Below, Beth Simone Noveck shares five key insights from her new book, Reboot: AI and the Race to Save Democracy. Beth has worked on and written about how we solve our hardest problems from the White House to 10 Downing Street to the German Chancellery and served as New Jersey’s first Chief AI Strategist. She is also a professor at Northeastern University. What’s the Big Idea? Just seven percent of young Americans see our democracy as healthy. Political violence is on the rise, and people are more willing to marry someone of another religion than another political party. Enter AI. Recent…
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In a world where AI is taking on an increasing share of repetitive tasks, there’s a higher premium on the unique perspective, identities, and experiences that knowledge workers bring to their jobs from outside of work. However, Americans are participating less in the activities that enrich these attributes. Research suggests that engaging in a hobby or activity after hours can improve workplace creativity, a key competitive differentiator for workers in the age of AI. However, Americans are spending more free time watching TV and scrolling social media than socializing, playing games, reading or playing sports. There is also ample research…
One of the most difficult things to do as a manager is to deal with an employee who just isn’t feeling it and remains unmotivated for a long period of time. Everyone has their days when they’d rather be anywhere else but at work, but what do you do when a direct report consistently fails to bring energy and enthusiasm to their work? I’m going to focus here on working with someone who was working well at one point, but has since checked out. (Someone who never engages with their work may be a dud or a poor fit to…
When considering where to establish or grow a business, tax rates play a significant role in your decision. Some states offer remarkably low business tax rates, which can help maximize profits. For instance, Wyoming and South Dakota stand out with effectively zero corporate income tax rates. Other states like Alaska, Florida, and Texas likewise provide competitive tax environments. Comprehending the nuances of these states can lead to informed decisions about your business’s future. What factors will influence your choice? Key Takeaways Wyoming and South Dakota boast effectively zero corporate tax rates, making them highly attractive for businesses. Nevada has no…
The European Union rolled out a new team on Friday to rein in AI companies across the world, in one of the most aggressive regulations the high-tech sector has so far faced as fears rise over the risks the rapidly advancing technology poses to people, politics and prosperity.Brussels aims to track the use of AI models for violations of its new regulations, like the publishing of sexually explicit material, fake photos and videos, and cyber threats to public infrastructure. When the bloc’s AI Act comes into force on Sunday, AI companies will be required to make clear to consumers with…
FIFA is not new to controversy. In the last decade, the international soccer association has faced bribery allegations, corruption scandals, and backlash over questionable host nation decisions. But even by FIFA’s standards, the association’s latest proposal might be pushing it too far—and member states are not staying quiet. Here’s what to know. What exactly was proposed? A plan led by controversial FIFA president Gianni Infantino would create a new company to govern the commercial operations of FIFA tournaments, including the World Cup. But the proposal didn’t end there. It included plans to sell a minority stake in the new company…
Amazon says that some customers will get back a sliver of cash from its pool of refunded money after the Trump administration’s tariffs experiment fell apart in court. The U.S. government began refunding billions of dollars in import taxes earlier this year after the Supreme Court ruled that a huge swath of the tariffs it imposed on companies bringing in goods from abroad were illegal. While most of the refunds were issued in May and June, huge chunks of refunded cash are beginning to show up on corporate earnings reports. “We are participating in the tariff refund process, as I…
Leading up to the midterm elections in November, corruption is proving to be a defining issue in many battleground states and districts. An April poll, commissioned by End Citizens United (ECU) and conducted by Change Research, showed that more than 40% of likely voters ranked corruption in Washington, D.C., as their top concern—second only to threats to democracy and the voting system, and even ahead of gas and grocery prices. While corruption can and is taking many iterations in Washington—ranging from insider trading through prediction markets to curious crypto projects that net politicians billions of dollars—suspicious stock trading by members…
Every time you copy a sensitive client proposal, an unannounced product roadmap, or a private financial spreadsheet and paste it into a web-based AI chatbot, a quiet voice in the back of your head probably whispers: Should I really be putting this in the cloud? Your corporate IT department certainly thinks you shouldn’t. But at the same time, using AI to churn through repetitive text editing, formatting, and summarization is one of the biggest daily time-savers available. The solution isn’t to give up AI for sensitive work—it’s to run small, fast AI models locally on your own computer. Thanks to…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Track citations, mentions, and recommendations as three separate metrics — lumping them together lets you celebrate movement that never turns into revenue, because being visible in an AI answer and being recommended by it are not the same thing. Platforms like Peec, Semrush, and Ahrefs are useful monitoring infrastructure but not ground truth; the strongest setup is hybrid — automated tracking for broad patterns paired with monthly manual checks across ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini on the prompts that actually drive pipeline. According to a recent report, 94% of 250 surveyed…