AI companies know you don’t trust them. Would rainbows and bear hugs help?
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‘AI is nice, trust us!’
Executives at main AI companies have not too long ago modified their tone on the tech and gone on the defensive.
Both Meta and Anthropic not too long ago launched AI advertisements. Meta painted itself because the shining knight of AI. Anthropic positioned itself because the one to trust.
But it isn’t clear that both will deliver 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 maintain you certain to an actual property agent that is not the precise match for you — and it may value you big-time.
Filling a Harvey-sized gap
Legal tech has develop into one among Silicon Valley’s hottest sectors, because of AI.
Investors are pouring cash into these startups, hoping to seek out the subsequent breakout star earlier than everybody else.
BI requested a gaggle of enterprise capitalists to appoint this 12 months’s most promising authorized startups valued at lower than $1 billion.
What I received fallacious 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 is not nearly spending your 40s touring the world or enjoying pickleball — it is America’s strongest rejection of hustle tradition.
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