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Leadership is no longer linear. Among the founders I meet, there’s a clear shift: Younger entrepreneurs are starting earlier, building faster, and often working across multiple ventures at once. More than half of Gen Z has a side hustle. Entrepreneurship is beginning to look less like a single trajectory and more like a portfolio. But this generation isn’t just building businesses. They’re building dynamic careers with intent. There is a growing expectation that entrepreneurs integrate social and environmental impact into core business decisions. Nearly a third of Gen Z is interested in serving on nonprofit boards or advisory groups. The line between building a company and driving impact is increasingly blurred. In my…

SpaceX, after launching 10,000 satellites into orbit, aims to loft one million more in a plan that space powers around the world will likely oppose. Shown here is a simulated image released by the European Space Agency of 12,000 space objects now circling the globe. (Photo by ESA/AFP via Getty Images)ESA/AFP via Getty ImagesWhile Elon Musk stunned the world with plans to launch a million satellites into orbit, the heads of space agencies and spacecraft operators across the planet are certain to oppose this SpaceX scheme, says a pre-eminent space scholar.If the American Federal Aviation Administration even hinted it might…

Tech layoffs are hitting hard, with companies like Meta, Coinbase and Block slashing their workforce by thousands. Entry-level jobs have been particularly targeted, as much of the basic coding can now be done by AI. But here’s the paradox: companies are actually hiring again—they’re just looking for mid- and senior-level engineers with AI skills who can manage AI agent teams and catch the coding errors that AI still makes. “One experienced engineer can have the output of a whole team,” Chris Abbass, CEO of recruiting firm Talentful, told The Wall Street Journal. Companies are also hiring for AI operations, AI…

Shawn Gorman, the great-grandson of Leon Leonwood (“L.L.”) Bean and chairman of his family’s company, shares the benefits of going “off-the-grid” (Photo: L.L. Bean)Published May 14, 2026 10:44AMAs a kid growing up in the 1970s, I didn’t think much about spending time outside. It was simply what you did—after school with friends, in the backyard with siblings, or piled into my dad’s station wagon, small camper in tow, for a week of summer fun in the outdoors. Today, time outdoors is far less organic. It has to be planned, prioritized, and structured. It requires intention and protection—shielded from the noise…

Two world powers are in an arms race to develop the most advanced AI systems, and neither of them trusts each other—but each relies on the other’s compliance to proceed. This contradiction lies at the core of a dangerous standoff for our time. President Trump’s meetings with President Xi Jinping in Beijing this week are a crucial moment for the U.S.-China relationship. U.S. officials made clear their intentions to initiate the discussion of setting up a dedicated communication channel regarding AI matters This means they’re worried that the technology could become a source of conflict between the two nations. I’ve…

Warning: Businesses have a narrow window to beef up cybersecurity defenses before AI-powered attacks become routine, according to Palo Alto Networks tech chief Lee Klarich. “We now estimate a narrow three-to-five-month window for organizations to outpace the adversary before AI-driven exploits start to become the new norm,” Klarich wrote in a Wednesday blog post. Sophisticated AI models are raising the stakes, putting pressure on security teams to prepare for cyberattacks capable of exploiting previously unknown software vulnerabilities. Google said this week it stopped an attempt to use AI for mass exploitation, but hackers are already using available tools to exploit…

Yellowstone has been up and down as not just an individual show, but as an entire expanded universe, full of century-old prequels and recently, actual spinoffs with its former cast members. Now, Dutton Ranch premieres this week, and it has set a very surprising Rotten Tomatoes record for the franchise.As it stands, the Rip and Beth spinoff has a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score, the only such score in any show in the entire extended franchise. Here’s how it stacks up against the others:Dutton Ranch – 100% critic score1923 – 94% critic score1883 – 89% critic scoreYellowstone – 83% critic…

Have you ever circled around a packed parking lot looking for a spot, only to find that one selfish person is hogging up two spaces? Chances are they’re driving a Mercedes, according to a new survey. Car rental site DiscoverCars.com enlisted travel bloggers in five major European cities—Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and Manchester—to observe parking habits in popular shopping mall lots. They recorded which cars parked outside the lines, took up multiple spaces, or parked illegally in handicap spaces without permits. Mercedes drivers took the obnoxious crown, with 25 percent of spotted Mercedes vehicles parked incorrectly. Citroen drivers were a…

Michaels is expanding its party supply and celebration offerings. In September 2025, the arts and crafts retailer introduced The Party Shop at Michaels, an in-store shopping experience that brought party supplies, balloons, and other celebration essentials to its shelves. This year, its product selection will grow even further. In a May 13 press release, Michaels announced it is expanding its in-store party supply assortment and introducing new in-store experiences, with plans to add nearly 600 new products to its shelves throughout 2026. Michaels isn’t the only unexpected retailer with a party supply aisle. Last month, Staples announced it was getting…

Serge Gladkoff, CEO of Logrus Global.In Uganda’s Kibale Forest, researchers watched 200 Ngogo chimpanzees slide into nothing less than civil war. They were one community that had lived and raised offspring together for decades. Then the animals that moved between subgroups disappeared. Interaction dropped, avoidance rose, and a soft boundary hardened into a fault line. Bloody conflict followed with patrols, fights, killing males, females and children.Chimps have no politics, no culture, no religion, no trade, nor other sophisticated reason to wage a war. Bloody war started when the factions simply stopped talking to each other.For business leaders, Ngogo is not…