Tom McEnaney

The business section of the Examiner tells us that the Talbot collection has completed the acquisition of the Absolute Hotel in Limerick City in a deal worth 18 million euros.

The Talbot Group has been busy having completed refurbishment of its eponymous hotels in Cork and Middleton.

China will beat the US in the artificial intelligence race.

That's thanks to lower energy costs and looser regulation.

That stark warning from NVIDIA chief executive Jensen Huang is the lead story in the Financial Times this morning.

Huang's remarks come after the Trump administration maintained a ban on California-based NVIDIA selling its most advanced chips to Beijing.

Still on AI, inside the same paper, Sir Tim Berners-Lee warns us that the multi-billion dollar advertising model that has underpinned the internet economy could fall apart due to the rise of generative artificial intelligence.

And finally, in the New York Times, we learned that a majority of justices in the U.S.

Supreme Court asked skeptical questions about President Trump's use of emergency powers to impose tariffs on imports from nearly every American trading partner, casting doubt on the centerpiece of the administration's second-term agenda.

businesses and the U.S.

economy, but also for those of almost every country around the world.

Breakfast Business with Enterprise Ireland on Newstalk.

Later in the show, we'll talk to Enterprise Minister Alan Dillon about the government's new collective bargaining roadmap.

And with the Reform Party leading the polls in the UK, we'll ask a professor of European economics what a reform government might mean for Irish trade and indeed trade with the rest of Europe.

But first, let's have a look at what the papers have for us this morning.

The Irish Independent Business section leads with an analysis of the decision by Associated British Foods to hive off Penny's Premark from its food business.

Of course, an Irish company from its food business.

John Mulligan, the author of the piece, concludes that the split may be coming 10 years too late, but it could accelerate growth of the Penny's chain.

That's also the conclusion of the Financial Times influential Lex column, which also concerns itself with the pennies spin out this morning.

And it says independent pennies could not only add more stores, but could embrace full scale online selling, something it does not do at present.