Burger King’s kids’ meals are all the rage — and not only with kids. Sales of the King Jr. meal jumped 40% year over year last quarter, reaching their highest level in a decade, according to Restaurant Business. The chain credits upgraded chicken nuggets, with sales up 35%, and a themed tie-in with the anime series Dragon Ball Super. But Burger King President Tom Curtis admits more adults are ordering the meals than he’s seen before. “We are definitely seeing more adults saying that’s their way to a smaller portion,” he says. Adults have long ordered kids’ meals for the…
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Key Takeaways Millionaire renter households grew 229% from 2020 to 2024, outpacing growth among millionaire homeowners, according to a new report from RentCafe. Wealthy renters are choosing flexibility and investment opportunities over tying up money in a home. Dual-income couples account for 75% of millionaire renter households. More millionaires are renting, despite being able to afford homeownership. This group of wealthy renters is choosing a different path on purpose. According to a recent report from apartment search website RentCafe, millionaire renters are growing at a faster rate than millionaire homeowners. The report qualified individuals from households that have a total annual…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI has made building nearly free — at a recent eight-week startup camp, most first-time founders had a working product within weeks. About 1 in 10 made a sale. First customers almost never come from strangers. Write down the 50 people who would take your call and start there. For your first sale, you are the funnel — it closes by text, phone or in person, not on a checkout page. Ads buy attention, not trust. This summer, more than 500 people from more than 50 countries joined an eight-week…
Former Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz go to trial Monday on charges that they accepted bribes as they colluded with gamblers who made hundreds of thousands of dollars betting correctly on individual pitches.Their careers and possibly their freedom are at stake in the jury trial expected to unfold over the next month in Brooklyn federal court. Several professional baseball players, including catchers and baseball executives, are among witnesses expected to testify.Clase, the Guardians’ former closer, and Ortiz, a starter, have pleaded not guilty to conspiracy charges and are on nondisciplinary leave from the club without pay while…
Authorities in Ukraine and Russia said their emergency alert mobile apps had been targeted by cyberattacks, with users in Ukraine receiving false warnings of an imminent nuclear threat. It was not clear if the attacks late Sunday were related. Ukraine said its service, which residents rely on to seek safety amid daily Russian missile and drone strikes, was up and running again after being suspended due to the attack. Russian authorities said Monday that hackers had sent fake emergency alerts after gaining access to the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry’s mobile app, and that efforts were ongoing to restore the app’s…
COMMENT: I hear that your birthday was on the 1st, so let me wish you a happy belated birthday. I understand your belief that your work may never receive the recognition it deserves during your lifetime. It seems increasingly apparent that powerful interests operating behind the scenes in finance and politics are deeply threatened by your analysis. Whether bankers, neocons, or politicians influenced by Marxist and Keynesian economic theories, your work challenges the established narratives upon which they depend to influence public opinion and policy. I read the explanation on MSN, and the stark contrast between your analysis and the narratives…
Data centers have become one of the most polarizing issues in the world. Argentina’s president wants to lure as many of them as he can get.As residents and policymakers in the United States and Europe fight the facilities that power artificial intelligence, President Javier Milei is pitching Argentina as a haven, promising a hands-off approach to draw foreign investment his crisis-prone country needs.Like his ally, U.S. President Donald Trump, Milei frequently posts AI-generated images on social media. He has proposed creating “nonhuman corporations” run entirely by AI agents.“We are not going to regulate artificial intelligence,” Milei told the U.S. Chamber…
As the University of Kentucky began encouraging employees to use AI—from Copilot for meeting notes to tools like Claude and ChatGPT for everyday tasks—David Durman, a research administrator, worried about what he would lose by outsourcing his own thinking to machines. So in August, Durman, who identifies as a humanist, took an unusual step. He sought a religious exemption from using artificial intelligence at work. With help from the American Humanist Association, a nonprofit that advocates for the rights of humanists and atheists, he submitted a letter to the university arguing that relying on AI to perform tasks that require…
I don’t consciously think about my first job when I meet with leaders in the electronics industry to talk about trade policy. But my young days in an Illinois cornfield will always shape how I view, and do, work. My hometown in western Illinois had maybe 10,000 people if Western Illinois University was in session. I grew up with a single mom and things were tight. If I wanted a little spending money as a kid, I had to earn it; a deep and early seeded lesson in the value of work. Detasseling corn for $1.50 an hour over the…
With Democratic control of House, the party that still worships at the grave of Karl Marx and FDR, will gain majorities on committees that can propose legislation and hold hearings. Beside drooling over the thought of impeaching Trump a third time just for shits and giggles, the more serious is their is their passion to taget the rich. They are contemplating a National Billionaire’s Tax and Elizabeth Warren want’s her Wealth Tax on simply ownership disregarding income altogether. These two issue will surface eventually but the thirst for the bright lights and the praise of the hopeless mainstream media…