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Jessica Mathews is a former senior writer for Fortune, where she covered transportation, defense tech, and Elon Musk’s companies. Previously, she wrote the daily dealmaking newsletter Term Sheet, where she won an EPPY award for best business/finance blog. Before joining Fortune, she covered wealth management and custody as a reporter at Financial Planning magazine. Jessica was a 2018 Dow Jones News Fund intern, and she interned at CNBC in 2017. She is a graduate from The King’s College in New York City. Originally from Memphis, Tenn., you can now find her biking around Bentonville, Ark.
The CEO of U.S.-made electric truck company Slate says removal of EV tax credit is ‘opening up capacity’ from battery suppliers
Startups & Venture
The CEO of U.S.-made electric truck company Slate says removal of EV tax credit is ‘opening up capacity’ from battery suppliers
By Jessica MathewsSeptember 9, 2025
Lyft CEO says company will save $200M in insurance costs from California worker unionization deal
Future of Work
Lyft CEO says company will save $200M in insurance costs from California worker unionization deal
By Jessica MathewsSeptember 8, 2025
DoorDash CEO Tony Xu says path to autonomous deliveries filled with ‘lots of pain and suffering’ but company is nearing first inning of commercial progress
AI
DoorDash CEO Tony Xu says path to autonomous deliveries filled with ‘lots of pain and suffering’ but company is nearing first inning of commercial progress
By Jessica MathewsSeptember 8, 2025
Palantir CEO Alex Karp says U.S. labor workers won’t lose their jobs to AI—‘it’s not true’
Tech
Palantir CEO Alex Karp says U.S. labor workers won’t lose their jobs to AI—‘it’s not true’
By Jessica MathewsSeptember 5, 2025
Tesla self-driving cars are being tested in Boring Co. tunnels in Las Vegas, but full autonomy is still ‘a ways off,’ convention center exec says
Tech
Tesla self-driving cars are being tested in Boring Co. tunnels in Las Vegas, but full autonomy is still ‘a ways off,’ convention center exec says
By Jessica MathewsAugust 26, 2025
18 months after becoming the first human implanted with Elon Musk’s brain chip, Neuralink ‘Participant 1’ Noland Arbaugh says his whole life has changed
Tech
18 months after becoming the first human implanted with Elon Musk’s brain chip, Neuralink ‘Participant 1’ Noland Arbaugh says his whole life has changed
By Jessica MathewsAugust 23, 2025
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Fortune Archives: How Palantir made it big on big data
By Jessica MathewsAugust 17, 2025
Waymo experimenting with a generative AI frontier model, but exec says LiDAR and radar sensors important to self-driving safety ‘under all conditions’
Tech
Waymo experimenting with a generative AI frontier model, but exec says LiDAR and radar sensors important to self-driving safety ‘under all conditions’
By Jessica MathewsAugust 15, 2025
How Palantir—a company too small to make the Fortune 500—became one of the world’s 25 most valuable companies
Tech
How Palantir—a company too small to make the Fortune 500—became one of the world’s 25 most valuable companies
By Jessica MathewsAugust 6, 2025
With new FAA rule proposal, U.S. drone companies are poised to take flight
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With new FAA rule proposal, U.S. drone companies are poised to take flight
By Jessica MathewsAugust 6, 2025
Elon Musk says Tesla will start adding vehicles it doesn’t directly own into its robotaxi network next year
Tech
Elon Musk says Tesla will start adding vehicles it doesn’t directly own into its robotaxi network next year
By Jessica MathewsJuly 23, 2025
The insolvency of Ardian-backed mountain biking company YT Industries underscores just how much tariffs have shaken the biking industry
Newsletters
The insolvency of Ardian-backed mountain biking company YT Industries underscores just how much tariffs have shaken the biking industry
By Jessica MathewsJuly 23, 2025
Elon Musk’s latest blending of business interests puts his Grok AI chatbot in Teslas—and raises questions around data and privacy
Tech
Elon Musk’s latest blending of business interests puts his Grok AI chatbot in Teslas—and raises questions around data and privacy
By Jessica MathewsJuly 19, 2025
Elon Musk spent months slashing federal contracts — Now his AI company is celebrating a $200M Pentagon contract and new unit to get government business
Tech
Elon Musk spent months slashing federal contracts — Now his AI company is celebrating a $200M Pentagon contract and new unit to get government business
By Jessica MathewsJuly 14, 2025
Katie Miller—who left Trump’s White House with Elon Musk—surfaces at xAI
Tech
Katie Miller—who left Trump’s White House with Elon Musk—surfaces at xAI
By Jessica MathewsJuly 3, 2025
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