Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam

Brightbeam advises companies in the biopharma, life sciences, insurance and manufacturing sectors about how to use AI. Brightbeam even thinks that Ireland might have an edge in the roll out of AI globally. It comes as the White House literally ordered Anthropic to switch off its latest powerful iteration of Claude.
Brian Hanly, Chief executive of Brightbeam spoke to Joe on the show this morning.

Joe Lynam takes a look at Tuesday's business news headlines.

The National Economic Dialogue started this week. It’s where the main social partners sit with the government to underline what they want and what's realistic in October’s budget. The Minister for Finance has already flagged that change is coming for how we invest our private funds.
Patricia Callan the Director of Financial services Ireland was at the meeting yesterday and explained to Joe what happened during the course of the day.

Many people don't gardens or gardens big enough to grow lettuce or herbs and may not live beside a supermarket to buy it fresh. Hedley Aylott runs Home Harvest which is a special smart device which looks like a fridge to grow your greens and herbs in. Joe hears all about the business with Co-Founder of Home Harvest Hedley Aylott.

Even though we are all supposed to be moving towards fossil-free fuel methods of heating our homes, demand for boilers has never been as strong. Grant in Birr Co Offaly makes more than half of all the boilers sold in Ireland and astonishingly 56% of all the boilers sold in Britain.
Joining Joe to discuss the business was Keith Scully the Training Manager at Grant.