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Fergus O’Sullivan is an editor at Startup Kitchen who reports from both Prague and Ukraine. AIN team met him during the Global Tech Kharkiv 2026 conference. He shared his insights on why Ukrainian deftech is miles ahead of Europe and what Western investors still misunderstand about running a business during the war.

Most casual users of artificial intelligence (AI) experience the technology as a helper sitting on top of work they already do. AI can write code, summarize meetings, draft emails, and push through grunt work inside cloud computing workflows and daily operations. The first wave has already been enormous. According to PwC’s “Sizing the Prize” report,…

For more than a century, the stock market has been a wealth-building machine. While Wall Street’s major stock indexes, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI), S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC), and Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC), commonly advance under most presidents, the annualized returns of these indexes have been especially pronounced under President Donald Trump.

The challenges undertaken by founders who started with ideas are moving into the stage of verifying products and customers. Founders who advanced to Round 2 of the first cohort of the ‘Everyone’s Startup Project’ are embarking on the development of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), technology validation, and customer acquisition. Unlike Round 1, which evaluated…

In 1985, when I was four months old, my family moved from Kiruna to Luleå, a city in northern Sweden. My father had found a job with the Swedish State Railways, and we were given a firsthand rental contract for a four-room apartment in Hertsön, one of the city’s largest housing estates. Hertsön had been…