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Four of Google’s top AI researchers are leaving to start their own company, and Google is backing them on the way out. Jeff Dean, Google’s chief scientist and a 27-year veteran of the company, is joining Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le to found Discovery Loop, according to Wired. Google is taking a stake in the startup and will provide cloud compute for its first year. The goal is to automate scientific discovery itself. Propose an experiment, run it, evaluate the results, then repeat, thousands of times over, across fields like drug discovery, chip design and material science. Dean…

Published August 7, 2026 06:00AMOverview: There’s no single “best” mountain bike tire—the right choice depends on trail and riding style. Front tires need taller, aggressive tread for cornering and braking grip; rear tires favor faster-rolling tread for pedaling efficiency. Our top pick is Schwalbe’s Radial pairing: Magic Mary Radial up front, Albert Radial in back, both with Gravity casings for a glued-to-the-trail feel and confident wet-weather grip.Choosing the best mountain bike tires really comes down to one question: what are you riding? Buttery-smooth singletrack calls for something very different than a root-and-rock-strewn descent. On mellow, hardpacked trails, a fast-rolling, low-profile…

Entrepreneur Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm partnered with Entrepreneur Media that is dedicated to backing passionate and innovative founders as early as day one. In this series, we are profiling the amazing entrepreneurs Entrepreneur Ventures is working with to share their insights on building and growing a thriving business. Darin Alpert is the co-founder of Gheelish, a CPG company that is taking over snack aisles across the country. He spoke with Entrepreneur to share how he and his co-founder brought his concept to life, and all of the small details that resulted in nationwide success. Please give us the…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Managing up is a skill that’s rarely taught but increasingly important as you climb the corporate ladder, and it’s particularly difficult when the person you’re managing up to is an executive. There are four common mistakes you must avoid: not knowing the executive’s goals, failing to adapt to the leader, providing too much context and not marketing the value of your work. Managing up to executives is a skill, and like any skill, it improves with intention and consistent practice. Managing up to executives is one of the most underrated…

Key Takeaways Matthias Hofmann saw a growing shortage of eye care providers as an opportunity to rethink how routine vision tests are delivered. After a smartphone vision-testing startup failed to catch on, he realized convenience mattered to people more than the test itself. Eyebot’s 90-second kiosks aim to make eye exams easier to access while helping retailers address a shortage of optometrists Getting a vision test can take weeks or even months, depending on where you live. Blame it on a simple supply-and-demand problem. More than 40,000 eye doctor positions were open in the U.S. last year, while the number…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Anchor your marketing budget at 10% of projected gross sales, not last year’s revenue, because you can’t market into the past. Split that budget 70/20/10 — 70% to what already works, 20% to promising bets and 10% to true experiments — and rebalance every quarter so proven winners keep climbing into your biggest bucket. Most marketing budgets are built once and then quietly forgotten. You set the number in January, spread it across the same channels you used last year and check back in December to see how it all…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI answers have replaced the ten blue links as the primary product of search — and there is no page two to fall back on. Google has published the rulebook for AI visibility, and the entrepreneurs who read it before their competitors do will own the recommendations everyone else is fighting to enter. PMG, one of the world’s largest independent marketing agencies, now advises clients to pilot generative engine optimization at 1.5 to two times their existing search budget, according to Matt Allfrey, its head of SEO EMEA. PMG is…

Published August 6, 2026 05:21PMMost hikers and campers are aware of the potential risk of getting Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, or similar diseases from a tick bite. But a May 2026 study published by Stony Brook University doctors and researchers in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (AJTMH) suggested that a rare and potentially fatal tick-borne disease might be on the rise: Bourbon virus.The doctors confirmed New York state’s first-ever case of the virus in the AJTMH study, which detailed how two patients who developed a fever after a tick bite in Suffolk County, New York,…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways We sold our first company because we no longer believed we could turn it into the business we set out to build. And it left me with a long list of things I’d do differently if I were starting again. The mistakes that pushed us to sell the company included a lack of proper market validation, underrating industry experience, low focus and commitment, and not speaking to users enough at the start. With my current company, I’m making decisions faster, holding a single person responsible, building roles around the strengths…

Published August 6, 2026 05:51PMIn July, former National Park Service (NPS) ranger Melissa Dalley stood in a visitor center in Grand Teton National Park, next to a wall where a sign used to be, handing strangers a piece of paper with the missing words on it.“You could clearly see the ghost of the sign,” Dalley told Outside. “The language was still imprinted on the plinth.” The display she is referring to was once mounted beneath a statue of Gustavus Cheyney Doane, a 19th-century U.S. Army officer who explored parts of the Teton region and took part in the killing of…