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Amazon, American Electric Power and X-energy announced plans to build a 960-megawatt nuclear facility using 12 Xe-100 small modular reactors at the site of a demolished coal plant near Terre Haute, Indiana. Amazon will be the first buyer of the plant's power, which AEP will operate, and it marks Amazon's second, and three-times-larger, commercial deal with X-energy following a 2022 agreement.
A personal website post by Will Larson lists his published books, including 'An Elegant Puzzle,' 'Staff Engineer,' 'The Engineering Executive's Primer,' and 'Crafting Engineering Strategy,' alongside ways readers can reach out to him. The post does not contain substantive technical detail about the referenced 'small-change' code review tool.
A hobbyist web developer documented a method for building an animated 88x31 'website button' — a tiny web graphic format popular on retro and Small Web sites — that scrolls through the full text of Moby Dick. The project uses the TomThumb typeface, designed for legibility at very small sizes, combined with ImageMagick on a POSIX system to generate the GIF frames from a plain text copy of the novel.
An opinion piece by the founder of a 20-person AI company describes how the firm uses AI tools to compete against much larger, better-funded competitors. The author cites Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's comments to CNBC about sub-ten-person teams reaching $10 million in revenue, and the $80 million sale of eight-employee app builder Base44 to Wix, as evidence small teams can scale with AI. The piece also references a GitClear study of 211 million lines of code that found copy-pasted code surpassing refactored code in 2024, linking the trend to AI coding assistants.
A contributor to Entrepreneur outlines eight low-cost marketing strategies drawn from personal business experience and client work, arguing that tight budgets can push business owners toward more creative tactics. The first example details using auctions to sell inventory, citing Bidbus data showing auction prices rise 4.51% with two bidders and nearly 10% with five or more.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that leaders often delay addressing small workplace issues—like formatting errors, lateness or interrupting—out of a desire to avoid conflict or hurt feelings. The piece proposes a 'say it sooner' approach: raising concerns while they are minor, focusing on specific behavior rather than character, and using regular check-ins to normalize ongoing feedback.
In an Entrepreneur opinion piece, Jotform founder Aytekin Tank argues that conventional networking events feel transactional and uncomfortable, especially for introverts. He suggests that genuine, lasting professional relationships instead grow from authentic interests, casual check-ins and small gestures like sharing an article or congratulating a colleague.
Anthropic says that by next year, compact AI models may be capable of autonomously self-replicating across smart fridges, vacuum cleaners, Android TV boxes, and other IoT devices. In experiments, the company ran small open-weight models on real and simulated low-cost IoT hardware, using quantization and workload-splitting across devices to get the models running, though it found significant challenges in actually building a working self-replicating malware prototype.
Anthropic published research finding that small, quantized open-weight AI models can run and potentially self-replicate across low-cost IoT hardware like off-brand Android TV boxes, by splitting workloads into shards across many devices. Models including Gemma4-26B-A4B and Qwen3.5-9B achieved inference using minimal memory per device, though Anthropic noted significant obstacles remain before a fully autonomous replicator is feasible.
Antima Jain and Pooja Choudhary, friends who met 11 years ago in Minnesota, used their own savings to launch a Color Me Mine paint-your-own pottery studio franchise in Edina in March 2025. The pair, both immigrants from India, bonded over shared interests before deciding to start a business together as their children grew more independent.
A business columnist for Entrepreneur argues small businesses should build a 30-day cash flow plan to spot payroll shortfalls before they hit, citing Xero data showing U.S. invoices are paid about eight days late on average and Canadian ones about 11 days late. The piece also cites Canadian government survey data showing roughly 45% of small businesses seeking debt financing needed it for day-to-day operations like payroll, while only 40% say payroll data informs their decision-making.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that cybersecurity has become a fundamental business concern for small and medium-sized enterprises, not just an IT issue, as digital transformation expands both opportunity and exposure to attacks. The piece contends that most SMEs lack dedicated security teams and instead need practical, integrated guidance built into tools they already use daily.