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Published May 20, 2026 03:49AMOn May 17, 56-year-old Kami Rita Sherpa reached the summit of Mount Everest for the 32nd time, once again breaking his own record for the most trips by anyone to the top of the world. The accomplishment generated headlines across world. Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah posted a lengthy statement on social media congratulating Kami Rita and Nepal’s other record-setting climber, Lakpa “Mountain Queen” Sherpa, who now has the most women’s summits at 11.Throughout the spring climbing season, Kami Rita was a fixture at the Seven Summit Treks coffee shop at Everest Base Camp as he…

As AI use expands, communities are increasingly questioning the costs of the infrastructure behind it.gettyAmericans have found a new technology they do not want built nearby. According to a recent Gallup poll, 71 percent of adults oppose the construction of AI data centers in their local area, and nearly half say they are strongly opposed. Gallup also found that opposition to nearby data centers now runs higher than opposition to a nearby nuclear power plant, which stood at 53 percent in the same survey. That is striking, since nuclear power has long been a touchstone for local resistance.An easy reaction…

Work is the closest thing most adults have to a full-time identity. Strip away sleep, and roughly half of our waking lives are spent working. If you take a conservative estimate—40 to 50 hours a week, across four to five decades—you end up with well over 80,000 hours on the job. And yet, the most salient feature of work is not how many hours we devote to it, but rather how we experience it, which varies wildly. For some, it resembles what the sociologist Max Weber once described as a “calling,” a source of meaning and even a kind of…

People think they can tell if AI made something, but they can’t, and their anger is at anything that they think was AI generated.gettyIn today’s column, I examine how anger about the widespread adoption of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) is leading people to assume that they can readily recognize AI-generated content when they see it, even though they can’t. Their fury blinds them. Furthermore, when shown human-devised content and told a fib that it was generated by AI, people tend to still make disparaging remarks about the item because they believe it was AI-generated.This is the AI-is-rottenness…

A tough economy, rising grocery bills, high gas prices, credit card bills, fears of layoffs: A 2025 survey of 2,000 adults from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine revealed that 78% of adults lose sleep to financial stress. That double whammy of financial stress and bad sleep can lead to a slew of health problems—as well as declining performance at work, which in turn could lead to actual (or even worse) money problems. Insufficient or disrupted sleep affects every major physiological system, not just daytime energy levels, says Jennifer L. Martin, professor at Florida International University in Miami who specializes in…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Without the proper execution behind the vision you have for your company, it’s just an idea — it won’t actually come to fruition. If there isn’t a consistent cadence holding your vision together, things start to drift. A weekly cadence that forces you to look at pipeline, cash and bottlenecks — and therefore forces clarity — will keep you in check and help you achieve your goals. Vision gets talked about a lot. Every founder has it. Every company has a direction they’re trying to go. But over time, I’ve…

AI literacy is rapidly becoming a boardroom, regulatory and investor issue as companies move from AI experiments to real-world deployment.Adobe StockAI literacy is about ensuring an organization’s workforce understands AI, how it affects their roles and is capable of using, overseeing and measuring its work. I’ve always championed it as a critical for every business. Even if they never directly use it, everyone should be comfortable working with it, talking about it and being aware of the risks. Today, this is no longer just a skills, HR or training issue; it’s a boardroom priority. And the extent to which an…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Start in smaller, cheaper markets where returns and CAC teach you about product–market fit before you “earn” Germany. Local payment methods like Bancontact, iDEAL and Klarna matter more to conversion than perfectly translated product copy. Central and Eastern Europe offer faster growth, lower CAC and less competition than saturated Western markets, if you plan for local regulation. I run a luxury ecommerce brand across 19 European markets, from the United Kingdom to Romania. Most of what you read about expanding into Europe is written by founders who picked Germany, France…

It’s graduation week, which means the emissaries of the nation’s elite are now descending onto college campuses to deliver the much-discussed and, they hope, indelibly quotable college commencement address. These speeches are their own sort of literary genre. The celebrities, politicians, and titans of industry invited to give these keynotes must seem intelligent enough, but not bore—or worse, antagonize—their audience. Typically, this involves a speaker integrating a clever life story, select nuggets of eternal wisdom, a few trite asides to campus lore, and well-placed references to current affairs into one propulsive and affecting speech. The problem this year, however, is…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The same room of employees who fall silent when a concern is raised can also become a unified, energized team eager for dialogue and improvement. Language does more than communicate direction — it sets the emotional tone of an entire organization and shapes the foundation of workplace culture.While leading a cross-functional team under significant pressure, I noticed a consistent pattern. When I framed challenges as failures, the room became quiet, guarded and hesitant. When I reframed the same issues as data or feedback, people leaned in, asked questions and collaborated more openly.…