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Published August 14, 2026 04:30AMCoolers are clutch. Not only do they keep your perishables from perishing on campouts and multi-day missions, but the best coolers are essential for keeping après libations crispy and cold.Now, as much as we love coolers, we hate paying full retail for them. Why? Well, when you spend a mortgage-sized payment on a cooler, it eats into your budget for those libations. And we have priorities over here. (Pilsners. Pilsners are our priorities.) In case you’re in the same boat, we’ve pulled together our favorite budget coolers, as tested by the Outside beer—I mean, gear—team. We’ve…

Key Takeaways Americans are increasingly using AI chatbots for everyday financial guidance. In a recent JD Power financial health survey of 4,000 people, 40% said they had used AI to manage their money in the previous three months. AI chatbots fall short in nuanced situations; one of the central risks of using AI for financial guidance is that the tool can confidently hallucinate, or invent sources and information. Turning to AI for financial advice? You’re not alone. However, experts urge caution when tapping into the technology for consequential decisions.  Finance experts recently told NPR that AI tends to be useful…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Change is what happens externally. Transition points to how you feel about an upcoming change. It’s defining your relationship to the change that has or is about to happen. The leadership goal when implementing change is to move an organization forward, but that can’t happen while teams are still in transition. It can be hard to wait and let people adapt, but it is a necessary step towards the neutral zone — or the place where there’s no longer any intense pushback or resentment. Guiding teams through the neutral zone…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Founders point AI at the tasks they’re already doing and ask if it can make them faster or cheaper. But if you’ve shelved a project because the cost or time never added up, that’s the more interesting question AI just reopened. Before you point AI at your next task list, consider which of the things you decided not to do are worth doing now that the cost of trying has dropped. The instinct with AI is to look at something you’re already doing and ask whether it can be done…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Subtraction has a ceiling: once you’ve automated the obvious, you’re left with a cheaper business, not a more valuable one. Agents scale your execution and your blind spots equally — the more they do, the more your judgment has to be worth. Let me be clear about where I stand. AI agents are real, and they are not hype. The market has stopped arguing about it. When AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, IBM, Databricks, and the major consulting firms all describe agents in nearly identical terms — systems with goals, memory,…

Key Takeaways Former Microsoft executive Rob Collie says that one tactic is the best way to AI-proof your career. Collie says that workers should not wait to see what AI does to their jobs. In his view, no one can reliably predict which roles will change most or how quickly. His simple test could tell you if your job might be vulnerable to AI. Rob Collie spent 13 years at Microsoft helping lead business intelligence work in Excel. Even with that technical background, he says that AI initially scared him.  “I wasn’t immune to that,” Collie says in a new…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways After achieving a big goal, the advice is often to set a new goal and get back to work. But there’s a problem with this advice. Dopamine, adrenaline and cortisol drop after a big win, and what you’re left with is the arrival fallacy: the gap between what you expected to feel when you crossed the finish line and what you actually feel. When you set a new goal as fast as possible, you train your brain to treat the natural rest state after high output as a signal that…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Most organizations don’t stall because CX transformation is impossible. They stall because they misdiagnose where they’re stuck. Platform, people and process are the three pillars of CX transformation. The organizations that stall are almost never stuck on all three at once. They’re strong on one or two and weak on another. Most organizations have a clear and obvious constraint in one of these three areas, and they usually can recognize which one it is pretty quickly. Transformation has become the default vocabulary in customer experience (CX). Leaders who were once…

California murder suspect Cris Jones allegedly assumed his victim’s identity, Daniel Joslin, and hid near Harriet Lake in Mount Hood National Forest before an aerial SWAT unit made the arrest.Published August 13, 2026 03:31PMCops in Oregon say they arrested a murder suspect who was hiding at a remote campground in the Mount Hood National Forest.According to a press release from the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office, SWAT team members apprehended the suspect, Cris Jones, on August 2 near Harriet Lake. The 22-acre reservoir is located in an area overseen by the U.S. Forest Service approximately 60 miles southeast of Portland. Officials…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. AI companies are suddenly scrambling to watermark their work. Anthropic said this week it will start marking text created by its AI, including Claude, so it can be identified as AI-generated. The move complies with a new European Union law that kicked in August 2, according to TechCrunch. Every new model going forward will have this built in automatically, and the mark is supposed to stick around even after you copy and paste the text somewhere else. It’s still unclear exactly how much you’d need to edit that text before the mark…