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Key Takeaways This week, Amazon unveiled two new Bee AI devices in direct competition with startups like Pocket and Plaud. Users can wear the $75 Bee Frontier on their wrist or clip it to clothing. Meanwhile, the $100 Bee Eclipse attaches magnetically to the back of a smartphone. Amazon is moving deeper into the AI hardware market with new Bee AI devices that listen to your conversations. Amazon announced plans to buy Bee, a San Francisco startup making AI-powered wristbands, in July 2025. The retail giant and the startup did not disclose the deal’s financial terms. Bee’s original $50 device…
The Grammy Award-winning rapper and fitness enthusiast calls donkey kicks her favorite exercise to keep her glutes strong. A personal trainer explains why adding them to your workout routine can help you move better on the trails. (Photo: Megan Thee Stallion: Kevin Winter/Getty; Design: Ayana Underwood/Canva )Published October 16, 2026 04:33PMThe donkey kick exercise isn’t new: this move is a longtime staple in Pilates, barre, and bodyweight workouts. But it is newly trendy, thanks to Megan Thee Stallion shouting out the donkey kick as one of her go-to exercises in a recent interview with The Cut. “I’m going to call…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Don’t benchmark against AI’s growth curve. AI companies often benefit from unusually short sales cycles, little regulation and instant product adoption — conditions that don’t apply to most industries. Study companies in your own category to map realistic timelines, then set investor expectations and internal plans against that curve. Track short-term metrics your team can influence weekly, while identifying the specific milestone — such as a license, partnership or cost threshold — that could accelerate growth. Every few weeks, another AI company posts a revenue chart that goes almost straight…
Published October 16, 2026 01:51PMYou’ve probably heard about the weather phenomenon called Super El Niño, which climate scientists predict will impact winter weather. And if you’re a skier, this year’s Super El Niño could bring some pretty good news, with parts of the American West expected to get more snow than usual. According to the 2026-27 winter forecast by AccuWeather, a U.S. weather prediction service, parts of the Sierra Nevada, Great Basin, Wasatch Range, and Central Rockies could see above-average snowfall this season, with parts of the Southern Rockies also expected to get more snow than last winter (which, let’s…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The language a buyer types in determines which brands appear in an AI answer, with local tools dominating local-language queries and global brands dominating English queries. Checking AI visibility only in English measures a market most non-US companies don’t compete in. Asked in Norwegian, ChatGPT named three Norwegian tools and no American ones. Asked in English from the same desk, it did the reverse. The language of a question now decides which companies exist in the answer. Someone in Oslo asked ChatGPT, in Norwegian, to recommend accounting software for a…
Red Bull teamed up with an Austrian racing legend to manufacture skis, and it’s the mashup we’ve all been waiting forVAN DEER-Red Bull Sports skis. (Photo: Kleinmond-Georg Lindacher)Published October 16, 2026 02:07PMPlenty of skiers are gear-obsessed, but Marcel Hirscher is in a league of his own. Over the course of his 15-year racing career, the legendary Austrian skier and founder of VAN DEER-Red Bull Sports would drive his coaches and teammates crazy with constant chatter about tech specs and modifications. Maybe not the guy you want to challenge in gear trivia, but definitely the guy you want designing your skis.…
Key Takeaways Ramlal and his wife, Yuvika Wadhwa, launched side hustle Protein Chefs in 2015. Two years in, Ramlal left his UPS role and continued to build the business. Protein Chefs saw consistent revenue immediately; now, it surpasses seven figures annually. This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Ronneil Ramlal, a 38-year-old entrepreneur based in Ontario, Canada. Ramlal is the founder and CEO of Protein Chefs, a gourmet and health-focused meal delivery service. He started Protein Chefs as a side hustle while working as a supervisor at United Parcel Service (UPS), then left that role to focus on the business in…
Published October 16, 2026 02:07PMOne of the most grisly mysteries in the recent history of America’s national parks has finally been solved. Well, for the most part. On October 15, police in Las Vegas, Nevada, revealed the identity of human remains that were found inside of a rusting barrel on the shores of Lake Mead in 2022. The grisly discovery by boaters led to a lengthy Outside investigation into the identity of the corpse. Law enforcement now believes the body is that of Edward Lelburian Jackson, an Arkansas man who vanished in the 1980s. In a press conference held in Las Vegas, officials…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways I became my company’s biggest bottleneck when every decision still ran through me, even as the company scaled. You may bottleneck in your company if work arrives finished except for the last step, decisions get scheduled instead of made, your calendar becomes the project timeline and/or people stop arguing with you. To get out of the approval queue, you need to name an owner for every decision, write down the reasoning alongside the verdict and let good-enough decisions stand. When my company, Teamflect, was just a startup, every decision ran…
Published October 16, 2026 11:24AMIn 1953, Tenzing Norgay, alongside mountaineer Edmund Hillary, made the first ascent of Mount Everest. Usually, the names are reversed, but Tenzing—Apple TV+’s new feature film about the first summit of the world’s highest mountain—takes this historic mountaineering figure out of the shadow and into the foreground. Both men stood on the 29,032-foot peak together, but Tenzing, a highly experienced Nepali-Indian Sherpa who spent two decades pioneering Himalayan routes, had not been the main focus of this moment in mountaineering history until now. The first ascent of Everest has often been told as a story of…