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Key Takeaways Kara Swisher spent three decades working for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She realized that she could create something herself and launched the technology news site Recode in 2014. Swisher said that she was more comfortable with uncertainty than many of the journalists around her when she chose to build her own business. After spending about 30 years covering Silicon Valley for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, Kara Swisher decided that she could build something bigger on her own.  “I thought I could do better,” Swisher told Business Insider’s Dan DeFrancesco during…

Published September 10, 2026 02:30PMAgents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reportedly arrested five men who were camping on public lands in Washington State over Labor Day Weekend. A U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson confirmed the arrests in a statement to Outside. According to a report from local news station King 5 Seattle, five families spent the holiday weekend camping near Granite Falls, a town near the Mount Baker–Snoqualmie National Forest, when they say several people approached them and identified themselves as U.S. Forest Service (USFS) rangers. In an email to Outside, a DHS spokesperson said that the…

Key Takeaways Ian Rogers has spent his career at the intersection of tech and culture. He previously led Apple Music and is now driving security and AI strategy at $1.5 billion security startup Ledger. Ledger protects digital private property, like Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, using secure hardware chips similar to those in credit cards. He helped build the soundtrack of the internet age, turned a scrappy MP3 player into a Yahoo acquisition, sold Beats to Apple and helped launch Apple Music.  Now, Ian Rogers is betting that the next great consumer platform is not music, but security for your money…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Community colleges are moving past their pandemic-era enrollment losses as students seek affordable education with a clearer, faster route to a job. Career outcomes are driving the comeback: 74% of recent community-college students say gaining skills for workplace success matters to their enrollment decision. For years, community colleges were seen as the overlooked corner of American higher education. They lost millions of students during the pandemic, faced questions about declining enrollment, and often sat in the shadow of four-year universities. They were hit harder by the pandemic, with fall 2020…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Online higher education is growing because millions of students, especially working adults, need programs built around jobs, families and cost constraints. The competitive question for colleges is increasingly not whether they offer online courses, but whether they can deliver flexibility. The growth of online higher education in the United States is producing more than a new delivery format. It is creating a new set of institutional models, each designed around a different student population.  Western Governors University (WGU), founded in 1997, built its model around online, competency-based education and working…

Elizabeth Holmes is serving an 11-year sentence for defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars. According to a new documentary, that hasn’t stopped her from planning her next act. “You Can See Everything,” from comedian Nathan Fielder and director Lance Oppenheim, premiered in a secret screening at the Telluride Film Festival, capturing Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, over three years, starting 34 days before she reported to prison. In several scenes, the film shows Holmes and Evans on calls with prospective partners about launching what’s described as a “Theranos 2.0,” a business Evans says he plans to…

Published September 10, 2026 10:23AMWearables have become a near-constant companion for many Americans. According to a 2026 study, nearly 107 million people in the United States own one. People track their steps, workouts, and recovery, and increasingly look to those numbers to tell them how their bodies are doing. But for some—particularly people with darker skin tones—there’s a nagging question: Can I trust what my device is telling me?  There’s a good reason to ask. A 2025 review of smartwatch accuracy studies found significant variability in how wearable devices performed across skin tones. According to one study included in the review,…

LeBron James’ latest business move is looking like an air ball with some fans. The NBA superstar is teaming up with prediction-market platform Polymarket, The Athletic reports. He’ll become the company’s first NBA athlete to sign an individual deal with the company. The announcement quickly drew some harsh reactions online. “Richer than god and still selling out to the gambling company. Sad as hell,” one person wrote in response to James’ post on X. Another asked, “How much more money do you need, man?” Other critics dubbed him “LeSellout.” Damn I can’t believe LeBron is a sellout now— Specter (@DemonFramed)…

Published September 10, 2026 09:15AMElite trail runner Kalie McCrystal reached the Matterhorn summit, at an elevation of 14,682 feet, on September 1. McCrystal, 38, had finished the route many times before and was scouting it ahead of an attempt to become the fastest woman to run it, her friend and fellow trail runner, Hillary Gerardi, told Outside.Witnesses say she was moving smoothly. Then on her descent, she vanished without a trace. After a week of scouring the Alps, Italian authorities called off the search for the Canadian runner on September 8. But her disappearance has left those close to her…

When the people building AI start walking away in fear, it’s worth taking notice. Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic who previously worked at OpenAI, is quitting the AI industry over concerns that companies are racing to build systems that could eventually become impossible to control. “We’re on track for a lot of the most aggressive of these scenarios,” Coxon told The Wall Street Journal, warning that by the end of next year, “things could be out of control already.” Coxon left OpenAI earlier this year for Anthropic because of the company’s reputation for AI safety. But he now believes…