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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI agency requires founders to think like owners protecting equity and data can matter as much as adopting the latest technology Capital follows defensibility as investors are pouring unprecedented money into AI, entrepreneurs still need sustainable business models Founders need to turn AI into proprietary data, intellectual property to gain a competitive advantage Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming table stakes for entrepreneurs. The next competitive divide may not be between entrepreneurs who use AI and those who don’t. It could be between founders who simply consume AI and those who…

For more than ten years, the only way into the Planet Fitness system was to buy an existing franchisee’s gym, the way mega-operator Flynn Group did in 2023. That changed this year. Ian McClure, who builds hotels for a living, just did something no outside franchisee has done in over a decade. He signed a brand-new development deal with Planet Fitness instead of buying out an existing operator’s gyms, Franchise Times reports. His company, Gulf Coast Hotel Management, has 40-plus extended-stay properties across 14 states and 30 more Wyndham locations under construction in Texas, Florida and Colorado. He landed three…

Published September 9, 2026 10:17AMGetting to Angel Valley, Arizona in October 2009 required crossing a rainbow bridge.Painted in a palette of pleasing pastels, the colorful bridge stretching across the silver waters of Sedona’s Oak Creek was charming. It was also much more than that for guests arriving at the isolated New Age retreat center who were of a certain spiritual orientation. The bridge was a kind of welcome sign to the fifth dimension, placed there by the retreat center’s owners who had named their 70-acre property Angel Valley because they believed the land nine miles west of town was occupied…

It’s one of the hardest writing jobs to get in America, and it pays up to $178,000 a year. What is: “Jeopardy!” clue writer? Correct! The quiz show just filled a rare opening, the first time in its 42-year history the clue writer job has ever been publicly advertised, according to the Wall Street Journal. More than 1,300 people applied in just eight days before the role was filled. The application was brutal. Candidates had to take the same 50-question test contestants do, with 15 seconds per answer, then submit six full categories for the Jeopardy and Double Jeopardy rounds,…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI is not a differentiator when every competitor claims the same thing — the differentiator is the specific customer outcome your technology makes possible. Run the deletion test: if removing the word “AI” from your messaging leaves nothing compelling behind, the problem is your value proposition, not your marketing. Business buzzwords come and go. Every decade has its defining buzzwords. The 1990s were about the dot-com boom and the rise of internet-enabled; the 2000s centered on Web 2.0. The 2010s focused on big data, cloud computing and digital transformation. The…

When OpenAI cracked one of math’s six unsolved “million-dollar” problems, the academic world was stunned. The 90-year-old question, part of the Clay Mathematics Institute’s famous Millennium Prize Problems, asks whether the equations that govern fluid motion can break down in extreme situations. OpenAI says its AI resolved it in a matter of days. But mathematician Tristan Buckmaster says OpenAI copied off of his work, according to Scientific American. In a statement, Buckmaster said he and fellow mathematician Levent Alpöge, who works at Anthropic, had already made major progress on the problem. But before they could publish, he says word of…

Published September 9, 2026 03:28AMThe past few years have been blissful for aurora borealis hunters, with colorful lights dancing as far south as Texas and Florida. This magic sparked during the roughly 11-year peak in northern lights activity, known as solar maximum. Unfortunately, that period is behind us as we move toward the stretch of quieter auroral activity, known as solar minimum, which should hit around 2030. This doesn’t mean the aurora is disappearing; in fact, I witnessed my first lime ribbons during the heart of the last solar minimum. It was December 2019 in southern Iceland, with a display…

Workers ages 22 to 34 with no college degree are seeing some of their lowest unemployment rates in decades. Meanwhile, their degree-holding compatriots are having one of their worst stretches in years, according to a new analysis from the Burning Glass Institute reported by the Wall Street Journal. “I don’t think it’s a temporary thing,” says Gad Levanon, Burning Glass’s chief economist. The reason? Part of it comes down to basic supply and demand. Skilled trades are short on workers as older generations retire and immigration restrictions shrink the labor pool. At the same time, more Americans than ever are…

Economists spent years forecasting a “Silver Tsunami,” saying that Baby Boomers would age out of the workforce in one great wave. It never struck. Labor force participation among people 65 and older just hit 19.2%, up from around 12% at the turn of the century, according to the New York Post. From Boeing to Verizon to Cracker Barrel, boards keep turning to older or even previously retired CEOs. As of June, 42% of sitting CEOs were 60 or older, an “elevated” level compared to historical norms. Many Boomers refuse to exit the C-suite, partly because they’re living longer, and partly…

Key Takeaways Apple is gearing up for its annual iPhone release event on Wednesday. The event, called “Surprise and Shine” this year, will reportedly showcase a foldable iPhone. It will mark the company’s first event with new CEO John Ternus at the helm. Apple’s “Surprise and Shine” event on Wednesday is shaping up to be one of its busiest launches in years.  According to Tom’s Guide, Apple will reportedly introduce three new iPhones at the event. The centerpiece could be Apple’s long-rumored foldable iPhone, widely expected to carry the iPhone Ultra name. The phone is rumored to use a book-style…