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Dave Smith

Dave Smith is a former Fortune U.S. News Editor. He also has been published in Business Insider, Newsweek, ABC News, and USA Today. He lives in Toronto.

A rescue volunteer holds up a shirt that says "Camp Mystic"
Environment
Richard ‘Dick’ Eastland, Camp Mystic’s 74-year-old owner, died while leading campers to safety during the devastating floods
By Dave Smith and Fortune IntelligenceJuly 7, 2025
Diogo Jota holds up a trophy
Lifestyle
Two weeks before Diogo Jota died in a car crash, the 28-year-old Liverpool star finally married his longtime girlfriend and mother of his 3 children
By Dave Smith and Fortune IntelligenceJuly 3, 2025
Wendy Kopp
Success
Teach for All CEO Wendy Kopp says she’s cracked the code on jet lag—and hasn’t experienced it at all since adopting the trick
By Dave SmithJuly 2, 2025
Tim Cook stands next to the Apple Vision Pro
Tech
Apple is suing a former senior employee, alleging he stole trade secrets about the $3,500 Vision Pro before taking a job at Snap
By Dave SmithJuly 2, 2025
Tyrese Haliburton stands hunched over during a game
Success
11 teams passed over Tyrese Haliburton in the NBA Draft. The 25-year-old is now on the brink of winning it all
By Dave SmithJune 12, 2025
Bill Atkinson won the respect of Steve Jobs by creating a high-level programming language in just 6 days
Success
Bill Atkinson won the respect of Steve Jobs by creating a high-level programming language in just 6 days
By Dave SmithJune 9, 2025
Elon Musk looks down
Politics
Elon Musk says Trump ‘is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public’
By Dave SmithJune 5, 2025
Trump and Musk lean into each other to talk
Politics
Elon Musk says ‘without me, Trump would have lost the election’
By Dave SmithJune 5, 2025
Trump points his finger at Musk inside the White House
Politics
House Speaker Mike Johnson says Trump is ‘not delighted that Elon did a 180’ after the pair spent four months working closely together
By Dave SmithJune 5, 2025
People holding an ice cream cone and boba tea from Mixue, the world's largest fast-food chain by number of store locations
Success
A 21-year-old asked his grandmother for money to open a street-food stall. Now, it’s the world’s largest fast-food chain, eclipsing McDonald’s
By Dave SmithJune 2, 2025
Telegram founder Pavel Durov smiles while wearing an all-black outfit
Success
Telegram’s CEO built two dominant social networks from scratch before 40 and has fathered more than 100 biological children. He’s also facing up to 10 years in prison
By Dave SmithMay 22, 2025
Coinbase founder and CEO Brian Armstrong smiles
Finance
Headaches at Coinbase: A data breach, a $20 million ransom demand, and a federal investigation into ‘verified users’
By Dave SmithMay 16, 2025
Elon Musk folds his hands behind a logo of xAI and Grok
Tech
Elon Musk’s AI says it was ‘instructed by my creators at xAI’ to accept the narrative of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa
By Beatrice Nolan and Dave SmithMay 15, 2025
Kevin Hart holds a microphone while performing stand-up comedy
Success
The world’s highest-paid comedian says you must embrace rejection if you want to be successful: ‘It’s supposed to be hard’
By Dave SmithMay 9, 2025
Fidji Simo sits on stage
Success
Instacart boss Fidji Simo was the first member of her family to graduate from high school. Sam Altman just carved out a brand-new ‘CEO’ role for her at OpenAI
By Dave SmithMay 8, 2025
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Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary says if he were 25 today, he'd chase these two booming opportunities in the world of AIplaceholder alt text
By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezJuly 5, 2026
Success
Even as Elon Musk calls philanthropy ‘very hard,’ everyday Americans gave a record $617 billion—despite feeling the squeeze over the cost of livingplaceholder alt text
By Preston ForeJuly 4, 2026
Success
Ex-PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi worked from midnight until 5 a.m. as a receptionist to pay for her Yale degree—and she says ‘respect went up’ because of itplaceholder alt text
By Preston ForeJuly 6, 2026
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