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Spirit Airlines looks like it’s getting spirited away.The airline is preparing to shut down after attempts to establish a $500 million bailout from the Trump administration fell through, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal. Negotiations for the government lifeline had been underway for weeks as Spirit’s cash reserves dwindled, but investors have reportedly balked at the prospect of the federal government becoming a majority owner of the company. Despite reports saying that the company is prepping to cease operations, a company spokesperson declined to comment when asked by Fast Company, and said that “Spirit is operating as usual.”On Friday,…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. They ask it to write posts, clean up emails and save a few hours here and there. Useful, sure. But that is not what turns a side hustle into a seven-figure business.The real money is not in automating the $20-an-hour tasks. It is in using AI to make the $500-an-hour decisions: what to sell, who to hire, where leads are leaking and which product to build next. A March 2026 Goldman Sachs survey of 1,256 small business owners found that 76% are already using AI, yet only 14% have fully embedded it…

Since the massive success of Spider-Man: No Way Home in 2021, fans have been eagerly awaiting the next Peter Parker-centered film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Five years later, the fourth MCU Spider-Man film, subtitled Brand New Day, is finally coming to theaters—but a reveal in the screenplay’s first page has some fans abandoning the hype train. Director Destin Daniel Cretton shared the first three pages of Brand New Day with Entertainment Weekly, complete with annotations from himself, its stars Zendaya and Tom Holland, and other department heads. The pages reveal that the story picks up nine months after the events…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Doug Evans’ Juicero raised $135 million before becoming “one of the biggest Silicon Valley failures,” but his new company The Sprouting Company hit $1 million monthly revenue after appearing on Shark Tank. Evans switched from perishable juice with low margins to a subscription model selling sprouting seeds and hardware. After leadership training in the desert, Evans learned to trust his team and stop micromanaging, allowing the company to run while he traveled. In October 2025, Doug Evans appeared on Shark Tank to pitch The Sprouting Company, a countertop home sprouting…

According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, Zuckerberg blamed the layoffs on data center and AI infrastructure spending.“We [basically] have two cost centers in the company,” Zuckerberg said, according to the Journal, pointing to raw processing power, like GPUs and chips, and to data centers. “There’s [compute and infrastructure] and there’s people-oriented things, and if we’re investing more in one area to serve our community, then that means that we have less capital to basically allocate to the other.“So that means that we do need to take down the size of the company somewhat.” During the meeting, Zuckerberg also…

Yum! Brands served up better-than-expected earnings Wednesday, fueled by Taco Bell’s sizzling 8% same-store sales growth — nearly double Wall Street’s 5.6% forecast. “Taco Bell delivered an outstanding 8% same-store sales growth, meaningfully ahead of the quick-service restaurant industry,” Yum! CEO Chris Turner said in a statement. The chain credits AI for the growth. It’s expanding AI-driven A/B testing for drive-thru lanes, allowing it to change layouts, visuals and content shown to customers to learn what messages resonate. But Yum!’s other brands didn’t fare as well. KFC U.S. system sales fell 2% during the quarter, and Pizza Hut’s U.S. same-store…

For those who don’t remember what life on the internet looked like in 2023, here’s a refresher: girl dinner, the Roman Empire, and a TikTok algorithm painted purple from the McDonald’s Grimace Shake.The trend was simple, albeit strange: Users would film themselves trying out the purple McDonald’s beverage and then immediately cut to a horror-movie scene of their staged death.The purple vanilla-berry-flavored milkshake was rolled out by the fast-food chain in June of that year as a limited-edition menu item in honor of one of the chain’s mascots, Grimace.While the fake death trend garnered over 2.9 billion views on TikTok,…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Commodity tokenization connects capital directly to constrained physical assets and supply chains. The real opportunity lies in verification, custody and production-linked financial structures. Future startups will bridge software, finance and physical infrastructure to unlock efficiency. For most of the last decade, you could build a very large business without ever thinking about the physical world. Software scaled. Capital was cheap. Supply chains mostly worked.That’s no longer true.If you’re building in AI, energy or anything tied to infrastructure, you’ve probably already run into it: the constraint isn’t code — it’s materials.…

The Kentucky Derby is back this weekend with visitors and viewers alike preparing their extravagant hats and mint juleps for the annual Run for the Roses.The storied event takes place Saturday, May 2, at Churchill Downs in Louisville. This year marks the 152nd edition of the first leg of the Triple Crown, one of the most prestigious horse racing events worldwide. Last year’s race broke viewership records, bringing its broadcaster, NBC, around 21.8 million viewers, the highest in almost three decades. While up to 20 horses can run the race, three of the qualifying 3-year-old thoroughbreds have already been scratched from…