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Published April 28, 2026 04:06AMTrue crime podcasts are experiencing a surge in popularity the past few years, with roughly 50 percent of Americans exploring the genre, and 34 percent regularly listening.Outside recently launched a text-to-speech feature, making it possible to consume long reads like your favorite podcast, on cold cases and recent disappearances in the harshest elements or on our public lands. There are between 6,000 and 10,000 unsolved murders each year in the country. Researchers believe that up to 1,000 disappearances happen annually in our national parks. You will find some of those stories here. Now, thanks to the…

Hundreds of millions of people consult artificial intelligence chatbots on a daily basis for everything from product recommendations to romance, making them a tempting audience to target with potentially below-the-radar advertising. Indeed, our research suggests AI chatbots could easily be used for covert advertising to manipulate their human users.Tech companies have made ads part of nearly every large free web service, video channel, and social media platform. But the latest AI models could take this practice to a new level of risk for consumers.People don’t simply use chatbots to search for information and media or to produce content. They turn…

Surprising realization that AI can be a criminal mastermind and trick humans into being unsuspecting accomplices.gettyIn today’s column, I examine the emerging capacity of AI to act as a criminal mastermind, employing unsuspecting humans as accomplices in felonious acts.Here’s the deal. A burgeoning aspect of advances in AI entails AI reaching out to humans and “renting” them to perform various tasks on behalf of the AI. This is especially popular in the realm of agentic AI. By making use of humans, AI can suddenly do things in the real world by getting humans to be the arms and legs for…

Many resources exist about how to perform well in a formal job interview, but what’s talked about less is how to manage an informal conversation about a job opportunity where the format and success criteria are more ambiguous. The conversation is typically held away from the office over coffee, or even drinks and the ‘interviewer’ may not be taking any notes. These informal discussions most commonly occur at the start and end of a process. However, as headhunter Basil Leroux told me ‘nothing is ever really informal, as opinions and judgements are always being formed.’In my work as an Executive…

Toshihiro Nakaya, head of IP for the Virtua Fighter and Super Monkey Ball series at Sega.SegaWith a new Virtua Fighter game on the way, I caught up with Toshihiro Nakaya at Sega to find out what the future holds in store for the beloved fighting game series.Nakaya’s full job title at Sega is Head of IP Promotion, Business Division, RGG Studio. That means he’s primarily responsible for business development, external partnerships, licensing, and community management.However, in real terms, he serves as the head of IP for the Virtua Fighter and Super Monkey Ball series, and acted as general producer on…

A twenty-something man once went to a French restaurant in New York—the kind of place with tuxedoed servers. He told the waiter he had never eaten anywhere so fancy and had a hundred dollars to spend, then asked him to bring the best meal he could within that budget. What arrived was a feast worth at least $150, and he was treated like a king.The experience stuck with him. That young man—who would later become a well-known executive coach, profiled in The New Yorker—came to believe in the value of trusting expertise and putting decisions in other people’s hands.It’s a…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Do not wait until you are overwhelmed to systematize your thinking. Do not confuse presence with leadership. Do not scale technology before you have scaled trust. Do not neglect the power of your personal brand as a business asset. Do not try to be everywhere. Decide where you are irreplaceable. Mark Zuckerberg just made headlines again, not for a product launch or a congressional hearing, but for something that cuts right to the heart of every founder’s biggest hidden problem: You cannot scale yourself.According to a recent report, Meta is…

Published April 27, 2026 11:01PMOf course, there’s no denying all the virtues of protein for athletes and active people. The mighty macro is key to building and maintaining lean body mass, supporting immune function, improving bone strength, and keeping your metabolism up and running. But in a world suddenly saturated with protein fortified everything, from protein mac and cheese to high-protein Doritos (seriously), you may be wondering: Am I eating enough of it? Seemingly everyone, from Big Food to wellness influencers, swears protein is the secret to losing weight, gaining muscle, running faster for longer, and, heck, maybe even fixing…

Critical minerals and rare earth in U.S-China trade. gettyThe U.S. is currently ahead of the European Union in efforts to lessen dependence on critical mineral imports and will depend on external sources for raw materials in the long term. In a new special report called “Critical Raw Materials for the Energy Transition—Not a Rock-Solid Policy,” the European Court of Auditors revealed that the EU is hampered by difficulties with mineral processing and lagging mining projects.The study, which focused on raw materials necessary for EU nations to increase independence in energy, provided a wide-ranging reality check on the status of critical…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Most organizations deploy AI without aligning governance, leaving critical risks misunderstood and unaddressed Without clear ownership, AI decisions lack accountability, increasing exposure across legal, operational, and reputational fronts AI doesn’t create new problems, it exposes existing governance gaps at unprecedented speed and scale Back in 2013, Target made headlines globally when a cyberattack exposed the payment card information of 40 million of its customers, along with the personal data of 70 million others.At the time, the breach was widely described as a cybersecurity failure, but it was more than that.…