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Artificial intelligence was a key topic at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. CEOs and investors discussed the potential of AI in interviews and panel discussions. Here are 5 quotes from corporate leaders.

Last week, NATO announced the launch of the Baltic Sentinel mission to oversee infrastructure security in the Baltics. The fact is that in the past two months alone, several submarine cables between Lithuania and Sweden, Germany and Finland, and Estonia and Finland have been damaged. A similar unpleasant story recently happened with Taiwan, which will now more carefully guard underwater communication cables near the island from the actions of suspicious ships. The measures are being introduced after damage was caused to a China-linked vessel by one of them. With over 95% of Internet traffic passing through undersea cables, which support $10 trillion in financial transactions every day, the world is deeply concerned about such sabotage. We contacted Professor and Chief Advisor on Scientific and Technical Policy of Ukrtelecom, Viktor Katko, who is perhaps the only expert in Ukraine specializing in the topic of submarine cables and has been studying them for over 30 years. We talked about the durability of such infrastructure, possible negative scenarios in case of its serious damage, and how Ukraine can develop the submarine network after the war.

The owner of Kyivstar — telecom holding VEON — plans to list the Ukrainian company on the American stock exchange and has already come up with a mechanism for this .

В Україні небагато інвестиційних інструментів, які приносять стабільний дохід з урахуванням валютних коливань. Наприклад, державні облігації, хоч і не оподатковуються, але дають річний прибуток тільки 3,7% в доларах. Проте є інструмент із прогнозованою річною дохідністю від 9,5% в доларах до виплати податків і від 8,5% — після, і це цінні папери фонду Inzhur Supermarket. Інвестори отримують дохід вже в перший місяць після вкладення. Загалом за півтора року існування фонд виплатив їм майже 78 млн грн дивідендів.

UX/UI Designer Olga Lipetska raised the topic of communicating with representatives of an enemy state on the professional social network LinkedIn.

In the IT world, where speed of product launch is one of the success factors, there is a temptation to resolve legal issues «after release». But the price of such a solution is fines, loss of reputation and even potential product blocking. Is it possible to avoid such risks without compromising the speed of product development? Yes, and the answer to this question is provided by Agile compliance.

In these difficult times, when the Russians are destroying Ukraine’s energy infrastructure almost every day, anyone can support energy workers and even make money by investing in the energy sector. Starting November 14, Ukrainians can become co-owners of the Ukrainian energy system.