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Chinese court rules firms can’t lay off workers on AI grounds

Chinese court rules firms can’t lay off workers on AI grounds

The court decided that a tech firm in eastern China had illegally fired one of its workers after he refused to take a demotion when his job was automated by AI.

By Victor Swezey and BloombergMay 3, 2026

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AI models are choking on junk data

By Jason CorsoMay 3, 2026

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Sam Altman says the quiet part out loud, confirming some companies are ‘AI washing’ by blaming unrelated layoffs on the technology

By Sasha RogelbergMay 3, 2026

Apple raises Mac Mini’s starting price to $799 after AI frenzy drains supply

Apple raises Mac Mini’s starting price to $799 after AI frenzy drains supply

By Chris Welch, Mark Gurman and BloombergMay 2, 2026

Zoom is giving away $150K to ‘solopreneurs’ with no strings attached—as 33 million workers ditch corporate to become their own boss

Zoom is giving away $150K to ‘solopreneurs’ with no strings attached—as 33 million workers ditch corporate to become their own boss

By Orianna Rosa RoyleMay 3, 2026

Disney’s new CEO is exploring a ‘super app’ for theme park tickets, movies and more

Disney’s new CEO is exploring a ‘super app’ for theme park tickets, movies and more

By Thomas Buckley, Lucas Shaw and BloombergMay 2, 2026

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Big Tech is shelling out up to $1 million for new hires who will never have to write a line of code

Tech companies are paying up to $1.2 million for senior communications roles because explaining AI is now a strategic asset.

By Sydney LakeMay 2, 2026

Amazon Prime Video reaches deal with Duke Blue Devils to air 3 games per season

“Duke basketball games transcend the schedule,” said Charlie Neiman, Prime Video’s head of sports partnerships.

By The Associated PressMay 1, 2026

Apple’s new CEO said he will continue the company’s tradition of secrecy—and Wall Street loved it

Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.

By Jim EdwardsMay 1, 2026

Tim Cook’s advice for Apple’s next CEO

In today’s edition: John Ternus advice, Meta vs. New Mexico, Anthropic’s Big Tech influence. Plus: Google, Linux, Meta, OpenAI, Kalshi, Polymarket, Roblox, xAI.

By Andrew NuscaMay 1, 2026

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Startups & Venture

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A Mark Cuban–backed vegan cheese company trained AI to scrutinize cardboard boxes. It’s saved $400,000

Austin-based Rebel Cheese says an AI agent helped uncover shipping-box overcharges after a holiday rush and has saved the company $400,000 in one year.

By Jake AngeloMay 1, 2026

Exclusive: Startup Fun raises $72 million for the serious business of converting crypto and cash

The crypto investor Multicoin Capital and the tech VC SignalFire led the Series A fundraise.

By Ben WeissMay 1, 2026

Big Tech will spend nearly $700 billion on AI this year. No one knows where the buildout ends

The hyperscalers are pouring unprecedented capital into chips, data centers, and power—but investors remain split on how long the surge can last.

By Sharon GoldmanApril 30, 2026

The fruit fly cancer researcher who built his first prototype out of lollipop sticks and straws

For biomedical scientist Caíque Costa, fruit flies are where cancer breakthroughs begin. But caring for flies in a lab isn’t as easy as you may think.

By Allie GarfinkleMay 1, 2026

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Unionized workers form alliance with rich tech giants on AI data centers, pushing back on local opposition and redrawing political lines

Unionized workers form alliance with rich tech giants on AI data centers, pushing back on local opposition and redrawing political lines

With data center construction accelerating, unions are expanding training centers and seeing their ranks grow faster than many union leaders have ever seen.

By Marc Levy and The Associated PressMay 2, 2026

Jensen Huang says some CEOs have a ‘God complex’ when it comes to AI apocalypse warnings, which can create shortages of critical workers

“So we have to be mindful of how we communicate the importance of this technology and what it’s able to do.”

By Jason MaMay 2, 2026

Forget Big Tech: Small businesses will hire nearly 1 million grads in 2026—and some of the hottest roles are gloriously AI-proof

While financial analysts and software engineers have suffered the biggest decline in share of the new grad job market, AI engineers and service technicians are at the top.

By Emma BurleighMay 1, 2026

Anthropic’s most powerful AI model just exposed a crisis in corporate governance. Here’s the framework every CEO needs.

Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and colleagues argue that Claude Mythos will break enterprise deployment in ways that cannot be undone—without key fixes.

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Stephen Henriques, Dan Kent and Holden LeeMay 2, 2026

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Meet the Americans dismissing AI hype and using it with ingenuity: ‘The efficiencies gained out of it have been tremendous’

“When it first started up, I was in the camp of, ‘Oh my God, this is the end for us,’” Natalie Blythe said. Then she started learning.

By Cathy Bussewitz and The Associated PressMay 1, 2026

Why your data infrastructure — not your AI model — will determine whether Agentic AI scales

Most enterprises are burning AI budgets on tools they’re not ready to use. The constraint isn’t compute — it’s the messy, siloed data underneath.

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Stephen Henriques, Catherine Dai and Zander JeinthanuttkanontApril 30, 2026

Current price of Ethereum for April 29, 2026

Ethereum isn’t just digital money; it’s a decentralized computing platform, meaning users can build and run apps on it without oversight of a company or bank.

By Joseph HostetlerApril 29, 2026

The startup that wants to give surgeons X-ray vision

Illuminant—founded in 2021 to build “X-ray vision” for doctors—has raised an $8.4 million seed round, Fortune has exclusively learned.

By Allie GarfinkleApril 30, 2026

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Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., at the Norges Bank Investment Management annual investment conference in Oslo, Norway, on Tuesday, April 28, 2026.

For years, the risk Jamie Dimon was most concerned about was geopolitics. His answer has shifted

“The bad guys can use cyber, and they’re going to get stronger and more powerful in terms of finding vulnerabilities.”

By Eleanor PringleApril 30, 2026

Disneyland implements facial recognition to keep the lines moving, but guests say they didn’t know it was optional

The “Happiest Place on Earth” has a new bouncer.

By Catherina GioinoApril 28, 2026

A bank robber made off with $195,000 and got caught after his cell pinged a geofence. Now SCOTUS decides whether that violated the Fourth Amendment

Police went to Okello Chatrie’s house after his cell phone was among the devices within the vicinity of the bank at the time of the robbery.

By The Associated Press and Mark ShermanApril 27, 2026

Americans lost $2.1 billion to social media scams last year, 8 times more than in 2020. Facebook alone cost users more than texts and emails combined

More than two-thirds of the total amount lost came from Meta-owned apps, according to the Federal Trade Commission.

By Jacqueline MunisApril 28, 2026

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Iran has collected a ‘pittance’ of less than $1.3 million in Hormuz tolls, Bessent says, as currency dives to fresh record low

Politics Iran has collected a ‘pittance’ of less than $1.3 million in Hormuz tolls, Bessent says, as currency dives to fresh record low

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2 U.S. service members missing after multinational war games in Morocco

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Landlords who were barred from evicting tenants during COVID are in settlement talks with DOJ to recoup as much as $1.5 billion

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Trumps says some ‘very interesting’ UFO files will be revealed, and the Pentagon promises ‘never-before-seen’ information

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The dollar has fallen 10% under Trump. It helps big multinational companies but is a ‘hidden tax’ raising costs from vacations to groceries

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He started as a part-time Starbucks barista at 17. Now he’s an exec designing the menu

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The Diary of a CEO founder Steven Bartlett

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America’s twin scarcities: The 4-million-unit shortage in both housing and childcare is breaking families

Real Estate America’s twin scarcities: The 4-million-unit shortage in both housing and childcare is breaking families

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Commentary Gen Z is using ChatGPT to practice salary negotiations and tough conversations before they happen

By Phillip MillerMarch 22, 2026

AI The CEO of Patreon blasts AI companies for the ‘bogus excuse’ they’re using to not pay artists
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By Nick LichtenbergMarch 22, 2026

AI may be helping more people start their own businesses, but without many employees

AI AI may be helping more people start their own businesses, but without many employees

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Meet the CFO who turned Adobe’s finance department into an AI lab

AI Meet the CFO who turned Adobe’s finance department into an AI lab

By Sheryl EstradaMarch 22, 2026

OpenAI plans to almost double its headcount this year, FT says

AI OpenAI plans to almost double its headcount this year, FT says

By Liza Tetley and BloombergMarch 21, 2026

The U.S. has the world’s most advanced military, but the unforgiving economics of wars in Iran and Ukraine show quantity has a quality all its own

Politics The U.S. has the world’s most advanced military, but the unforgiving economics of wars in Iran and Ukraine show quantity has a quality all its own

By Jason MaMarch 21, 2026

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By Sasha RogelbergMarch 19, 2026

OpenAI cofounder says he hasn’t written a line of code in months and is in a ‘state of psychosis’ trying to figure out what’s possible

AI OpenAI cofounder says he hasn’t written a line of code in months and is in a ‘state of psychosis’ trying to figure out what’s possible

By Jason MaMarch 21, 2026

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Commentary The one skill that separates people who get smarter with AI from everyone else

By David Rock and Chris WellerMarch 21, 2026

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AI ‘Godfather of AI’ says tech companies aren’t concerned with the AI endgame. They’re focused on short-term profits instead

By Sasha RogelbergMarch 21, 2026

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Commentary Companies are now on the front lines of war. They need to act like it

By Jeremy BashMarch 21, 2026

Cursor’s crossroads: The rapid rise, and very uncertain future, of a $30 billion AI startup

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By Allie GarfinkleMarch 21, 2026

AI Could data from 100 million species help cure disease? One startup is betting on it
By Sharon GoldmanMarch 19, 2026

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AI Women are avoiding the very technology that threatens them most, as expert warns of a ‘two-tiered AI economy’ approaching

By Jacqueline MunisMarch 21, 2026

Why Block’s COO is tracking ‘gross profit per employee’—and how AI is on track to double it to $2 million

AI Why Block’s COO is tracking ‘gross profit per employee’—and how AI is on track to double it to $2 million

By Sheryl EstradaMarch 21, 2026

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AI A man let ChatGPT sell his home. It beat every agent’s estimate by $100K—and closed in 5 days

By Jake AngeloMarch 21, 2026

Musk misled Twitter investors before 2022 buyout, jury says

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By Isaiah Poritz, Jef Feeley and BloombergMarch 20, 2026

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Crypto Kalshi locks in $22 billion valuation, gaining slight edge over its rival Polymarket

By Carlos GarciaMarch 20, 2026

Mark Cuban reads 1,000 emails a day—now he’s using a Mac Mini to fight the AI-generated flood threatening his clean inbox obsession

Big Tech Mark Cuban reads 1,000 emails a day—now he’s using a Mac Mini to fight the AI-generated flood threatening his clean inbox obsession

By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezMarch 20, 2026

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Success Job seekers aren’t imagining things: the number of candidates ghosted by employers just reached a three-year high thanks to AI

By Emma BurleighMarch 20, 2026

AI boom is fueling demand for skilled trades—and demand for technicians, HVAC workers, and electricians is soaring, with six-figure salaries to match

Success AI boom is fueling demand for skilled trades—and demand for technicians, HVAC workers, and electricians is soaring, with six-figure salaries to match

By Preston ForeMarch 20, 2026

Three Tennessee teenagers are suing Elon Musk’s xAI for creating sexually explicit images of them

Law Three Tennessee teenagers are suing Elon Musk’s xAI for creating sexually explicit images of them

By The Associated Press and Travis LollerMarch 20, 2026

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AI The White House has a plan for AI regulation, and it starts with keeping states out of it

By The Associated Press and Seung Min KimMarch 20, 2026

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By Silvio Savarese and Sabastian NilesMarch 20, 2026

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By Allie GarfinkleMarch 20, 2026

After pulling the plug on its own robotaxis, Uber wants back in the game in a big way

Newsletters After pulling the plug on its own robotaxis, Uber wants back in the game in a big way

By Alexei OreskovicMarch 20, 2026

Nvidia’s CEO says AI adoption will be gradual, but when it does hit, we may all end up making robot clothing

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By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezMarch 20, 2026

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By Fabio BinMarch 20, 2026

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By Amanda GerutMarch 19, 2026

Uber will operate its own robotaxis again—this time with Rivian’s not‑yet‑built EVs

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By Jessica MathewsMarch 19, 2026

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