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In February, April Watson hit her head while stowing products at an Amazon warehouse outside of Atlanta. She suffered a concussion as a result, and was told by a neurologist that she would have to go on restricted duty and work at a slower pace than was typically expected of her.  Despite having paperwork from the doctor that clearly stated her need to work more slowly, it took over a month for Watson to get the necessary accommodations on the job—all because she wasn’t provided the correct medical form from Amazon’s internal AI assistant and could not easily connect with…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Collaborative budgeting increases ownership, aligning department leaders with financial goals and trade-offs. Rigid annual budgets fail in fast growth; continuous forecasting enables timely strategic adjustments. Transparency and monthly reviews empower leaders to manage spending proactively and support growth. Most companies have a rigid budgeting process. Fewer have one that allows for flexibility and actively supports growth. In many organizations, budgets are set top-down annually by finance, distributed to departments, and then monitored for deviations. That process works well enough for cost control, but it tends to create a passive relationship…

The 2026 Microsoft Work Trend Index shows that marginal AI productivity gains are outpacing organizational redesign that might harness AI for durable strategic advantage.Credit: ID 9728950 | And Person © Sarah Holmlund | Dreamstime.comMicrosoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index captures a pattern showing up across enterprise AI deployments: The productivity conversation is outpacing the organizational-design conversation. On the productivity side, employees are using AI to create new capacity, agents are moving into enterprise workflows, and the users getting the most value are treating AI as a thinking partner while keeping human judgment at the center. But productivity gains alone are becoming…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI search traffic is largely invisible in standard analytics. It gets misclassified across Direct, Organic and Referral — and there’s no reliable way to connect performance back to strategy. AI platforms are fundamentally incompatible with traditional analytics models. This means incomplete data is leading decision-making. Leading teams are creating a defined signal for AI traffic, consolidating that data into a dedicated channel in GA4 and integrating AI performance into reporting to better understand its real impact. AI search is shaping the consumer’s perception of brands. Platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Microsoft…

Like much of Facebook nowadays, the “California Life” Facebook page is full of AI slop. There are generated images of highway patrol officers holding up a groundhog and lengthy road signs detailing California quirks. And in between those are posts that admonish AI data centers. “It’s not worth giving up an inch of this for a data center,” reads one image, in which the words look carved into a field of crops. “Not a single square inch of California is worth giving up for an AI Data Center,” reads another posted the very next day, the text floating above a…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Don’t rely on coupons or promotions for your marketing Don’t be the “junk drawer” of your business Don’t hide behind logos and polished ads Mike Bausch used to crash on the floor of a friend’s condo just to attend Pizza Expo. Today, he cannot walk ten feet through the convention center without getting stopped. The founder of Andolini’s Pizza has become one of the loudest, funniest and most recognizable voices in the restaurant industry, but Bausch did not enter the business looking to become a content creator. Or even the…

TOPSHOT – A visitor washes his hands before entering Kyeshero Hospital at a checkpoint for hand washing and temperature screening for all visitors and patients entering Kyeshero Hospital, as part of Ebola prevention measures in Goma on May 18, 2026. A first case of Ebola virus infection has been reported in Goma, a major city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo controlled by the M23 armed group, with the WHO declaring an international health alert on May 17, 2026. (Photo by Jospin Mwisha / AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty ImagesThere is no evidence that the Ebola outbreak in eastern…

Key Takeaways One in four people have been targeted by the scam or know someone who has been, per McAfee’s research. With just three seconds of audio, cybercriminals can clone someone’s voice with 85% accuracy. If your phone lights up with a message from a desperate loved one, you might be the target of a sophisticated scam.  With recently developed AI voice cloning tools at their disposal, cybercriminals can replicate almost anyone’s voice and leave fake voicemail and text messages in an effort to scam people out of money, cybersecurity software company McAfee reported.  One in four people said they’d…

Published May 19, 2026 04:30PMKey Takeaways: A new study suggests that people may need more than the recommended 150 minutes of exercise per week to significantly boost heart health. While 150 minutes of exercise is realistic and beneficial, tripling that weekly total to 560 minutes may lead to substantial reductions in cardiovascular issues. According to the study’s press release, “the researchers say that the current one-size-fits-all advice on exercise may need to be changed and replaced with personalized targets according to an individual’s fitness level.” We all know that exercise is good for us. The baseline recommended 150 minutes of…

The internet has repeatedly changed how people travel. First came the browser, then smartphones. Each shift promised to flatten the industry further, cutting friction, shrinking the role of middlemen, and pushing more of the experience into software. But AI introduces a different possibility entirely: What happens when people stop visiting travel websites at all? Few companies have lived through every phase of that evolution quite like Expedia Group. The company survived the rise of Google, the collapse of desktop computing, the mobile revolution, platform monopolies, and a pandemic that temporarily froze global travel. For decades, Expedia controlled nearly the entire…