity landscape across Ireland. While it’s unlocking new efficiencies and accelerating innovation, it’s also giving cybercriminals new evasive tools to launch faster and more sophisticated attacks. Across Ireland, organisations are navigating a new era of cyber risk defined by speed, sophistication, and AI.

As Dell Technologies continues to work closely with Irish businesses to modernise their digital infrastructure, it’s clear that cybersecurity must evolve in tandem, as a strategic enabler of trust and resilience. Threat actors are using AI to enhance ransomware, zero-day vulnerabilities, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) all making advanced spear-phishing much harder to identify, outpacing conventional security measuresAccording to the latest Dell Technologies Innovation Catalyst Study, 84% of Irish organisations view security as a key part of their business strategy, yet many continue to struggle with balancing innovation and security.

Almost all respondents (96%) admitted that integrating security into wider business strategies is proving difficult. These figures highlight that organisations must rethink their cybersecurity strategies to adopt proactive, intelligent, and resilient approaches that keep pace with the evolving threat environment.

Here are five ways to stay resilient against cyber threats:

1.Adopt zero trust for AI Security 

As threat actors use AI to scout, steal credentials and adapt attack techniques, traditional perimeter-based defenses fall short.

That’s why more Irish organisations are adopting a Zero Trust model built on the principle of “never trust, always verify” ensuring that every user, device, and application is continuously authenticated, regardless of location.

The benefits are clear, latest Innovation Catalyst Study revealed a 100% increase in confidence levels among Irish organisations that have adopted zero trust principles, underscoring its growing value as a security framework. By implementing zero trust principles organisations can help reduce risk by continuously verifying every access request and implementing strict authentication processes. Using role-based access controls (RBAC) and network segmentation, organisations can minimize the risk of an attack and reduce the impact radius if an attack occurs.

Zero trust is more than a security philosophy. It’s a unified and adaptive strategy for identity and access management. Through a zero trust approach, organisations not only reduce their attack surface, but also strengthen their ability to detect, respond to and contain threats.

2.Reduce the attack surface

In an environment where AI-powered threat actors are constantly probing for weaknesses, reducing the attack surface is a critical line of defense. Every exposed endpoint, unsecured API, or overlooked supply chain vulnerability represents an opportunity for adversaries to infiltrate systems, deploy malware and exfiltrate sensitive data.

To mitigate these risks, Irish organisations should begin with assessing and understanding their attack surface and related vulnerabilities. From there, they should have a layered defense strategy focused on securing entry points and minimising exposure. This includes strengthening authentication, encrypting data, regularly testing for vulnerabilities and actively monitoring endpoints. Keeping systems patched and devices hardened further limits risks.

By reducing the attack surface, organisations make themselves a harder target, thereby decreasing the likelihood of an attack.

3.Continuously detect and respond to threats

AI-powered attacks are capable of mimicking legitimate behavior and evading traditional security tools, and organisations need to combine advanced threat detection with rapid response capabilities.

Leveraging AI and machine learning, organisations can monitor operational data, detect anomalies, and trigger automated responses in real time.

This AI-powered threat intelligence system builds upon itself, making it smarter and better able to identify and address attacks.

For many Irish organisations who need assistance scaling threat detection and response. Partnering with a trusted third-party provider offers round-the-clock monitoring, faster reaction times, and support in managing complex security operations. Dell Technologies continues to invest in AI-driven security solutions that help Irish organisations stay ahead of emerging threats while simplifying operational complexity.

4.Plan an incident response and recovery plan

While prevention is often the first step to a cybersecurity strategy. A strong cybersecurity strategy includes not only prevention, but also a well-defined plan for response and recovery.

Organisations here in Ireland need to create and routinely practice a robust Incident Response and Recovery (IRR) plan that outlines how to detect, contain, communicate and recover from cyber incidents. The plan should outline departmental roles and responsibilities, internal and external contacts and partners, communication protocols and include regular testing. Preapproved messaging templates and routine plan updates are also essential to maintaining operational continuity during a crisis.

Backing up critical data and applications offline or separated from production workloads helps guard it against ransomware attacks and ensures business continuity.

By preparing for disruption, Irish organisations can restore critical functions with resilience, speed, and confidence.

5.Empower employees as a first line of defense

Technology alone isn’t enough; employees remain the most critical line of defense.  Organisations here in Ireland needs to create a culture of vigilance through employee awareness programmes that integrates continuous education, open communication, real-world simulations, and a culture of shared accountability. For example, incorporating attack simulations that reflect AI-specific threats like advanced phishing and deepfakes helps equip employees to recognise and respond to evolving threat actor tactics.

Collaboration across the technology ecosystem also plays a vital role in strengthening cyber resilience. Dell Technologies, together with partners like NVIDIA, is helping organisations better understand how AI-driven attacks evolve.

NVIDIA’s new AI Kill Chain Framework reimagines the traditional Cyber Kill Chain for the AI era, outlining how adversaries target AI systems through stages such as Recon, Poison, Hijack, Persist, and Impact — often cycling through these stages to adapt and escalate their tactics. This framework offers valuable insights into how attackers’ probe, manipulate, and maintain access within AI ecosystems, helping defenders anticipate and disrupt evolving threats before they lead to broader compromise.

As threat actors evolve using AI to launch increasingly sophisticated attacks, organisations must respond with equal force and foresight. Traditional defenses alone are insufficient. A modern cybersecurity strategy demands a proactive, layered approach that integrates advanced technologies, incident response planning, and a vigilant workforce.

As we mark Cybersecurity Awareness Month, it’s an important reminder that AI is transforming both the opportunities and the risks facing Irish businesses, making it more critical than ever to invest in continuous vigilance, awareness, and adaptation. By embedding resilience at every level of their cybersecurity strategy, Irish organisations can better safeguard their operations and lead with confidence in an increasingly AI-driven world.

Aceii One: The Carry-On Tennis Partner Powered by AI

Aceii is launching Aceii One, an intelligent tennis ball machine that feels like hitting with a live partner. Unlike traditional machines, Aceii One combines dual-camera vision to track every shot in real time, rapid baseline movement to reposition instantly, and a dual-stage serving system that delivers lifelike spin, speed, and placement at intervals as fast as 0.5 seconds. The result: unpredictable, human-like rallies that turn solo practice into real match play—while also keeping training engaging with global app challenges, personalized coach feedback, and a portable design that folds into the size of a 20-inch carry-on.

“Until now, tennis players had to choose between predictable ball machines and the challenge of live practice. Aceii One changes that balance by bringing AI-powered intelligence onto the court,” said Ricky Liu, Founder and CEO of Aceii. “Our vision is to empower players at all levels with professional-grade training that is realistic, accessible, and portable.”

What Makes Aceii One Different

Aceii One is built on the idea that real progress in tennis requires more than repetition. True growth comes from a balance of drills for consistency, match play for adaptability, and coaching for guided improvement. By uniting these three pillars into one system, Aceii One delivers a full-circle training experience that mirrors how athletes train with human partners. This structure ensures players build reliable fundamentals, sharpen competitive instincts, and receive personalized feedback — all in one portable carry-on device.

Drills｜Real Partner-Like Rally Flow

Aceii One delivers continuous, game-style rally training with real-time shot recognition and dynamic response — no robotic, predictable feeds. Every drill feels like hitting with a live partner.

Dynamic Tracking｜Power On & Play

  • Dual-Camera Vision: Tracks every movement and shot without external sensors.
  • Adaptive Exposure: Plays reliably indoors, outdoors, day or night.

Reads Your Shot, Gets There First

  • Instant AI Response: Adjusts ball speed, spin, and placement dynamically to match your skill level.
  • Pro-Level Agility: Accelerates at 3.5 m/s² with 10 cm tracking precision, covering the court in 1.2 seconds—comparable to professional athletes.

Smart Returns｜Max Out the Rhythm

  • Rapid-Fire Play: Patented dual-stage acceleration fires balls at 0.5-second intervals with lifelike spin.
  • Strategic Rallies: Trains anticipation, quick reactions, and tactical shot-making.

Multi-Function Integration

  • Customizable Training: Adjust drills for ball speed, spin, and placement.
  • Digital Social Hub: Auto-captures highlights for instant sharing.
  • Real-Time Feedback: Generates pro-grade data reports for every swing.

Intelligent Competition Modes

Match Play｜Turn Every Session Into a Game

With lightning-fast acceleration and 0.5-second intervals, Aceii One transforms practice into true match play. Players experience rallies with realistic pace, live scoring, and built-in challenges — making every session feel like competition.

Challenge Mode｜Level Up with Data-Driven Games

  • Unlock evolving drills with rewards and milestones.
  • Track progress through a dynamic power progression curve.

Battle Mode｜Human-Like Opponents

  • Simulates real player styles and rhythms.
  • Compete against friends or even pro player datasets.
  • Remote showdowns with identical parameters and detailed match reports.

Ranking Mode｜Smart Placement & Global Leaderboards

  • Start at your true skill level with NTRP-based ranking.
  • Progress through divisions by earning stars and victories.
  • Climb local and global leaderboards to showcase growth.

Coaching & Gamified Training

AI-Recommended Coaching
 Aceii’s AI analyzes every shot and integrates real coach lessons, creating a seamless improvement loop.

Smart 4-Step Training

  • Swing technique, positioning, rhythm control, and shot accuracy systematically covered.
  • Intelligent ball feeds + AI feedback = no wasted reps.
  • Custom paths accelerate breakthroughs.

Gamified Learning

  • Unlock checkpoints and challenges to keep training exciting.
  • Real-time performance reports visualize progress.
  • Achievement system promotes players from Bronze to Champion, unlocking new themes and training modes.

Portable Design | All-In-One Pack, Practice On-the-Go

  • Compact 20-Inch Frame: Fits in small cars and trunks.
  • 120-Ball Capacity: Extended training without interruption.
  • 3-in-1 Design: Machine, ball hopper, and racket slot combined.
  • Foldable Wheels: Deploy automatically for play, fold away for storage.

Effortless Operation | Easy to Use, Turn On & Play

  • Instant Setup: Vision technology requires no wearables or sensors. Start in 5 seconds.
  • Smart Interaction: Wave to start, clap to pause, or use touch-free app controls.
  • Progress Memory: Saves training progress for instant resumption.
  • All-Court Mobility: Adaptive wheels handle hard, clay, or grass courts.

Aceii App | Train, Compete, and Share

  • Custom Drills: Design training sessions for your goals.
  • Global Matches & Challenges: Join worldwide competitions and ranking ladders.
  • AI Coaching: Video lessons paired with personalized data analysis.
  • Smart Recording: Capture highlights and share to social media instantly.
  • Performance Tracking: Monitor accuracy, speed, and consistency after every session.

Solving the Pain Points of Traditional Machines

Predictable feeds and broken rhythm
 Traditional machines act like feeders. Aceii One varies pace, placement, spin, and depth—down to 0.5 s intervals—to create lifelike rallies instead of repetitive shots.

Limited patterns, no real progress
 Where others deliver the same ball each time, Aceii One offers one-click drill modes and fully customizable settings (speed, spin, placement, tempo), scaling from beginner to advanced play.

Slow and complicated setup
 Instead of long adjustments, the Aceii App provides ready-made templates and saved routines. Start practicing in seconds, not minutes.

Bulky and hard to move
 Aceii One folds into a 20-inch carry-on with wheels and a handle. Its ball bag doubles as a backpack, making transport effortless.

Poor adaptability and long downtime
 Compatible with hard, clay, and grass courts, it deploys quickly with minimal setup.

Battery anxiety
 Delivers up to 8 hours of stationary feeding or around 2 hours of intense rally play—enough for any practice session.

Robotic feel, no real pressure
 A dual-stage serving system and fast repositioning create unpredictable rallies that demand real footwork and timing.

 

Solving the Pain Points of Players

No partner, no match-level training
 Aceii One plays back like a live opponent. Smart Rally uses dual cameras and AI to read your position and return shots across the court.

No feedback, unclear improvement path
 Every stroke and movement is tracked. With AI guidance plus real coach video lessons, players see progress and next steps clearly.

Private lessons are costly, limiting frequency
 High-frequency, low-cost training frees coach time for tactics and details while Aceii One handles repetition.

Boring, repetitive sessions reduce motivation
 Built-in challenges, ranking, and community sharing make practice engaging and goal-driven, sustaining consistency over time.

Specifications at a Glance

  • Ball Interval: 0.5 seconds
  • Agility: 3.5 m/s² acceleration, 10 cm tracking precision
  • Capacity: 120 balls
  • Frame: 20-inch carry-on size, foldable wheels
  • Modes: Drills, Match Play, Challenge, Battle, Ranking
  • Connectivity: iOS/Android app, global matches, AI coaching
  • Court Use: Hard, clay, and grass

Availability

The Aceii One is available via Kickstarter. Early backers can reserve the device at a special Super Early Bird price of $999 USD (Retail price: $1,999).

However, to stay tuned for all updates and special offers, visit the official Campaign page.

Meet Amazon Quick Suite: The agentic AI application reshaping how work gets done

Quick Suite helps you cut through the noise of fragmented information, siloed applications, and repetitive tasks to focus on what matters.

Key takeaways

  • Quick Suite is AWS’s agentic AI application that helps employees transform how they find insights, conduct deep research, automate tasks, visualize data, and take actions across apps.
  • Quick connects to your information across internal repositories like wikis and intranets, popular applications, AWS services like S3 and Redshift, and access integrations with MCP to connect to 1,000+ apps.
  • Ask any question and get insightful answers.
  • Battle-tested by tens of thousands of Amazon employees and dozens of customers, you can use Quick for tasks consumer AI shouldn’t handle.

Read more below

We’ve all experienced how AI can transform our personal lives, but this same experience hasn’t been unlocked at work—yet. Consumer AI solutions aren’t connected to all your business data. They don’t have access to the tools you need to get things done at work. And many organizations won’t even let you use consumer offerings, because they lack critical security and privacy features.

That’s why we invented Amazon Quick Suite. It’s the AI experience people love with the security and privacy enterprises trust. Quick is your AI teammate that collaborates with you to get work done. With Quick, you can ask questions and get detailed answers, conduct deep dive research, analyze and visualize data, and create automations for workflows to save time and let you focus on the big picture. And thanks to the enterprise-grade security and privacy standards, Quick can work across all your information, so you finally get the fully featured gen AI experience you want at work, while knowing your queries are never used to train a model.

With Quick, we are entering a new era of work. Interact with Quick through an intuitive, web-based experience or integrations across your browser, Office 365, and more. Working with an AI agent is now as simple as chatting with a teammate. Make a request, ask a question, or automate a task. Quick works with you to help you go from insight directly to action. To see these capabilities firsthand, watch my video overview of Amazon Quick Suite.

We’ve been testing Quick with employees across Amazon and key customers to ensure it’s up to the demands of today’s workplace, and the results speak for themselves. Amazon employees are turning tasks that used to take days into minutes, automating the development of critical reports, and building their own benches of personalized agents. Propulse Lab, a leading marketing automation company, used Quick to streamline their customer service workflows, reducing the average time spent handling tickets by 80%—with a planned expansion of this workflow, they predict they will save over 24,000 hours annually. Based on the results they’ve already seen with Quick, DXC Technology, a global provider of information technology services, is planning to deploy it across more than 120k users, while Vertiv, a provider of critical digital infrastructure, plans to scale their users by more than 25% in 2026.

So how does Quick Suite work?

Bring everything together with Quick Index and Spaces

Quick Index makes it simple for you to connect to the sources and applications that matter. With over 50 built-in connectors for applications like Adobe Analytics, SharePoint, Snowflake, Google Drive, OneDrive, Outlook, ServiceNow, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon S3, Quick brings together all your data securely to ensure you have full context for every decision. Using integrations with OpenAPI or Model Context Protocol (MCP) customers can connect to custom resources and 1,000+ apps by taking advantage of popular MCP servers from Atlassian, Asana, Box, Canva, PagerDuty, Workato, Zapier, and many more. You can then add additional files, dashboards, and other information to dedicated Spaces for you and your team to collaborate.

Ask questions and build agents

Once you’ve connected your data to Quick, you can start interacting with the chat assistant. You can ask Quick to write and send communications for you, or if you want Quick to write in your style or for a particular task (like writing a case study), you can use natural language or point Quick at existing guides or documentation to create a custom agent able to communicate in your intended style.

Analyze and visualize data with Quick Sight

Quick Sight makes business intelligence accessible to everyone with a new agentic experience, helping you gain insights to make better decisions. Unlike traditional business intelligence tools that work only with databases and data warehouses, Quick Sight’s agentic experience analyzes all forms of data across all your systems and apps, including your documents.

For example, a marketer can now easily look at a dashboard of their campaign data with metrics and customer feedback and ask questions in natural language about how the campaign is performing. They get a crisp analysis of the data in seconds without hours of manual statistical analysis, compiling sentiment from feedback, and summarizing the findings into a narrative—no business intelligence or data science experience required.

Dive deep into complex questions with Quick Research

Quick Research is the most accurate and reliable research agent on the market, ready to answer your most in-depth questions. It’s like having your own personal Ph.D. to provide comprehensive answers and reports to questions that require extensive research. It uses sophisticated analysis capabilities and extended processing to dive into your company’s data, and the public internet, including real-time information from 200+ outlets like The Associated Press, The New York Times, Washington Post, and Forbes. Quick Research can turn weeks-long research projects into quick-turn results, all with fully cited sources you can trust.

We tested Quick Research on DeepResearch Bench, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating research agents, using a collective jury, where it provided the most accurate and reliable research across a range of tasks. The Last Mile Delivery team at Amazon used Quick Research to assess the potential impact of new legislation on a particular country that had been previously enacted in other countries. In 30 minutes, Quick Research delivered an in-depth analysis of how this legislation impacted other countries and their associated partner organizations, while also providing details on references and research methodology. This sort of research previously took multiple team members two weeks to complete.

Streamline repetitive tasks with Quick Flows

We all have those routine tasks, like compiling weekly reports or preparing for a recurring meeting, that take up your time every week. Quick Flows helps you use simple prompts to create automated workflows that handle repetitive tasks, reducing errors and freeing you and your team from busy work. For example, a program manager at AWS created a Flow to report on new, in-progress, and closed Asana tickets from the past week, compare them against the previous week’s status and committed items, and generate an executive summary email for leadership, saving multiple hours of manual work each week.

Handle complex multi-system workflows with Quick Automate

When these processes get complex and require hundreds of steps to be securely executed across multiple enterprise systems, like insurance claims processing or onboarding a new employee, teams wish that these tasks could be streamlined, but they lack the sophisticated automation tools and expertise to do it. With natural language prompts or by simply using existing documentation for their standard operating procedure, Quick Automate coordinates even the most complex business workflows across multiple applications, systems, or departments.

For instance, the Amazon Finance team uses Quick Automate to reconcile thousands of invoices every month. Quick Automate pulls information across multiple external transportation management systems, cross referencing this content with internal data from Amazon systems to help teams forecast cashflow, identify payment blockers, and conduct root cause analysis. The team built this automation without a dev team in days instead of weeks, and Quick made it easy to scale across multiple teams. Customers, such as Kitsa, have found the computer use agent in Quick Automate to be the most accurate solution for browser automation, helping them reliably automate their most complex and sensitive workflows across applications at scale.

Quick works wherever you are. With an intuitive web application, extensions in popular browsers like Chrome and Firefox, and extensions in Microsoft Outlook, Teams, and Word, Quick helps you find answers and act immediately in your flow of work.

Quick Suite is already transforming work for Amazon employees and customers

Quick serves people across every department and role—from sales reps to marketers, to CEOs and CIOs, to engineers and IT. Employees across Amazon, along with customers like Vertiv, DXC, 3M, Jabil, dLocal, Propulse Lab, and Kitsa, are already seeing amazing results with Quick:

Research in high gear

Jessica Gibson, vice president and associate general counsel at Amazon, sees an enormous benefit using Quick Research to help the Legal, Public Policy, and Compliance departments keep up with shifting global requirements that impact their business. From a single prompt, Quick Research helps her team synthesize complex requirements for specific geographic regions and provide recommendations at remarkable speed. “This same task used to require many hours of outside counsel, research, and writing,” said Gibson. By using Quick Research to compile these reports, her team can “stay agile while optimizing both time and resources.”

Automations that work

Kitsa, a customer that builds software to help expedite clinical trials, used Quick Automate to pore through hundreds of webpages and found that they were able to analyze sites for clinical trials in days that previously took months—with a 91% cost savings. “Compared to similar offerings like Manus and ChatGPT Operator, we achieved the highest accuracy and data coverage for our use case,” said Rohit Banga, the company’s co-founder and CTO.

Data-driven business decisions

Robbie Wright, a senior product marketer at AWS, uses Quick Flows to build a repeatable workflow to draft monthly business reviews based on business metrics from Quick Sight, campaign performance reporting from Adobe Analytics, and content from emails, and other internal documents. This saves time and helps his team make more informed decisions about ongoing campaigns faster.

“The workflow makes it simple to combine multiple sources into a concise update for our leaders,” Wright said. “I can now complete these projects 90% faster, and the quality of my reports has improved dramatically because I spend less time chasing numbers and more time providing my own insights.”

An AI-driven transformation

Jabil, a global leader in engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions, is embracing Quick so that employees can use natural language to research regulatory updates across key industries faster and to optimize account collections and request for quote (RFQ) submissions. The automations in account collections and RFQs alone are expected to save about $400,000 annually as a result!

“The multi-tier AI architecture powered by Quick consolidates chatbots and information sources, increasing our manufacturing speed and flexibility,” said May Yap, Jabil’s CIO. “As part of our AI-driven transformation, these unified capabilities are helping us drive efficiencies and operational excellence.”

Complex workflows made simple

Natalie Fischbeck works in business development on Amazon’s Workforce Staffing team, and in one week she built 39 customized AI agents using Quick to help her complete complex tasks in minutes.

“Quick has given me the opportunity to create an accessible hub of institutional knowledge that would otherwise be scattered,” she said. “We now have scalable, logic-based agents that track all our leads and solutions at a high level. Because they pull from all our most recent emails and documents, they can provide dynamic updates almost instantly.”

Beyond productivity: A whole new way of working

What strikes me about these examples isn’t just the time saved—it’s how Quick is fundamentally changing our relationship with work. It’s removing the busy work that used to consume valuable time and energy and gives us the time back to focus on what matters. It brings together all the data, metrics, and institutional knowledge you need to make decisions, and helps you act on these decisions to drive outcomes.

We’ve been blown away by all the creative ways people have used Quick so far, and we’re excited to see how others will use it in the future. There are so many possibilities to dig into with these tools, and our team is hard at work finding ways to make them even more useful for customers in the future.

Eirmersive Launches PRISM Immersive Technology Summit

Eirmersive, a leading voice in Ireland for the immersive technology sector, has announced that PRISM Immersive Technology Summit, will take place on Wednesday, October 29th, 2025 at Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT).

This groundbreaking all-island event will bring together up to 150 innovators, business leaders, and researchers to explore how the convergence of Extended Reality (XR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Digital Twins is delivering competitive advantage across Construction, Manufacturing, Health Tech, Energy, and other critical sectors.

Driven by Eirmersive’s commitment to collaboration and inclusivity, the PRISM Summit is designed to innovate while cultivating partnerships that deliver real-world impact. The programme will feature keynote presentations, live demonstrations, panel discussions, and strategic networking opportunities. 

Camille Donegan, CEO of Eirmersive, said:

“Immersive technologies offer transformative potential for industry, but adoption requires trusted guidance, community, and clarity around real-world use cases. That’s exactly what PRISM delivers. If you’re an innovator or researcher looking to explore how XR, AI, and digital twins can create real value, this summit is for you.”

Aidan Browne, Head of Innovation & Business Development at Dundalk Institute of Technology, added:

“Dundalk Institute of Technology is delighted to partner with Eirmersive to host PRISM, connecting industry leaders, researchers, and forward-thinking innovators. Through this collaboration, we are excited to showcase cutting-edge solutions to our students and the wider business community, demonstrating how immersive technology can address real industry challenges, unlock skilled talent, and drive greater efficiency.”

Attendees will experience a full day of programming built around ROI-driven case studies and high-impact demonstrations. The programme includes keynote presentations from thought leaders and pioneers at the forefront of immersive technology, alongside interactive demonstration booths offering hands-on access to cutting-edge tools and solutions from Eirmersive members. Delegates will participate in sector-specific deep dives addressing challenges and opportunities in key industries, whilst engaging in strategic networking with SME leaders, enterprise innovators, technology developers, researchers, educators, policy leaders, and innovation support agencies.

Confirmed speakers include Brian Cooney, CEO of KUKA Robotics Ireland, who will present on “How digital twin, XR and AI shorten lead-time, ensure safety and reduce the cost of automation for manufacturing,” and Timmy Ghiurău Innovation Leader at Volvo Cars. 

The summit has already received robust support across Ireland and Northern Ireland, with partners  including Dundalk Institute of Technology, Queen’s University Belfast, Digital Catapult, InterTradeIreland, Louth County Council and its Local Enterprise Office, Oriel Hub, Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet, and Creative Ireland.

Registration: Available on Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/prism-clarity-in-the-age-of-convergence-tickets-1533671686299

Gen Z is coaching older colleagues to use AI

A new global study from International Workplace Group (IWG), the world’s largest platform for work and provider of flexible workspace, reveals that Gen Z employees are playing a pivotal role in driving AI adoption across the workforce, coaching older colleagues to help unlock productivity and collaboration gains in hybrid working environments.
The study, based on a survey of over 2,000 professionals across the US and UK, shows that AI is becoming a cornerstone of how teams and in particular hybrid teams operate. 80% of workers have experimented with AI tools, and 78% say it has saved them time, averaging 55 minutes of saved time per day, equivalent to almost an extra full working day per week.
Workers report that this time is being reallocated to higher-value activities such as creative or strategic work (41%), learning and development (41%), in-person collaboration (40%), and networking (35%). An overwhelming 86% say AI has helped them complete tasks more efficiently, and 76% report that it is directly accelerating their career advancement, with this figure rising to 87% among Gen Z workers.
Cross-generational collaboration key to unlocking AI gains
Cross-generational collaboration is central to this transformation. Nearly two-thirds (59%) of younger employees are actively helping older, more tenured colleagues adopt and learn to use AI tools, with 80% of Senior Directors reporting that this support lets them focus on higher-value tasks, while 82% of Senior Directors report that AI innovations introduced by younger colleagues have unlocked new business opportunities.
Two-thirds of C-suite leaders say younger staff’s AI skills have improved their department’s productivity, and over 80% of senior directors believe AI innovations introduced by junior colleagues have opened up new business opportunities.
Overall, 86% of those surveyed report AI has made them more efficient, and 76% believe it is advancing their career, rising to 87% among Gen Z respondents. AI’s influence on collaboration is also clear: 69% of hybrid workers say it is making teamwork across locations easier, citing benefits such as improved meeting preparation (46%), access to shared insights (36%), and stronger post-meeting follow-ups (36%).
Workers are embracing AI’s potential to eliminate time-consuming administrative tasks. The most common areas where employees want AI to step in include drafting emails (43%), taking and summarising meeting notes (42%), organising files (36%), and completing data entry or forms (36%). With these tasks automated, employees are reallocating time to more meaningful work: 55% are now focusing on high-impact projects, 54% are pursuing professional development, and 40% are using the time to build stronger relationships with colleagues and clients or to invest in personal well-being.
Benefits for hybrid workers
The study also found that 69% of hybrid workers say AI is making it easier to collaborate with colleagues across locations. Improvements in meeting preparation (46%), access to shared insights (36%), and more effective follow-ups (36%) are streamlining teamwork, while 40% say AI has freed up time to invest in team-building and communication.
In the hybrid model, AI is also reshaping how office time is used. With automation handling routine work, hybrid professionals now prioritise strategic thinking (41%), learning and development (41%), face-to-face collaboration (40%), and networking (35%) during in-office days. More than half of workers (53%) say AI is helping them achieve better outcomes, and 64% believe it is making hybrid working smoother and more effective.
Workers are aware of the stakes. Two-thirds (63%) worry that not learning AI tools could slow their career progression, and 61% believe those who don’t adopt AI risk being left behind. Yet the trend is toward inclusive, shared upskilling: 51% of employees say AI is helping bridge generational divides, and over half regularly share AI knowledge with colleagues, rising to 66% among 25–34-year-olds.
Mark Dixon, Founder and CEO of IWG, said: “The world of work is evolving rapidly. Advances in technology, particularly in AI are boosting productivity, opening up new career opportunities, and connecting different generations of expertise.
These significant AI enabled productivity gains are helping to create more connected, agile teams ready for the future of work. Younger generations are playing a pivotal role by sharing their digital skills with their  colleagues, which enhances performance and uncovers new business opportunities.”

How Irish Tech Companies Are Using AI to Slash Onboarding Time by 70%

The Hidden Cost Destroying Irish Tech Profitability

Every Monday, another cohort of developers joins Irish tech companies, beginning an onboarding journey costing €18,000 per person before they write production code. Across Dublin’s docklands, Cork’s tech clusters, and Galway’s medtech corridor, companies hemorrhage millions through inefficient training taking six months to produce productive employees—if they don’t quit first.

The mathematics are brutal. Ireland’s tech sector hires 15,000 new employees annually. With average onboarding costs of €18,000 and 29% leaving within their first year, the industry wastes €50 million annually on failed training investments. This excludes productivity losses, errors from undertrained staff, and competitive disadvantages from slow scaling.

The solution exists, deployed successfully from Belfast to Brussels. AI-powered corporate training platforms transform six-month onboarding into six-week sprints, reducing costs 60% whilst improving retention 40%. ProfileTree documents how Irish tech companies using AI training achieve full productivity 70% faster than traditional approaches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZEI0fDyGno 

Why Traditional Tech Training Fails

The traditional model—senior developers mentoring juniors, documentation wikis, occasional workshops—worked when companies hired dozens annually. Today’s scaling companies hiring hundreds face different reality. Senior developers spending 30% of time training aren’t shipping features. Documentation becomes outdated before publication. Generic workshops ignore individual skill gaps.

Consider a mid-level developer joining Dublin fintech. Week one: reading outdated documentation. Week two: shadowing busy seniors. Weeks 3-12: trial-and-error learning with production mistakes. By month six, they’re productive—assuming they haven’t accepted better offers from faster-onboarding competitors.

Modern tech stacks compound complexity. Companies use dozens of technologies—microservices, cloud platforms, DevOps toolchains. New hires must understand interactions. A Limerick SaaS company discovered developers needed understanding of 47 different tools. Sequential traditional training would take years.

The 29% First-Year Exodus

Ireland’s talent shortage means new hires have options. When onboarding frustrates, they leave. The 29% first-year attrition represents recruitment costs, knowledge loss, team disruption, delayed development. Galway medical device companies report losing partially-trained developers sets projects back three months.

Exit interviews reveal patterns: information overload, struggling to find answers, preventable mistakes, feeling unproductive. One Cork developer summarised: “I spent four months feeling stupid before realising everyone was equally confused.”

Financial impact extends beyond direct costs. Delayed productivity means slower delivery, lost opportunities, reduced competitiveness. A Waterford analytics company calculated slow onboarding cost them €2.3 million—prospects chose competitors who scaled faster.

How AI Delivers 70% Faster Productivity

AI platforms revolutionise onboarding through personalisation and adaptation. Instead of one-size-fits-all, AI creates individual paths based on existing skills and role requirements. Senior Python developers skip basics, focusing on company-specific architectures.

Natural language processing enables conversational learning. Developers ask questions plainly, receiving contextual answers. Dublin blockchain companies report developers resolve 80% of questions through AI, reducing senior interruption 65%.

Machine learning identifies knowledge gaps before problems. Analysing code reviews and error logs, AI detects struggles and provides targeted training. This preemptive approach prevents production mistakes plaguing new hires.

The Technology Stack Revolutionising Onboarding

Modern platforms integrate multiple technologies. Virtual environments allow safe experimentation. Code analysis provides real-time feedback. Simulation platforms recreate production scenarios.

Adaptive algorithms adjust difficulty based on performance. Fast learners advance rapidly; struggling learners receive support. Knowledge graphs map technology relationships, showing how Docker containers interact with Kubernetes, how CI/CD triggers deployments.

Real Irish Tech Results

Stripe Dublin reduced time-to-productivity from 16 to 5 weeks. New developers ship production code within month one. The system saved €2.1 million through reduced training costs and faster scaling.

A Galway medtech company implemented AI training for regulatory compliance—traditionally their longest component. Six weeks of workshops now happens through adaptive AI sessions. Developers achieve certification 75% faster with 90% pass rates.

Cork’s Teamwork.com transformed onboarding using AI code review. Developers submit code to AI providing senior-level feedback without consuming senior time. Junior developers reach senior quality 60% faster.

Beyond Developers: AI Across Roles

AI transforms every tech role. Product managers learn methodologies through simulated planning. Designers explore guidelines through generative AI. SEO consultants master tool stacks through adaptive tutorials.

Sales teams practice with AI creating scenarios from actual customer profiles. Dublin cybersecurity firms reduced sales ramp-up from four months to six weeks using AI role-play.

Customer success benefits from AI trained on historical tickets. New members learn from thousands of resolved issues before handling live customers, reducing escalations and improving resolution.

The Psychology of Accelerated Learning

AI succeeds through psychological optimisation. Gamification maintains engagement without patronising. Progress visualisation provides motivation. Social features enable peer learning without public failure pressure.

Cognitive load theory informs information presentation. Spaced repetition ensures retention. Active recall strengthens memory. These techniques accelerate learning whilst reducing stress.

Psychological safety proves crucial. AI provides judgment-free environments for mistakes and “stupid” questions. This safety accelerates learning by encouraging experimentation and honest self-assessment.

Build vs Buy Decision

Companies face critical decisions: develop internal systems or adopt commercial platforms. Building offers customisation but requires €500,000-1,000,000 investment plus maintenance. Only largest companies hiring hundreds annually justify this.

Commercial platforms (€100-500 per user monthly) provide sophisticated capabilities without overhead. Leading solutions integrate with existing tools, import documentation, customise to tech stacks. Key lies in balancing sophistication with usability.

Implementation Roadmap

Successful implementation follows phases: Assessment identifies pain points. Pilots validate approaches. Gradual expansion allows refinement. Full deployment transforms learning culture.

Phase one documents existing knowledge. AI requires quality input for valuable output. Capturing tribal knowledge provides value regardless.

Phase two pilots with specific teams. Starting with developer onboarding demonstrates value whilst minimising risk. Metrics should include time-to-productivity and retention, not just completion.

Phase three scales successful approaches. Integration with HR automates enrolment. Analytics track effectiveness. Feedback enables improvement.

Measuring ROI

Time-to-productivity provides clearest ROI indicator. Irish companies report reductions from 24 to 8 weeks, saving €12,000 per hire.

Quality metrics prove important. Companies using AI report 30% fewer new-hire errors despite 70% faster onboarding, compounding savings through reduced debugging.

Retention improvements deliver highest value. Reducing attrition from 29% to 17% saves recruitment costs and preserves knowledge. Dublin software companies calculate retention improvements save €3.2 million annually across 200-person organisations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c2c61VzUJ0 

Competitive Advantage Through Training

In Ireland’s talent-constrained market, superior onboarding becomes competitive weapon. Companies transforming hires fastest scale rapidly, deliver quicker, capture opportunities competitors miss. Reputation spreads—best talent gravitates toward excellent onboarding.

Customer impact follows. Faster scaling means quicker delivery and better support. Properly trained teams create better experiences, crucial in regulated industries where errors carry consequences.

Investment attraction improves with demonstrated scaling. VCs evaluate growth potential. Companies proving efficient scaling attract better terms. Training infrastructure becomes valuable beyond operational benefits.

Your Path to Transformation

Calculate true training costs including trainer time, lost productivity, errors, attrition. Most discover they’re spending 3-4 times estimated budgets. This baseline justifies investment.

Evaluate specific needs against solutions. High-complexity technical training differs from sales training. Consider integration, customisation, support. Request pilots before enterprise deployment.

Move decisively once selected. The 70% reduction isn’t theoretical—it’s achieved routinely by committed companies. Every delay month means continued waste and competitive disadvantage. In Ireland’s accelerating market, superior training determines who thrives versus survives.

Irish SMBs AI adoption: 80% set to embrace AI within a year

Ireland’s small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are set to double down on AI, but they’re doing so with a clear-eyed understanding of the challenges ahead. A new report from Viatel Technology Group and Amárach Research reveals a promising surge in adoption, alongside a sharp focus on planning, privacy and security.

The report, “AI Horizons: Insights into AI Adoption, Security and Risk in Irish SMBs”, paints a picture of a market poised for a significant shift. The survey conducted among 150 Irish business decision makers found that while 31% of Irish SMBs report that no AI adoption has taken place to date, 80% expect to be engaged with AI from early trials to extensive use within the next 12 months.

This shift isn’t just about trying the latest trend; it’s about real, impactful integration. The extensive use of fully integrated AI is set to more than double, rising from 7% to 17% in the same period, indicating a move beyond simple curiosity to genuine, strategic implementation.

Crucially, the report highlights that for businesses already using AI, the benefits are undeniable. 98% of those organisations using AI find it useful, underscoring its tangible value.

“This research offers a timely and comprehensive exploration of the current AI landscape, uniquely tailored to the Irish context,” says Lisa Hunt, Microsoft Practice Director at Viatel Technology Group.

“The report focused on Irish companies with up to 500 employees, who are well aware of the need to unlock the full potential of artificial intelligence but cannot afford failed experiments, and need to demonstrate a worthwhile return on investment. Trusted external support is critical in ensuring that every organisation is equipped to compete in the race to AI.”

While the appetite for AI is strong, 95% of Irish SMBs see significant barriers. Leading the charge are concerns over security (38%), a lack of technical expertise (35%), and a missing AI policy or framework (33%). Irish firms are keenly aware of the competitive disadvantage of not adopting AI, but they are also wary of the uncertain return on investment and the potential for financial loss from failed projects.

Policies and roadmaps are seen as crucial to avoid pitfalls, but a staggering 87% of businesses don’t have a formal AI policy in place, and only 5% have a detailed roadmap with a timeline and budget. The report also highlights a significant knowledge gap, revealing that 35% of SMBs simply don’t know where to start when it comes to implementing proper AI governance.

“There’s a lot of noise around AI, and a lot of people are talking about it,” said James Finglas, Managing Director of Digital Services at Viatel Technology Group. “Unfortunately, very few are actually doing it. At Viatel, we’re actively partnering with public and private sector organisations on their AI frameworks; getting the policies, people, and processes in place to roll out AI; to truly deliver return on investment and contribute to business goals.”