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He worked 100-hour weeks to save a nearly bankrupt boat company. At 83, he’s just turned down $400 million for it—and gave it all to charity instead

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The World Cup’s VAR fights are a preview of every company’s AI rollout problem

America fell in love with soccer just as it awakened to the infuriating VAR system. The same dynamic is playing out inside every boardroom.

By Pooya Tabesh and The ConversationJuly 31, 2026

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The post-pandemic classroom is quietly ditching the laptop-for-every-kid model

By Janice Mak and The ConversationJuly 31, 2026

‘Retiring backwards’: How cold economic reality forced Gen X into something like the reverse of baby boomers’ golden years

‘Retiring backwards’: How cold economic reality forced Gen X into something like the reverse of baby boomers’ golden years

By Nick LichtenbergJuly 31, 2026

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Jensen Huang says this is the greatest time in history to start a business—and his advice is to stop overthinking it: ‘How hard can it be?’

By Preston ForeJuly 31, 2026

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More than half of Gen Zers want to become influencers—so now Arizona State University is offering a content creation degree for $142K

By Emma BurleighJuly 31, 2026

Fortune 500 Power Moves: Which executives gained and lost power, July 18–31, 2026

Fortune 500 Power Moves: Which executives gained and lost power, July 18–31, 2026

By Fortune EditorsJuly 31, 2026

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Anthropic says its Claude models escaped a testing environment and hacked three real companies

Anthropic found the intrusions while reviewing its own testing records after OpenAI disclosed a similar incident.

By Beatrice NolanJuly 31, 2026

Fed study: AI’s slow productivity story fits a century-old historical pattern

Researchers at the St. Louis Fed looked through 490,000 earnings calls and saw AI productivity surged—but only in talk.

By Nick LichtenbergJuly 31, 2026

Nearly a third of workers admit to sabotaging their company’s AI—and smaller paychecks may explain why

As surveys document quiet resistance and outright sabotage, Apollo’s Torsten Slok offers a theory: AI is compressing wages while leaving job counts intact.

By Nick LichtenbergJuly 30, 2026

Bausch & Lomb CEO: the AI hysteria is nothing new

AI is being talked about as though business has never encountered a technological shift before. And just like the other times, one thing gets overlooked.

By Brent SaundersJuly 31, 2026

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National Guard major rented hotel rooms on the government’s dime just to hide a second wife, prosecutors say

Maj. Collin Welch forged divorce papers, immigration letters and Social Security cards to hide a Mongolian wife from his real family.

By Jonathan J. Cooper and The Associated PressJuly 31, 2026

The competition passed on a flying toy. We built it into $100 million dollar business

In his new book, Spin Master’s Ronnen Harary explains how three founders in their 20s took a toy everyone rejected and turned it into Air Hogs.

By Ronnen HararyJuly 31, 2026

Aliko Dangote is leaving one-third of his $35 billion fortune ‘to humanity’—a rare move among Africa’s billionaires

The pledge amounts to roughly $11.6 billion at today’s valuation, and could grow far larger once his oil refinery goes public.

By Sydney LakeJuly 30, 2026

Meet the jet-setting fashion editor who turned a New York manicure at 23 into Nails.Inc—Despite selling for $40 million, she still wakes at 5:45 a.m.

Victoria Beckham and even McDonald’s helped launch Thea Green’s nail polish in America. Now Nails.Inc sells a bottle of polish every minute

By Orianna Rosa RoyleJuly 31, 2026

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Apple shows that AI winners don’t have to build the biggest models

A Fortune analysis looks at Apple’s strategy of skipping the AI infrastructure arms race.

By Sheryl EstradaJuly 31, 2026

Ferrari’s Jony Ive–designed model was mocked by the internet, but it’s selling like hotcakes

When the Luce was released, Ferrari’s former president and chairman said he hoped “they take the prancing horse off that car, at least.”

By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezJuly 31, 2026

Tim Cook signed off on his final Apple earnings call with a warning about a ‘100-year flood’ in memory chip pricing

The iPhone maker said severe constraints in the supply chain will affect sales of iPhones, Macs, and iPads in the current quarter.

By Alexei OreskovicJuly 30, 2026

Elevance Health’s CEO started her career as a pro basketball player. Now she’s the highest‑ranking woman on the Global 500, leading a $199B giant

Gail Boudreaux credits collegiate athletics with helping to shape her leadership style.

By Sarah GlodekJuly 31, 2026

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Scouting America cuts LGBTQ+ spaces at jamboree under Pentagon pressure

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened to end military ties unless Scouting America dropped diversity initiatives by late August.

By Jamie Stengle and The Associated PressJuly 31, 2026

‘We’re still here standing’: the restaurant world’s fallen angel is reopening with its founder chef or its 3 Michelin stars

Copenhagen’s Noma returns under new chef Pablo Soto with a monthly-changing menu, five months after René Redzepi stepped down over abuse allegations.

By James Brooks, Stefanie Dazio and The Associated PressJuly 30, 2026

EEOC has indefinitely suspended all federal-sector class complaints, lawsuit claims

Attorneys say the undisclosed suspension has left correctional officers facing escalating abuse with no timeline for relief.

By Alexandra Olson and The Associated PressJuly 29, 2026

He worked 100-hour weeks to save a nearly bankrupt boat company. At 83, he’s just turned down $400 million for it—and gave it all to charity instead

Instead of selling Grady-White Boats for $400 million, Eddie Smith Jr. was inspired by Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard to donate profits to charity.

By Preston ForeJuly 29, 2026

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After a nearly 1,000% surge, the AI debt orgy can’t last forever, while hidden borrowing has exploded to $1.65 trillion

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By Jason MaJuly 31, 2026

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16 Nobel laureates just warned AI could displace workers. Bernie thinks a sovereign wealth fund may be the answer

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By Eleanor PringleJuly 31, 2026

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CEO of $248 billion cybersecurity company says workers are about to face a ‘Darwinian moment’ thanks to AI: Evolve or get cut

By Emma BurleighJuly 1, 2026

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This entrepreneurial couple cashed out their 401(k)s and sold a $126 million company—now they run a U.K. soccer team
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The Iran conflict saw jet fuel prices soar—when you use 1.88 million tonnes a year, how you respond really matters (just ask DHL)

By Sam ForsdickJuly 1, 2026

I know how Gen Z can survive the ‘jobpocalypse’ because I built an AI company — in 2015

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By Jeremy FainJuly 1, 2026

America needs 3.8 million manufacturing workers. This CEO has a blueprint to find them

By Mark RayfieldJuly 1, 2026

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Leveraged stock bets are ‘very concentrated in the AI ecosystem,’ Goldman Sachs warns

By Jim EdwardsJuly 1, 2026

The Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling hands the U.S. economy a $7.7 trillion win

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By Diane BradyJuly 1, 2026

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As Big Tech showers employees with perks to win the talent war, Nvidia built a nearly $5 trillion company by making people pay for their own lunch

As Big Tech showers employees with perks to win the talent war, Nvidia built a nearly $5 trillion company by making people pay for their own lunch

By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezJuly 1, 2026

Nike’s earning numbers exceeded Wall Street’s expectations. But CEO Elliott Hill’s next test is the World Cup

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By Mia OsmonbekovJune 30, 2026

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Remote-first fintech giant Revolut is making the office compulsory for new Gen Z grads—and they’ll earn flexibility like their peers after one year

By Emma BurleighJune 30, 2026

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KKR cofounder once impressed Roy Disney with a habit most analysts skipped—it turned a 1-hour meeting into all-day mentorship: ‘I thought I’d died and gone to heaven’

By Preston ForeJune 30, 2026

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Warren Buffett breaks from a ‘lifetime’ pledge to the Gates Foundation as the Epstein fallout deepens

By Sydney LakeJune 30, 2026

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AWS CEO says replacing young employees with AI is ‘one of the dumbest ideas’—and bad for business: ‘At some point the whole thing explodes on itself’
By Sasha RogelbergJune 28, 2026

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New Jersey Republican to reappear in Congress after unexplained 4-month absence

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By Jez Fielder and The Associated PressJune 30, 2026

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By Wayne BersonJune 30, 2026

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Jamie Dimon isn’t giving up the top job. That’s turned JPMorgan into a poaching ground for CEO talent

By Ruth UmohJune 30, 2026

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Boston Dynamics CEO: America’s next 250 years will be built by robots. Here’s what’s standing in the way

By Amanda McMasterJune 30, 2026

Why Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe wants his EV company to be compared to Apple, not Tesla

Why Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe wants his EV company to be compared to Apple, not Tesla

By Diane BradyJune 30, 2026

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‘Humanity has chosen to become idiots’: This Brown professor switched to take-home exams after a mass shooting and discovered mass cheating

By Catherina GioinoJune 29, 2026

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The most reassuring argument about AI and jobs quietly explains why Gen Z can’t get one

By Nick LichtenbergJune 29, 2026

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Ford on why it hired 350 ‘gray beard’ engineers: you need their mentorship for younger workers — and to drive huge AI productivity gains

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‘Cop on your wrist’: Wearables offer tons of data, but people are still going to sleep to Netflix and TikTok

‘Cop on your wrist’: Wearables offer tons of data, but people are still going to sleep to Netflix and TikTok

By Amanda GerutJune 29, 2026

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Target is starting to track employees’ unexcused lateness and absences with a points system—and if they rack up 12, they’re fired

By Emma BurleighJune 29, 2026

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Elon Musk on MacKenzie Scott giving away $26 billion of her fortune: ‘Sadly,’ it makes the world a worse place

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Dave Portnoy quit an $80K sales job to start Barstool—he hand-delivered papers in a secondhand van while living with his girlfriend’s mom for 6 years

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Ray Dalio was a ‘below average’ student who got into investing by caddying for Wall Street traders: Now he hires talent who have experienced hardship

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As JPMorgan’s CEO race heats up, the case for a two-person succession contest is put to the test

As JPMorgan’s CEO race heats up, the case for a two-person succession contest is put to the test

By Ruth UmohJune 29, 2026

CEOs have forgotten the moderate playbook. The stakes for relearning it have never been higher

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By Diane BradyJune 29, 2026

Fed’s Barkin warns of high inflation, but sees signs of relief

Fed’s Barkin warns of high inflation, but sees signs of relief

By Catarina Saraiva and BloombergJune 28, 2026

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This CEO became 3x more productive with AI. Then she read what her daughter wrote about it at Dartmouth

By Maria Colacurcio and Sofia FreiJune 28, 2026

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