Axios

Gen Z isn't one generation: Research suggests it's two, split by the pandemic, and the younger half won't sit still. After lurching right, the youngest voters are souring on the administration, per a recent Yale poll.

Why it matters: The generation raised on lightning-fast cultural and tech shifts has become a sought-after — and perhaps, predictable — swing group. Politicians and institutions treating them as a monolith risk misreading the country's young people.

IT budgets are getting blown out as some companies increasingly spend more on AI than on employees' salaries.

Why it matters: Maybe human labor will be more cost efficient after all.

Israel sent the United Arab Emirates an Iron Dome air defense system with troops to operate it early in the war with Iran, two Israeli officials and one U.S. official tell Axios.

Why it matters: The military, security and intelligence cooperation between Israel and the UAE has reached new heights during the war. The unprecedented deployment of the Iron Dome system during the war was not previously made public.