Earlier this month, speaking at the launch event for OpenAI’s new GPT-6 Astra, Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president, declared that the “AGI era” had begun. AGI, or artificial general intelligence, generally refers to AI systems that can match or surpass human abilities across virtually every cognitive task. Long regarded as the holy grail of AI research, AGI has for decades remained a goal somewhere over the horizon. And now, apparently, it’s here—at least, if Brockman is to be believed. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, another one of the industry’s most influential voices, seems convinced. He congratulated OpenAI on its achievement, tweeting, “AGI…
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Last year, The Economist named “AI Slop” as its 2025 word of the year. “Slop merchants clog up the internet with drivel,” it wrote. Search Google for a health question and you’ll find endless articles filled with AI-written drivel. Scroll through Instagram and it won’t be long before you come across fake clips stitched together with an AI voice-over. We’ve all seen it. AI slop is almost impossible to escape. And it stands to reason that being surrounded by it long enough, we’ll eventually begin to mimic it and start sounding like AI ourselves, much as spending a few weeks…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft are escalating the generative AI race, focusing on intelligent agents that streamline multifaceted tasks. Entrepreneurs can harness these AI agents as quasi-co-founders, encouraging innovation and business scaling while balancing the automation dynamic. Major AI power players including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have entered the AI agent space. As competition intensifies, the focus has shifted from basic chatbots to sophisticated AI agents capable of autonomously executing complex, multi-step tasks.This shift signals a new chapter in AI innovation, where intelligent agents are poised to redefine productivity and…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Generic marketing — basic social media ads or broad SEO campaigns — is a fast track to wasted capital for specialized businesses. Specialized businesses need high-intent lead generation, hyper-local search dominance and strategic integration into existing trust networks instead. As a fractional Chief Marketing Officer who works with many small business owners, the quickest way I’ve seen them burn through money is through generic marketing strategies. Running basic social media ads or broad SEO campaigns for specialized businesses is a fast track to wasted capital. Specialized businesses do not need “awareness.” Instead, they…
Giorgia Meloni has finally said what Brussels refuses to understand. Europe does not need MORE centralization. It needs LESS. Speaking about the future of the European Union, Meloni rejected Mario Draghi’s vision of deeper integration and a federal Europe that supersedes the nation-state. She called instead for the “exact opposite”: a confederal Europe where member states retain broad sovereignty and cooperate only where strategic interests genuinely overlap. THAT was what Europe should have been from the beginning. Meloni said the EU’s current system has proven “inadequate” for dealing with the major challenges confronting Europe. She is absolutely correct. Brussels responds…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Building your website is a priority, but what if you can’t afford to bring in an independent website designer? There are plenty of options you can find from a free builders list to take advantage of today. To give you an insight into some of the options available, this guide is going to show you some of the top picks that you should consider. With 77 percent believing a poor website is a weakness, you need the right builder. Which of these top professional website builders will you use for your small…
Europeans finally get to vote! Brussels has discovered democracy. Do they get to vote on the war in Ukraine? No. Immigration? No. Sanctions on Russia? No. The endless climate regulations coming out of Brussels? No. Do they get a referendum on whether they even WANT the European Union to continue swallowing national sovereignty? Certainly not. But the European Central Bank has graciously decided that the people may express their opinion on what pictures should appear on the next euro banknotes. This is what democracy has been reduced to in Europe. You may not decide the policies that govern your life,…
Key Takeaways Burnley was running Wiley Road Foods when she started her protein-bar brand Circ. Circ is on track to 4X its run rate this year and is available in over 13,000 retail locations. Burnley says founders have to embrace hours of complexity and rejection to succeed. This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Theresa Burnley, 65, of Milford, New Hampshire. Burnley was the owner of Wiley Road Foods, which creates and manufactures unusual clean-label baked goods for brands like Trader Joe’s and Milk Bar, when she started her protein-bite brand, Circ, on the side in 2023. At the end of…
They are just making up numbers at this point. Ukraine’s parliamentary Budget Committee chair Roksolana Pidlasa now says that one day of war costs Ukraine $190 million, up from $140 million per day in 2024. They present these figures as if somebody can open a spreadsheet in Kyiv and calculate what this catastrophe costs down to the dollar. The $190 million is essentially a budgetary accounting figure. It does not remotely represent the TRUE cost of this war. Even Pidlasa admits the number excludes weapons supplied in kind by Ukraine’s foreign partners. That alone should tell you how meaningless it…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Your leadership instincts aren’t flaws, but the challenge is recognizing when you’re the candidate rather than the leader and adjusting how you communicate. With practice, either by yourself or alongside a trained professional, you can learn to notice what interviewers hear that you no longer do. Most executives assume their track record will carry them through interviews, but in reality, the leadership instincts you’ve spent years refining can actively hurt you when you’re a candidate. I see this pattern regularly in my interview coaching practice. Accomplished leaders often walk out…