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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When e-commerce brands come to me saying organic traffic has flatlined, the problem is seldom the homepage or the blog. It’s the product pages. These pages should be doing the heaviest lifting in search — they carry purchase intent, they match long-tail queries and they’re the closest thing to a conversion your SEO strategy can deliver. But most e-commerce brands treat them as an afterthought. Your product pages are your most valuable SEO real estate — treat them that way. Most founders pour their SEO energy into blog content and homepage optimization…

It’s official: the robots are taking over. Taking over the internet, that is.Conspiracy theorists have long discussed the “dead internet” theory, which reasons that online spaces, once entirely populated and filled with content created by humans, have slowly become dominated by bots posing as people. The more extreme conspiracists allege that this transformation is deliberate, with governments and corporations using the bots to manipulate public perception.With the rise of AI since ChatGPT’s debut in 2022, the dead internet theory—or at least some version of it—has sounded more and more plausible. Now, according to a recent study, it’s closer to coming…

An influencer evangelist spreading Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s MAHA agenda won’t be America’s next surgeon general.Close Kennedy ally Casey Means is no longer Trump’s nominee for the role, and the president announced on Thursday that he would push for Dr. Nicole Saphier, a radiologist who specializes in breast cancer, to serve as the country’s top doctor instead. After she was nominated, Means faced questions about her track record on vaccines, children’s health, and her own qualifications for the role, which is historically held by a practicing physician.Her nomination ultimately stalled out after facing opposition from Republicans who refused to back her…

Raising Cane’s, the Louisiana-based chicken finger chain known for its tangy sauce, crinkle fries, and thick Texas toast, is continuing to expand. This May, Cane’s will open locations in seven states, including its first in one.The company recently told USA Today that the new openings will kick off on May 12 and continue through May 27 with new restaurants coming to California, New York, North Carolina, Maryland, Florida, and Ohio. Additionally, Arkansas will get its first-ever Raising Cane’s in the Jonesboro area. Two other locations — Oklahoma City and Lexington, Kentucky — will reopen, on May 4 and May 18, respectively,…

AI is being touted as the future of weather forecasting—faster and more precise. But new research shows a major blind spot: it often fails at predicting extreme weather. Traditional physics-based models still do better.“They do perform well on a lot of tasks, but for very extreme events—that are the most important for society—they still struggle,” says Sebastian Engelke, a statistics professor at the University of Geneva and one of the authors of a new study in Science that pitted some of the leading AI weather models, including GraphCast and Pangu-Weather, against a database of recent extreme events.For record-breaking heat, like…

Unpacking jargonOne creative way Kristin Moore, a technical product manager at PERQ, a digital marketing platform for property management companies, uses AI is to help ensure she understands her colleagues’ technically advanced conversations. If she’s in a meeting and engineers talk through a topic in a way that she doesn’t grasp, she can upload the recorded conversation through Claude, AI assistant built by Anthropic, and ask it to summarize what she needs to do to follow up.“It picks up on all of that terminology that I don’t understand, and it can simplify it into something that I can consume,” Moore…

Kruh-SONT or kwah-SAHN? That is the question that Google Translate’s new pronunciation feature aims to answer. TechCrunch reports the app now lets you practice speaking words and phrases in Spanish, English and Hindi — and scores your pronunciation. When you translate a word or phrase, you can navigate to the “Practice” menu and hit the “Pronounce” button, which shows phonetics you can say out loud. The app then gives you feedback, like “Some sounds were a little unclear.” The feature resembles Duolingo in how it lets you practice speaking words and sentences. It’s rolling out in the U.S. and India…

Elon Musk on Thursday sparred with an attorney for OpenAI during his third day of testimony in the contentious trial over the company’s pivot from nonprofit status to a for-profit venture valued at hundreds of billions of dollars.The trial centers on the 2015 birth of the ChatGPT maker as a nonprofit startup primarily funded by Musk. It pits the world’s richest person against Sam Altman, a fellow OpenAI co-founder he accuses of betraying promises to keep the company as a nonprofit dedicated to humanity’s benefit.Tempers have flared on both sides of the high-stakes trial, as the morning began with an…

The United Arab Emirates delivered a major blow to OPEC by quitting the oil cartel, and the move could eventually bring gas prices down, according to CNN. Here’s why: The U.A.E. is OPEC’s third-biggest oil producer after Saudi Arabia and Iraq. OPEC production quotas limited the U.A.E.’s oil output to 3.2 million barrels a day, but it has the capacity to produce closer to 5 million barrels a day. The potential additional supply would meet around 1-2% of daily global oil demand. But don’t expect immediate relief at the pump. The national average U.S. gas price is around $4.23, and…

For years, it was common for even the biggest tech companies to have annual capital expenditures, or capex, in the single- to low-double-digit-billion range. You might have heard a tech company say it planned to spend $9 billion, $15 billion, or even $25 billion on research, development, and other costs in the upcoming fiscal year. But lately, capital expenditures at the largest tech companies have been off the charts, with some companies now regularly forecasting single-year capex in the hundreds of billions. The driving factor for this is, of course, artificial intelligence (AI). Some of the biggest names in tech are…