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The rise of 'conspicuous waiting': The 19th-century economic theory that explains why Gen Z posts their place in line

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Millennials say they’ll refuse to care for aging boomer parents—but they’ll be forced to as their inheritance shrinks to 40 cents on the dollar

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

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The rise of 'conspicuous waiting': The 19th-century economic theory that explains why Gen Z posts their place in line

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Millennials say they’ll refuse to care for aging boomer parents—but they’ll be forced to as their inheritance shrinks to 40 cents on the dollar

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Tim Cook signed off on his final Apple earnings call with a warning about a ‘100-year flood’ in memory chip pricing
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Amazon’s Andy Jassy sees a $1 trillion cloud built on businesses like the PGA Tour—which swapped its server trucks for AI broadcasts 

AWS just posted $42.2 billion in revenue with its fastest growth in 18 quarters and the AI platform saw more spending last quarter than in every prior quarter since launch combined.

By Amanda GerutAugust 1, 2026
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By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezJuly 31, 2026
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The power couple of AI is getting married in Carmel, days after groom Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund nearly blew up
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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
More than half of Gen Zers want to become influencers—so now Arizona State University is offering a content creation degree for $142K

Arizona State University is helping turn its students into influencers with a bachelor’s degree in building a social media empire.

By Emma BurleighJuly 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
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
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The billionaire says that learning to be kinder has been his greatest professional struggle.

By Sarah GlodekJuly 31, 2026
The post-pandemic classroom is quietly ditching the laptop-for-every-kid model

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced in-person classroom instruction to go virtual, students suddenly needed to have their own laptops or tablets in order to interact with teachers and complete assignments. Most states used federal pandemic funding to address the digital divide. This refers to the gap between students and families who had their own tablets, […]

By Janice Mak and The ConversationJuly 31, 2026
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?’

The billionaire CEO has spent the last three decades building Nvidia —but says one simple mindset helped turn a diner-booth idea into a $4.7 trillion giant.

By Preston ForeJuly 31, 2026
‘Retiring backwards’: How cold economic reality forced Gen X into something like the reverse of baby boomers’ golden years

Time to get the band back together and get on the skateboard. It’s a retirement plan from a thrift store.

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

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

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