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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways If you’re in professional services, don’t just use AI to scale activities. Consider the time involved in your current work as well. The companies that can integrate AI alongside human workers will be the ones that thrive in the future. AI is completely reshaping how audits are conducted. There’s been a gigantic cash infusion into artificial intelligence (AI) in the past few years. Stanford University reported a staggering $252.3 billion in corporate AI investments in 2024 alone. Where can they see a strong ROI on AI?The key to understanding the…

With some of the largest and most influential tech giants planning to go public this year, 2026 is shaping up to be the year of the mega IPO. Stock listings from OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX could all potentially happen in 2026, and it is the latter that may make its market debut first. Here’s the latest on the potential initial public offering from Elon Musk’s space-tech company:When is SpaceX’s IPO?For some time, investors have expected, or at least speculated, that Elon Musk’s rocket and space technology company, SpaceX, would go public sometime in 2026. And it looks like that may…

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If you only skim the headlines lately, you’d believe “conscious consumerism” is in full retreat, backpedaling to obscurity. ESG has become a political flashpoint. Corporate purpose feels diluted. DEI has been rebranded, softened, or even shelved altogether. Brands, wary of backlash, are pulling back from impact language.And yet, consumers didn’t get the memo.According to our own 2026 Conscious Consumer Report, conducted with our partners Ipsos and Engage for Good, 40% of North American purchases are now influenced by social and environmental considerations, which is up from 38% in last year’s report. That growth struck even during inflation, heightened price sensitivity,…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Before telling a team what to do, leaders have to understand the environment themselves. Leaders often overlook the broader context surrounding their plan — and how that context ultimately shapes the outcome. During the early months of COVID, I was leading a retail product business that suddenly found itself in the same position as thousands of others. Stores were closed, yet lease payments kept coming, and revenue had effectively gone to zero.Like most companies, we pushed aggressively into ecommerce. It was the right move, but while everyone was talking about…

U.S. stocks are falling Friday as Wall Street stumbles toward the finish of a fifth straight losing week, which would be its longest such streak in nearly four years.The S&P 500 sank 0.8% in early trading, deepening its losses after falling the day before to its worst drop since the war with Iran began. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 402 points, or 0.9%, as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1% lower.The losses are a break from Wall Street’s pattern this week, where the U.S. stock market flip-flopped from gains to losses each day…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Email and social media work best together, not separately. Social media captures attention. Email deepens that interest and produces tangible results. Email and social media mutually reinforce each other. When one channel underperforms, the other one compensates, making the system stronger and more durable. A multi-channel marketing system creates sturdy infrastructure, not just flash-in-the-pan campaigns. The results it produces are slow and unglamorous at first, but over time, it compounds into predictable revenue growth. When I began building my own companies (founding StartupIndex before moving to SaaS tools, including Selzy…

Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, has proposed a delay to the state’s landmark 2019 climate law, saying its goals would be too costly and could worsen already-expensive utility bills.But a coalition of climate, labor, and community groups counters that there are serious costs to not meeting the law’s climate goals—like more expensive energy bills, lost jobs, and health impacts caused by pollution.Delaying the law would cost New Yorkers nearly $9,000 on their energy bills per household over five years, due to the loss of billions of dollars in energy credits or rebates, according to an analysis from NY…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The loudest constraint often distracts founders from the real limiting factor. AI success depends more on infrastructure logistics than headline technologies like GPUs. Winning founders identify binding constraints and optimize around what actually blocks progress. If you want a quick lesson in “the bottleneck isn’t always what’s loudest,” look at the California power market.For years, politicians articulated the need for green energy production. That meant installing renewables like solar and wind, and incentivizing their production via subsidies. But after all of that effort, the evening price in California actually increased.The…

Austria’s governing coalition on Friday announced plans to ban social media use for children under 14, joining a string of other countries in drawing up restrictions for young people.Alexander Pröll, the official in Chancellor Christian Stocker’s office responsible for digitization, said that draft legislation will be drawn up by the end of June. He said that “technically modern methods” of age verification will be used that allow users to verify their age while respecting their privacy.It wasn’t immediately clear when the plan to introduce a minimum age, which will need parliamentary approval, might take effect.Australia in 2024 took the lead,…