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We are living through the most rapid and sweeping digitalization in history. The average adult touches their phone hundreds if not thousands of times a day. And yet, at this moment of peak digital saturation, a countermovement is taking shape in schools, governments, and research institutions. More and more people have reached the conclusion that for human beings to think well, learn deeply, and stay mentally healthy, we may need significantly less technology. Consider what’s happening in education. Australia passed legislation banning children under 16 from social media entirely. Sweden, having spent a decade rolling tablets into every classroom and…

There’s nothing to see here. Salesforce has laid off employees twice in the past year — around 1,000 in February 2025 and fewer than 1,000 in early February 2026. Now CEO Marc Benioff says he wants to hire 1,000 new grads to prove AI isn’t killing entry-level jobs. Benioff took to X to announce that Salesforce is hiring 1,000 new graduates and interns to work on AI projects, including Agentforce and Headless 360. I’m locked on, @DavidSacks! We’re hiring 1,000 new grads & interns right now to ride the AI exponential. You are right they said AI would kill entry-level…

Update, April 29 at 2:30 p.m.:Pershing Square opened down 16% in its IPO on Wednesday. PSUS shares were priced at $50 each, and opened around $42 per share.Original story:Bill Ackman has made a lot of noise in recent years. On Wednesday, that noise came in the form of ringing the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange, in honor of the initial public offering of his hedge fund, Pershing Square.Here’s what you need to know about Ackman’s latest move and the Pershing Square IPO.What is Pershing Square?Pershing Square Inc. is the parent company for Ackman’s hedge fund, Pershing Square…

I have spent decades in the high-stakes world of finance, in rooms with CEOs, politicians, and men who run major organizations. On paper, these men have everything figured out. But when the doors close and the room gets quiet, a surprising truth tends to surface: They feel profoundly alone. They have golf partners, colleagues, and acquaintances. They can debate politics or dissect a balance sheet for hours. And they know who to rely on when it comes to resolving an issue in the business they know so well. But when life fractures, as it always does, these same capable men don’t…

Using AI in the workplace promises significant productivity gains. And using chatbots may make you feel productive, because it they designed to create engagement from users. But, you need to be more explicit about calculating the costs (and opportunity costs) and tangible benefits to your work. That will help you determine whether the AI juice is worth the LLM squeeze.Here are three key considerations.1. Calculate your time spent using AIWhen people first started analyzing the downside of smart phones, one of the big data points that got trotted out was how long someone would remain off-task once they picked up…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Finding the problems with your business is only one piece of the leadership puzzle — experienced leaders know that you have to be able to find paths forward, too. Leaders also have to be able to evaluate risk and decide what risks are worth taking. At senior levels, raising an issue is never a neutral act. It is a decision about how much responsibility you are prepared to carry — and how much you expect others to carry for you.Leaders are surrounded by problems. What they pay attention to is…

Why do CEOs of big AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic often publicly acknowledge that AI is likely to result in significant job loss? Most AI company CEOs now concede that widespread job loss from AI is coming, while differing somewhat on the timeline. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has long acknowledged that AI will displace workers. “The real impact of AI doing jobs in the next few years will begin to be palpable,” he said recently. But he often adds that AI will also create new jobs, such as for humans who manage teams of AI agents. Anthropic CEO Dario…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The brands that show up favorably in AI results are the ones with the strongest trust footprint across three categories: website trust signals, inbound trust signals and SEO trust signals. Website trust signals are everything visitors encounter when they land on your site. Inbound trust signals (the ones that matter most) are what the rest of the internet says about you. SEO trust signals are the ones only Google can access, and they influence where Google ranks your content — which shapes what gets crawled, indexed and included in the…

California-based Ghirardelli Chocolate Company has voluntarily recalled 13 of its powdered beverage mixes over concerns of potential Salmonella contamination.  The storied confectionery says it issued the recall after dairy producer California Dairies recalled its milk powder, which is used in the affected powdered beverage mixes. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a recall notice on Tuesday, April 28. To date, no illnesses have been reported.  What products are included in the recall?  The recall covers a limited selection of powdered beverage mixes packaged for food service and institutional customers.  However, Ghirardelli cautions that some of the recalled products may…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The entrepreneurs who survive recessions are the ones who prepared before the storm arrived. They also treat financial resilience as an ongoing practice. Assess your current financial health, build a recession-ready budget, and diversify revenue streams. Strengthen relationships with creditors and vendors, optimize your business for efficiency, plan for contingencies, and leverage external financial resources. The word “recession” triggers a specific kind of fear. It brings me back to when a business I had poured everything into lost everything because of an economic downturn. It was incredibly painful. I’ve learned…