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Parag Agrawal’s AI startup wants to pay publishers when AI agents use their work

The former Twitter CEO’s AI startup is launching Index, a platform to estimate how much content owners contribute to AI agent tasks.

By Beatrice NolanMay 19, 2026

Don’t hold your breath for the great AI job reshuffle, says Goldman Sachs—there’s little evidence of ‘too many coders and not enough plumbers’

Don’t hold your breath for the great AI job reshuffle, says Goldman Sachs—there’s little evidence of ‘too many coders and not enough plumbers’

By Eleanor PringleMay 19, 2026

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DeepSeek and China’s AI boom are increasingly powered by state money

By Lily Mae LazarusMay 19, 2026

The SaaSpocalypse isn’t killing software. It’s exposing where software value really lives

By Joel HronMay 19, 2026

Yahoo Finance's AlphaSpace is live as of May 19.

Exclusive: Yahoo Finance is building a Bloomberg Terminal for everyone else

By Nick LichtenbergMay 19, 2026

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Oakland, California, on May 12, 2026. (Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)

Musk v. Altman: That’s all, folks

By Andrew NuscaMay 19, 2026

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Musk vs. Altman: AI safety cannot be one man’s job

The Oakland trial was a fight between two billionaires offering themselves as the guarantors of AI’s future. We deserve a better answer.

By Stavros GadinisMay 18, 2026

NextEra’s $67 billion Dominion takeover creates the world’s largest utility—just in time to win the AI data-center power surge

NextEra’s move to buy Dominion is a big bet on scale and affordability to win over AI data center developers.

By Jordan BlumMay 18, 2026

Not the Allbirds effect: Japan’s top bidet maker Toto has been quietly making chip supplies for decades, and the stock market finally noticed

Toto didn’t just flush its old business to make chips: it’s been making the same components to power the world’s AI infrastructure for years.

By Catherina GioinoMay 18, 2026

Harvard sold off its entire $87 million Ethereum stake just one quarter after buying it

The university was the largest new buyer of BlackRock’s Ethereum ETF in Q4 of 2025

By Jack KubinecMay 18, 2026

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Anaplan CEO: AI isn’t eating software. It’s sorting it

A new AI-driven architecture is dividing the SaaS landscape into two camps. The vendors who built moats around beautiful interfaces are in trouble.

By Charlie GottdienerMay 18, 2026

The AI boom is pulling Europe’s hottest startups to the U.S.—whether they planned to move or not

Creadum partner Carl Fritjofsson says European AI startups are increasingly pulled toward U.S. customers and investors, despite Europe’s deep bench of technical talent.

By Lily Mae LazarusMay 18, 2026

SpaceX heads into a record-shattering IPO with the ‘deepest moat that exists today’ as investors vow to ‘never bet against Elon’

SpaceX is seeking to raise up to $75 billion at a valuation of $1.75 trillion.

By Jason MaMay 16, 2026

Solo founders are using AI to do the work of entire teams—but going it alone has limits

AI tools are letting founders launch products, serve hundreds of customers, and land big exits on their own, without having to hire any employees.

By Beatrice NolanMay 18, 2026

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College students are booing commencement speakers celebrating AI, but the wave of hate hasn’t stopped them from using it to cheat on their exams

The rise of AI has created cognitive dissonance among a generation resentful of AI for taking jobs, but feeling like they have to use the technology to survive.

By Sasha RogelbergMay 19, 2026

Americans’ AI hate wave might just be gathering steam: Data centers could hike power costs in some states over 50% by 2030

The AI infrastructure boom is coming for Americans’ utility bills, and public patience is already running out.

By Tristan BoveMay 19, 2026

Pope Leo launches an AI commission days before he releases a papal letter alongside Anthropic cofounder Christopher Olah

The pope will unveil his first papal encyclical next week alongside an Anthropic cofounder, just as he remains vocal against the use of AI worldwide.

By Catherina GioinoMay 18, 2026

How a book convinced Arundhati Bhattacharya, one of India’s most powerful bankers, to try working for a U.S. tech company

Under Arundhati Bhattacharya, Salesforce’s South Asia headcount grew from 2,500 to over 18,000; India is now one of Salesforce’s fastest growing markets.

By Angelica AngMay 19, 2026

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Billionaire Ken Griffin used to dismiss AI as ‘garbage.’ Here’s why he changed his mind—and why he’s ‘depressed’

“You could just see how this was going to have such a dramatic impact on society.”

By Nick LichtenbergMay 18, 2026

After AI stole his clients, one Big Tech ghostwriter is using AI to get them back

Johnson-Igra creates what he calls a “second brain” system for each executive by combining a knowledge graph with an LLM of their choice.

By Sage LazzaroMay 18, 2026

How EarthRanger uses AI to help protect endangered species—and boost the wildlife tourism industry

EarthRanger is an AI-integrated data visualization and analysis software platform that gives conservationists the real-time information they need to keep animals, habitats, and communities safe.

By Alexandra KirkmanMay 18, 2026

The smartphone’s days are numbered. Meet the device that could come next

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon on why the smartphone’s reign is ending—and how your next device will see, hear, and think for you.

By Alyson ShontellMay 18, 2026

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6.7 million people thought they were ripping apart an AI-generated Monet painting. But it was real

A researcher posted a real Monet painting, but tagged it as made with AI. That didn’t stop people from tearing it apart online.

By Nick LichtenbergMay 18, 2026

A strip club scandal at a major crypto industry event triggers sponsor backlash

Critics say the event reinforces the ‘crypto bro’ trope at a time the industry is trying to enter the mainstream

By Jack KubinecMay 18, 2026

The AI boom sidelined sustainability. Two researchers want to change that

From water-hungry cooling systems to soaring energy demands, the AI boom is reviving sustainability concerns that many thought had faded from the conversation.

By Sharon GoldmanMay 14, 2026

We watched social media concentrate. The same thing is happening in AI, only at a deeper layer

We watched Snap lose to Meta’s platform dominance and see the same pattern repeating in AI—only this time, the stakes aren’t market share.

By David Liberman and Daniil LibermanMay 16, 2026

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By Glen Luke FlanaganMay 19, 2026

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Commentary We studied 6,000 executives and found the real reason 70% of transformations fail

By Julia Dhar, Kristy R. Ellmer and Philip JamesonMay 19, 2026

The American airline industry is so untrustworthy that 89% of travelers are bracing for delay or cancellation

Travel & Leisure The American airline industry is so untrustworthy that 89% of travelers are bracing for delay or cancellation

By Catherina GioinoMay 19, 2026

ESG may be fading—but moral leadership isn’t

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AI Jury rules against Elon Musk in $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman

By Sharon GoldmanMay 18, 2026

AI Americans would rather live near a nuclear power plant than a data center—by a lot
By Catherina GioinoMay 15, 2026

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Investing AI is eating the market and Wall Street strategists have bubble brain as they debate: are we in 1997 or 1999?

By Nick LichtenbergMay 18, 2026

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AI Communities are blocking billions in data centers. Big Tech has wagered $1 trillion otherwise

By Nick LichtenbergMay 18, 2026

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AI A record number of 18-year-olds are set to graduate into an economy designed against them

By Nick LichtenbergMay 18, 2026

A panel on Gen Z workers sit alongside Fortune's Kristin Stoller at the Fortune Workplace Innovation Summit.

Newsletters AI in the workplace is stumbling. Fortune’s Workplace Innovation Summit will dive in to why

By Kristin StollerMay 18, 2026

SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell in Barcelona, Spain on March 2, 2026. (Photo: Angel Garcia/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Newsletters What to expect from a SpaceX IPO

By Andrew NuscaMay 18, 2026

AI Cisco’s AI orders forecast just hit $9 billion—and the stock surged
By Sheryl EstradaMay 15, 2026

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AI How a mom-and-pop car wash chain went from sticky notes to AI-powered operations that are upleveling every part of the company

By Sage LazzaroMay 18, 2026

Outnumbered: At $4 billion ClickUp, a 3:1 agent-to-human ratio is rewiring work itself

AI Outnumbered: At $4 billion ClickUp, a 3:1 agent-to-human ratio is rewiring work itself

By Sage LazzaroMay 18, 2026

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Commentary OpenAI paid $100 million for a talk show. James Murdoch is eyeing an even bigger deal. The hot new asset class is humanity

By Lin CherryMay 17, 2026

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Commentary Freshworks CEO: why agile enterprises are winning the AI race — and what they did differently

By Dennis WoodsideMay 17, 2026

A man with a headset sits at a desk in a call center.

Economy The AI boom hasn’t stopped U.S. companies from hiring cheap offshore labor, and overseas call center employment is still skyrocketing

By Sasha RogelbergMay 17, 2026

Commentary San Francisco has $2 trillion in AI wealth and can’t fix its own city. That’s every city’s problem
By Chase GarbarinoMay 15, 2026

Zillow CEO doubles down on remote-work model: ‘There is talent everywhere in this country’

Workplace Culture Zillow CEO doubles down on remote-work model: ‘There is talent everywhere in this country’

By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezMay 17, 2026

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Success Gen Z is right about the job hunt—it really is worse than it was for millennials, with nearly 60% of fresh-faced grads frozen out of the workforce

By Emma BurleighMay 17, 2026

A 45,000-person labor strike at Samsung’s memory chip plants could throw a wrench into the AI boom

Economy A 45,000-person labor strike at Samsung’s memory chip plants could throw a wrench into the AI boom

By Catherina GioinoMay 17, 2026

NRG’s new CEO has a plan to power the AI boom—and lower your energy bill

Energy NRG’s new CEO has a plan to power the AI boom—and lower your energy bill

By Jordan BlumMay 17, 2026

AI poised to tilt job market leverage toward older workers

AI AI poised to tilt job market leverage toward older workers

By Victor Swezey and BloombergMay 16, 2026

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AI We talked to 12 tarot card readers who are using AI. They split in 2 camps, with big implications for the technology

By Ziv Epstein, Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Vana Goblot and The ConversationMay 16, 2026

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AI Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI

By Jake AngeloMay 16, 2026

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Commentary I’ve been studying Big Tech for a long time. What just happened with Anthropic and the Pentagon terrifies me

By Olivier SylvainMay 16, 2026

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Economy The prophet of the ‘Wired Belt’ says capitalism is finally eating itself

By Bhaskar ChakravortiMay 16, 2026

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Commentary Would you hire the lawyer who just got sanctioned for using AI?

By Alexandra SmythMay 16, 2026

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Future of Work Meet the 20-year-old CEO who launched a company in high school to solve Gen Z’s entry-level job crisis

By Jake AngeloMay 16, 2026

IDEO invented ‘human-centered design.’ Can it survive an AI world where everything looks the same?

Asia IDEO invented ‘human-centered design.’ Can it survive an AI world where everything looks the same?

By Nicholas GordonMay 16, 2026

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Big Tech How Trump’s ‘unusual’ brokerage account traded around his own market-moving decisions—selling hyperscalers and buying energy stocks during the war

By Eva RoytburgMay 15, 2026

Berkshire triples Alphabet stake and buys Delta stock while dumping Amazon in Greg Abel’s first quarter as CEO

Investing Berkshire triples Alphabet stake and buys Delta stock while dumping Amazon in Greg Abel’s first quarter as CEO

By Josh Funk and The Associated PressMay 15, 2026

SpaceX said to plan public IPO filing as soon as Wednesday

Big Tech SpaceX said to plan public IPO filing as soon as Wednesday

By Anthony Hughes, Bailey Lipschultz and BloombergMay 15, 2026

America’s productivity boom started before AI, and a Stanford economist who decoded the Great Resignation says working from home is the reason why

Future of Work America’s productivity boom started before AI, and a Stanford economist who decoded the Great Resignation says working from home is the reason why

By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezMay 15, 2026

A man stands looking out over his front porch where a sign reads, "No data centers."

Environment Startups are installing tiny data centers in people’s homes to reduce strain on the beleaguered electrical grid

By Sasha RogelbergMay 15, 2026

US hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, speaks during the 29th annual Milken Institute Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on May 4, 2026.

Investing Bill Ackman has been quietly buying Microsoft since February, when AI fears were dragging the stock

By Eva RoytburgMay 15, 2026

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Europe Pope Leo warns of ‘spiral of annihilation’ as AI warfare leads to symphony of destruction

By Nicole Winfield, Paolo Santalucia and The Associated PressMay 15, 2026

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