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Welcome again to our Sunday version, the place we spherical up a few of our prime tales and take you inside our newsroom. BI’s journalists lately visited Ukraine and found a huge leap in military tech innovation. Watch our video for a uncommon look inside Ukraine’s cutting-edge weapons sector.
‘AI is great, trust us!’
Executives at main AI companies have lately modified their tone on the tech and gone on the defensive.
Both Meta and Anthropic lately launched AI advertisements. Meta painted itself because the shining knight of AI. Anthropic positioned itself because the one to trust.
But it’s not clear that both will convey AI detractors any peace.
Because of a current rule change, an actual property agent will most likely ask you to signal one thing earlier than exhibiting you a home.
It’s a contract that might hold you certain to an actual property agent that’s not the precise match for you — and it might price you big-time.
Filling a Harvey-sized gap
Legal tech has turn out to be one in all Silicon Valley’s hottest sectors, because of AI.
Investors are pouring cash into these startups, hoping to seek out the following breakout star earlier than everybody else.
BI requested a bunch of enterprise capitalists to appoint this yr’s most promising authorized startups valued at lower than $1 billion.
What I obtained flawed about FIRE
When the Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) motion first popped up in 2021, BI chief correspondent Aki Ito dismissed it as a fad.
“Five years later, I couldn’t have been more wrong,” Ito writes in 2026. FIRE isn’t nearly spending your 40s touring the world or taking part in pickleball — it’s America’s strongest rejection of hustle tradition.
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