The Business Post Connected Podcast

On this week's episode, Charlie talks to Harrison Rolfes, senior research analyst at Pitchbook – a data company that tracks global private and public capital markets. 
Harrison and Charlie talk about the Anthropic IPO and the advantages of the company going public before its closest competitor, OpenAI. 
Charlie asks Harrison if the astronomic growth of Anthropic is sustainable in the long run, and, what would happen to the interconnected tech companies at the top of the market if AI was to prove unprofitable. 
Harrison talks about his belief that AI will sink further into our everyday lives and how AI can be trained by industry and continue to become more industry-specific. 
Finally, the pitchbook analyst discusses the AI bubble; is it real? Can hyperscalers really fail? 
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Presented by Charlie Taylor and Alice O'Leary
Edited by Aaron Rogan 
Sound by Larry Mockus
Audio editing by Dublin South Podcast Studio
Produced by Tara McGivern
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This week on the Connected Podcast, Charlie Taylor talks to Nora Khaldi, chief executive and founder of Nuritas.
Nuritas is an AI-driven biotechnology company that hopes to unlock the hidden potential in plant peptides.
Charlie and Khaldi discuss Nuritas's humble beginnings at laboratories in Trinity College and the benefits of building a startup in Ireland.
Khaldi speaks about the aims of Nuritas to stop muscle loss before it happens and to improve sleep by reducing cortisol through the use of plant peptides identified by its AI platform.
She discusses everyday products we might not know that Nuritas has a hand in creating and the pipeline of clinically tested products the company will soon release. To access all our written interviews and the country's leading business coverage, subscribe at https://www.businesspost.ie/
Presented by Charlie Taylor
Edited by Peter O'Dwyer
Sound by Larry Mockus
Editing by Dublin South Podcast Studio
Produced by Tara McGivern
Artwork by Dublin South Podcast Studio

This week on the Podcast, Charlie talks to Guillaume Princen head of EMEA for Anthropic at the International AI summit in Dublin.
 
Princen speaks about the aims of Anthropic moving forward- keeping safety within the "DNA" of the company and aligning with governments on regulation and pacing the frontier.
 
Princen talks about  Anthropic's growth and the movement of AI to agentic models.
 
Princen also speaks about Anthropic's future in Ireland and the talent available to the company on Irish soil.
 
Back in studio, Charlie and Alice talk flying cars and Elon Musk's new Tesla Roadster.
 
Presented by Charlie Taylor
 
Sound by Larry Mockus
 
Editing by Tim O'Donovan
 
Produced by Tara McGivern
 
Artwork by Garrett Allen
 
The podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube or right here on our site.

Fresh off the announcement of a further 200 jobs in OpenAI's Dublin offices, Sarah Friar, chief financial officer, joins Charlie Taylor to discuss the future of the company in Ireland. 
 
Friar speaks candidly about choosing Ireland as the company's European HQ, citing government support and chip development as key reasons for the company's trust in Ireland.
 
Friar elaborates on OpenAI's education programmes at the University of Limerick and plans to broaden the scheme across the country in hopes of creating their own workforce of the future.
 
Her conversation with Charlie covers the importance of balancing the development of frontier models with the need to keep "adversaries" within scope of western AI models and her beliefs that, for now, an AI bubble does not exist. 
 
Lastly, Charlie and Friar chat about OpenAI's delayed IPO. Friar explains OpenAI's healthy balance sheet and the work that would go into an IPO for an already very busy company.
 
The podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube or right here on our site.
 
Presented by Charlie Taylor
Sound by Larry Mockus
Editing by Carolyn Goulden and Tim O'Donovan
Produced by Tara McGivern
Artwork by Garrett Allen.

Since its foundation in 2022, Dublin-based employee benefits platform Kota has scaled rapidly not only in size, but also in recognition. The firm has been repeatedly identified by Sifted, the Financial Times-backed tech publication, as the one of the fastest-growing firms in Ireland and the UK and was last week named as the 12th fastest-growing start-up in Europe. Kota's chief executive Luke Mackey joins Alice O'Leary to discuss how the company has gotten to where it is today and how it plans to top the Sifted 250 in the years to come. Alice also sat down with Peter O'Dwyer to discuss the biggest tech stories of the last week, including more stark warnings on AI annihilation and the latest on Anthropic's IPO. 
 
The Business Post Connected Podcast, a weekly dive into the stories dominating the world of tech, lands every Wednesday morning.    
Presented by Charlie Taylor
Sound by Larry Mockus
Editing by Carolyn Goulden and Tim O'Donovan
Produced by Sarah McGuinness
Artwork by Garrett Allen.