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All change for iMessage.NurPhoto via Getty ImagesIt’s finally here — almost. Almost 18-months after the FBI warned Americans to stop texting between iPhone and Android, Apple has fixed the problem. Next week, iOS 26.5 should bring encrypted cross-platform messaging for the first time. But Apple warns this “is not available to all.” That availability affects devices — suggesting not all iPhones will be capable of sending fully secure RCS messages — and also carriers, which affects even iPhones with the upgrade. And it’s this second type of availability that’s the bigger issue.Forbes‘Increasingly Urgent’—Microsoft Issues Password And 2FA WarningBy Zak DoffmanWhen…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Perfectionism is a planning addiction and a form of procrastination. Founders stuck in perfection mode are delaying contact with reality, which is the only place where businesses grow. Iteration beats perfection: Launching a “good enough” version early allows you to test assumptions, gather data and improve quickly, rather than spending months building something no one asked for. Speed is a competitive advantage: Founders who can test ideas quickly have a structural advantage over the founders waiting for ideal conditions. At the same time, perfectionism has been consistently increasing over time.…

Wendy’s shares rose on Friday after the fast-food giant reported stronger-than-expected quarterly earnings, beating analyst estimates despite poor U.S. store performance, with U.S. same-restaurant sales falling 7.8%. That slow but steady growth reflects the burger chain’s effort to turn around sales by shedding low-performing American restaurants and improving menu quality. The plan comes amid an overall decline in fast-food store traffic, as American consumers grapple with higher prices and the cost of food and living soars. “We are in the early innings of our turnaround,” Ken Cook, Wendy’s CFO and interim CEO, told analysts on Friday’s earnings call. In the earnings…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In entrepreneurial culture, success is often framed as a linear ascent—build, scale, exit, repeat. Metrics dominate the conversation. Revenue, valuation, reach. The assumption is that more is always better, and that momentum, once achieved, must be sustained at all costs. But what happens when an entrepreneur reaches that inflection point earlier than expected—and begins to question whether continued acceleration is the goal at all?  Donatello Bonasera, known as “The Golden Artist,” represents a less conventional trajectory. By traditional standards, he achieved a level of success before thirty that many spend decades pursuing. His…

A content delivery company best known for moving video bits faster has just signed the largest customer contract in its history with a frontier artificial intelligence lab. The structural read for technology buyers is bigger than the dollar amount.Akamai Technologies disclosed in its first-quarter 2026 earnings that a leading United States based frontier model provider has committed $1.8 billion over seven years to Akamai’s Cloud Infrastructure Services. Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, identified the customer as Anthropic. Both companies declined to comment on the identification. The stock closed up 27% on May 8, the largest single-day rally in…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways I’ll reveal the one AI tool I’d open instead of ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini — and the seven prompts I run on it daily. I’ll show you the agent room live: one agent updates the blog, another researches the web, another inserts SEO links — all running while you’re offline. I’ll demo a website audit that delivers what a $10K consultant takes weeks to write — applied to a real site that launched this week. If I only had 30 minutes a day to grow a one-person business, I wouldn’t…

Chili’s has had a major comeback in recent years. The casual dining chain turned 50 last year, and recently reported 20 consecutive quarters of growth. Chili’s CEO Kevin Hochman told Business Insider that the success of the chain boils down to two things: marketing and operations. “We have a saying here: Marketing brings them in, and ops brings them back,” Hochman told BI. Hochman shared this sentiment with analysts and investors during an earnings call last year. It’s clear that the Tex-Mex chain has continued to lean in on that strategy. “The marketing has to be exciting,” Hochman said. “And…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Several tools and strategies that boast of helping you save time and money actually severely limit your video output. Multitasking during video production — taking on both filming and post-production — comes with a massive cognitive cost and lower-quality output. Falling into the trap of pursuing an AI-only strategy leaves you with bland, mediocre content. “Unlimited” video editing subscriptions actually put a real monthly cap on your video output through the fine print in their offers. Video content is a key element in the marketing strategies of countless businesses —…

Saturday is here at last, Pipsqueaks, and we have an Easy, Medium and Hard Pips to solve. I thought the Medium was harder than the Hard today, to be honest, though your mileage will vary. Let’s lay some dominoes, shall we?Looking for Friday’s Pips? Read our guide right here.How To Play PipsIn Pips, you have a grid of multicolored boxes. Each colored area represents a different “condition” that you have to achieve. You have a select number of dominoes that you have to spend filling in the grid. You must use every domino and achieve every condition properly to win.…

Key Takeaways Google is piloting a software engineering interview format that explicitly lets candidates use an AI assistant during the interview process. The pilot program starts with select junior and mid-level roles in the U.S., with the potential to expand later. Interviewers will explicitly evaluate “AI fluency,” including prompt engineering and debugging skills. Applying to Google as a software engineer? Don’t leave your AI tools behind. According to an internal document seen by Business Insider this week, Google is experimenting with a new recruiting process for software engineers that will allow them to tap into AI during the interview.  Beginning…