Paul Sweeney
@realpaulsweeney.bsky.social
Product Strategy, technology companies, Internet. Co-Founder at Webio.com: Co-founder at ConverCon - The Conversational Interface Conference.
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Paul Sweeney
@realpaulsweeney.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Looking forward to engaging conversations with real people, again.
Wow. What a piece. The serenity prayer "leaps to mind"... (both as a guide and a symptom of what she describes).
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Sinéad O'Sullivan: John Collison is only half right. Ireland’s problem isn’t just process, it’s psychology
We have money, talent and trust, but to cross threshold into action demands something rarer: courage
www.irishtimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Wow. What a piece. The serenity prayer "leaps to mind"... (both as a guide and a symptom of what she describes).
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
My first post for Aryza and it's on how AI will change all customer experiences, probably more proundly than we even expect today, even with all the hype..
www.linkedin.com/posts/aryza_...
www.linkedin.com/posts/aryza_...
The Future of AI in Customer Service Experiences | Aryza
🤖 What does the future of customer experience look like in an AI-first world?
In his latest piece for The AI Journal, Aryza’s Product Integration Officer, Paul Sweeney, explores how generative and c...
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September 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
My first post for Aryza and it's on how AI will change all customer experiences, probably more proundly than we even expect today, even with all the hype..
www.linkedin.com/posts/aryza_...
www.linkedin.com/posts/aryza_...
Agentic Payments and The Token Layercake ! Lots of standards games evolving here. However, the security and authentication layers have to catch up. When it hits though, it will hit fast, as the commentators say. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/f...
Simon Taylor on Agentic Payments and Opportunities
Podcast Episode · Fintech Layer Cake · 07/05/2025 · 41m
podcasts.apple.com
May 8, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Agentic Payments and The Token Layercake ! Lots of standards games evolving here. However, the security and authentication layers have to catch up. When it hits though, it will hit fast, as the commentators say. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/f...
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Bravo, bravo, bravo to Ireland’s @declanwalsh.bsky.social for winning a Pulitzer
May 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Bravo, bravo, bravo to Ireland’s @declanwalsh.bsky.social for winning a Pulitzer
Great conversation about how coding assistants are changing the development process. Thanks @charlietaylor.bsky.social and Jason Walsh www.linkedin.com/posts/webio-...
#ai #customerengagement #creditandcollections #aicopilot #webio #aiintech… | Webio
AI Co-Pilots: From Code Reviews to Customer Conversations. Our CSO, Paul Sweeney, was featured in the Business Post's Connected Magazine, sharing his take on the rise of AI-powered assistants—fro...
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May 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Great conversation about how coding assistants are changing the development process. Thanks @charlietaylor.bsky.social and Jason Walsh www.linkedin.com/posts/webio-...
Such a good high level discussion of working / co-working with AI @emollick.bsky.social cc @stephenkinsella.bsky.social @marklittle.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/n...
73 | Ethan Mollick and a million Einsteins in a server
Podcast Episode · Night Science · 07/04/2025 · 38m
podcasts.apple.com
April 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Such a good high level discussion of working / co-working with AI @emollick.bsky.social cc @stephenkinsella.bsky.social @marklittle.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/n...
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Today UL has made the decision to no longer post on X
If you're one of our new Bluesky followers, check out our UL Starter Pack of academics, researchers, departments & faculties:
go.bsky.app/6E5Dav8
#StudyatUL
If you're one of our new Bluesky followers, check out our UL Starter Pack of academics, researchers, departments & faculties:
go.bsky.app/6E5Dav8
#StudyatUL
March 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Today UL has made the decision to no longer post on X
If you're one of our new Bluesky followers, check out our UL Starter Pack of academics, researchers, departments & faculties:
go.bsky.app/6E5Dav8
#StudyatUL
If you're one of our new Bluesky followers, check out our UL Starter Pack of academics, researchers, departments & faculties:
go.bsky.app/6E5Dav8
#StudyatUL
Really interesting pod on the product challenge and approach at Notion. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/l...
Notion’s lost years, its near collapse during Covid, staying small to move fast, the joy and suffering of building horizontal, more | Ivan Zhao (CEO and co-founder)
Podcast Episode · Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career · 06/03/2025 · 1h 12m
podcasts.apple.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Really interesting pod on the product challenge and approach at Notion. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/l...
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Very much enjoying how the launch of Amazon dot aye eee has been mostly people talking about how Kenny's, the family owned Galway bookshop, offer free national and international postage at the same prices or cheaper.
March 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Very much enjoying how the launch of Amazon dot aye eee has been mostly people talking about how Kenny's, the family owned Galway bookshop, offer free national and international postage at the same prices or cheaper.
A lot of the "we need to prepare for AGI" feels a lot like "when the aliens land.... "
March 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
A lot of the "we need to prepare for AGI" feels a lot like "when the aliens land.... "
Giving "that irish family of fanatical far right lunatics" the number one headline position in the @irishtimes.com really is a classic example of doing their job for them.
March 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Giving "that irish family of fanatical far right lunatics" the number one headline position in the @irishtimes.com really is a classic example of doing their job for them.
No it is diverse: two of them are wearing brown shoes…
March 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
No it is diverse: two of them are wearing brown shoes…
Would love to see some people follow @webiohq.bsky.social on this thing... :)
🎙️New Credit Shift Podcast Episode AI in #DigitalDebtCollection in 2025?
We cover:
* Where AI is actually working
* How digital collections are evolving
* Key insights & actionable takeaways
🎧 Listen: https://bit.ly/3WOvPzb
#AI #DebtCollection #CustomerEngagement #AIAutomation
We cover:
* Where AI is actually working
* How digital collections are evolving
* Key insights & actionable takeaways
🎧 Listen: https://bit.ly/3WOvPzb
#AI #DebtCollection #CustomerEngagement #AIAutomation
February 26, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Would love to see some people follow @webiohq.bsky.social on this thing... :)
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The pace of change resulting from artificial intelligence, particularly in the area of work, will be “unprecedented”, the state’s AI advisory council has warned
www.businesspost.ie/tech-news/ai...
www.businesspost.ie/tech-news/ai...
AI to lead to ‘unprecedented’ changes, government warned
AI advisory council says it could be easy to miss signs that AI is having a big impact on employment locally, as it warns on the use of facial recognition technology
www.businesspost.ie
February 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The pace of change resulting from artificial intelligence, particularly in the area of work, will be “unprecedented”, the state’s AI advisory council has warned
www.businesspost.ie/tech-news/ai...
www.businesspost.ie/tech-news/ai...
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Yesterday, I returned from 3 weeks in Costa Rica, where I went to find out what can be learned from their spectacular success rewilding a country.
I cannot overstate how awe-inspiring the trip was: nature loss CAN be reversed on a huge scale, benefiting *everyone*.
I cannot overstate how awe-inspiring the trip was: nature loss CAN be reversed on a huge scale, benefiting *everyone*.
February 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Yesterday, I returned from 3 weeks in Costa Rica, where I went to find out what can be learned from their spectacular success rewilding a country.
I cannot overstate how awe-inspiring the trip was: nature loss CAN be reversed on a huge scale, benefiting *everyone*.
I cannot overstate how awe-inspiring the trip was: nature loss CAN be reversed on a huge scale, benefiting *everyone*.
Delighted to be in conversation with The CEO of Bird, the multi billion dollar messaging and CPaaS company; Alan Quale industry analyst, and Giovanni Taroni wall street investor about the future of communications. TLTR? Autonomous (@RobertDViz on the other place).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cldl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cldl...
Podcast 104: TADSummit Innovators, Robert Vis on Bird Box
YouTube video by Telecom Application Development Summit
www.youtube.com
January 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Delighted to be in conversation with The CEO of Bird, the multi billion dollar messaging and CPaaS company; Alan Quale industry analyst, and Giovanni Taroni wall street investor about the future of communications. TLTR? Autonomous (@RobertDViz on the other place).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cldl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cldl...
Anyone who has worked on notifications will tell you they are really, really hard. The value in notifications also shifts as users get familiar with the notifications over time. What Apple is trying to do was outlined by @padday.bsky.social a few years ago. www.siliconrepublic.com/business/app...
Apple calls a halt to AI notification summaries amid backlash
Apple has decided to briefly halt its AI news generating feature to implement much needed changes and make the function more transparent.
www.siliconrepublic.com
January 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Anyone who has worked on notifications will tell you they are really, really hard. The value in notifications also shifts as users get familiar with the notifications over time. What Apple is trying to do was outlined by @padday.bsky.social a few years ago. www.siliconrepublic.com/business/app...
The forgotten part of the AI “boom” is the open science aspect and paper publishing. I hope the traditional sciences learn from this .
venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft...
venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft...
Microsoft’s new rStar-Math technique upgrades small models to outperform OpenAI’s o1-preview at math problems
Phi-4 and an rStar-Math paper suggest that compact, specialized models can provide powerful alternatives to the industry’s largest systems.
venturebeat.com
January 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The forgotten part of the AI “boom” is the open science aspect and paper publishing. I hope the traditional sciences learn from this .
venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft...
venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft...
It just made headlines up?
Apple to update AI feature after BBC issues complaint
Apple to update AI feature after BBC issues complaint
The BBC has issued a complaint against Apple in relation to the false attribution of summarised news, pulled from generative AI software.
www.siliconrepublic.com
January 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
It just made headlines up?
Just saw this specific area called out for in the new Y Combinator intake. Lots of AI and LLM stuff in there as you would expect. www.ycombinator.com/rfs
December 11, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Just saw this specific area called out for in the new Y Combinator intake. Lots of AI and LLM stuff in there as you would expect. www.ycombinator.com/rfs
All very cool!
Research breakthrough in chip design at University of Limerick
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
Research breakthrough in chip design at University of Limerick
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
Research breakthrough in chip design at University of Limerick
Project could pace way for State becoming centre of new export industry, it is claimed
www.irishtimes.com
December 9, 2024 at 4:51 PM
All very cool!
Research breakthrough in chip design at University of Limerick
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
Research breakthrough in chip design at University of Limerick
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
Never count Google out it would seem
December 9, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Never count Google out it would seem
November 22, 2024 at 4:06 PM
More mismanagement of Irish waterways and natural resources. Is there no end to our incompetence? HT @marklittle.bsky.social
The recent influx of thousands of Mauve stinger jellyfish into Lough Hyne in Co Cork is just the latest of many threats facing this delicate ecosystem.
@investigates.thejournal.ie spent the past year investigating why Europe’s oldest marine reserve is under threat.
Read our full findings:
@investigates.thejournal.ie spent the past year investigating why Europe’s oldest marine reserve is under threat.
Read our full findings:
Europe’s oldest marine reserve, located in County Cork, is in decline. What’s going on?
The Journal Investigates finds multiple pressures and lack of management are wreaking havoc on life in Lough Hyne Marine Reserve.
jrnl.ie
November 22, 2024 at 10:57 AM
More mismanagement of Irish waterways and natural resources. Is there no end to our incompetence? HT @marklittle.bsky.social