What now for Tulsa drone king? Bobby Healy on leaving Ireland and scaling Manna in Oklahoma | Can It Scale?

Manna Air Delivery founder Bobby Healy reveals his ambition to build the world's biggest drone delivery business, and why Ireland is no longer the place to scale it. From testing chip deliveries in his back garden to taking on Amazon and Google in the US, Healy discusses capital, regulation and hi…

The pros and cons of breaking WhatsApp's encryption to fight crime

Should the state be allowed to break encrypted messages in the name of fighting crime? Ireland and the EU are wrestling with a difficult trade-off between privacy and security, as proposals to monitor digital communications put services like WhatsApp, iMessage and Signal under pressure. Adrian spea…

From cash crunch to unicorn — Conor McCarthy's Flipdish story

Flipdish co-founder Conor McCarthy reveals how a simple idea to make ordering food easier grew into a billion-dollar Irish tech business. From a cash crunch that threatened payroll to unicorn status and a new push into AI, McCarthy explains how Flipdish evolved, why it is doubling down on restaura…

Get ready for a wave of AI hacking public services

AI could soon make cyber-attacks on public services far more frequent, with Ireland potentially facing serious disruption to everything from healthcare to banking and transport. Adrian speaks to Peter Tanham, analyst at TheState.ie, former founder, political strategist and recently departed Meta g…

From near collapse to Netflix — an amazing Irish scaleup story | Can It Scale?

StoryToys chief executive Emmet O’Neill reveals how the Dublin company came within a thread of collapse before an unexpected email from Lego changed its fortunes.  From cutting staff and negotiating million-euro debts to working with Lego, Disney and Netflix, O’Neill explains the decisions that ke…

The iPhone Duo review: pure delight with one big catch

What is Apple’s new folding iPhone Duo really like to use? Is its huge screen worth the eye watering price, and what compromises come with the design? Adrian Weckler joins Saoirse Hanley to discuss a week of testing Apple’s first folding phone, from its impressive display and pocket friendly desig…

The Irish woman at the top of AI's biggest company — OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar on AI doom, AI accounting and using Ireland as a growth base

OpenAI’s chief financial officer Sarah Friar joins us to discuss the company’s growing ambitions in Ireland, where weekly ChatGPT usage has more than doubled to 2.5 million people. She outlines plans for 450 additional jobs, the prospect of Irish data centres and how AI could transform businesses.…

Mark Zuckerberg gets the villain treatment in a disappointing Social Network sequel

Aaron Sorkin returns to Facebook with The Social Reckoning, a follow up to The Social Network exploring whistleblower Frances Haugen’s allegations about the platform’s role in extremism. But does the film capture the scale of the scandal, or fall short of its predecessor? On this week’s Big Tech S…

Will AI kill us all? Yes, says Gates; no, says Huang. Plus: Apple's new Watch Series 12 and Xiaomi's three-day-battery phone reviewed

Bill Gates says AI could contribute to the deaths of a billion people. Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI, says we may have only a year to regulate it. But Meta’s Yann LeCun, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg are far more optimistic. In this week’s Big Tech Show, Adrian Weckler and Iris…

'Burn it to the ground' — Mark Little on the future of social media

When Mark Little sold his news verification startup Storyful to Rupert Murdoch for $25m, he was summoned to the Australian's New York office. "Let's go make some f***ing money," Murdoch told him, according to Little. In this week's episode of the Big Tech Show, the former RTE anchorman-turned-ent…