Tony Elumelu: Africa’s young entrepreneurs have great ideas. What they need is capital and business support
According to the World Bank, 10 to 12 million young Africans enter the labor market each year, but only about 3 million…
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‘We need to trust our employees’: This billionaire CEO went from counting cars in the parking lot past 6pm to embracing hybrid work
Jim Kavanaugh once believed employees needed to be in the office to get the job done. Now, he says leaders need to…
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How to be tough, not a jerk — and why most people get toughness wrong
By moving past the false choice between being "nice" and being "ruthless," you can drive extraordinary performance…
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McKinsey: AI will create more jobs than it kills — after destroying 11 million
Only one in seven displaced workers has a direct path to a growing job, and most new work in healthcare and…
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We need a Department of AI, or we risk pushing the U.S. economy over the brink
I helped steer Kazakhstan out of the 2008 financial crisis. An AI czar is not enough. America needs a Department of AI…
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Mark Ruffalo says Paramount’s $111 billion Warner Bros. deal ‘Will stifle creativity, weaken free speech, and cost people their jobs’
A federal judge cleared the final legal hurdle for the megamerger on Wednesday. The deal is expected to close Oct. 6.
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‘We can’t trust them completely’: AI research fellows warn that labs are running models with the safeguards off behind closed doors
Alan Chan and Sam Manning, co-authors with OpenAI's and Anthropic's top researchers, say that many times, "internal…
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The ‘golden passport’: Argentina to offer citizenship for foreigners that make a $350,000 contribution to its treasury—or invest $800,000 in its bonds
Economy Minister Luis Caputo unveiled the so-called “golden passport” scheme at an investor event in Paris, saying…
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‘He sold his anti-communism to communists’: Former GOP Rep. David Rivera gets 10 years in prison for $50 million lobbying ‘from the Maduro regime’
David Rivera of Miami has been jailed since his conviction in May for conspiracy to commit money laundering and failing…
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Meet the 32-year-old founder who raised $3.5 million to help Gen Z feel not so alone in the world
A new app is taking the loneliness problem head-on.
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ServiceNow unpacks the Fortune AIQ list, where the widest gap between AI leaders and laggards is training for humans
“Pacesetters” are far likelier to hire and train people. “It’s not just technology,” says ServiceNow’s Diana David, a…
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Creative class guru Richard Florida confronts 189k job wipeout: ‘AI is both an enhancing technology and eliminating technology’
New York has lost one-quarter of its film jobs. The urbanist who named the creative class says AI will make cities…
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‘Sometimes it’s more expensive than having humans’: Ecolab gets real about AI’s limits in the physical world
Honeywell CTO Suresh Venkatarayalu said customers “really demand 99.9999%” accuracy, while frontier models “could be at…
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Top futurist Amy Webb sees Fortune 500 firms suffering from ‘learned helplessness’ with AI, like taxi drivers who need Google Maps
“Let’s be fair, Fortune 500 companies are pretty late to the party on this,” said Webb, founder and CEO of the Future…
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Top ServiceNow exec on clients delivering ‘life-changing’ results with AI agents—and he’s seeing it now at Standard Chartered
Paul Fipps, ServiceNow president of global customer operations, told the Fortune AIQ Summit some clients “can’t rely on…
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France debt crisis: Bond investors have rendered a ‘guilty’ verdict and are pricing in growing odds of a sovereign default, analyst says
The cost of insurance against a French default is now the highest among the major EU countries and the U.K.
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A Clippy marketing moment with Muse: ‘Meta has given AI a cute face’
As AI companies ask users to hand over their inboxes and credit cards, they’re betting a friendly mascot can close the…
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Ben Affleck says predictions that AI will wipe out jobs—or kill us all—are just propaganda: ‘In fact, more people technically are being employed’
Fears that AI could wipe out humanity are overblown, says Hollywood star Ben Affleck, who sold his AI startup to…
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Bessent said ‘I am the house.’ The bond market disagreed
Treasury yields are at their highest since 2002. Congress can restore credibility by passing a Fiscal Commission Act…
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Trump says Biden overcharged Obamacare customers. Now almost 1 million of them are getting $500 checks—here’s who qualifies
The Treasury Department has started mailing one-time $500 payments to HealthCare.gov customers in 30 states who paid…
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Booking Holdings CFO says even AI hyperscalers don’t know their ROI—but he’s learning from his ‘AI coach’
At the Fortune AIQ Summit, Ewout Steenbergen said AI is cutting costs, but LLMs still only send the company less than…
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Jeff Bezos just opened a free preschool inside an Arizona retirement community—and families earning up to $132,000 can apply
The Glendale, Ariz., campus is the latest in Bezos Academy’s network of more than 40 Montessori-inspired schools aimed…
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‘The deal is done’: Trump’s $15 billion Iowa steel deal comes with a catch: new tax breaks
Iowa lawmakers are weighing doubling the tax-credit cap as officials acknowledge the company has yet to commit to a…
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Lightspeed Commerce CEO: our study analyzed half a million AI shopping responses and revealed who gets to compete
For decades, the internet has promised to level the playing field for retailers. Is AI taking that away?
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Puerto Rico’s power rates jump 18% to a record high, nearly double the US mainland average
A typical monthly bill will rise from $229 to $271 as outages persist across the island’s fragile power grid.
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For 25 years, locked cockpits have kept intruders out. The FlyDubai attack exposed the danger inside
The alleged attack is raising questions about pilot screening and a security system largely designed to stop threats…
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Americans rebel against Trump’s red-baiting, sending socialism to a record high in opinion polling
More than four in 10 Americans quite like the sound of it, shrugging off Trump's warnings about "communism, socialism…
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The Nobel Peace Prize could leave the planet this year, with the International Space Station among contenders
The ISS is being floated as a symbol of global cooperation as wars and international tensions intensify on Earth.
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Current price of oil as of Oct. 2, 2026
When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.
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Trump just soft-launched higher inflation as the new solution for rebalancing the $40 trillion U.S. national debt
“You know, inflation, certain levels of inflation, will also pay off that debt very rapidly. Very rapidly.”
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Capitalism may be reinventing socialism — and probably not how you think
The economics of private property could be changing massively from the dual forces of AI and quantum computing.
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GM’s Mary Barra says ‘I’m done making predictions’—but sees fully autonomous driving in 2028
Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.
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I’m a humanitarian leader who’s all in on AI. Here’s why
Humanitarian groups should use AI—but only with evidence, oversight and strict safeguards.
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When pre-IPO shares are too good to be true
With AI companies moving towards record-setting IPOs, with trillion-dollar valuations, the demand for pre-IPO shares is…
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Ford CEO Jim Farley says the line between engineers and skilled tradespeople is now ‘completely blurred out’
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The Fed has one interest rate. America has two economies
Americans are using BNPL for rent and groceries as Fed policy confronts two economies.
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