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Published May 7, 2026 03:55AMOutside Days will rock Denver in more ways than one from May 29 to 31. The festival, now in its third year, brings an unprecedented mashup of live music, film, speakers, and outdoor culture to Auraria Campus. One of the highlights is the Film series presented by Amazon Pharmacy, which this year features storytelling at the heart of adventure and human drama—and a big dose of music. Three of the films explore how sound and song shape our identities, memories, and experiences in wild landscapes, and cement Outside Days’ DNA as a festival built around incredible…

On Wednesday, Nvidia and Corning announced a $500 million deal to build fiber-optic cables to power AI data centers. For Nvidia, which manufactures graphics processing units key to building and training top-tier AI models, the partnership will help the chipmaker reduce latency and energy consumption for AI systems and likely accelerate its move to co-packaged optics. This would have fiber connections more directly integrated with chips. Per a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Nvidia now has a pre-funded warrant to purchase 3 million shares in Corning and the option to purchase 15 million more. As part of the agreement, Corning…

So it’s fitting that Will Schmidt, Fire Rover’s CEO, joined the company in a moment of crisis, too.Schmidt says he initially met the Fire Rover team at a trade show in early 2018, back when he was still working for Pacific Western Bank. The firefighting company so interested him that he made a trip out to their Detroit-area headquarters for a tour.“It didn’t really fit into any box that I had at the time—it was a little small and so forth—but [I] nevertheless wanted to keep in touch,” he recalls.About nine months later, Brad Gladstone—who had founded the company in 2015—passed…

Fractional work presents a new solution to this growing career dilemma. In a fresh spin on part-time work, fractional workers perform a “fraction” of a full-time job, often for multiple companies at once. For companies, middle managers “going fractional” actually solves several problems. First, fractional middle managers form a workforce that scales upward to meet business needs but can be reduced in a downturn without mass layoffs. Fractional managers can be especially useful in the wake of a layoff when important skill gaps emerge, as part of digital transformation toward AI, and as AI makes small companies more powerful. These market…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Not every company has to have a purpose-driven mission, and that’s okay. But if you do claim to stand for something, you’d be wise to back it up with genuine action. Be honest and transparent about your journey, and take ownership of past wrongs. Consumers have been growing more skeptical in recent years, and the truth is, it’s with good reason.Take the controversy in which Starbucks found itself embroiled back in 2020, when the coffee giant launched a heartwarming UK campaign called #whatsyourname, celebrating transgender people using their chosen names…

“No more reading emails, OK?” says tech founder and content creator Jason Yeager’s satirical boss character MyTechCeo in a recent TikTok skit.  “I want your AI reading my AI-generated email—and answering my email.”But if you receive a message that was likely written by AI, especially in the midst of a disagreement, you can tell—something’s off.It sounds a little too well drafted. The tone is reasonable and balanced. And while the problems are addressed, there’s something missing: the voice of the person you’re communicating with. (A dead giveaway, of course, is when the prompt is left in.)Emails may sound smoother this…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Freezing under pressure is not a personal weakness; it’s a biological hijack. But you can’t simply think your way out of it. In high-stakes moments, the amygdala perceives a threat and cuts off access to the prefrontal cortex — the part responsible for logic, analysis, strategy, precision, language and executive function. To override it, you must feel the freeze, label it, identify the one action required to move forward, lean into the discomfort and commit to tolerating it for just 20 seconds. “Just say it already!” The data was clear,…

One of the most daunting tasks when you start a new job is developing trust with your new colleagues. Whether you’re new to the world of work or an experienced hand, you are still starting at ground-zero with your new colleagues when you walk in the door. While you’re likely to get the benefit of the doubt, you still need to develop a rapport quickly and help people to see that you can be relied on.Here are four suggestions to get you started.1. Find a couple of quick winsYou want your new colleagues to see that you can be successful…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Constantly pursuing new ideas feels strategic and proactive, but what it’s actually doing is resetting momentum instead of getting you anywhere new. Anchor every decision to one key metric. Before pursuing any new initiative, ask whether it directly moves your primary goal for the quarter. If it doesn’t, “park it” for later. Businesses that see lasting growth are the ones that stay focused long enough for effort to compound. Your next breakthrough will likely come from better execution of what you’re already doing. If you are a founder, you probably…

Have you ever watched a physician try to maintain eye contact while also tracking the clock, the screen, and an overflowing inbox? That tension has become a defining feature of modern healthcare. The exam room—once a place for focused conversation—is now one of the most attention-fractured professional environments.At the same time, we’re living through an unprecedented surge of excitement about artificial intelligence in healthcare. New capabilities arrive almost weekly, promising speed and scale. But amid the hype, we are still tackling the wrong problem. Healthcare’s central challenge is not a lack of AI capabilities. It is a lack of attention.When…