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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. After more than a decade of bootstrapped growth, Oxylabs is taking outside capital for the first time as the rapid development of AI agents accelerates the growing demand for the web data infrastructure the company has spent years building. The Lithuania-founded technology company has received a $130 million investment from private equity firm Warburg Pincus, valuing the Oxylabs group at $3.6 billion. The deal places Oxylabs among Lithuania’s highest-valued technology companies and gives the business additional capital to expand its data platform as AI developers build systems that increasingly need access to…

The competition really heats up with the Impossible Climb, a diabolical mountain bike ascent riddled with obstacles Published July 14, 2026 10:30AMThe athletes have been going hard for days, but they have to find a new gear in Episode 6. That’s because they haven’t seen anything like the Impossible Climb, a test of mountain biking skill, strength, and endurance that promises to separate the contenders from the champions. It’s diabolical, it’s full of head-to-head drama, and it’s exactly why Outside created Ultimate Mountain Athlete in collaboration with Toyota Trucks. After the Flow and Downhill courses of Episode 5, the athletes…

A historic heatwave and lightning-sparked fires have triggered a full closure of the country’s most iconic canoe wilderness. Here is what to do if you have a permit. Listen to this articleListenAuthorities have closed 3.9 million acres in Minnesota’s Superior National Forest, including the Boundary Waters, to focus on fighting surging wildfires in the area (Photo: Harlan Schwartz/Getty Images)Published July 14, 2026 12:32PMForest Service officials closed shuttered public access to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) on July 14 due to surging wildfires across Minnesota. The decision is part of a 3.9 million-acre closure across Superior National Forest due to…

Published July 14, 2026 11:05AMThere are occasions when we all get sick, injured, or too busy to run. That’s life. But for runners, it’s a hard part of life to accept. When we take time off running, we tend to panic, worried that we are losing fitness.It’s not an unreasonable fear. A landmark study called the 1966 Dallas Bed Rest and Training Study put five healthy college students in hospital beds for 20 days, with only one brief respite for a shower. The goal was to simulate the effect of weightlessness for NASA’s Moon-bound astronauts, but that study and a…

Mountain biking, the final discipline in the competition, gets under way and we see who has the ultimate speed, endurance, skill, and style on two wheelsPublished July 14, 2026 10:32AMWith the initial rock climbing and ski mountaineering events wrapped up, the leader board is starting to take shape. But there’s one more discipline to go, and it will definitely shake things up. In Episode 5, the athletes embark on the mountain biking events and they’ll have to calibrate what it takes to win it all with what it takes to stay out of the hospital. It’s not enough to be…

Key Takeaways Michael Cherry won a gold medal in track and field at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Now the 30-year-old track star is the owner of a paint and sip studio, Painting with a Twist, in Chesapeake, Virginia. Since taking ownership of the studio in October, he has reversed a revenue decline and generated more than $168,000 in revenue. Olympic gold medalist Michael Cherry, 30, is accustomed to hard work paying off. Cherry qualified for his first Olympics in Tokyo in 2020, competing in both the men’s 400 meters and men’s 4 x 400 meters relay. He won gold…

Published July 14, 2026 03:51AMBefore launching on a 225-mile rafting trip through the Grand Canyon in May, I obsessed over my packing list. I compared outfitter recommendations, private boater spreadsheets, friends’ gear lists, and guide advice, trying to figure out what was actually worth bringing. Packing for a multi-week river trip isn’t like packing for backpacking or car camping. Once you launch, there are no gear shops, no resupplies, and no running back to the truck. After 16 days of running some of the biggest whitewater in North America, camping on sandy beaches beneath thousand-foot canyon walls, and living almost…

Published July 14, 2026 03:11AMThis story is excerpted from Heather Hansman’s new book, Fierce Country: The Untold Story of Three Women Who Ignited America’s Love for the Wild, which follows three unsung heroes of recreation and conservation to investigate how we care for the wild places we love, why those places are important, and whose stories are elevated when we talk about being outside. You can find it here, or anywhere that books are sold. On the boat ramp at Lees Ferry, the start of every Grand Canyon trip, the shuttle van thermometer reads 100 degrees. The mercury will stay…

Published July 14, 2026 12:03AMAh, the pull-up. For many outdoor athletes, this classic bodyweight exercise can feel like a “gold standard,” says Jess Gresho, a Colorado-based strength and performance coach for mountain athletes. “They always want to get their first pull-up, and think it’s a benchmark of some sort that puts them at a different level.”That belief, perpetuated by the exercise’s long-standing place in grade-school fitness tests and recent popularity on social media, isn’t entirely off-base: many people can’t do a single pull-up, so managing even one rep with good form is a feat worth celebrating. Pull-Ups Are Overrated. Here’s…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. One of the biggest trends in website development is increasing levels of interactivity. Users don’t just want to read content anymore; they want to be engaged through quizzes that generate personalized recommendations, the chance to test out SaaS platforms and real-time customer assistance. While chatbots have been available to web designers for several years, it is becoming increasingly popular for websites to use chatbots for lead qualification. Implementing a chatbot on your website can improve your SEO and make a significant contribution to your lead-qualification efforts.Related: What Is a Chatbot? Here’s Everything…