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Ricardo Semler on the prisoner’s dilemma on data centers: trillions of dollars obsolete in just a few years

Communities need safeguards now to avoid a future “Silicon Belt” of stranded assets and broken tax promises.

By Ricardo SemlerSeptember 18, 2026

The same algorithm Gen Z fears is managing its portfolio

Either Gen Z is a generation of giant hypocrites when it comes to AI adoption, or it’s drowning in a sea of misinformation. Or maybe both.

By Catherina GioinoSeptember 18, 2026

College grads shut out of AI-exposed majors since 2022 are ending up in retail and food service instead of the white-collar jobs they studied for

Entry-level hiring dried up after ChatGPT, and graduates who majored in those fields are settling for lower-paying service work instead.

By Catherina GioinoSeptember 17, 2026

Shopify CEO says employees’ ‘slop grenades’ are making more work for everyone else

He said AI is helping workers produce more output, but the quality of it is so bad that their colleagues have to spend more time fixing it

By Mia OsmonbekovSeptember 17, 2026

More in Success

I tried a 4-day workweek at my company and it failed — for some of my employees

A four-day workweek is not for everyone, it turns out.

By Bjorn ReynoldsSeptember 18, 2026

Billionaire TikTok founder is now the richest person in all of Asia, with a $105 billion net worth—he’s gained $92 billion since 2019 thanks to AI

Zhang Yiming, the founder of TikTok parent company ByteDance, is Asia’s richest person—his net worth skyrocketed $12 billion this month alone.

By Emma BurleighSeptember 17, 2026

Exclusive: Inside the room where Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence shared an emotional embrace in front of America’s leadership class

It was “shocking, historic and emotional to all,” Yale Management professor Jeff Sonnenfeld told Fortune.

By Nick Lichtenberg and Eva RoytburgSeptember 16, 2026

GM CEO Mary Barra says America has a ‘societal problem’ with skilled trades—and is putting $200 million behind training Gen Z to work with their hands

General Motors invested $200 million in skilled trades last year. Its CEO Mary Barra says they could offer Gen Z a more “AI-proof” path to six-figure pay.

By Preston ForeSeptember 17, 2026

More in Workplace Culture

Safeguard Global’s four-day workweek looked like a win—until burnout and secret Friday work pushed its CEO to ditch the mandate

Bjorn Reynolds, Safeguard Global’s CEO and founder, shares the lessons he learned from his company’s four-day workweek pilot.

By Mikaela Cohen and HR BrewSeptember 16, 2026

Millennials are winning the AI talent wars—they’re getting 60% of all the top AI jobs and earning $236K salaries. But most of them are men.

The highest-paid AI managers have two things in common: a degree, and being a man. While women and workers without one are stuck in AI’s lowest-paying jobs.

By Orianna Rosa RoyleSeptember 16, 2026

The unpaid ‘work trial’ is the new job-market tax on candidates who can least afford it

Companies are increasingly leaning on work trials to find qualified candidates in a job market flooded with AI-optimized résumés and cover letters.

By Matty Merritt and Morning BrewSeptember 15, 2026

I’m a female founder with a liberal arts degree and my company has raised $280 million. You don’t need a PhD to build a robotics startup

Robotics needs to broaden its pitch beyond hardware to attract women and other talent drawn to solving real-world problems.

By Oana JingaSeptember 16, 2026