{"id":173848,"date":"2026-01-02T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/artificial-intelligence-to-be-at-the-heart-of-innovation-in-coming-year-the-irish-times\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T00:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:05:10","slug":"artificial-intelligence-to-be-at-the-heart-of-innovation-in-coming-year-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/artificial-intelligence-to-be-at-the-heart-of-innovation-in-coming-year-the-irish-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence to be at the heart of innovation in coming year \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/01\/02\/artificial-intelligence-to-be-at-the-heart-of-innovation-in-coming-year\/\">Artificial intelligence to be at the heart of innovation in coming year \u2013 The Irish Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/01\/02\/artificial-intelligence-to-be-at-the-heart-of-innovation-in-coming-year\/\">https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/01\/02\/artificial-intelligence-to-be-at-the-heart-of-innovation-in-coming-year\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-02 00:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.irishtimes.com\">www.irishtimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to be the driving force behind all future innovation in 2026, impacting various sectors from recruitment and software providing to IT multinationals and cybersecurity.<\/li>\n<li>Multimodal AI, which facilitates communication in multiple modes, will become increasingly important, shifting the way businesses interact and making AI more integral to workflow than text-based tools.<\/li>\n<li>AI will play a crucial role in enhancing security, with companies needing to demonstrate how they protect their systems, particularly in the wake of new EU regulations like the Cyber Resilience Act.<\/li>\n<li>Internal governance will also grow in importance as businesses increasingly adopt AI, emphasizing transparent and practical governance to avoid fines and data breaches.<\/li>\n<li>AI is expected to enhance efficiency in recruitment and reduce manual administrative tasks, as well as to accelerate adoption in the public sector, especially in healthcare.<\/li>\n<li>Companies will need to beware of vulnerabilities in their supply chains and maintain visibility in data deployment to maximize the benefits of AI while mitigating risks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence to be at the heart of innovation in coming year \u2013 The Irish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/resizer\/v2\/UKR642P7U5GYVGUB4SBFGGW63Y.jpg?smart=true&auth=fa1f49d373a8dd82d8b070de2a3576f0327501317df6272a95e33fe3db318237&width=1200&height=630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-173848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173850,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173848\/revisions\/173850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}