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Harvey, the $8 billion legal software startup, is becoming a default vendor in Big Law. Now, with rival startups nipping at its heels and AI model providers moving closer to legal workflows, Harvey is bringing in a new executive to help defend its lead. The company tells Business Insider it has hired Anique Drumright as its first chief product officer. In this role, she'll shape what Harvey builds next and how quickly it can ship.

In a post shared to the app's website, Grindr announced that it would become an AI-first company, which it says means "a faster, smarter, more personalised app that helps you connect with less effort and makes every conversation count". Powered by gAI™, Grindr's own AI stack, EDGE is embedded across the entire user journey of the app. New AI features include recaps of previous conversations with other users, daily personalised profile recommendations

It's very different having 24% year-over-year growth on $142 billion annualized run rate than to have a higher percentage growth on a meaningfully smaller base, which is the case with our competitors. We continue to add more incremental revenue and capacity than others, and extend our leadership position.

As the self-storage industry navigates a technology inflection point, operators face mounting pressure to modernize operations while managing tighter margins in an increasingly competitive landscape. The sector's race toward digital transformation has exposed a critical gap: while public storage operators like Public Storage report 85% of customer interactions are now digital and have reduced labor hours by over 30% through automation, thousands of independent operators still rely on legacy systems that can't deliver these efficiencies.

We have this combination of what we want to achieve, but also how we achieve it," Daniela Seabrook, Adecco Group's CHRO, told Business Insider. "The behavioral aspect is really important for us." She said that driving the change is the company's intent to have "a continuous exchange between an employee and a leader" - not just a formal review once or twice a year. More frequent feedback is necessary, Seabrook, to keep up with the pace of change in business. "It's very important that the people know, 'Where am I? How am I doing? How am I developing?'" she said.

In the "Arabian Nights" ( The Thousand and One Nights) story collection, a young Persian queen named Scheherazade prevents the king's plans to execute her by telling a succession of stories so enthralling that the king doesn't want to miss the endings. In "The Crow and the Pitcher," one of Aesop's fables, a thirsty crow can't reach the water in a tall jug, so it drops pebbles into the jug until the water rises to its beak.

Economic boycotts are a familiar tool of protest. The problem is they often place the greatest strain on the smallest businesses. That was the case during Friday's nationwide general strike, which was designed to pressure the Trump administration to dial back its aggressive anti-immigration policies. For many small business owners, the shutdown created a dilemma. Supporting the cause often means losing a day's revenue and risking their ability to keep staff employed. Across social media, owners voiced solidarity alongside an apology for staying open.

BlockDAG has drawn major attention in the crypto space for creating one of the largest price gaps in recent presales. The project is offering its final 800 million BDAG tokens at 0.0005, while the confirmed exchange benchmark remains near 0.05. This creates a 100x multiplier opportunity for participants who enter during the few hours remaining before the presale closes. The calculation is simple.

The company, backed by Blackstone, is targeting a valuation of nearly $5.2 billion for its IPO, and is looking to raise as much as $762 million in funding by selling more than 25 million shares. Share prices are expected to range between $26 and $30. It will trade under the ticker "LFTO."

Zero trust is not a thing; it is an idea. It is not a product; it is a concept - it is a destination that has no precise route and may never be reached. But it is described very succinctly: trust nothing until the trust is justified. Justification starts with verifying every subject's identity and authority. This is the single constant in all zero trust journeys: they start with the subject's identity. Zero trust's reliance on identity, and identity's reliance on AI Two questions. Can you have zero trust without effective identity verification? No. Can you have effective identity verification in the age of AI? Maybe, and maybe not.