Nino Paoli

Nino Paoli is a former Dow Jones News Fund news fellow at Fortune.

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he is ‘envious’ of Gen Z college dropouts who have the ‘mental space’ and time to build new startups

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A 24-year-old CEO convinced his parents to open a custodial account in second grade. He fears meme stocks inflate Gen Z’s dreams of getting rich quick

Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi says Gen Z is struggling with credit card debt as balances are at an all-time high.

Personal Finance

Intuit CEO says Gen Z is staving off recession by putting it on plastic: ‘Credit card balances are up 36-37%, but they still have jobs’

Qualcomm Executive Vice President Nakul Duggal says the company's AI features in cars will be found in 100 countries by the end of next year.

‘Robots are going to be amongst us’: Qualcomm exec says buckle up for the next 5 years. Your car is going to be the first shoe to drop

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As Americans continue to feel the pain from tariffs and inflation, Lidl launches holiday meal deal for less than $4 per person

Jim Carrey almost returned a $20 million paycheck, with interest, for his hit role in How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Arts & Entertainment

Jim Carrey nearly quit ‘Grinch’ and offered to return his $20 million paycheck. Then the founder of SEAL Team Six came to the rescue

JPMorganChase CEO Jamie Dimon says AI will eliminate jobs—and that soft skills will be more important than ever.

Jamie Dimon says soft skills like emotional intelligence and communication are vital as AI eliminates roles

Fei-Fei Li, the "Godmother of AI," says she values AI skills more than college degrees when hiring software engineers for her tech startup.

‘Godmother of AI’ says degrees are less important in hiring than how quickly you can ‘superpower yourself’ with new tools

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Jamie Dimon taps Jeff Bezos, Michael Dell, and Ford CEO Jim Farley to advise JPMorgan’s $1.5 trillion national security initiative

Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, pictured in May 2023, warns of record debt issuance by AI companies during an infrastructure boom.

Borrowing by AI companies represents a ‘mounting potential threat to the financial system,’ top economist says

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Nvidia CEO says data centers take about 3 years to construct in the U.S., while in China ‘they can build a hospital in a weekend’

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The ‘Great Housing Reset’ is coming: Income growth will outpace home-price growth in 2026, Redfin forecasts

Construction workers are getting a salary bump for working on data center projects during the AI boom.

Construction workers are earning up to 30% more and some are nabbing six-figure salaries in the data center boom

Andy Jassy, chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., speaks during an unveiling event in New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Amazon has rebooted Alexa with artificial intelligence, marking the biggest overhaul of the voice-activated assistant since its introduction over a decade ago. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

More than 1,000 Amazon employees sign open letter warning the company’s AI ‘will do staggering damage to democracy, our jobs, and the earth’

McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski said earlier the fast-food chain's combo meals were too expensive for its customers.

McDonald’s promoted its new $8 nugget combo meal, then got blasted online with complaints about affordability, quality and service