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Get Charlie Taylor’s Connected newsletter to your inbox each Friday to read the innovation and technology stories that matter to Irish business.Tech companies have long resisted attempts by employees to unionise but the recent wave of layoffs in the sector have outlined just how vulnerable staff are working at such firms. While employees here may enjoy greater rights than their counterparts in the US, the impact of the job losses has been an increase in the number of workers looking to unionise.
OpenAI may have got a head start in terms of introducing AI technology to the masses but other big companies are also getting in on the action. Just a week after Google’s Bard launched in Europe, it was revealed that Facebook-parent Meta Platforms is to make its artificial intelligence large language model, Llama 2, available for commercial use through partnerships with major cloud providers that include Microsoft.
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