Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI is changing the founder’s role from creating the work to exercising judgment over it. As execution becomes easier to automate, accountability, trust and discernment become even more valuable leadership skills. Women founders have an opportunity to avoid becoming the “AI manager” by building systems that preserve leadership capacity instead of consuming it. Artificial intelligence was supposed to make entrepreneurship easier. It drafts proposals, writes marketing copy, summarizes meetings, analyzes data and automates tasks that once consumed hours of a founder’s day. Nearly every week, another tool promises to save…
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The NFL season just got underway, but preparations for the 2027 Super Bowl began at ESPN as soon as the 2026 game ended this past February. In what ESPN is calling “the year of the Super Bowl,” the TV network is gearing up to broadcast the most-watched big game for the first time in its nearly 50-year history. And right now, it’s exploring potential options for tapping into the intellectual property of its parent company, The Walt Disney Co., that could help draw in even more fans. Could that mean something like an animated, real-time alternate broadcast featuring characters from…
In a normal context, the phrase “My husband and I work for JPMorgan” might be merely a not-so-subtle flex. But lately on Threads, it seems more like a telltale sign that the user is in fact a bot. Users on Meta’s short-form social network have recently noticed a barrage of strange recurring posts, all following a template that begins with phrases like “My husband and I” or “My wife and I,” followed by claims to work for companies like Exxon, Fidelity, IBM, and many others. Below the post, investment advice follows the phrase “I’m only going to say this once,”…
Security officers at some of the most prominent tech companies in Silicon Valley have been poised to walk off the job since voting to authorize a strike earlier this month. The workers have been in talks with major security contractors like Securitas and Allied Universal for months as they seek to reach a new contract agreement. Now, as contract negotiations have stalled, 14,000 security officers represented by SEIU-United Service Workers West are striking across California. The union members took to the streets in San Francisco and Los Angeles at 4:30 a.m. local time on Friday to push for meaningful wage…
Just a tiny portion of the population flies on private jets, but those jets make an outsize impact on the planet. And though most Americans don’t fly private, they’re helping subsidize those flights through their taxes. That’s according to a new report by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), which details these consequences and what it calls the “high cost of private jet excess.” When it comes to climate effects, private jets are particularly polluting. A passenger on a private jet is responsible for up to 14 times the emissions as someone on a commercial flight. And because private jets…
Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. At first blush, it sounds like a canonical example of a gizmo the world could live without. The device in question is a truly diminutive e-reader designed to snap magnetically to the back of your phone—you know, the one that can already run a variety of e-book apps. It has no direct access to an e-book store, complicating the essential task of procuring stuff to read. Furthermore, its onboard software is so crude you might wonder if it was engineered to ensure buyer’s remorse. And yet I am delighted with…
“I don’t think about my life in terms of ‘superstar.’ I’m just a workin’ girl. I always say, and it’s the truth, that I am a workhorse that looks like a show horse.” —Dolly Parton, May 2025 When I heard the news of Dolly Parton’s passing, this quote came to mind. A woman known to the entire world when asked to describe herself, described her work. That distinction between show horse and workhorse (or put another way, show dogs and hunting dogs) is what I have spent the last three and a half years asking people about. I host a…
A husband in Taiwan suspected his wife of having an affair. In September 2023, he found a used toothbrush at their holiday home, and garage video showed an unfamiliar man driving his wife there. Three months later, he opened their robot vacuum’s app to speak with her and saw an intimate encounter through its live camera. He recorded the feed and used it to win about $16,000 from his wife and her lover for infringing on his marital rights. Then the Taoyuan District Court sentenced him to five months in jail and fined him roughly $4,700 for recording private activity…
Today’s frontier AI models know everything–how to safely thaw a frozen chicken breast, re-shingle your roof, and treat your dog’s ragweed allergies, if my recent chat history is any indication. Apparently, they also know how to create fiendishly deadly bioweapons. That’s according to a recent announcement by Anthropic. According to the company, anonymous scientists attempted to use Anthropic’s flagship Claude model to conduct research that could have turned deadly. Anthropic blocked their efforts this time, and there’s no evidence that the scientists were actually trying to cause harm. But as frontier models get more powerful and better at science, the…
Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the most recent consumer price index, which tracks inflation of important consumer goods—including your groceries. The cost of food has risen sharply, according to the CPI, with the same cart of groceries costing 2.7% more in August 2026 than in August 2025. What’s more, food prices have increased by an eye-watering 33% since August 2019. None of these statistics comes as a surprise to anyone who regularly goes grocery shopping. Everything from milk and beef to coffee and cereal to apples and potatoes takes a bigger bite from your grocery budget…