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Companies risk a CFO talent crisis by automating junior finance roles

As AI replaces the entry-level work that trained generations of finance chiefs, CFOs are rethinking how they hire and develop junior talent before the pipeline runs dry.

By Sam BirchallOctober 23, 2026

AI could displace one in 11 workers, Goldman says, but the layoffs are likely waiting for a recession

Goldman’s Joseph Briggs finds companies have historically saved automation layoffs for downturns, and he’s updating his projection of the AI jobs impact.

By Nick LichtenbergOctober 22, 2026

My industry wants you to fire your sales team. One of my customers plans to double theirs

What if instead of asking if AI can let employees go, companies started asking, how AI can make their next hire more likely to succeed?

By Anis BennaceurOctober 22, 2026

Ex–Google CEO Eric Schmidt worked 60-hour weeks: ‘I used to tell people my job is to sit in meetings 12 hours a day.’ He says AI will kill that burden

Billionaire Eric Schmidt spent 12-hour days coordinating teams as Google CEO. Now, he says, AI could eliminate thousands of “glue people” jobs.

By Preston ForeOctober 22, 2026

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Claire Smilow helped BoxGroup earn a roughly $1 billion return on Cursor. Now she’s scouting college campuses for the next generation of founders

BoxGroup partner Claire Smilow delivered a massive return for her firm after betting early on Gen Z–led company Cursor. She’s scouting the next big thing at Harvard and MIT.

By Emma BurleighOctober 22, 2026

Over 1,000 analysts competed to pitch Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon and execs their ideas for community impact—and top teams win $650K for charity

Goldman Sachs has put $6 million of philanthropic grants “in the hands of our analysts,” one exec says.

By Emma BurleighOctober 22, 2026

‘You’re no longer an influencer … you’re a cofounder’: MrBeast’s business resembles a Fortune 500 holding company, investor Steven Bartlett says

MrBeast creator Jimmy Donaldson has evolved from uploading Minecraft walkthroughs on YouTube to growing his net worth to an estimated $2.6 billion.

By Sasha RogelbergOctober 21, 2026

Retired boomers are ‘spending their kids’ inheritance’ to go on vacation—it’ll be a shock for Gen Z who expect to inherit $124 trillion

Retired boomers are Ski-ing—”spending the kids’ inheritance.” It will be a huge shock to millennial and Gen Z who expect a $124 trillion wealth transfer.

By Orianna Rosa RoyleOctober 22, 2026

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Chick-fil-A hit $23.9 billion in sales while closed every Sunday. Its CEO explains why that won’t change, even if it costs the chain billions

Andrew Cathy told NBC’s Today the 80-year-old policy is “just too important” to reconsider, even as the family-owned chain outsells nearly every rival while open just six days a week.

By Heather OcchinoOctober 22, 2026

Zuckerberg told Meta directors he might leave California, where he could lose billions to a wealth tax. Meta answered with a new class of stock

Meta could have raised about $700 billion in equity capital before Zuckerberg lost majority control, a filing shows. The new share class will raise money without diluting him—and allow him to foot a potential bill in California.

By Amanda GerutOctober 21, 2026

Billionaire Mark Cuban’s 5-step plan to make healthcare affordable targets drug middlemen’s ‘contractual terrorism’

The Cost Plus Drugs cofounder told Texas lawmakers that insured patients are often better off paying cash—and laid out five fixes built around price transparency.

By Emma WitmanOctober 21, 2026

Nonprofits are embracing AI to advance their missions, but few have a road map for adoption

Very few nonprofits have integrated AI into their workflows or have established a solid road map, despite growing interest from these organizations in the technology.

By John KellOctober 21, 2026

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Newport Restaurant Group is 100% owned by its workers—and has paid them $33 million since 1995: ‘Nobody else gets the benefit’

Bartender Andy Staane has spent 24 years at Newport Restaurant Group, where every employee is an owner. As baby boomers prepare to hand off up to $5 trillion in small businesses, its CEO says ESOPs are a “proven model.”

By Muskaan ArshadOctober 21, 2026

Deloitte U.S. human capital chief warns: Broken trust cuts employee motivation by more than half

Deloitte researchers have found that high-trust organizations have stronger engagement. But if one factor erodes, and it can start to collapse.

By Amanda GerutOctober 20, 2026

‘Circle back,’ ‘synergy,’ ‘boil the ocean’: The corporate phrases Gen Z doesn’t get, and what they say instead

From “circle back” to “bandwidth,” an updated Preply study finds young workers are trading corporate buzzwords for phrases that just say what they mean.

By Sasha TuddenhamOctober 19, 2026

‘An army of Claudes, with every one asking for my attention’: Anthropic calls human attention the bottleneck in the botsitting world to come

Eighty percent of Claude session delays result from agents waiting on human input, and the median Anthropic employee spends 20% more time in meetings than a year ago.

By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezOctober 19, 2026

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