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In calendar year 2025, the U.S. recorded 4.06 million existing home sales—tying 2024 and coming in just below the 4.09 million recorded in 2023. That marks three straight years with the fewest U.S. existing home sales since 1995. However, when accounting for population growth, the slowdown is even more pronounced. The U.S. had around 99 million households in 1995, compared to roughly 135 million households in 2025. Adjusted for that larger population base, resale turnover over the past three years has been the lowest in more than four decades. You’d have to go back to around 1981—when mortgage rates briefly…

Most people don’t actually want to give up their phone.They just want it to stop tugging at them like a needy toddler.There’s a difference. One suggests extremism and poor reception. The other is far more sensible: learning how to live with technology without letting it quietly take charge of your attention, mood, and nervous system while pretending it’s being helpful.Because for most of us, the problem isn’t “addiction” in the dramatic sense. No one’s pawning the sofa for screen time. It’s accumulation. A thousand tiny habits layered together until checking becomes automatic and being offline feels faintly unsettling, like you’ve…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Top performers disengage first during AI disruption when leaders fail to provide clarity, purpose and trust. Four critical conversations — about direction, individual impact, ownership and personal benefit — are essential to retain and align top talent. The first people to disengage during AI disruption aren’t the weakest performers. They’re the strongest.I’ve seen this pattern across enterprises, startups, government organizations and nonprofits. While leaders focus on tools, pilots and roadmaps, top talent is asking a different set of questions: Where are we going? Do I still matter? Can I trust…

As businesses race to become AI-ready, job seekers are racing just as quickly to keep up. New data shows that candidates are getting the message: AI skills are showing up more often on resumes.But this change is exposing a deeper disconnect: the labor market increasingly rewards AI fluency, while the education system often discourages it.According to a new report from Monster.com, the number of resumes that mention AI skills has surged in just two years, going from 3.7% in 2023 to 12.8% last year. Per the report, the most notable increase was from 2024 to 2025 when the number of…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Through discussions with over 45 leaders, we uncovered seven leadership principles that fueled our journey from startup to market leader. These principles can be applied by leaders in any industry who are seeking both business and personal growth. At first, a startup often lacks resources but has a handful of driven people who know and trust each other to take ownership. As the company grows, they become the main driving force — leaders who build teams and departments. As growth accelerates and more people join, it becomes harder to ensure…

For years, parents, teenagers, pediatricians, educators, and whistleblowers have pushed the idea that social media is detrimental to young people’s mental health and can lead to addiction, eating disorders, sexual exploitation, and suicide.“The era of Big Tech invincibility is over,” said Sacha Haworth, executive director of The Tech Oversight Project. “After years of gaslighting from companies like Google and Meta, new evidence and testimony have pulled back the curtain and validated the harms young people and parents have been telling the world about for years.”While it’s too soon to tell if this week’s outcomes will lead to fundamental changes in how social media…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI makes software cheaper to build, but understanding real problems matters more than ever. Winning products separate assumptions from reality and continuously learn from real user behavior. The advantage shifts from coding speed to clarity of thinking and proximity to truth. I have had a software development studio for years. For many years, it had perfect sense: I was selling teams, hours and delivery. Clients understood it, I understood it, and everybody knew exactly what was being delivered in exchange for money.And then, somehow, in the last year or so,…

Hiring for white-collar jobs has been especially weak, part of what economists call a “low-hire, low-fire” job market in which businesses are largely holding onto their workers while hiring remains sluggish, making it difficult for younger workers to land permanent work.Technology is also shaking up the hiring process. Automated systems enable job seekers to easily apply to more jobs, but those same systems also makes it even tougher to get noticed. According to data from hiring platform Greenhouse, the average recruiter has 3.5 times more job applications to sift through than they did a few years earlier.But artificial intelligence has offered job…

Key Takeaways DoorDash is introducing a program that pays gig workers to do short data-collection jobs. The company plans to use the data from these tasks to train AI models and provide information for retail partners. The move signals a broader shift in gig work from only deliveries and rides to ongoing AI and retail data collection. DoorDash is turning its ranks of delivery couriers into on-demand data collectors and AI helpers. The food delivery service is now offering a new slate of short assignments that pay workers to photograph shelves, film chores and record conversations in exchange for cash,…

Be careful what you like on social media—you never know when a billionaire’s lawyers might be going over your reactions with a fine-tooth comb.Elon Musk’s lawyers requested that a judge with a history of presiding over his legal battles step aside this week. The reason? A post she liked on LinkedIn. In a motion for recusal, Musk’s legal team requested that Delaware Chancery Court Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick remove herself from a pair of Tesla lawsuits to “avoid an appearance of bias.”The post in question celebrated a verdict in a San Francisco federal court that found Musk defrauded Twitter investors in…