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Using AI in the workplace promises significant productivity gains. And using chatbots may make you feel productive, because it they designed to create engagement from users. But, you need to be more explicit about calculating the costs (and opportunity costs) and tangible benefits to your work. That will help you determine whether the AI juice is worth the LLM squeeze.Here are three key considerations.1. Calculate your time spent using AIWhen people first started analyzing the downside of smart phones, one of the big data points that got trotted out was how long someone would remain off-task once they picked up…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Finding the problems with your business is only one piece of the leadership puzzle — experienced leaders know that you have to be able to find paths forward, too. Leaders also have to be able to evaluate risk and decide what risks are worth taking. At senior levels, raising an issue is never a neutral act. It is a decision about how much responsibility you are prepared to carry — and how much you expect others to carry for you.Leaders are surrounded by problems. What they pay attention to is…

Why do CEOs of big AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic often publicly acknowledge that AI is likely to result in significant job loss? Most AI company CEOs now concede that widespread job loss from AI is coming, while differing somewhat on the timeline. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has long acknowledged that AI will displace workers. “The real impact of AI doing jobs in the next few years will begin to be palpable,” he said recently. But he often adds that AI will also create new jobs, such as for humans who manage teams of AI agents. Anthropic CEO Dario…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The brands that show up favorably in AI results are the ones with the strongest trust footprint across three categories: website trust signals, inbound trust signals and SEO trust signals. Website trust signals are everything visitors encounter when they land on your site. Inbound trust signals (the ones that matter most) are what the rest of the internet says about you. SEO trust signals are the ones only Google can access, and they influence where Google ranks your content — which shapes what gets crawled, indexed and included in the…

California-based Ghirardelli Chocolate Company has voluntarily recalled 13 of its powdered beverage mixes over concerns of potential Salmonella contamination.  The storied confectionery says it issued the recall after dairy producer California Dairies recalled its milk powder, which is used in the affected powdered beverage mixes. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a recall notice on Tuesday, April 28. To date, no illnesses have been reported.  What products are included in the recall?  The recall covers a limited selection of powdered beverage mixes packaged for food service and institutional customers.  However, Ghirardelli cautions that some of the recalled products may…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The entrepreneurs who survive recessions are the ones who prepared before the storm arrived. They also treat financial resilience as an ongoing practice. Assess your current financial health, build a recession-ready budget, and diversify revenue streams. Strengthen relationships with creditors and vendors, optimize your business for efficiency, plan for contingencies, and leverage external financial resources. The word “recession” triggers a specific kind of fear. It brings me back to when a business I had poured everything into lost everything because of an economic downturn. It was incredibly painful. I’ve learned…

In March 2026, Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey told CNBC that AI had significantly influenced his decision to step down from his post. The company needed, in his words, “someone with the energy to pursue a completely new transformation of the enterprise.” A few months earlier, Walmart’s Doug McMillon stepped aside for essentially the same reasons: he could, he said, start the next big set of AI transformations, but he couldn’t finish the job. According to McMillon, Walmart needed someone faster to lead them into the AI era and so he was passing the baton on to a new CEO.These were…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Focus on creating authentic connections to build a customer base and long-term growth. When prospects can physically experience your brand, it proves you’re real — and worth trusting. Record and share customer experiences to increase trust and build community around your brand. If you have mixed feelings about AI, the truth is this technology isn’t a passing trend. It’s the new reality. AI adoption broke records — faster than both smartphones and social media. ChatGPT reached 100 million users in just two months, and 52% of Americans use AI platforms…

While softness—and even outright weakness—remains in parts of Florida’s housing market, the intensity of the downturn in Florida has eased somewhat in recent months.While the ResiClub team is huge fans of looking at year-over-year shifts in home prices—especially when using an index that helps account for mix shift—the truth is that year-over-year changes are also slightly lagging.One way to get ahead of year-over-year home price shifts is by looking at seasonally adjusted month-over-month home price shifts as measured by the Zillow Home Value Index.When looking at seasonally adjusted month-over-month home price shifts across Florida metro and micro areas, you’ll see…

Key Takeaways Recent college graduates are entering one of the bleakest job markets in years, according to The New York Times. Entry-level roles are being hit particularly hard, with postings for junior-level jobs falling about 7% in 2025 compared with the prior year, per Indeed. Many college graduates are serving tables at pizzerias, making drinks at coffee shops or working other roles that don’t demand a college degree; others are pursuing further education. New college graduates are confronting one of the toughest entry-level hiring environments in years, according to a report from The New York Times. Entry-level hiring dropped 6%…