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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.

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By Janice Mak and The ConversationJuly 31, 2026

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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?’

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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

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

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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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By Mia OsmonbekovJune 24, 2026

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