America’s economy, including some of its biggest companies, was built by immigrants.

Ahead of the country’s 250th birthday, Forbes published a list of its most successful living immigrants—from Google cofounder and Soviet refugee Sergey Brin to AMD CEO Lisa Su, who immigrated from Taiwan when she was 3 years old. Immigrants have contributed greatly to American prosperity: U.S. economic growth between 1990 and 2016 would have been 15 percentage points lower without migration, per Citi Research.

But new immigration policies in the U.S. are narrowing the pathways those individuals took to achieve their success. “The opportunity for my family and me to be here would not have been possible” with the latest H-1B visa changes, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang told CNBC last fall.

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Anthropic released the first public version of its Claude Mythos model with safeguards after previously declining to release it broadly due to security concerns.

The U.S. completed a round of retaliatory strikes against Iran after Iran shot down a U.S. helicopter, casting doubt on a potential peace deal.

Gold and silver prices fell to their lowest levels in months on the Iran tension and possibility of the Federal Reserve hiking interest rates.

Ilyas Khan, founder of Quantinuum, is now a billionaire after the quantum computing company raised $1.68 billion in its IPO last week. It’s the largest listing to-date for a quantum startup, and the Honeywell-backed company is part of a wave of such firms to go public over the last year.

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