“They see you when you’re sleeping. They know when you’re awake. They know if you’ve been bad or good…” No, we’re not changing Santa’s pronouns. We’re talking about the AI-powered gadgets that are likely to be overflowing from his sack this holiday season. AI toys began appearing on the market last year, quickly prompting warnings from child advocacy groups. But the 2026 holiday season will bring a much wider selection of AI gadgets for kids and adults alike, while AI companies are also pushing the technology as a shopping assistant. This week has brought several announcements from Big Tech companies…
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The U.S. is on track to add a record 86 gigawatts of new wind, solar, and battery storage capacity this year—roughly the size of the U.K.’s entire grid. And there’s far more clean energy in the pipeline, with low-cost proposed projects that could help meet the surging demand from data centers. So why are data centers increasingly turning to polluting gas plants instead of clean energy? A startup called Firma Power says that the issue isn’t cost, speed, or reliability, but the difficulty of assembling enough clean energy from a patchwork of projects—a problem that it is trying to solve.…
Climate change is a global phenomenon, meaning that everyone, in some way, will feel its devastating impacts. And increasingly, those impacts are happening simultaneously: Over the past two decades, more than half of the world’s population has experienced simultaneous heat waves and wildfires, occurring on the same day, a study found. Researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, published their findings this week in the journal Science Advances. The study looked at 20 years of data, from 2000 to 2019. To see who experienced a wildfire, researchers looked at who was exposed to “fire-sourced air pollution”; their data took into…
Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, recently joined the chorus of Silicon Valley Cassandras calling on AI companies to deliberately slow the pace of product development. In a widely discussed letter, he predicted a nightmare scenario in which a swarm of AI agents takes over the internet and causes hundreds of billions of dollars in damage—something he thinks could happen within the next six to 12 months. But we don’t have to wait a year to see the damage artificial intelligence can cause if ungoverned. Most near-term harm will come not from rogue agents but from ordinary systems, bought from…
JEB: “I don’t know of any other president in my lifetime that had so much momentum behind them that they could’ve really made serious change. But I also never saw a president sell America out to Israel so blatantly.” BD: “Trump built a durable coalition that would have ruled for 25 years. No other Republican could have done it. Then we did a regime change war in the Middle East” GLEN: “I’m telling you, the turnout models being used by GOP pollsters are wrong. A bunch of Republicans that nobody thought would lose are going to find themselves very…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways More free time does not automatically bring fulfillment. You have to learn how you like to spend it. Money improves happiness when it buys back time and you decide deliberately where that time goes. At 36, I sold the fintech company I had spent years building and walked away with an eight-figure exit. No client needed an answer. No product roadmap demanded a decision. No inbox confirmed that I was useful. I thought it would feel like freedom. It felt like an identity crisis.As CEO, I had been time-starved but…
Canada has apparently learned absolutely NOTHING from the immigration disaster under Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister Mark Carney is already discussing increasing immigration again, and now India’s High Commissioner to Canada, Dinesh K. Patnaik, has suggested that Canada’s economic ambitions could require another 15 million workers over the next decade. Canada has a population of approximately 42 million people. We are talking about a number equivalent to more than one-third of the country’s existing population, yet these people discuss such enormous demographic changes as though they were simply adding employees to a corporate payroll. Nobody seems particularly concerned about where these…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Delaying difficult conversations allows small problems to grow into larger conflicts, frustration and resentment. Focus on the behavior rather than personal criticism, clarify expectations collaboratively, and reinforce confidence in the employee’s ability to improve. Employees lose trust when feedback is held back, not when it’s shared early. A weekly check-in helps leaders make it a habit. One of the most expensive mistakes leaders make is waiting too long to have a conversation they knew they needed to have.I’ve watched it happen over and over again. A leader notices something small.…
Iran’s oil industry has been brought to a standstill, and the economic consequences are becoming impossible to ignore. Iran’s seaborne crude oil exports collapsed from a 14-day average of 230,000 barrels per day at the beginning of September to ZERO, remaining there into October. This is an extraordinary development for a country that depends upon petroleum revenues to finance its government, support its currency, and obtain the foreign exchange necessary to purchase imports. Washington has spent decades attempting to cripple Iran’s economy through sanctions, but the naval blockade has accomplished something far more devastating in a matter of weeks. Claire…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways A brilliant idea doesn’t guarantee success. That’s because execution, not novelty, is what builds a product people actually use. In the AI era, any concept can be copied in weeks, so lasting advantage comes from execution: strong distribution, reliability that keeps users, and a fast-moving team competitors can’t clone. Hire stars and shape roles around them, lead by doing the work yourself, move fast on the decisions you can reverse, refuse false trade-offs, and ship a strong version now instead of chasing a perfect one later. Back in 1999, there…