McKinsey: Global households got $40 trillion richer in 2025 as the paper wealth economy swelled to $1.8 quadrillion
That's right, quadrillion with a "Q."
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AI and the ‘skinny hamburger, fat bun’ problem — why the future of work needs to look more like a pizza
Yahoo Finance GM George Leimer led the development of a new investing product, AlphaSpace, and his team has shipped…
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Kospi index and U.S. stock futures jump as new Hormuz talks send oil prices plunging amid Iran war pause while Wall Street awaits Fed meeting
Iran and Oman are also in talks that center around having Iran run vessel transit through the Strait of Hormuz with…
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U.S. appeals court upholds block on Trump’s order to create a federal list of eligible voters and limit mail-in ballots only to people on that list
The ruling Saturday by judges of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration's effort to…
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U.S. troops killed recently were moved from the Iran war death toll to ‘overseas operations’ after the Pentagon claimed ‘temporary data disruptions’
Pentagon press secretary Joel Valdez argued Thursday that the drop in casualty figures in the online system was not an…
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China’s Moonshot, Z.AI, and DeepSeek are challenging U.S. AI labs—and beating them on cost
“The AI ecosystem in China is probably much better than people thought."
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Mideast oil may soon have no way out amid ‘everything everywhere all at once’ wars, but the crisis in refined products is even worse
“So we are starting to talk about the kind of ‘no way out’ scenarios because of this new Red Sea unrest.”
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Traders are getting a new tool to wager on the biggest U.S. stocks
CME Group Inc. will launch single-stock futures Monday, allowing investors to hedge or speculate on more than 50 of the…
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Big Tech earnings slam into a market in revolt over AI spending
Earnings from Microsoft and Meta Platforms are due on Wednesday, followed by Apple and Amazon on Thursday.
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Romania scrambles F-16 jets to shoot down a suspected Russian ‘Shahed type’ drone, marking the fourth recent violation of NATO airspace
Before the last three interceptions, Romanian jets shot down a drone in the sky above Estonia in May.
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James Cameron tried to warn us: ‘Skynet Day’ is now shorthand for OpenAI’s agent going rogue and hacking into a startup
In what OpenAI said was the first-ever incident of its kind, an advanced AI model escaped its “sandbox” to the internet…
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Ukraine’s attack on an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea could signal a new battlefront as U.S. seeks to form ‘a ring of economic and military pressure’
"In any case, what is clear is that Iran’s war is becoming increasingly intertwined with two other conflicts: the…
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The U.S. and Iran pause attacks on each other for a second straight day while Tehran continues talks with Oman over Hormuz
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, said talks had made progress and continued.
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Conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer admits she was ‘bamboozled’ by Russian propaganda and calls podcasters’ misinformation a national security threat
“You don’t need to listen to a podcaster and let them influence your opinion about a country. You can look at those…
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Nuclear regulators want to eliminate a foundational safety principal that seeks to keep radiation exposure ‘as low as reasonably achievable’
“But the standard for exposure to workers and the public, those are not changing. We’re just putting in place greater…
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New tariffs could allow Trump to make levies permanent without going to Congress — ‘he’s trying every side door and every unlatched window to get in’
The tariffs were levied under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974.
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A deal is being negotiated that centers around having Iran run vessel transit through the Strait of Hormuz with fewer restrictions on ships
A regional official said that both the U.S. and Iran want to return to the interim ceasefire deal.
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The ‘White Lotus’ effect: How fabulous TV locations are reshaping luxury travel and infuriating locals
From the Côte d’Azur to the Scottish Highlands, you can now plan a vacation as fabulous as your favorite show.
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Jeff Bezos says being lazy, not working hard, is the root of anxiety: ‘The stress goes away the second I take that first step’
Bezos worked through decades of stress to build the No. 1 Fortune 500 company.
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Despite nearing their 60s, nearly four in 10 Americans heading towards the end of their careers don’t even have a retirement account
Around four in 10 U.S. Gen Xers, and even some baby boomers, haven’t saved for retirement—as current retirees who…
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A Gen Xer sold his company for $1.6 billion. He kept less than $100 million and gave the rest away because he doesn’t ‘believe in billionaires’
EXCLUSIVE: Brian O’Kelley says he’s capped his wealth to $100 million. The tech founder tells Fortune billionaires are…
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No, Miami isn’t more expensive than New York. But it may be less ‘affordable’
"Now they're having affordability issues, and I think that's really making people think twice about leaving New York,"…
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The U.S. government invested $27 billion in corporate stakes. Good luck finding them
The Trump administration’s equity stakes—from Intel to quantum startups—appear in no budget document and are subject to…
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Jeff Raikes: The talent debt I warned about is now showing up in the data
As AI becomes standard at work, colleges must pair technical training with the judgment graduates will need to use it…
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This millennial job-hopped every 6 months to $90K by the time she was 23—she left it all behind to become a salary negotiation guru
Hannah Williams, the creator and host of Salary Transparent Street, ditched her $115,000 job to pull back the curtain…
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George Martin never out-wrote the Beatles. That’s exactly why he’s the AI leadership lesson we need now
The "Fifth Beatle" didn't have better answers than Lennon and McCartney, the "Dean of Innovation" writes for Fortune—he…
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College-educated women are snapping up the highest-earning men without college degrees, leaving the rest further behind
A new NBER study finds that as college men grow scarce, college-educated women marry high-earning men without…
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Why lotteries can make winning feel more valuable than buying
From Broadway drawings to free sports tickets, lotteries distribute scarce experiences. One economist says they reveal…
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I’ve been teaching college students for decades. Most of them can no longer finish a book
I assume students will do the reading of long, dense texts, week after week. Lately, that assumption has started to…
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Katty Kay: confidence is the skill that turns thoughts into action—and companies need to start teaching it
The co-host of "The Rest is Politics" and "Doing it Anyway" on confidence, women's progress at work, and leaders acting…
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‘My childhood home is being taken’: Eminent domain for data centers targets properties across a thousand miles of grid expansion in Georgia
Nearly 30 residential properties are located along a 35-mile stretch in Georgia where some residents said they have no…
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Gambling becomes America’s favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined
Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums…
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The Pete behind Jersey Mike’s was only 17 years old when he borrowed $125,000 to buy the chain—with some help from his high school football coach
Peter Cancro had worked at the Jersey Shore sub shop since he was 14; the six-figure loan would be worth $775,000 today.
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Bridgewater Associates ex-recruitment boss reveals the secret ‘unpopularity’ interview test he used on hundreds of candidates at the hedge fund
Ex-recruitment boss at Ray Dalio's Bridgewater Associates says he'd reject any job candidate who's never walked away…
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Data centers were actually making electricity costs cheaper, but the $7 trillion buildout with no guaranteed AI demand is threatening the trend
From 2015 to 2024, average retail electricity prices decreased by 3.5% for every doubling of data center capacity, new…
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Booted from Malaysia, tech guru Balaji Srinivasan finds a new patron for his ‘nomad’ commune: Kazakhstan
It's been a weekslong saga involving crypto-friendly tech utopianism, tensions over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,…
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