QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, first I must thank you for coming to Paris. Unlike in the United States, you were on French national TV. You truly made an impression here. My question is this: you said that the EU consumes more than 50% to feed the bureaucracy. The view here is that our economy is doing extremely badly, as you warned would happen at your talk here. People need to know that this idea of socialism is what is collapsing. No matter what happens, the government is completely run by a group of incompetents who juggle billions while families struggle just…
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Plenty of CEOs are bullish on AI and have urged their employees to embrace it enthusiastically. A more unusual approach is to brand your workers as “losers” for not using AI enough. A new investigation this week from 404 Media shows how one CEO is reportedly not only pushing AI, but practically bullying his employees into using it to work more quickly. At Proton—the company behind the encrypted email service Proton Mail—the leadership team has become singularly focused on AI adoption, 404 Media reports, putting pressure on employees to write code with AI and move faster. In a recent Slack…
Traders are running scared this Halloween weekend as a combustible mix of market forces have sparked a sell-off in major technology stocks and cryptocurrencies. Weak earnings reports from AI hyperscalers including Amazon and Google, along with a historic hack on crypto exchange Binance, have left investors in high-growth assets feeling like they have nowhere to turn. As of this writing, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was down 3.3% on Friday, its worst day since June. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 were also down, though not as dramatically. Some traders on social media are dubbing the sell-off “Bloody Friday.”…
A good and creative costume will only go so far this Halloween. Now instead of just the costume, TikTok users are focusing on its reveal. The trend follows a simple template: Users appear wearing normal clothes and no makeup under text that reads “costume loading.” A quick transition later, users reveal their extravagant costumes to viewers. Unlike most trends, which are tied to a specific song, “costume loading” can use virtually any TikTok sound (audio clip). Oftentimes, users try pairing the costume with a relevant song or sound. Take content creator Kirby J, who paired her “disco” costume with a…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways By the time a tactic is safe enough to carry that label, it is crowded and drained of any edge it once held. The same trap shows up in how you measure success. The highest-return version refuses to fight inside a crowded category at all. Instead of scrapping for a sliver of space the leader already defined, you reframe the problem so you become the obvious answer to a question nobody else is asking. AI systems are becoming the layer between your customer and the answer, and the brands that…
Something in the real estate market just got a little less spooky this holiday season. Out of all residential properties in the U.S., the number of homes abandoned during the foreclosure process dropped to 3% in the last quarter, an improvement from 3.3% measured over the same time period last year. The data comes from the real estate analytics firm Attom’s latest Vacant Property and Zombie Foreclosure report. Empty houses, known as “zombies,” are a real problem. They happen when a homeowner going through foreclosure proceedings abandons a property before the process wraps up. The name is often fitting, as…
AI slop has a signature style. At a glance, it’s easy to clock the hallmarks of an AI-generated poster: crowded blocks of cliché-ridden text. Cutesy characters straight from the uncanny valley. Inexplicably explosion-filled backgrounds. But Canva might have the solution to graphic design’s AI crisis. The platform’s newest feature reimagines AI design from the ground up, and it’s causing a stir on social media. Introducing Canva Brush Canva Brush is a vision-language model built for design. Rather than taking a user’s prompt and spitting out a fully formed graphic, Brush takes designs step-by-step the way a human would, thanks to…
Do you remember, as a kid, going through a stack of old magazines and clipping out the sections that you liked? There was an art to it. Whether you were in class or just making some decorations for your wall at home, it was important to find clips that expressed your personality—pictures you thought were interesting or cool or that in some way said something about you. And it was fun to find sentences to put out of context, or even to cut out individual letters to create your own custom messages. But, much as some of us around here…
When WeWork CEO John Santora assumed leadership in June 2024, he noticed a few wardrobe choices that clashed with his old-school aesthetic. “It was the middle of June, and [WeWork staffers were wearing] everything from jeans to pajamas and slippers and shorts and so forth,” he told Business Insider. Santora, who spent 47 years at Chicago-based commercial real estate giant Cushman & Wakefield, decided the dress code needed some changes. “There are a lot more sport jackets around the office,” he said. And Santora has learned to loosen up a bit. “On Fridays, I’ll actually sometimes wear sneakers,” he said.…
Below, June Cohen shares five key insights from her new book, The Great Remembering: Powerful Ancient Practices―And the New Science Bringing Them Back. Cohen is a pioneer in media and technology, best known as the co-creator of TED Talks, Masters of Scale, and Meditative Story. During her 11 years at TED, she cohosted the flagship event—working with hundreds of speakers on their talks—and launched TED Talks online. She’s earned more than 100 industry awards, including 67 Webby honors, 8 Apple “Podcast of the Year” awards, and a Peabody. What’s the Big Idea? Ancient cultures worldwide developed wisdom systems: embodied practices passed down by…