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That's up to £8,000 for education and training to a special edition of The Daily Punch.

This is the third edition of a four-part special series as part of our project, The AI Impact, in partnership with Google.

Every other week, I'm joined by a member of our editorial team who was dug

into specific areas from cybersecurity to education and workforce and how AI is impacting what's

happening in that space. I'm thrilled to be joined this morning by Punchable News reporter

Mika Solner. Today, we're going to chat about what's happening when it comes to AI and small business.

Mika, welcome.

Thanks, Anna.

It's great to be here.

All right.

Let's get right to it.

Can you walk us through the state of play when it comes to small business and AI in Washington?

Yeah, so I think one of the most interesting things we found is that we're seeing that the White House is well ahead of Congress when it comes to this issue, but there's a lot of interest in terms of how AI is

impacting pretty much everything in our daily lives. And really in the future of small business,

I think that we're going to see a lot of developments in that area too in the policy world

and also just helping the everyday kind of small business

person really grasp the concept of AI and use it to help grow and expand their businesses.

It's interesting. I mean, this is the third kind of conversation I've had with reporters

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