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Each year, Fortune hosts by-invitation-only meetings and membership communities for the leaders who are setting the global business agenda. The sessions are covered by Fortune journalists.

Younger customers are venturing back to real-world stores, says AS Watson CEO Malina Ngai: ‘They want to be able to touch the product’

AS Watson, which is nearing its 185th annivesary, has almost 17,000 outlets in 31 markets, including mainland China, Malaysia, Turkey and even Ukraine.

By Angelica Ang

November 19, 2025

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OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo is heading the company's mental health initiative.

OpenAI’s Fidji Simo says Meta’s team didn’t anticipate risks of AI products well—her first task under Sam Altman was to address mental health concerns

By Nino Paoli

Politics

The same day as his Epstein humiliation in the House, Trump rages at media’s questions while sitting next to Saudi crown prince

By Eva Roytburg and Nick Lichtenberg

Economy

Fed speeches reveal split that puts rate cut in jeopardy: persistent inflation vs ‘low-hire, low-fire’ labor market

By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press

Personal Finance

Alliant Credit Union review 2025: High-yield savings and checking (for your kids, too)

By Joseph Hostetler

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Cybersecurity

AI empowers criminals to launch ‘customized attacks at scale’—but could also help firms fortify their defenses, say tech industry leaders

By Angelica Ang

October 31, 2025

Middle East

Saudi Arabia wants to become a tourist hot spot and is building 300,000 new hotel rooms to get there

By Angelica Ang

October 30, 2025

Conferences

Younger customers are venturing back to real-world stores, says AS Watson CEO Malina Ngai: ‘They want to be able to touch the product’

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AI empowers criminals to launch ‘customized attacks at scale’—but could also help firms fortify their defenses, say tech industry leaders

Saudi Arabia wants to become a tourist hot spot and is building 300,000 new hotel rooms to get there

Fortune Brainstorm AI 2025 Livestream

Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian kept receipts from trolls who mocked his bet on women’s sports: ‘Every time we hit another revenue milestone, I tag them and thank them for the motivation’

Adobe deepens Google Cloud partnership to advance AI and next-gen creativity, says CFO

Longevity science is on the cusp of major breakthroughs thanks to AI, but significant ‘data gaps’ need to be filled, expert says

From ‘greenwashing’ to ‘greenhushing,’ clean energy momentum advances despite political roadblocks

Saudi power chair: Tariffs weaken the global energy transition and hurt humanity

International laws need to be updated for a ‘machine-governed economic system,’ says CEO of stablecoin giant Circle

AI stock valuations aren’t wrong—they’re just not right … yet, says JPMorgan assets boss

Google’s Ruth Porat: To unlock AI’s upside, rethink every process

Ray Dalio is guided by gratitude: Why CEOs need to find their codifying principles

The Gen Z job crisis is real: 1.2 million recent grads in the U.K. competed for just 17,000 open roles

The world is about $4.5 trillion short of securing a sustainable food supply for the future, global food and ag business CEO says

WTO director-general says calling the trade wars the greatest disruption since the 1930s is ‘the understatement of the century’—but it’s not a repeat

Open-source AI is ‘China’s game right now’—and that’s a problem for the U.S. and its allies, Andreessen Horowitz partner says

WeRide CEO says autonomous driving can’t guarantee 100% safety—but could be 10x safer than human drivers within the decade

Saudi investment chief warns: Global business needs cooperation, not protectionism

The world is headed for re-globalization not de-globalization, as ‘coalitions of the willing’ emerge, Mastercard chair and former USTR official says

Qualcomm CEO warns that ‘everybody’s playing to win’ when it comes to an AI bubble—but it’s still too early to tell who will succeed

Skyrocketing valuations, revenues, and investments: ‘That sounds like a tech story. It’s a women’s sports story,’ Alexis Ohanian says

Nobel Prize winner says Venezuela has a ‘unique’ $1.7 trillion opportunity to privatize over 500 companies and reverse socialist ‘disaster’

‘Maduro started the war, President Trump is ending the war,’ says Nobel winner in hiding for her life

Business models need to be transformed to unlock AI’s true potential, IBM senior VP says

Rachel Reeves says the U.K. has been successful with Trump 2.0 because it shares the same concerns about global imbalances

A decade into Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, the non-oil sector makes up 56% of $1.3 trillion economy

Fortune Global Forum 2025 livestream

Delta CEO predicts Americans will soon be ready to travel to Riyadh as he launches first-ever direct flights from the U.S. to Saudi Arabia

Ray Dalio says America is developing a ‘dependency’ on the top 1% of workers, while the bottom 60% are struggling and unproductive

Barclays’ reentry into Saudi Arabia highlights the kingdom’s strategy to become the new global hub for regional headquarters

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