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AI experiments are usually simple to launch and often produce promising results in controlled settings. But translating those successes into scaled, enterprise-wide impact can be much harder.  As Chair and CEO of Deloitte Consulting LLP, I have counseled many senior leaders on AI implementation, and this has become a recurring theme in my conversations with clients. Many of them turn to us to help them move beyond what I’d call “pilot fatigue.” Our latest State of AI in the Enterprise research points to the same trend: companies are launching numerous pilots but are scaling fewer than 30% of them.  The…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The standard nightly backup model leaves companies vulnerable to data loss. Anything created or modified between the last backup and a failure event is at risk. AI makes continuous data protection (CDP) practical and affordable. It can keep a discerning eye on the data it’s watching and prioritize the critical data. AI-powered backup systems continuously watch over production systems, get a good idea of what is normal, quickly notice an anomaly and raise an alert immediately. When it came to enterprise IT across organizations, there was hardly any other practice…

This year’s highest-scoring bottles span the full breadth of American whiskey: classic Kentucky bourbons, bold ryes, high-altitude single malts, Tennessee whiskeys, and even a standout peach-infused spirit. Together, they highlight just how diverse—and competitive—the modern American whiskey landscape has become.BevTest’s top American whiskeys of 2025 include revived heritage labels, carefully aged single-barrel releases, high-proof bottles built for enthusiasts, and inventive flavored expressions that show how far the category has evolved.Whether you’re stocking a bar cart or searching for your next great pour, these four bottles—especially the best bourbon—stood out among the many that impressed the judges most this year, according…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. To win top talent, start thinking like a candidateAfter more than four decades in executive recruiting — including 35 years running my own search firm — I’ve learned a hard truth: hiring strategies that focus only on what the company wants are no longer effective.Today’s candidates, especially passive ones who aren’t actively job hunting, approach opportunities differently. Before they consider making a move, they want to understand what they stand to gain — professionally, financially and personally. If you want to attract and secure top talent in a competitive and uncertain market,…

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week via email here.Are the biggest AI labs betting on the wrong horse?Big AI companies are betting nearly all of their R&D and capital expenditure on the idea that pre-trained transformer models can deliver AI with human-level general intelligence. This approach relies heavily on backpropagation, the standard algorithm used to train deep neural networks.Ben Goertzel, who coined the term “AGI” with his 2005 book Artificial General Intelligence (co-written with DeepMind founder Shane Legg), is skeptical. “The commercial AI…

Key Takeaways Div Garg turned down a nearly $1 million OpenAI offer to build his own AI startup: AGI Inc. He bet that a startup gives more ownership and impact than a role at a big AI company. AGI Inc is working on a voice-driven AI “Siri that actually works” for phones, and saw 500,000 people sign up for the waiting list in about three months. Div Garg, a Stanford University dropout, was thinking of building his own AI company when OpenAI came calling. He was faced with a choice: accept a near-million-dollar job offer from OpenAI to work on…

During the Pandemic Housing Boom, many publicly traded homebuilders achieved record profit margins as home prices soared and homebuyer demand ran red hot. Once the national housing demand boom fizzled out in the summer of 2022, many large homebuilders compressed their margins in order to do affordability adjustments where and when needed to maintain their sales pace.That includes giant homebuilder PulteGroup, which reported on Thursday that it compressed its Q1 2026 gross margin to 24.4%, compared with 27.5% in Q1 2025 and 24.7% in Q4 2025. While that’s still one of the stronger gross margins in the sector, it’s well…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In my years working in public relations, the most painful conversations I have aren’t with companies in the middle of a crisis. They’re with companies calling two weeks after one — when the damage is already baked into Google search results, employee morale has cratered and customers have already made up their minds. The pattern is almost always the same. A small problem festered for weeks or months without anyone paying attention. By the time leadership noticed, the window to contain it had closed. Here are five reputation crises I’ve seen play…

First TACO, and now NACHO. The acronyms created for a snappy way to denigrate President Trump’s actions are starting to sound like a menu.By now, Americans might be used to the idea of TACO, or “Trump always chickens out.” Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong coined the term in May 2025 to describe how investors could anticipate market rebounds, even as Trump announced (and took back) tariffs. The strategy was to buy into the market after a tariff announcement, with the expectation that Trump would call it off soon after.Nearly two months into the war in Iran, some might be wondering…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. I’ve walked into boardrooms where the energy is high, the budgets are approved and the ambition is clear. Everyone is talking about AI. Very few can answer the one question that actually matters.Not “What can we build with AI?”Not “How do we keep up with competitors?”But this: What problem are we actually trying to solve, and for whom?The question sounds simple. It isn’t. It forces precision in environments that reward momentum. It shifts the conversation from excitement to accountability. And it quickly exposes whether you are building something meaningful—or simply reacting to…