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Imagine you’re riding a motorcycle at 160 kilometers per hour when an arrow appears, floating on the road ahead, telling you exactly where to turn. No phone, no dashboard. Just your helmet, and a lens the size of a thumbnail. This is not a concept video. It’s heading to European roads as early as this year. And it’s one early glimpse of where smart glasses are heading. Over the past few years, Big Tech has been quietly (and not so quietly) placing its bets. Meta has been selling AI-enabled Ray-Ban glasses since 2023, Google is building Android XR, and Apple…

First came the self-driving dream. Then came the backlash. Loading audio narration… For years, the EV maker has sold its cars with the promise that they would one day drive themselves. Last month, however, CEO Elon Musk dropped a bombshell when he told investors that some older Tesla vehicles will not be able to get unsupervised Full Self-Driving (FSD) without a major upgrade.The move sparked frustration and dismay among many longtime owners, some of whom have paid thousands of dollars and waited years for fully autonomous FSD.Ben Gawiser, a director of software engineering at Oracle, took matters into his own…

OpenAI needs help reversing the American public’s souring view of data centers. Loading audio narration… The leading AI company shared a new job opening over the weekend for a position it called a “community engagement lead.” These new employees would be tasked with talking to local communities in places where it plans to build its Stargate data centers.One measure of success, it said, would be “reduced friction.”Tech companies are investing hundreds of billions of dollars in building data centers to power their products. Local communities, however, are not always so welcoming. Many residents worry that the data centers will drain…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Linara Bozieva, a 39-year-old founder of Ravenopous, based in San Jose. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… A little over two years ago, I was laid off from eBay after spending 11 years with the company. My family and I had recently moved from Switzerland to the US, and it was a hard time.I looked at the job market and saw that many companies were laying off workers, and there seemed to be more candidates than openings. It felt worth it to start building something…

The CISO, or chief information security officer, has suddenly become one of the most high-pressure roles in business. Loading audio narration… This spring, Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT‑5.5 models sparked a wave of fear that attackers armed with advanced AI models could soon crack systems worldwide. And the unease adds to the issues that cybersecurity already faces.More companies use outside code libraries than in eras prior, which could make it easier for hacks to spread if there are vulnerabilities in those packages of code. And last year, coding tools from OpenAI and Anthropic took off, helping developers churn out millions…

The Seed 100 and Seed 40 lists have reached their sixth year in our partnership with Business Insider, which objectively identifies and celebrates the success of some of the world’s greatest seed investors. Loading audio narration… In the run of these Seed 100 releases, AI has emerged as a defining characteristic of seed-stage startups today, with results that will likely drive the rankings for years to come.To produce the 2026 lists, we statistically analyzed seed investor performance in 25 areas using Crunchbase and PitchBook data. We also accept direct track record submissions to this form.Since we aim to analyze the…

As OpenAI and Anthropic both race toward blockbuster IPOs, there are not many investors who can claim the distinction of backing both companies early. Loading audio narration… Bradley Horowitz, through his venture firm, Wisdom Ventures, wrote early checks to OpenAI in 2023 and to Anthropic in 2024. He was also an angel investor in Cerebras, which soared in its public market debut last week. His other seed investments include Slack, Miro, Ramp, and ScaleAI, a remarkable track record that has made Horowitz a perennial top VC on Business Insider’s Seed 100. Carolyn Fong for BI After 15 years as a…

Some of tech’s most powerful companies began as risky early bets. For decades, the venture capital that helped turn young startups into giants flowed through networks that largely excluded women. The investors on this year’s Seed 40 are changing who gets to shape the future of tech.Business Insider’s sixth annual Seed 40 spotlights the women who have proven they can spot breakout founders before the rest of the market catches on — and help steer those fledgling businesses toward becoming market leaders.The Seed 40 is a companion to Business Insider’s Seed 100, which identifies the most successful early-stage investors. But…

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary and Ukraine will begin high-level consultations on the rights of Ukraine’s ethnic Hungarian minority, the countries’ foreign ministers said on Monday, an early sign that strained relations between Budapest and Kyiv could improve under Hungary’s new government. Bilateral ties between the neighboring countries had eroded for years under the pro-Russian government of former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, which refused to provide Ukraine with money or weapons to assist in its defense against Russia’s full-scale invasion. Orbán, who was voted out of office in a landslide election in April, justified many of his government’s anti-Ukraine…

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A former assistant principal at an elementary school in Virginia is due in court for trial, accused of ignoring warnings that a 6-year-old student brought a loaded gun to school that was later used to shoot his first-grade teacher.Ebony Parker’s criminal trial is set to start Monday in Newport News, Virginia.Parker is charged with eight counts of felony child neglect, one for each of the eight bullets in the gun that was brought into the classroom of Richneck Elementary schoolteacher Abby Zwerner in January 2023, prosecutors have said. Each count carries a maximum penalty of…