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Business Today |
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Thursday, 04 June, 2026 | | |
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Editor's Note |
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Good morning, reader |
It feels like it’s been a tough time for those working in the technology sector, with lay-offs at Meta and Oracle in Ireland, along with a general sense that the walls are closing in on an industry that looked to be eternally gilded. Yet this month’s AIB Services PMI, essentially a snapshot measurement of the health of the sector, paints a different picture. Employment in technology, media and telecoms rose at its fastest rate in a year, the report shows. As Colin Gleeson reports, it is perhaps a sign that not everything is as bad as we may think.
Colin also reports on a new survey which shows few people think they will have enough in their pension to retire on, despite auto-enrolment coming in earlier this year.
It already seems to be all-pervading in our lives but how much AI is too much AI? It’s a question that appears to be on more and more people’s lips these days. Ciara O’Brien delves into the issue in Net Results.
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