Just 32 countries are driving 95% of global growth as the IMF warns of an increasingly uneven economy
The IMF raised its 2026 growth forecast to 3.1%, but warned that the AI boom and soaring energy costs are widening…
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‘He’s not putting the country first’: Over half of Americans say Trump prioritized his financial interests ‘a lot’ as president in new poll
The poll suggests most U.S. adults think making money has been a focus for Trump, with only a quarter saying he puts…
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Ireland proposes a $1.81 trillion EU budget through 2034. Sweden calls it ‘wildly unaffordable’
The proposed seven-year spending plan would increase the EU budget by 30%, but major contributors are demanding cuts.
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Centene CEO Sarah London says Medicaid patients are the last to benefit from health care innovation. She wants AI to change that
The head of the country’s largest Medicaid insurer wants to see AI impact medical access deserts, not just billing.
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‘The amazement is kind of wearing off a little bit’: Wharton survey reveals managers are learning what Gen Z already figured out
In the future, Wharton’s Sonny Tambe and Jeremy Korst told Fortune, it may be a manager’s job to say “That's AI.”
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Ecuador’s former president tried to kill dollarization. Here’s what that means for Venezuela, Argentina and the Rest of Latin America
Longtime dollarization foe Rafael Correa spent a decade attempting to dismantle Ecuador’s dollarized system. It…
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Steel ships, railroads, and data centers: A VC takes the Industrial Revolution analogy seriously
Notable Capital’s Hans Tung argues that in every tech revolution, the geopolitical winner wasn’t the best inventor.
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Current price of oil as of October 13, 2026
When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.
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The Turing Trap is turning into a Talent Trap: The wrong AI strategy could strand millions of skilled workers
There's a parallel to the mistake of treating AI as imitating humans rather than building systems that complement and…
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Despite his $200 million success, Matthew McConaughey spent a weekend in the desert reading 20 years of bad reviews—he says some of them had ‘a point’
Matthew McConaughey has an Oscar, an estimated $200 million net worth and a “thick book” of 20 years’ worth of bad…
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Startup Causa Prima raises $20 million to tackle billing disputes with AI agents
Backed by Base10, Causa Prima’s software lets buyers’ and suppliers’ AI agents negotiate payment terms.
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Banks in France could collapse because ‘widening riots can cause deposit flight,’ analysts warn
Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.
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Alphabet’s Ruth Porat brings a pragmatic optimism to the AI race—and a warning about the possible downsides
Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.
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This 39-year-old quit 80-hour consulting weeks to make underwear for his struggling family business. He credits ‘sweaty feet’ for record profits
"If my sock doesn't fit just right, then when I get back from my hike, I go to the sock department," Minus33 President…
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I built a family business from scratch to $200 million. Now I’ve become its bottleneck
The hardest thing to accept is that people who didn’t build this company alongside you can see things you don’t.
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Binance weighs stock access in markets including Hong Kong and South Korea, says co-CEO Richard Teng
Several cryptocurrency exchanges are transforming themselves from apps devoted to coins into platforms handling…
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‘The norm will be to trade with agents’: Crypto founders learn to love—and fear—AI
“We’re the busiest we’ve ever been,” says Blockaid cofounder Ido Ben-Natan.
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Alphabet president Ruth Porat on how Google is funding AI to win long term, and the biggest risks ahead
Google is spending about $200 billion on its AI build-out this year, Porat confirmed at the Fortune Most Powerful Women…
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Top execs say the $124 trillion Great Wealth Transfer, women entrepreneurs, and veterans are poised to remake the financial landscape
Women are stepping into new wealth, and they want other women to oversee how their fortunes are deployed. Nonprofit…
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‘If you take your foot off the pedal at all, you will start to stall’: Women in C-suite roles have stagnated, and the reasons go beyond the pipeline
Women’s share of roles in both the C-suite and at the board level has stalled at about 30%, marking the first decline…
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Susan Collins’s allies spent $25,000 attacking her rival in the Oregon version of Portland: ‘They can’t even find it on a map’
“Good luck convincing Mainers you know what’s best for them when you don’t know which Portland they live in,” blasted…
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LinkedIn is piloting a school to teach workers how to become their own bosses–no degree required
As AI reshapes work, LinkedIn is betting its “Academy of Economic Opportunity” will matter more than another diploma
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Exclusive: Microsoft’s departing science president plans to join Mercedes F1 team as AI advisor
Peter Lee spent 16 years at Microsoft shaping its science and research efforts.
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Dario Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI Bomb
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the AI doomsday wind blows.
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Fortune’s AIQ Summit: The conversation has moved from experimentation to execution
The strongest companies aren’t simply distributing AI tools but redesigning workflows, developing talent, strengthening…
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Satya Nadella went from H-1B worker to Microsoft CEO. The Trump administration just shut that path for his employees
Vice President JD Vance accused Microsoft of replacing laid-off Americans with “foreign indentured servants” and…
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Airlines raised fares as fuel costs surged, but Delta’s CEO says those higher ticket prices could be here to stay as long as demand holds up
Oil prices are more than 70% higher than they were a year ago.
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Election odds are coming to your TV this fall. 60% of Americans oppose betting on elections
Networks are adding prediction-market prices to their midterm coverage, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows most of the…
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Strategy buys $21 million worth of Bitcoin as corporate crypto buying shows signs of revival
Bitcoin’s rebound has turned some corporate sellers back into buyers after months of market turmoil.
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Jeff Bezos says people have been ‘incorrectly’ taught that success is a villain: ‘You can be a billionaire if you started a hamburger stand’
With $372 billion to his name, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says Americans have been taught to view billionaire success in…
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The White House wants AI companies to police themselves. OpenAI just showed why that’s dangerous
We've worked inside a frontier AI lab and help AI whistleblowers speak out. OpenAI's latest firings expose the risks of…
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‘His alleged actions show a blatant disregard to the Venezuelan people’: Businessman taken into U.S. custody after ‘corrupting’ government programs
Alvaro Pulido was indicted as part of an investigation into his business partner, Alex Saab, a one-time ally of ousted…
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‘This is not what we expected’: Latino voters were key to Trump’s win in a swing Pennsylvania district. Now some say the economy is ‘worse’
In a key congressional district, frustration over gas and grocery prices is testing Republican efforts to retain Latino…
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Judge orders Trump to cancel $20 million in taxpayer-funded political ads ahead of the midterms
The ads praised Trump and included footage from his presidential campaign, drawing criticism from Democrats and some…
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McKinsey: Automation could absorb half of U.S. work hours by 2035. The bigger challenge is skills
Roughly 11 million workers may need new occupations, and many lack the skills or credentials to get there.
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What happens if a rogue AI agent goes on a spending spree? Mastercard is preparing for that risk
As AI agents gain spending power, business leaders face a costly question of who pays when they go rogue.
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