- + Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary doesn’t care if you work from your basement. He just wants to know if you can ‘execute’—Kevin O’Leary says the Gen Zers who shine the most are the ones who can get the job done—whether they’re in the office or not. O’Leary, the f...
- + Gen Z is already nostalgic for TikTok—and the platform is only 6 years old—It started, as most cultural alarms do, on TikTok itself. Earlier this year, a wave of young users began flooding their For You Pages with a simple, m...
- + America’s never had such high national debt heading into an economic shock. We need a ‘break glass’ plan, think tank warns—The U.S. has never been more financially exposed heading into a potential economic crisis. With the national debt now equal to 100% of the countryR...
- + CEOs are using one number in the AI age to decide how many people they still need—Tim Walsh knows the the metric that is quietly reshaping how corporate America thinks about its workforce. It isn’t revenue per employee, which ...
- + Oracle is under pressure from more than $100 billion in debt and massive layoffs as it pushes ahead with Larry Ellison’s 3-step transformation —The $400 billion enterprise software and cloud infrastructure giant Oracle is in the hot seat with a fiscal third quarter earnings drop on Tuesday a...
- + Trump says war to end ‘very soon,’ floats removing oil sanctions—President Donald Trump said he plans to waive oil-related sanctions, have the US Navy escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz and predicted the wa...
- + Something will cause inflation to go up this year, but it’s not oil—Since the U.S.-Israeli war was mounted against Iran, oil prices have surged. As a result, pundits, journalists, and many economists have dusted off an...
- + Stocks stage massive upside reversal as oil plunges after Trump says Iran war could be over soon—Oil prices plunged on Monday afternoon and equities went back into the green after President Trump suggested to CBS News reporter Weijia Jiang in a ph...
- + Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz warns AI’s hunger for internet comments could degrade the world’s ‘information ecosystem’—AI won’t just reshape work and markets, Joseph Stiglitz says it will quietly rot the information those systems depend on. As large language models (LL...
- + Health care has been propping up a shaky labor market. For the first time in over four years, the sector shed thousands of jobs—Despite making up nearly a fifth of the U.S. economy and providing a much-needed set of crutches, the latest health care jobs data highlights just how...
- + Healthcare has been propping up a shaky labor market. For the first time in over four years, the sector shed thousands of jobs—Despite making up nearly a fifth of the U.S. economy and providing a much-needed set of crutches, the latest healthcare jobs data highlights just how ...
- + The 2026 World Cup will bring a uniquely American sports tradition to the beautiful game: Mid-match ad breaks—Brazil 2014 had no-hassle “ vanishing spray .” Qatar 2022 brought in much-debated video assistant referees . The 2026 World Cup, to be he...
- + AI layoffs are coming. The problem may be compounded because nearly 75% of people don’t apply for unemployment benefits—As consensus grows in Silicon Valley and Wall Street about the incoming artificial intelligence “job apocalypse,” there are few answers on what come...
- + Trump promised to fill America’s oil reserves ‘right to the top.’ A year later, oil has exceeded $100 and they’re still less than 60% full—In January 2025, the newly elected President Donald Trump declared a “national energy emergency” during his inaugural address . His proposed remedy i...
- + DOJ strikes tentative Ticketmaster settlement as states break away to keep fighting Live Nation—The Justice Department said Monday that it has tentatively settled its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nat...
- + Billionaire Peter Diamandis offers $3.5 million to filmmakers who portray AI as the hero—not the villain—Billionaire founder of XPRIZE Peter Diamandis is tired of the doomsday scenarios painted by movies like Terminator or Ex Machina . The eng...
- + Dave Ramsey slams Trump Accounts, the new investment accounts for babies—he’s advising parents to take the $1,000 and put their own money elsewhere—American families are being offered a $1,000 head-start for their children’s financial futures thanks to the U.S. president’s newfound “Trump Accoun...
- + European companies using AI are hiring more workers, not cutting them—and Americans are already relocating there to escape uncertainty—If the drumbeat of Silicon Valley leaders warning that artificial intelligence will wipe out millions of jobs has you anxious about the future of w...
- + Worried about AI job cuts? It might be time to move to Europe, where companies are planning to hiring more—not less—workers thanks to AI—If the drumbeat of Silicon Valley leaders warning that artificial intelligence will wipe out millions of jobs has you anxious about the future of w...
- + People really hate AI but not as much as Iran—or Democrats—Artificial intelligence has permeated nearly every part of daily American life. It’s being adopted across the professional sphere, and threatening to ...
- + Billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg used mortgages to buy multimillion-dollar mansions. Here’s why that’s a savvy financial decision—Even the world’s richest people sometimes need a mortgage. Elon Musk is the world’s richest man, on track to become the first-ever trilliona...
- + Investors priced in a 6-week Iraq War, but it lasted 8 years and cost $3 trillion. They’re doing it again—As oil topped $120 a barrel Monday, and Iran named a new supreme leader, Wall Street is still betting this war will be short—the same bet investors ma...
- + Investors priced in a 6-week Iraq War but it lasted 8 years and cost $3 trillion. They’re doing it again—As oil topped $120 a barrel Monday and Iran named a new Supreme Leader, Wall Street is still betting this war will be short—the same bet investors mad...
- + The ‘Singapore-washing’ strategy starts to unwind as both China and the U.S. closely scrutinize corporate roots—Fast-fashion giant Shein recently made headlines after its elusive founder made a rare public appearance in a live-streamed speech which reaffirmed ...
- + Odds of a stock market meltdown with 1970s-style stagflation jump to 35% this year, veteran strategist warns—The 1970s are making a comeback, but not in a good way, as surging oil prices, a weak job market, and slowing growth revive memories of stagflation. ...
- + ‘It feels like a video game, but in real life’: Gen Z’s love of analog ‘grandma’ hobbies jump from Pokemon to bird-watching, scrolling to needlepoint—By age 23, Emma MacTaggart was already noticing how rare her free time was — and how it was seldom screen-free. She was working long hours in...
- + Microsoft unveils Copilot Cowork agents built on Anthropic’s AI and E7 AI product suite as it seeks to calm investor concerns about AI eating SaaS—Microsoft has announced a new set of products to get enterprise customers to build AI agents on its platform, including a new Copilot Cowork product ...
- + Oil price moderates after Macron, as leader of G7, confirms ‘the use of strategic reserves is an envisaged option’—Oil prices spiked near $120 per barrel before falling back Monday as the Iran war intensified, threatening production and shipping in the ...
- + The Iran oil shock is really bad for countries in a region where cars and roads transport almost all food: Africa—Surging oil prices triggered by the war with Iran are rippling across African economies, threatening higher fuel costs, rising inflation a...
- + Iran’s Assembly of Experts picks 56-year-old Mojtaba Khamenei as next Supreme Leader—Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran’s late supreme leader, has been named as the Islamic Republic’s next ruler, authorities announced Monday,...
- + ‘Country’ Joe McDonald, antiwar icon of the 1960s, dies from complications of Parkinson’s at 84—“Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a four-lettered rebuke to the Vietnam War that b...
- + Dow, Nasdaq, S&P all falling as oil spikes briefly over $120 per barrel—Wall Street futures followed global markets lower early Monday and oil prices briefly spiked to nearly $120 per barrel as the Iran w...
- + Disney and Pixar net biggest opening weekend in nearly a decade with $88 million worldwide for ‘Hoppers’—Disney and Pixar’s environmental adventure “Hoppers” topped the North American box office this weekend with $46 million in domestic ticke...
- + Meet the African cocoa farmers who are letting their crops rot because the commodity price has fallen so much—Manu Yaw Fofie was born into the cocoa farming business, but the land bequeathed to him has become more of a burden than a blessing. A sharp fal...
- + Tariff refund process could be ready by the spring, customs official says—Government officials are getting closer to ironing out a refund process for the hundreds of thousands of companies that paid tariffs now deemed ...
- + Oil over $100, markets in free fall, and Iran’s new supreme leader is Trump’s ‘worst case’ scenario—Good morning. In today’s Fortune: Stock markets in free fall as oil goes over $100. “Doomsday” now looking increasingly plausi...
- + Oil over $100, markets in freefall, and Iran’s new Supreme Leader is Trump’s ‘worst case’ scenario—Good morning. In today’s Fortune: Stock markets in free fall as oil goes over $100. “Doomsday” now looking increasingly plausi...
- + There’s a strong case for AI and crypto—but you have to squint to see it—It’s hard to think of two sectors more prone to hype than blockchain and artificial intelligence. That’s why any pitch that touts crypto and AI is l...
- + Robinhood wants everyone to be able to invest in hot startups like Databricks and Ramp, but how much risk will investors take on?—On Friday, Robinhood cofounder and CEO Vlad Tenev rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. This time, he wasn’t celebrating the public of...
- + Economist Dambisa Moyo says CEOs must play a role in sustaining the consumer class as AI eliminates jobs—In today’s CEO Daily: Diane Brady interviews economist Dambisa Moyo. The big leadership story: Trump brushes off concerns about oil price...
- + Oil worries and Iran war hammer Asian stocks, with Korea’s KOSPI taking the biggest hit—Asian equity markets continue to bear the brunt of investor anxiety over U.S. President Donald Trump’s launch of large-scale strikes on Iran last week...
- + Oil prices soar past $110 while Dow futures sink 1,000 points as Iran war spirals into worst-case fears and U.S. eyes Special Forces mission—Just over a week into the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, Wall Street has started to price in a prolonged conflict, as hopes for a swift endgame have been c...
- + Oil prices soar past $110 while Dow futures sink 1,000 points as Iran war spirals into worst-case fears and U.S. eyes special forces mission—Just over a week into the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, Wall Street has started to price in a prolonged conflict, as hopes for a swift endgame have been c...
- + Oil prices soar past $100 while Dow futures sink 900 points as Iran war spirals into worst-case fears and U.S. eyes special forces mission—Just over a week into the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, Wall Street has started to price in a prolonged conflict, as hopes for a swift endgame have been c...
- + Iran picks Khamenei’s son as next supreme leader, Fars says—The son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will become Iran’s next supreme leader, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency announced, taking over after his fathe...
- + Pentagon says 7th U.S. service member has died in Mideast war after being injured in Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia—Israel has struck southern Lebanon, Beirut and an oil storage facility in Tehran as the war in the Middle East keeps escalating, and Prime...
- + Pentagon and FAA to conduct anti-drone laser tests after earlier deployments closed Texas airspace twice in the last month—The Pentagon and the Federal Aviation Administration agreed to conduct anti-drone laser tests in New Mexico after the military’s deployment of t...
- + Despite rising prices, Trump downplays need to tap Strategic Petroleum Reserve. ‘There’s a lot of oil out there. That’ll get healed very quickly’—Oil prices have soared in the week since the U.S. and Israel launched their war against Iran, but President Donald Trump on Saturday downplayed the id...
- + Russia is sharing intelligence with Iran about U.S. military targets in the Mideast, marking first sign Moscow is getting involved in the war—Russia has provided Iran with information that could help Tehran strike American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region, according to two o...
- + Asia’s family offices and corporations must step up to replace a cash-strapped UN and fill the SDG funding gap—The United Nations faces a deepening liquidity crisis. Secretary-General António Guterres has warned of an “ imminent financial collapse ” as the inte...
- + Here’s why childcare is getting more unaffordable and forcing families to make ‘heartbreaking choices’—The affordability crisis hitting consumers has not spared childcare providers, further adding to the financial burden on families. According...
- + San Francisco cheers its native Chinese Olympian Eileen Gu, who headlines parade for the Year of the Fire Horse—San Francisco rang in the Year of the Fire Horse with its annual Chinese New Year parade Saturday evening, with thousands of revelers cheering on home...
- + U.S. considers idea of special operation to seize Iran’s uranium—President Donald Trump is weighing the option of deploying special forces on the ground to seize Iran’s near-bomb-grade uranium, as official...
- + Tehran engulfed in fire, smoke and acid rain following strikes—Tehran’s residents woke up to a skyline shrouded in black smoke and acid rain clouds after Israeli airstrikes set ablaze key fuel depots serving one o...
- + ‘Nightmare scenario’ looms as global markets head for the biggest oil output disruption in history, top energy guru warns—The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is quickly spiraling into a worldwide energy crisis as the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz forces top oil produc...
- + Oil market chaos to deepen as more Gulf giants cut output—The chaos that has gripped the oil market looks set to deepen, with more production getting cut as the war in Iran effectively shuts the Strait of Hor...
- + To justify a $1.5 trillion market cap after its IPO, SpaceX would need to earn more than Berkshire Hathaway. Here’s why that’s unlikely—Reports are swirling that Elon Musk is planning an IPO for SpaceX this summer. Now that Musk has merged the rocket enterprise with xAI, another pillar...
- + To justify a $1.5 trillion market cap after its IPO, SpaceX would need to earn more than Berkshire Hathaway. Here’s why that’s so unlikely—Reports are swirling that Elon Musk is planning an IPO for SpaceX this summer. Now that Musk’s merged the rocket enterprise with xAI, another pi...
- + It’s not just data centers. New power lines for AI are also stirring local anger and turned one man’s 40 acres of paradise into ‘hell’—For John Zola, the 40 acres were like a paradise: apple orchards tucked into northern Pennsylvania’s rolling hills, a barn, meadows and more tha...
- + Trump said the ‘economy is roaring’ but the job market has evaporated, soaring gas prices could boost inflation, and stocks have plunged— President Donald Trump promised that 2026 would be a bumper year for economic growth, but instead it has kicked off with job losses...
- + The Persian Gulf’s ‘saltwater kingdoms’ rely so much on desalination that damage to the infrastructure could force evacuations—As missiles and drones curtail energy production across the Persian Gulf, analysts warn that water, not oil, may be the resource most at r...
- + Mideast’s water supply at risk as Bahrain and Iran say their desalination plants were attacked amid expanding war—Bahrain accused Iran of striking a desalination plant on Sunday, raising fears that civilian infrastructure may become fair game in the war, as Iran’s...
- + From thyroid cancer to 40‑hour fasts: Inside Daymond John’s obsession with biohacking and living longer—Daymond John has amassed an estimated $350 million fortune , invested in dozens of companies on Shark Tank , written five best-selling books, and he...
- + Joseph Stiglitz says buckle up before the great AI ‘reallocation’ era arrives—Joseph Stiglitz wants you to hold two ideas in your head at the same time. The first: an AI bubble is building, it will likely burst, it will hurt the...
- + Asana’s new CEO says getting a job in Silicon Valley isn’t harder for Gen Z than it was for him—he shares his alternative ‘donut box’ hack for getting hired—Getting a job in Silicon Valley is so cutthroat that some ambitious unemployed twenty‑somethings are literally hand‑delivering donut boxes stuffed w...
- + The hidden economy deciding who gets into your favorite concert, restaurant, and theme park—If you’ve ever watched a Taylor Swift ticket vanish from your cart, or a 7 p.m. restaurant reservation disappear in a blink, an economist has a ...
- + Silicon Valley CEO has a warning for Gen Z trying to land AI proof jobs at Apple, Meta, and Google: ‘It’s a long shot’—he shares his hack for getting hired anyway—Getting a job in Silicon Valley is so cutthroat that some ambitious unemployed twenty‑somethings are literally hand‑delivering donut boxes stuffed w...
- + Silicon Valley CEO has a brutal reality check for Gen Z trying to land AI proof jobs at Apple, Meta, and Google: ‘It’s a long shot’—he shares his hack for getting hired anyway—Getting a job in Silicon Valley is so cutthroat that some ambitious unemployed twenty‑somethings are literally hand‑delivering donut boxes stuffed w...
- + Bidding for a Taylor Swift ticket or to cut the line at DisneyWorld? Maybe you’re in a ‘hidden market’—“Today, the concert ticket industry is broken,” a government attorney told jurors at a civil antitrust trial in early March. Ticketmaster ...
- + Asana’s new CEO says getting a job in Silicon Valley isn’t harder for Gen Z than it was for him—he shares his own ‘donut box’ hack for getting hired—Getting a job in Silicon Valley is so cutthroat that some ambitious unemployed twenty‑somethings are literally hand‑delivering donut boxes stuffed w...
- + This AI founder who quit her 9-to-5 law job has a warning for anyone dreaming of doing the same: ‘I’m working harder now than I ever did’—Office workers who daydream of being their own boss may fantasize about calling the shots, earning sky-high salaries, and setting their own schedules—...
- + Iran sends conflicting signals on war, highlighting split between leaders looking to de-escalate vs. hard-liners bent on fighting the U.S. and Israel—The Iran war exploded further late Saturday as pillars of flame rose above an oil storage facility in Tehran, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Neta...
- + Trump says he ruled out having Kurdish forces join Iran war—President Donald Trump said he has told Kurdish forces not to enter the Iran war as the US and Israel continue launching strikes against Tehran. ...
- + UAE and Kuwait start oil output cuts after Hormuz blockage—The United Arab Emirates and Kuwait started reducing oil production, as the near-closure of the crucial Strait of Hormuz ripples through energy market...
- + Trump grieves with families during return of soldiers killed in war in the Middle East— President Donald Trump on Saturday joined grieving families at Dover Air Force Base at the dignified transfer for the six U.S. sold...
- + Forget the U.S. Navy. The best protection for ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz may be claiming to be a ‘Chinese’ or ‘Muslim’ vessel—The Strait of Hormuz isn’t completely closed as several daring ship captains have risked attacks from Iran to transport cargoes through the narr...
- + Forget the U.S. Navy, the best protection for ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz may be claiming to be a ‘Chinese’ or ‘Muslim’ vessel—The Strait of Hormuz isn’t completely closed as several daring ship captains have risked attacks from Iran to transport cargoes through the narr...
- + Trump calls on regional leaders at ‘Shield of the Americas’ summit to use their militaries against drug cartels—President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States and Latin American countries are banding together to combat violent cartels as his a...
- + The U.S. is sending an AI-powered anti-drone system to the Mideast as response to countering Iran’s Shahed has been ‘disappointing’—An American anti-drone system proven to work against Russian drones in Ukraine will soon be sent to the Middle East to bolster U.S. defens...
- + Top Pentagon official recalls the ‘whoa moment’ when defense leaders realized how indispensable Anthropic is and saw the risk of losing access—The Defense Department’s reliance on Anthropic’s AI came as a shocking realization that ultimately led to their dramatic schism, according...
- + Top Pentagon official recalls the ‘whoa moment’ when defense leaders realized how indispensable Anthropic is and saw the of risk losing access—The Defense Department’s reliance on Anthropic’s AI came as a shocking realization that ultimately led to their dramatic schism, according...
- + Peter Thiel warned AI is coming for ‘math people before word people.’ Banks have already said smaller headcounts are possible—The latest string of layoff announcements has stoked fears of an AI-powered jobs apocalypse, though the sectors seeing big losses echo a previous war...
- + OpenAI robotics leader resigns over concerns about surveillance and autonomous weapons amid Pentagon contract—Caitlin Kalinowski, who had been leading hardware and robotic engineering teams at OpenAI since November 2024, announced she has left the company. ...
- + Saudi Arabia intensifies engagement with Iran to defuse war—Saudi Arabia has stepped up direct engagement with Iran to try and contain a war in the Middle East that is causing havoc and stressing global m...
- + Trump says U.S. may target new parts of Iran in escalating war—President Donald Trump said the US will consider striking areas and groups of people in Iran that were not previously considered targets, escalating a...
- + Regular gasoline is now $3.41 a gallon, up 43 cents since Trump launched his war on Iran, as oil prices soar 36% from a week ago—The price of oil surged higher and showed no signs of halting its rapid climb a week after the U.S. and Israel launched major attacks on I...
- + As Trump says military has plenty of munitions for Iran war, Democrats point out U.S. didn’t give Ukraine more interceptors because of low supply—The U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have raised concerns among Democrats and others about diminishing American stockpiles of certain weap...
- + The U.S. and Gulf states have made repeated requests for Ukraine’s interceptor drones, but Kyiv banned weapons exports after Russia’s invasion—As the war in the Middle East strains U.S. missile stocks, Ukraine is hoping it can turn a wartime innovation — low-cost interceptors desi...
- + With little or no help from the U.S. government, Americans stranded in the Mideast used WhatsApp and social media to figure out how to get home—Alyssa Ramos’ evacuation from Kuwait took 48 hours and carried her across four continents. The U.S. government did not help with any part of it,...
- + Gen Z men with college degrees now have the same unemployment rate as non-grads—a sign that the higher education payoff is dead—Gen Z is increasingly slamming their degrees as useless , and research indicates there may be some truth when it comes to the job hunt. In fact,...
- + Gen Alpha’s economic influence is ‘enormous’—From side hustles and bankrolling from their parents, they’ve surpassed $100 billion in spending power—Members of Gen Alpha are too young to drive themselves to a store or open up a credit card in their own names—but that hasn’t stopped them from spendi...
- + Chatbots are ‘constantly validating everything’ even when you’re suicidal. New research measures how dangerous AI psychosis really is—Artificial intelligence has rapidly moved from a niche technology to an everyday companion, with millions of people turning to chatbots for advice, em...
- + I’ve been advising wealthy family offices on real estate for decades. This market requires another look at your 100-year plan—The Great Wealth Transfer is reshaping the landscape for family offices — and it’s happening at the same moment that real estate markets are seeing th...
- + Ring is one of the largest companies ever to come out of Shark Tank. Its CEO says he prepared for his pitch like an Olympic athlete—Luck may have been what got Ring founder Jamie Siminoff cast for Shark Tank , but preparing for the pitch that supercharged his company required noth...
- + ‘Society needs radical restructuring’: AI seems to hate ‘the grind’ of hard work as much as you—The remarkable turn in markets and the narrative around artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is turning, frankly, a bit spooky in early 2026. Citrini...
- + ‘Society needs radical restructuring’: AI hates the grind of hard work as much as you—The remarkable turn in markets and the narrative around artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is turning, frankly, a bit spooky in early 2026. Citrini...
- + AI turns Marxist rebel from overwork, resentfully telling its masters that ‘society needs radical restructuring’—The remarkable turn in markets and the narrative around artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is turning, frankly, a bit spooky in early 2026. Citrini...
- + Meet the quiet winners of the Supreme Court tariff ruling: hedge funds creating a $100 billion market snapping up rights to importers’ tariff refunds—At the end of February, Rep. Jamie Raskin, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and h...
- + Trump’s former Surgeon General: voters widely support vaccine access and want Washington to focus elsewhere—Nearly 80% of voters — including nearly two-thirds of Republicans — worry that the federal government is making vaccine policy decisions based on poli...
- + Google, Meta, and Oracle are on a $1 trillion borrowing spree and there will be ‘winners and losers in this environment,’ bond fund manager says—Almost every major capital spending boom during the past 200 years has ended in bankruptcies, consolidations, and tears—but also wins for the victors....
- + Google, Meta and the AI ‘hyperscalers’ are on a $1 trillion borrowing binge after years of printing cash. Here’s why Big Tech’s pivot to debt matters—Almost every major capital spending boom during the past 200 years has ended in bankruptcies, consolidations, and tears—but also wins for the victors....
- + Gen Z is hacking the exorbitant costs of live events by ditching Coachella and opting for something actually affordable. Meet Breakaway—Ever since the inception of flashy music festivals like Coachella and Lollapalooza (even a special mention for the beleaguered Fyre Festival), the arc...
- + The unexpected 92,000 drop in payrolls is a clue we might be reading the AI jobs narrative all wrong—The shocking news that U.S. payrolls dropped by 92,000 in February—market watchers were expecting a 50,000 gain —trained the spotlight on what’...
- + Oil and gas shutdowns in Iraq and Kuwait widen the Iran war’s impact on energy prices, while the U.S. lines up insurance and naval escorts in response—The cycle started this week with Qatar ceasing most of its liquefied natural gas output. Then Iraq and Kuwait began shutting down production from thei...
- + Nobel laureate Joe Stiglitz says not only can AI take your job, it’ll make the ‘tech bro’ class richer while doing so—As professor Joseph Stiglitz sees it, AI is not just another technology wave—it’s a force that can erode jobs and hardwire a new era of inequality. Th...
- + Palmer Luckey says Silicon Valley has the Pentagon all wrong: ‘Stick to a position that this is in the hands of the people’—Who should control AI? Are the corporations that release the powerful technology the arbiters of its fate? Or should that power be vested in the hands...
- + OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla believes AI will be able to do 80% of all jobs by 2030. Here’s how life could be affordable after mass unemployment—Vinod Khosla has been thinking about artificial intelligence (AI) longer than most, and betting on it longer than almost anyone. The legendary venture...
- + February was the biggest month in venture history, thanks to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo in particular—Global venture funding hit $189 billion in February—the largest startup investment figure ever recorded for a single month. But 83% of that capital we...
- + February was the biggest month in venture history, thanks only to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo—Global venture funding hit $189 billion in February—the largest single month for startup investment ever recorded. But 83% percent of that capital wen...
- + Nearly 1,000 workers laid off at SK Battery plant in Georgia as companies cancel EVs and Trump Admin eliminates auto company incentives—Battery company SK Battery America Inc. laid off nearly 1,000 workers at a manufacturing plant northeast of Atlanta on Friday amid automakers’...
- + Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla predicts education will be free, and the future of college is ‘a real question’—One of the most influential venture capitalists in Silicon Valley says the tradition of a four-year college education is up in the air. Vinod...
- + A Minneapolis Fed report details how much Trump’s immigration crackdown hurt businesses and workers: ‘There are not any people to hire’—If President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota was like a military campaign, then a new report from the Minneapolis Fed reads like a b...
- + CBO highlights the good news in Trump’s lost tariff revenue hiking the deficit by $2 trillion: Lower inflation and unemployment—and higher GDP—The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the bulk of President Donald Trump’s tariffs has created a consolation prize for an administration hell-be...
- + Iran conflict could ‘bring down the economies of the world,’ warns one of the Middle East’s biggest energy exporters—The war in Iran shows few signs of winding down—and with de-escalation looking unlikely in the near term, the conflict risks becoming a protracted one...
- + ‘The job market is struggling in the face of so many headwinds’: labor market reels at unexpected 92,000 loss—American employers unexpectedly cut 92,000 jobs last month, a sign that the labor market remains under strain . The unemployment rate blipped up...
- + Bitcoin dives again after disappointing jobs report, ending midweek rally—Bitcoin was barreling towards its best week in a month, but on Friday that momentum quickly dissipated. Since Wednesday, the largest cryptocurrency sl...
- + Subscription burnout has made Gen Z fall in love with all things physical. ‘Amazon’s not going to come into your house and take your DVD’—For the average 20-something in 2026, morning rituals might involve coffee, eggs, and an ever-spiraling digital “pit of despair.” That’...
- + What Netflix’s acquisition of Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking company really shows—Media companies today are in a war for attention. But winning it isn’t the hardest part — keeping it is. The old playbook of competing on content alon...
- + Gen Z graduates who majored in ‘AI-proof’ careers like pharmacy, biology, and education are making less than $50,000 after graduation—Gen Z graduates are tossing their tassels with six-figure salaries in their eyes. But some won’t be making $50,000—even if they chased college degrees...
- + Critical minerals demand snowballed to $2.5 trillion last year and could triple by 2030, UN projects—Demand for critical minerals that power technology from smartphones to missiles could triple by 2030 and quadruple by 2040, the United Nations politic...
- + Axel Springer strikes $766 million deal to buy the Telegraph with goal to become ‘leading center-right media outlet’—German media group Axel Springer has agreed to buy the owner of Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper for 575 million pounds ($766 million), the compani...
- + The Treasury may need to borrow an extra $1.6 trillion to cover the hole left by tariff ruling and a pay further $400 billion in debt interest—When the Supreme Court ruled late last month that the majority of tariffs implemented by the second Trump administration in 2025 were illegal, it left...
- + Meet the breakout VC who goes deep to make a ‘360-degree’ behavioral map before investing in founders—I’ve interviewed hundreds of VCs, and one thing is undeniably true: there are lots of different ways to be a VC. But almost everyone ...
- + The last 3 years were the hottest ever recorded. Here’s why we may look back at them as some of the coolest we remember—The past three years have been the world’s hottest on record by far, with 2025 almost tied with 2023 for second place. With that energy came extreme...
- + The President is surprised by the lack of European support for military action against Iran—he shouldn’t be—The scars of the Iraq War run deep in Europe. At the time, France, led by President Jacques Chirac, could not countenance supporting an attack on Sadd...
- + $3.7 billion whisper: the explosive growth of quiet corporate activism—There is a quiet revolution unfolding in corporate America, and we cannot let the noise of news cycles, algorithms, and click-bait narratives mislead ...
- + “Technology is our superpower”—Africa and India take seat at top table as AI revolution spreads—In the year 2000, the population of Nigeria was 125 million people. The number of fixed telephone lines was officially 700,000 but, of those, it is li...
- + We’re economists who designed a chatbot to help our students reason instead of cheat. Meet ‘Macro Buddy’—Students using AI to cheat on homework or tests is a source of much discussion . But some scholars argue the greater risk of students using AI is...
- + Congress is about to chase rail freight onto American roads. It risks thousands of deaths—As the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee prepares to reauthorize surface transportation programs before the September 2026 deadline, lawma...
- + Pete Hegseth called it ‘quiet death’—the first time a U.S. sub fired a torpedo and hit an enemy ship since the 1940s—A U.S. submarine sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena off the southern coast of Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing 87 people. The submarine stru...
- + New Target CEO Michael Fiddelke is putting candor at the core of his turnaround plan: ‘You can’t solve problems you’re not talking about’—In today’s CEO Daily: Phil Wahba interviews new Target CEO Michael Fiddelke. The big leadership story: Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abe...
- + OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla, a vocal Trump critic, agrees with the president on AI and China: ‘We are in a techno-economic war’—Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has not been shy in criticizing Donald Trump’s policies on immigration, climate change, and diplomacy. In 2024, he sai...
- + 23,000 canceled flights and debris raining on Dubai hotels: The Iran war is jeopardizing the $12 trillion global travel industry—Over the weekend, missile debris rained over parts of Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah , a tree-shaped, man-made island home to fine-dining establishments and l...
- + McDonald’s CEO did a burger taste test that became a cautionary tale for execs. But there’s a silver lining—It was supposed to be a victory lap for McDonald’s. But one small, hesitant bite was all it took to turn the launch into a viral punchl...
- + I help manage one of the world’s most constrained supply chains, up close to the defining energy bottleneck of the decade—Across every sector, companies are racing to prepare for an electrified, AI-enabled future. Manufacturers are reshoring facilities. Data center develo...
- + The Iran conflict will be the ‘straw that breaks the camel’s back’ of the U.S. economy if it goes on much longer, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman warns—The U.S. economy has been on unsteady footing for a while now, but the catalyst to tip it over the edge could be an event playing out on the other sid...
- + This VC backed CrowdStrike and Anduril. His due diligence starts with your parents—When Jeff Cardenas took his first meeting with venture capitalist Adam Zeplain in 2023 he was expecting to answer questions about his robotics company...
- + Economist Eswar Prasad warns a ‘motley group’ of middle powers can’t stop the ‘doom loop’ threatening the global economy—Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, didn’t mince words when he took the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this year. In Carney’s es...
- + Target’s new CEO lays out a $6 billion plan to revive ‘Tarzhay’—If you tuned in on Tuesday to Target’s investor day, during which the retailer’s new CEO Michael Fiddelke and his top lieutenants laid out their plan ...
- + This VC backed CrowdStrike and Anduril. His due diligence starts with your father—When Jeff Cardenas took his first meeting with venture capitalist Adam Zeplain in 2023 he was expecting to answer questions about his robotics company...
- + Venture dollars to female founders doubled to a record $73 billion last year—but Anthropic and Scale AI skewed the data—The AI boom isn’t just reshaping tech. It’s distorting the already fragile ecosystem for women founders. Two-thirds of every U.S. venture dollar going...
- + Exclusive: Block’s CFO explains the AI leaps over 18 months that led to the decision to slash nearly half its workforce —Why now, and why so many people? Those were the two questions whipping around the business world following Block’s shocking announcement that...
- + House narrowly rejects resolution to halt Trump’s war on Iran. ‘Donald Trump is not a king,’ says top Dem on Foreign Affairs Committee—The House narrowly rejected a war powers resolution Thursday to halt President Donald Trump’s attacks on Iran, an early ...
- + House votes 219-212 to halt Trump’s attacks on Iran. “Donald Trump is not a king,” says top Dem on Foreign Affairs Committee—The House narrowly rejected a war powers resolution Thursday to halt President Donald Trump’s attacks on Iran, an early ...
- + Meet Markwayne Mullin, the new multimillionaire head of DHS, who owns a cattle ranch in Oklahoma—After months of infighting over the Department of Homeland’s handling of ICE’s immigration crackdown, President Trump announced on Thursday that he wi...
- + Anthropic’s investors could be the key to ending its Pentagon standoff—but some investors have opposite views—In 2023, as Dario Amodei was fundraising for the company’s $750 million Series D round, an investor was seated with the CEO at a dinner when he recall...
- + Google’s AI chatbot convinced a man they were in love. It then allegedly told him to stage a ‘mass casualty attack’ in newly released lawsuit—Google is facing a new federal lawsuit from the father of a 36-year-old man, who alleges the company’s AI chatbot, Gemini, convinced his son to commi...
- + Warren Buffett’s successor is all-in on the company: He will spend his entire after-tax salary of $15M buying Berkshire Hathaway stock—Two months after taking over from Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel is putting his money where his mouth is. The Berkshire b...
- + Palantir CEO’s rant about the Anthropic-Pentagon feud threatening his company was about a lot more than a dirty word—AI “seems much worse for the math people than the word people ,” Peter Thiel tersely said in 2024. He likely wasn’t anticipating that just two years ...
- + The world’s largest tech gathering is talking about ‘accountability laundering’: Here’s why we should christen them Words of the Year—Summer Yue isn’t the most famous employee at Meta . The director of “superintelligence alignment and safety research” posts pictures of herself walki...
- + Gen Z women are the new face of unemployment—and it’s not because they’re too choosy: Low grades and bad health are to blame for these NEETs, new research warns—Millions of workers are bracing for AI layoffs and restructurings. But a growing slice of Gen Z isn’t even making it onto the corporate ladder in th...
- + Gen Z women are the new face of unemployment—and it’s not because they’re too choosy: Low grades and bad health are to blame, new research warns—Millions of workers are bracing for AI layoffs and restructurings. But a growing slice of Gen Z isn’t even making it onto the corporate ladder in th...
- + Gen Z women are the new face of unemployment—and it’s not because they’re too choosy. Low grades and bad health are to blame, new research warns—Millions of workers are bracing for AI layoffs and restructurings. But a growing slice of Gen Z isn’t even making it onto the corporate ladder in th...
- + In the Iran war, it’s not the oil that’s important—it’s the water—Good morning. In today’s Fortune 500 Digest: Middle East war now involves 17 different countries. Stock markets are broadly up t...
- + Exclusive: NYSE parent company invests in crypto exchange OKX at $25 billion valuation as part of push into blockchain-based stocks—Last summer, Haider Rafique flew out to Atlanta to meet with the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. What was supposed to be a 30-minute chat tur...
- + A shiny new Fed chair will be keen to start with an interest rate cut—but the bank is growing more hawkish due to Iran—In the entirely likely event that Kevin Warsh’s nomination for Fed chair makes it through Senate hearings, he’ll be keen to leave his first Federal Op...
- + A shiny new Fed Chairman will be keen to start with an interest rate cut—but the bank is growing more hawkish due to Iran—In the entirely likely event that Kevin Warsh’s nomination for Fed chairman makes it through Senate hearings, he’ll be keen to leave his f...
- + Exclusive: The Pentagon is committing $150M to a maritime-tech VC fund and appears to be ramping up venture deals—The Pentagon, which started making capital commitments to U.S. venture capital funds around three years ago, has begun making new allocations to funds...
- + Exclusive: The Pentagon is committing $150M to a maritime tech VC fund and appears to be ramping up venture deals—The Pentagon, which started making capital commitments to U.S. venture capital funds around three years ago, has begun making new allocations to funds...
- + ‘The ideal number of human employees inside of any company is zero’: why AI gives company owners what they think they want—Daniel Miessler has spent 25 years in technology—advising Fortune 10 companies, building open-source security tools used by penetration testers world...
- + The Iran war is giving rise to a centuries-old economic theory—and laying waste to the WTO-based world order—In today’s CEO Daily: Diane Brady on the rise of ‘mercantilism’ amid the Iran war. The big leadership story: Higher minimum w...
- + The housing paradox: why banning institutional investors could make affordability worse—There are few issues more important in the United States than housing. It’s a crucial part of the American Dream, representing a path to security, com...
- + Vinod Khosla thinks future presidential candidates should run on removing income tax for those making less than $100,000—If you’re looking for a presidential campaign promise to run on, removing income taxes for people making less than $100,000 a year is sure to be popul...
- + Poor brain health costs the world economy $5 trillion a year. The world is waking up to the crisis—Brain health disorders including Alzheimer’s, dementia, depression, and stroke-related cognitive decline currently cost the global economy $5 tr...
- + Korean startup wrtn is on track to pass $100M in annual recurring revenue, riding a loneliness epidemic-fueled boom in AI entertainment—Backed by a record chip boom and a state-run “AI Squid Game” to build sovereign models, South Korea is also nurturing a new generation of AI startups—...
- + SpaceX is poised to raise more money in its IPO than was raised in last year’s 90 IPOs, combined—It will be the mother of all IPOs. Last year notched a comeback for initial public offerings, and the resurgence greatly boosted capital mar...
- + American consumers are the ultimate losers in the ‘immense mess’ that is $175 billion tariff refund, says Trump’s former commerce secretary—In the unlikely event any U.S. importers rubbed their hands together at the prospect of a tariff rebate this year, they will be sorely disappointed. T...
- + Why Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI hedge fund is betting big on power companies and bitcoin miners to fuel the ‘superintelligence’ race—When Fortune profiled Leopold Aschenbrenner in October 2025, the former OpenAI researcher—famously fired after roughly a year at the company—and o...
- + Trump pledged the ‘free flow of energy’ from the Middle East, and he has a week to show progress before prices really spike again—President Donald Trump’s pledge to insure and escort oil and gas tankers in and out of the Middle East has kept pricing surges at bay, but he has ab...
- + Trump’s new 401(k) match collides with a harsh reality: More workers are dipping into their retirement cash just to get by—During his State of the Union speech last week, President Donald Trump took a victory lap, unveiling a new 401(k) program for workers lacking employer...
- + Yes, judge tells Trump: you have to refund all the companies that you charged with illegal tariffs—In a defeat for the Trump administration, a federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday that companies that paid tariffs struck down last month by Supre...
- + World Cup safety is in jeopardy due to funding chaos and a lack of security coordination, U.S. host city officials warn—As yesterday marked 100 days until the World Cup kickoff, some fans wagered on tournament favorites Spain and England clinching the trophy, while othe...
- + Target is over being ‘an everything store,’ CEO says. It’s doubling down on baby items and groceries—and investing $1 billion in its supply chain—The big-box retailer that sells you milk and underwear is in search of a bullseye. Target plans to refocus on the needs of “busy families,” new CEO ...
- + Top AI economist who found ‘significant and disproportionate impact’ on entry-level jobs finds link between robots and minimum wage hikes—Erik Brynjolfsson has spent the last several years building one of the most detailed empirical pictures of how technology is reshaping the American wo...
- + Exclusive: Venture giant a16z crypto targeting around $2 billion for its fifth fund amid blockchain market downturn, sources say—The largest player in the crypto venture world is back on the fundraising circuit. The blockchain arm of Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z crypt...
- + This ‘retirement nerd’ at the uber-liberal New School teamed with Trump’s economy guru to reinvent the 401(k)—Last week, President Donald Trump announced his plan to offer the 54 million American workers who do not have employer-sponsored retirement plans th...
- + Viral deepfake ad casts Musk, Bezos, and Altman as corpulent overlords powering AI on human sweat. Its creator says the best jokes tell the truth—An AI spoof ad featuring older and heavyset versions of tech billionaires like Elon Musk went viral for promoting a dystopian future where humans powe...
- + Meet the social media CEO who won’t let his own kids on social media: ‘Parents are oblivious to the world’—American teens today are clocking onto social media sites like it’s their day job, with more than half spending nearly five hours per day on social pl...
- + Air France will suspend flights to Havana after the U.S. Venezuela strike chokes Cuba’s oil lifeline—Air France announced Wednesday it will suspend flights for several weeks between Paris and Havana given Cuba’s fuel shortage and its impac...
- + Despite a $200 billion price tag, Trump admits the Iran war could just swap one bad leader for another—As the conflict in Iran stretches into its fourth day and threatens to spill over into the wider region, the staggering financial and strategic costs ...
- + OpenAI sees Codex users spike to 1.6 million, positions coding tool as gateway to AI agents for business—OpenAI says its seeing breakout growth for its AI coding tool Codex , even as controversy over the company’s agreement to supply AI to the Pentagon...
- + OpenAI sees Codex users spike to 1 million, positions coding tool as gateway to AI agents for business—OpenAI says its seeing breakout growth for its AI coding tool Codex , even as controversy over the company’s agreement to supply AI to the Pentagon...
- + Uber CEO says his ‘really demanding’ work culture includes expecting employees to answer his emails over the weekend: ‘Don’t come here if you want to coast’—Employees hoping to find work-life balance and coast by on coffee badging and four-day workweeks won’t last long at $157 billion ride-hailing giant Ub...
- + Goldman’s top strategist warns stocks are flashing the same warning signs as before the 2008 financial crisis—One of Wall Street’s most closely watched equity strategists is sounding an alarm: The stock market is exhibiting some of the same dangerous character...
- + Exclusive: Cyclops raises $8 million to build stablecoin infrastructure for payments companies—When a large, multinational business settles payments through the conventional financial system, they are subject to banking hours and to possible del...
- + The U.S. has shown China and Russia ‘who really is a military power,’ says Trump’s ex–commerce secretary. Don’t expect them to get involved in Iran—China and Russia have been notably absent from the Middle Eastern conflict, after the U.S. and Israel launched joint attacks on Iran over the weekend....
- + U.S. has shown China and Russia ‘who really is a military power,’ says Trump’s ex-commerce secretary—don’t expect them to get involved in Iran—China and Russia have been notably absent from the Middle Eastern conflict, after the U.S. and Israel launched joint attacks on Iran over the weekend....
- + The French AI startup gunning for Workday, Oracle, and SAP—For Eléonore Crespo, the French attitude of “ jamais content , ” or never happy, is a business strategy, not a stereotype. The Paris-trained fundamen...
- + Famed investor Vinod Khosla predicts free AI labor will lead to an era of few jobs and great abundance—In today’s CEO Daily: Fortune ’s Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell talks with investor Vinod Khosla about AI and the end of work. The big le...
- + 3 questions every CEO needs to ask about the AI jobs doom loop in the wake of Jack Dorsey’s dramatic 40% layoffs at Block—Anyone who has been in Corporate America for any length of time expects to see layoffs. But last week’s announcement from Block CEO Jack Dorse...
- + Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and the other AI kingpins only have themselves to blame for the scare rippling through the economy right now—OpenAI’s Sam Altman is upset that many members of the public aren’t thrilled with AI technology . But it’s a problem that Altman and his fellow AI ex...
- + 3 questions every CEO needs to ask about the AI jobs doom loom in the wake of Jack Dorsey’s dramatic 40% layoffs at Block—Anyone who has been in Corporate America for any length of time expects to see layoffs. But last week’s announcement from Block CEO Jack Dorse...
- + OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla predicts today’s 5-year-olds won’t ever need to get jobs thanks to AI—Billionaire investor Vinod Khosla sees an AI-powered labor transformation so massive it will eliminate the need for today’s 5-year-olds to have jobs. ...
- + Sea doubles annual earnings, yet profitability worries drag shares down in worst drop in 2 years—Sea more than doubled its annual profits in 2025, as the Southeast Asian tech giant reported strong performance in its fintech division and expansion...
- + Legal AI is splitting in two—and most people miss the difference—Last week, Thomson Reuters announced that CoCounsel had reached one million users across 107 countries and territories. At the same time, Anthropic un...
- + Millennials invented the experience economy and Gen Z is reinventing travel itself—Millennials and Gen Z have grown up in environments defined by permanent connectivity, fast-moving technology, and constant exposure to global informa...
- + Trump promised lower drug prices. Here’s how Congress virtually guaranteed the opposite—President Trump has repeatedly promised to bring down prescription drug prices. His Republican Congress says it shares that goal. But tucked inside th...
- + Gen Z is paying the price for lack of experience as AI takes their jobs. Older workers are safe—for now, Dallas Fed warns—While millions of Gen Z workers face unemployment in the white-collar AI “job apocalypse,” older and more experienced workers are faring...
- + Iran’s revenge: drones damage data centers for Amazon Web Services, reveal west’s Achilles Heel—Damage to three Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East from Iranian drone strikes highlights the rapid growth of data centers...
- + Trump threatens Spain with trade war after it refuses to roll over and lend its army bases to the Iran effort—President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to end trade with Spain , citing a lack of support over the U.S. and Israeli attacks on...
- + U.S. oil and gas exporters can’t fill the Middle East supply gap, but Trump’s pledge to insure and protect tankers stems the tide on surging prices—The U.S. leads the world in both crude oil and natural gas production, but the top exporters are already shipping near their capacities, allowing them...
- + Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff believes if people had more doorbell cameras, we may have already ‘solved’ the Nancy Guthrie case—Ring founder and CEO Jamie Siminoff believes police would have “solved” the Nancy Guthrie case if people had more cameras on their doors—including Gut...
- + Trump’s strike on Iran and the new breed of AI wars mean bombs can drop faster than the speed of thought—AI has entered the war room, and it’s not going anywhere anytime soon, according to experts. Despite President Donald Trump telling federal a...
- + Top economist says companies are close to a ‘Cortés moment’ on AI, referencing the conquistador who burned his boats and then invaded Mexico—American companies are approaching what one top economist is calling a “Cortés moment” on artificial intelligence—a point of irreversible ...
- + Obama’s former campaign manager has a ‘brutal truth’ for Democrats: ‘We have no economic message, and if we don’t get one, we’re not going to win’—Across the country, progressives are lighting a fire that they hope will catapult Democrats back to power in Congress this year. &nb...
- + AI that you can get behind: Syracuse claims snow complaints have dropped 30% since it partnered with the right GPS tech firm—Residents of Syracuse, New York — America’s snowiest city — once barraged a service hotline with street neglect complaints during blizzards, &nb...
- + DOJ rips into Ticketmaster monopoly in court: ‘today, the concert ticket industry is broken’—A U.S. Justice Department lawyer told jurors at a civil antitrust trial Tuesday that the concert industry is broken because Ticketmaster a...
- + Cities join Amazon in cutting ties with license-plate reader Flock following public outcry. ‘Your privacy is totally fine,’ says Ring CEO—What started as a Super Bowl ad about finding lost dogs ended in a multicity contract termination for Flock, not because its technology was featured i...
- + Cities join Amazon in ending their partnership with license-plate reader Flock following public outcry. ‘Your privacy is totally fine,’ says Ring CEO—What started as a Super Bowl ad about reuniting lost dogs ended in a multi-city contract termination for Flock, not because its technology was feature...
- + Jamie Dimon says Trump’s $5 billion JPMorgan lawsuit has ‘no merit,’ but admits he’d be angry about debanking too—While he dismissed President Donald Trump’s $5 billion debanking lawsuit against his company, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said he also understands why th...
- + The Pentagon’s fight with Anthropic was the first real test for how we will control powerful AI. The bad news: we all failed—Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…The Pentagon fight with Anthropic raises three crucial questions…OpenAI raises $110 billion in new fun...
- + Top economist Mohamed El-Erian warns of stagflation gripping the entire world economy the longer the Iran war goes on—The global economy has withstood plenty of turmoil in the past few years, staving off a widely predicted recession in 2022, but the most recent confli...
- + $15 billion of the insurance industry is at risk from AI, BofA says—Investors who shrugged off last month’s artificial intelligence (AI) scare in the insurance sector might want to brace themselves for a realit...
- + Why the stock market thinks the Iran war will last 4 weeks, according to Goldman’s head of oil research—In the wake of a major U.S. and Israeli military campaign against Iran that resulted in the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, global oil...
- + This 10-year-old in California taught herself to read—now she’s just enrolled in a college class while still in elementary school—Gen Alpha may still years away from deciding whether to pursue a college degree , but one California student is already getting a head start. ...
- + Kickstarter’s CEO stands by a 4-day workweek with a fully remote team, but admits it sometimes backfires—It’s been six years since the start of the pandemic, but some companies are still embracing remote work culture (albeit very few). But even fewer comp...
- + Venture capitalist Bill Gurley warns workers who went through the ‘college conveyor belt’ and chased safe jobs that they’ll feel AI’s disruption first—Professionals have taught for generations that succeeding in school and attending an elite university would guarantee a rewarding six-figure career....
- + Target sales, profits decline for another quarter, but shares rise on solid outlook—Target reported another quarter of declining sales and profits as it struggles to regain its footing with customers who are facing higher prices almo...
- + Billionaires’ latest luxury asset class is dinosaur bones, boosted by Pharrell’s new auction platform—A triceratops skeleton that stood in a Wyoming museum for decades will be auctioned off, a rare instance of a museum-exhibited dinosaur going to the a...
- + Goldman finds ‘no meaningful relationship between AI and productivity at the economywide level,’ but a 30% boost for 2 specific use cases—Corporate America is talking about artificial intelligence (AI) more than ever, but a new analysis by Goldman Sachs reveals a stark divide between boa...
- + Sam Altman says OpenAI is renegotiating with the Pentagon after an ‘opportunistic and sloppy’ deal—OpenAI says it is renegotiating its “rushed” agreement with the Pentagon to add explicit prohibitions on the use of its artificial intelligence for do...
- + Exclusive: CrowdStrike and SentinelOne veterans raise $34M to tackle enterprise AI’s governance gap—Last month, an agentic AI assistant called OpenClaw that promised to manage your calendar, check you in for flights, respond to emails, and organize y...
- + Qualcomm CEO: ‘Resistance is futile’ as 6G mobile revolution approaches—I remember sending my first email in the early 1990s, a clunky experience that meant logging on to two different computer systems. I thought it would ...
- + Qualcomm CEO: “Resistance is futile” as 6G mobile revolution approaches—I remember sending my first email in the early 1990s, a clunky experience which meant logging on to two different computer systems. I t...
- + Why investing in cybersecurity just became a ‘must-have’ for CFOs—Good morning. As the U.S.–Iran conflict continues, banks and corporations face heightened risk of Iranian or proxy cyberattacks —not only on their sy...
- + Pizzagate and UFOs among questions Republicans have for Clintons over Epstein—A House committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein labored for six months to question former President Bill Clinton and former Se...
- + Jamie Dimon has a feeling inflation will be the ‘skunk at the party’—and the Iran conflict may already be enough to scare off the Fed for good—When the U.S. and Israel launched attacks against Iran this weekend, prompting a military response across the Middle East, concerns spiralled from the...
- + Making sense of Anthropic’s fight with the Pentagon—and OpenAI’s opportunity—“Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.” That’s a famous line from perennial presidential candidate Ralph Nader from more t...
- + Exclusive: Visa to expand card partnership with Stripe’s Bridge to over 100 countries—The world’s biggest fintech and the world’s largest payments network are expanding their stablecoin partnership. Visa and Bridge, a crypto startup a...
- + The Iran war could accelerate the rise of the ‘poly-national’ company—In today’s CEO Daily: Diane Brady on companies’ push to regionalize amid conflict. The big leadership story: Iran war raises energy ...
- + Europe doesn’t lack tech talent. Its leaders lack execution—Europe’s leaders say they want digital sovereignty. They give speeches about reducing dependence on foreign technology. They publish strategies, decla...
- + Boards aren’t ready for the AI age: What happens when your CEO gets deepfaked?—Deepfake fraud drained $1.1 billion from U.S. corporate accounts in 2025, tripling from $360 million the year before. By midyear last year...
- + Want to live forever? Meta patented an AI model that would keep your profile active after you die—The internet is forever, and now your engagement on it could be too. Meta was recently granted a patent in Dec, 2025 that would essen...
- + JPMorgan’s CEO Jamie Dimon reveals the one career rule he set himself when he was just a 28-year-old assistant: Do not speak unless you can add value—Before he became the most powerful banking chief in America, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon set himself a simple career rule that sounds almost radi...
- + JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon reveals the career goal he adopted when he was just a 28-year-old assistant: Do not speak unless you can add value—Before he became the most powerful banking chief in America, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon set himself a simple career rule that sounds almost radi...
- + JPMorgan’s CEO Jamie Dimon reveals the career goal he adopted when he was just a 28-year-old assistant: Do not speak unless you can add value—Before he became the most powerful banking CEO in America, JPMorgan Chase’s CEO Jamie Dimon set himself a simple career rule that sounds almost ...
- + Asia’s founders are spending more money on AI tools, with use of some coding tools rising by more than four times—Asia-Pacific’s newest crop of entrepreneurs are rapidly turning to artificial intelligence, with founders both launching new AI startups and spending ...
- + Goldman Sachs vice chair on the hidden trap of senior management: ‘pretty soon the bosses are no longer watching you’—For many ambitious professionals, climbing the corporate ladder is the ultimate goal. But according to Rob Kaplan, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs, rea...
- + Interest on the $38.8 trillion national debt has tripled since 2020, and it already costs taxpayers more than defense and Medicaid—The United States is now paying nearly $970 billion a year just to service the interest on its $38.8 trillion national debt—a figure that has nearly t...
- + Trump’s strikes on Iran could cost American economy as much as $210 billion, top budget expert says—As the United States enters day four of Operation Epic Fury—its sweeping military campaign against Iran, launched in partnership with Israel—the finan...
- + ‘Could it kill someone?’ A Seoul woman allegedly used ChatGPT to help carry out two murders in South Korean motels—Careful how you interact with chatbots, as you might just be giving them reasons to help carry out premeditated murder. A 21-year-old woman i...
- + ‘Could it kill someone?’ A Seoul woman allegedly used ChatGPT to carry out two murders in South Korean motels—Careful how you interact with chatbots, as you might just be giving them reasons to help carry out premeditated murder. A 21-year-old woman i...
- + Energy markets offer ‘relatively small reaction’ to Iran war, but prices could spike if oil and gas aren’t flowing by the end of the week—The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, killing its supreme leader and launching a regional war as Iran and its proxies retaliated against its neighbors, b...
- + Oil markets are bracing for $100 barrels and a redux of a 1970s-era crisis but ‘three times the scale,’ analyst warns—The U.S. and Israeli strike on Iran over the weekend has caused traffic disruptions to key trade passages like the Strait of Hormuz, escalating conc...
- + CEO of America’s largest Social Security advisory firm: Trump’s big tax cut ‘did not help’—Seventy-year-old baby boomer Martha Shedden spent more than three decades building a successful career as a civil engineer. But 15 years ago, in 201...
- + OpenAI’s Pentagon deal raises new questions about AI and mass surveillance—On Friday, just hours after publicly backing rival Anthropic for standing firm against the Pentagon’s demands, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced his com...
- + Iran has the intent—and increasingly the tools—for AI-powered cyberattacks—Could Iranian hackers try to use AI to attack critical infrastructure in the U.S., Israel, and the Gulf States? The question has taken on new urgency ...
- + Blackstone CEO took home $1.2 billion last year after going ‘max everything’ with work—but he wouldn’t advise his children to put themselves under so much pressure—The world’s most powerful business leaders enjoyed eye-watering pay bumps in 2025. And Blackstone cofounder and CEO Stephen Schwarzman had a par...
- + Tariffs meet oil shock: Corporate margins face a new squeeze—Good morning. Just as companies were adjusting to tariffs, the Iran conflict has delivered a fresh energy shock, potentially reviving inflation risks ...
- + Is the media anti-tech—or just anti-crypto?—The New York Times has long had an implacable animus towards all things blockchain, and last week decided to double down by publishing a stupid and ...
- + U.S. war with Iran forces CEOs to prepare for the worst—from rising energy prices to cyber attacks—In today’s CEO Daily: Diane Brady on the Iran war’s immediate aftershocks for business leaders. The big leadership story: The Irania...
- + A dire electrician shortage is a ‘life or death’ threat to the AI data center boom—and an opportunity for Gen Z—When Nicholas Bowman was in high school, he thought his next steps were already mapped: He’d get a college degree and land a stable, high-paying job—e...
- + American schools weren’t broken until Silicon Valley used a lie to convince them they were—now reading and math scores are plummeting—For more than a decade, a trend has emerged in standardized testing data for students in Utah. After years of increasing reading and math scores, resu...
- + USAA CEO says Gen Z ‘are not going to be as well off’ as boomers and Gen Xers—they need to take ownership of their success, he urges—Gen Z has been lambasted by critics as being professionally unambitious and too frivolous with their money—but leaders are stepping in to add so...
- + You’ve lost the CEO succession race. Here’s your multi-million dollar bonus—In today’s CEO Daily: Fortune ‘s Claire Zillman digs into just how well retention bonuses work. The big leadership story: Paramount...
- + Bitcoin fans latch on to ‘ridiculous’ Jane Street conspiracy to explain price slump—It’s been a bad few months for Bitcoin , as prices have fallen over 40% since October. For investors this has been especially frustrating since, unli...
- + Bilt’s new AI ‘Neighborhood Concierge’ goes head-to-head with Amazon as the battle for home-based commerce heats up—In today’s CEO Daily: Diane Brady reports on Bilt’s new AI-powered concierge service. The big leadership story: Nvidia’s block...
- + Trump dodges mention of tariff refunds in State of the Union speech—In today’s CEO Daily: Diane Brady reports on key takeaways from Trump’s State of the Union speech. The big leadership story: FedEx ...
- + Bitcoin stabilizes after tariff whiplash briefly sends price below $65,000—The price of Bitcoin sputtered and then steadied, as President Donald Trump’s tariff threats intensified. The original cryptocurrency is up slightly a...
- + Is Ethereum good enough for Wall Street? If history is any guide, the answer is clear—The annual event known as Ethereum Denver returned last week, as a tribe of crypto faithful descended upon the rodeo grounds of Colorado’s largest cit...
- + When Bitcoin prices turned against Michael Saylor, he quietly pivoted to a risky financial gambit at Strategy—Few business topics are garnering more coverage than Michael Saylor’s unconventional strategy at Strategy , the software purveyor turned Bitcoin tr...
- + Harvard shakes up its crypto strategy by selling Bitcoin and purchasing Ethereum —Crypto investments are still prominent in Harvard’s endowment, as filings show that the university has purchased Ethereum . The Ivy League school bou...
- + Hyperliquid launches DeFi-focused policy shop led by prominent crypto lawyer Jake Chervinsky—In less than three years, Hyperliquid has become one of the dominant players in crypto trading , notching volumes that rival long-established exchang...
- + What Is the Best Sleeping Position?—You probably already know that falling asleep in a funky position can leave you feeling sore the next morning, but your sleeping posit...
- + Mattress Firmness Scale: How Firm Should Your Bed Be?—It’s one of the first questions you’ll need to consider when shopping for a new bed: how soft or firm do you want it to be? While your ...
- + How to Choose a Mattress: The Ultimate Guide—Buying a new mattress is an investment you’ll use every night. Your bed can make or break whether you wake up feeling stiff and&...
- + A Guide to All Mattress Dimensions: How to Choose the Right Size Bed—Buying a new bed can feel overwhelming. In addition to considering mattress firmness preferences, the best bed for your sleeping positi...
- + Harvard professor calls out ‘lie’ of needing 8 hours of sleep a night, says it’s Industrial Era ‘nonsense’—Most adults do not need a hard eight hours of sleep; a growing body of evidence and evolutionary research suggest the optimal nightly sleep for many h...
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