There’s a pipeline of deals—for pipelines—that will help power the AI boom
Potential sellers ask for more money on inflated valuations, while the buyers think longer term and conservatively.…
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Gen Z is the most likely generation to use AI for learning—but 57% say they struggle to apply what they learn
Chatbots can help new hires get up to speed, but a survey suggests the human side of learning at work still matters.
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U.S. added 90,000 jobs last month, says ADP—including in manufacturing and construction, where trade bosses say six-figure jobs are sitting empty
“It’s a manufacturing hiring spree that is limited by worker sentiment and preferences about timing of work, not just…
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McKinsey senior partner: Why AI’s easiest wins are misleading CEOs
CEOs tout contact centers and software coding as AI successes. But are they? That works was already standardized, for…
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Why the media’s whisper campaign about a Goldman Sachs change at the top is misleading gossip, at best
Chasing a phantom Brutus, the media is missing Goldman's real story of unprecedented success under David Solomon.
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AI ‘godfather’ Yann LeCun: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is ‘deluded,’ ‘crazy,’ and doesn’t understand cybersecurity
Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.
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Americans are growing tired of CEOs lecturing them on social issues
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Ken Griffin’s $3 billion gift exemplifies Florida’s new mindset: from attracting innovation to creating it
Our ambition is to become the place where the next generation of great American companies is built.
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Forget supersized: McDonald’s is exploring an $8.5 billion bet on an American fast food wave led by proteinmaxxing, portion control, and GLP-1s
Even fast food giants have to change with the times as GLP-1s and protein become the new normal.
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Wilbur Ross was Trump’s first-term tariff hawk. Now he says refunds give importers ‘an extra profit’ and pay them ‘more than the money’ they laid out
The former commerce secretary says importers who passed tariff costs on to customers are now being paid back for money…
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‘We all chip in’: America’s $40 billion private jet boom is taking off, and taxpayers are helping billionaires foot the bill
Private flyers get tax breaks and taxpayer-funded airport projects while contributing relatively little to air traffic…
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The unicorn CEO betting her industry’s AI crisis isn’t the one you think
"This is a profession that is actually in crisis mode," Datasnipper CEO Vidya Peters told Fortune — and AI is the…
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The real story behind Red Lobster’s $20 Ultimate Endless Shrimp fiasco: How an American seafood icon lost its way
The disastrous promotional offer, which played a role in the chain's bankruptcy, wasn't a blunder but a conspiracy, a…
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John Waldron is ‘one of the most non–Wall Street people’ you’ve ever met—but he’s in line to be the next CEO of Goldman Sachs
A top Wall Street analyst says John Waldron gives off the affect of an English Lit professor from the Midwest. His…
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Visa and Mastercard handle nearly half of Europe’s card payments. The digital euro aims to change that
The European Central Bank's €1.3 billion bet offers an alternative to the U.S. payments giants, but it faces an uphill…
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Trump removes chairs for TSA agents, saying they ‘must meet fitness for duty requirements’
The White House has given the Office of Personnel Management more power to hire and fire federal workers on the basis…
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‘Giving while living’ has become a popular trend for passing on family wealth, says head of Edward Jones
Penny Pennington says there can be significant benefits to giving money to family members while you’re still alive—one…
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Investors thought they were buying pre-IPO OpenAI and SpaceX shares. Their cash went to strip clubs, Bloomingdale’s, and shopping on Amazon, SEC alleges
One fund manager allegedly paid his 4 a.m. strip club bill from fund capital after his card was declined.
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Ford’s Jim Farley: many jobs ‘are definitely going to be changed and eliminated’ but blue-collar trades will use AI as a ‘companion’
"If you work in finance doing spreadsheets, or you’re in a call center, or you’re an entry-level programmer—those jobs…
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‘This revolution is happening in years, not decades’: Verizon CEO Dan Schulman sees AGI within 18 months—and a century of progress in a decade
“I think you’ll see the collapse of the 21st century in the next five to 10 years,” Dan Schulman said at Ford Pro…
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‘Never waste a crisis’: A salad thief stole the Sweetgreen cofounders’ recipes a week before they opened their first restaurant
Nic Jammet on a lettuce scare, growing up at New York’s La Caravelle, Molly Baz’s residency, and the Hoboken fan whose…
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Vaping was supposed to get people off smoking. Now e-cig users are switching to cigarettes to try to quit
“This is not just a trivial misunderstanding. It’s misinformation to the point of significant harm.”
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‘It’s crazy they invented it’: Nate Bargatze on the bright future of skilled trades, the urgency of live experience, and the coming of AI
“Before, when you had to Google something, it was like, it’s just article after article. And you’re like, ‘I’m not…
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Mike Rowe on America’s great tradesperson shortage: ‘I don’t care what your politics are. Math doesn’t care, either’
At Ford Pro Accelerate, Rowe spoke alongside Education Secretary Linda McMahon and the Defense Department’s Mike Duffey…
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Cloudflare just announced a tool that lets businesses charge AI agents in stablecoins
Using USDC, the feature works as a pay-as-you-go system for AI agents browsing the web.
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How AI is becoming Hollywood’s newest star, changing work on and off camera
Higgsfield AI, Runway, and Luma are among the startups that are using AI to reshape Hollywood's production process.
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Ken Griffin doubles down on Miami with a record $3 billion gift to Carnegie Mellon—and plans for a campus in the city Citadel now calls home
The Citadel founder, who moved his firm from Chicago to Miami in 2022, is bankrolling a Wynwood campus that will…
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‘We value the skill, but maybe not for my child’: The stigma against blue-collar jobs, laid bare
Matt Panella told Pro Accelerate he hears from high schoolers: “I want to get into the trades, but my parents don’t…
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‘The economy is increasingly reliant on AI gains’: U.S. GDP grew 2.2% amid ‘sudden reversal of optimism’ on AI tech
The U.S. economy has proven surprisingly resilient in the face of fighting with Iran and the energy price spike it…
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‘A billion deaths’: Bill Gates warns about AI in the wrong hands, saying a kill switch and self-regulation won’t be enough
Gates used to be one of AI’s optimists, but now he calls it “the most dangerous thing humans have ever gone near”
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Carhartt CEO warns schools are steering Gen Z students away from a lucrative career path: Skilled trades can pay 32% more
Students interested in landing a six-figure trades job aren’t being set up for success, says Linda Hubbard—with half…
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A $16 billion oil refinery is coming to East Africa with capacity for 700,000 barrels a day
The Kenya project is expected to take 40 months to build as the region pushes to process more of its own raw materials.
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‘The stuff of legend’: Unseen works of van Gogh and Cézanne from a private collection are going up for auction at $450 million
The paintings come from a collection amassed by the late Argentine art collector Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier and her…
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Wilbur Ross says New York’s pied-à-terre tax targets people who ‘can’t retaliate at the ballot box’
The former commerce secretary and Steve Wynn are suing the state over annual bills of $83,531 and $183,094 on their…
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Ford’s Jim Farley says Gen Z needs its own ‘Smokey Bear’ moment for the forest fire of AI paranoia, the jobs apocalypse and the skilled trades
"They get a little bit paranoid that AI might replace the job they might go to school for," Ford executive Mark Truby…
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Pilot stabbed another pilot before plane carrying Israelis plunged 16,000 feet, Netanyahu says
Netanyahu says the pilot apparently tried to crash the plane before passengers and crew intervened and helped regain…
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