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Electrician apprentices at work.
A dire electrician shortage is a ‘life-or-death’ threat to the AI data center boom—and an opportunity for Gen Z

By going all in on AI, tech companies like Meta and Microsoft are shaking up white-collar career paths—and creating a huge demand for new electricians.

By Preston ForeMarch 2, 2026
Two girls look at a white laptop placed on a desk.
American schools weren’t broken until Silicon Valley used a lie to convince them they were—now reading and math scores are plummeting
By Sasha RogelbergMarch 1, 2026
Slack cofounder Stewart Butterfield
Slack cofounder says workers and CEOs can get stuck doing ‘fake’ work like pre-meetings and slide shows
By Emma BurleighMarch 1, 2026
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USAA CEO says Gen Z ‘are not going to be as well off’ as boomers and Gen Xers—they need to take ownership of their success, he urges
By Emma BurleighMarch 1, 2026
An older man wears an American flag.
Your grandparents are the reason the U.S. isn’t in a recession right now. That won’t last forever
By Eleanor PringleMarch 1, 2026
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BankingTop CD rates from major banks on March 2, 2026: Chase CDs, Bank of America CDs, Citibank CDs, and more
By Danny BakstMarch 2, 2026
Price of silver: Monday, March 2, 2026
Personal FinanceCurrent price of silver as of Monday, March 2, 2026
By Joseph HostetlerMarch 2, 2026
Price of platinum: Monday, March 2, 2026
Personal FinanceCurrent price of platinum as of Monday, March 2, 2026
By Joseph HostetlerMarch 2, 2026
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Middle EastHow the Oct. 7 attacks led to a multiyear destruction of Iran’s proxy militias
By Adam Geller, Abby Sewell and The Associated PressMarch 2, 2026
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Law2 years after $3 million deal with bankrupt chatbot firm, LA’s schools superintendent is under investigation
By Jaimie Ding, Julie Watson and The Associated PressMarch 2, 2026
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Real EstateMeet a burned out 28-year-old who pays $168 a month in China’s faux Venice to retire early from her Shanghai finance gig
By Albee Zhang and The Associated PressMarch 2, 2026
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Economy’90s nostalgia seizes the Fed and White House as Warsh and Trump see AI as an internet-style productivity boom
By Paul Wiseman and The Associated PressMarch 2, 2026
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PoliticsHigh-stakes Texas primary comes down to wire with both Republican and Democratic candidates on edge
By Thomas Beaumont, Sean Murphy and The Associated PressMarch 2, 2026
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Elon Musk, wearing a suit, looks to the side and frowns.
AIElon Musk says that in 10 to 20 years, work will be optional and money will be irrelevant thanks to AI and robotics
By Sasha RogelbergJanuary 19, 2026
Woman packing her stuff as an AI worker types on a computer
SuccessMicrosoft researchers have revealed the 40 jobs most exposed to AI—and even teachers make the list
By Preston ForeJanuary 19, 2026
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CommentaryI lead IBM Consulting, here’s how AI-first companies must redesign work for growth
By Mohamad AliJanuary 19, 2026
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CommentaryLearning and work are converging in an integrated new life template for the AI era 
By Ravi Kumar SJanuary 19, 2026
USAA CEO Juan C. Andrade
SuccessHalf of veterans leave their first post-military jobs in less than a year, and spouses face sky-high unemployment—this CEO has a $500 million fix
By Emma BurleighJanuary 19, 2026
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Future of WorkMeet a 28-year-old Canadian woman who turned her pen-pal side hustle into a subscription side hustle with over 1,000 members
By Cheyanne Mumphrey and The Associated PressJanuary 18, 2026
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EconomyThis Harvard professor spent 8 years traveling the world researching the secret history of capitalism and how ‘marginal’ and ‘weak’ it used to be
By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 18, 2026
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CommentaryWhat hiring someone who served 20 years in prison taught us about loyalty at work
By Brian Koehn and Adam ClaussenJanuary 18, 2026
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AIFord CEO warns there’s a dearth of blue-collar workers able to construct AI data centers and operate factories: ‘Nothing to backfill the ambition’
By Sasha RogelbergJanuary 18, 2026
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CommentaryFortune 500 exec: College grads aren’t ready for today’s jobs
By Mary MorelandJanuary 17, 2026
The CEO of Informatica, Amit Walia
SuccessLike DoorDash and Google’s CEOs, $7.6 billion Informatica boss is a McKinsey alum—he says being ‘pushed around’ by smart consultants helped him grow
By Emma BurleighJanuary 17, 2026
Logan Paul
SuccessLogan Paul tells Gen Z they can turn any passion into a career—he’s turned Pokémon, YouTube, and wrestling into an empire worth millions
By Preston ForeJanuary 17, 2026
SuccessThis CEO says wealthy families pay him $750k to get their kids into Ivy League schools, starting in 5th grade. They’re looking at ‘a centuries-long time horizon’
By Jake AngeloJanuary 16, 2026
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AIIn the AI economy, the ‘weirdness premium’ will set you apart. Lean into it, says expert on tech change economics
By Jake Angelo and Nick LichtenbergJanuary 16, 2026
From left: Hari Bala of Solventum, Bill Briggs of Deloitte; Susan Doniz of Disney, Lauri Palmieri of Salesforce, and Allie Garfinkle of Fortune at the annual Brainstorm Tech dinner during CES in Las Vegas on Jan. 5, 2026. (Photo: Jacob Kepler/Fortune)
AIProtect your agentic AI before you wreck your agentic AI
By Andrew NuscaJanuary 16, 2026
The JPMorgan Chase and Co. global headquarters building, center, at 270 Park Avenue in New York, US, on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025.
Real Estate‘They’re going to have to think and act a lot more like hotels’: The new rules of office space now that the ‘genie is out of the bottle on hybrid’
By Jake AngeloJanuary 15, 2026
NewslettersWorried about AI taking your job? New Anthropic research shows it’s not that simple
By Sharon GoldmanJanuary 15, 2026
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EconomyDesperate job seekers are abandoning the idea of a ‘dream job’—but an economist warns bosses about what could happen next 
By Jacqueline MunisJanuary 15, 2026
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CommentaryAI will infiltrate the industrial workforce in 2026—let’s apply it to training the next generation, not replacing them
By Kriti SharmaJanuary 15, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump (C) walks with Executive chair of Ford Motor Company Bill Ford Jr. (L), and CEO of Ford Motor Company Jim Farley as they tour the Ford River Rouge Complex on January 13, 2026 in Dearborn, Michigan.
Future of WorkTrump hails ‘booming investment’ in Detroit while auto manufacturing jobs have fallen every month since Liberation Day
By Eva RoytburgJanuary 14, 2026
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BankingCitigroup CEO Jane Fraser warns of job cuts and says it’s time to raise the bar in a fiery memo to staff: ‘We are not graded on effort’
By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 14, 2026
AIMcKinsey challenges graduates to master AI tools as it shifts hiring hunt toward liberal arts majors
By Jake AngeloJanuary 14, 2026
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CommentaryForget the K-Shape: We have a barbell economy—and the middle class is buckling under the weight
By Katica RoyJanuary 14, 2026
Jensen Huang
SuccessThe job market is broken, but Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is ‘fairly confident’ that AI will increase productivity and therefore, hiring—but there’s a catch
By Preston ForeJanuary 14, 2026
Future of WorkWhy a college degree is still worthwhile—and the 3 things it can teach you that AI can’t do
By Jake AngeloJanuary 14, 2026
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Future of WorkCarhartt CEO says they always focused on blue-collar workers—but hipsters came anyway: ‘We welcome anyone … that wants to celebrate hard work’
By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 13, 2026
A worker in a green jacket operates a welding tool.
EconomyU.S workers just took home their smallest share of capital since 1947, at least
By Sasha RogelbergJanuary 13, 2026
A smartphone displaying the Google Gemini logo.
NewslettersAs ‘agentic commerce’ gains ground, companies shouldn’t put too much faith in ‘GEO,’ one industry insider warns
By Jeremy KahnJanuary 13, 2026
AI‘Humans could go the way of horses’: Goldman calculated how bad the AI ‘job apocalypse’ will be—and its analysts were pleasantly surprised
By Jim EdwardsJanuary 13, 2026
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Future of Work‘Microshifting,’ an extreme form of hybrid working that breaks work into short, non-continuous blocks, is on the rise
By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 13, 2026
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