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Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses

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Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses

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The 'golden passport': Argentina to offer citizenship for foreigners that make a $350,000 contribution to its treasury—or invest $800,000 in its bonds

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Iran's currency is getting obliterated as the regime is about to run out of oil to sell and can’t even get its money from customers

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Trump names national intelligence director Jay Clayton to lead new ‘Super Intelligence Force’ on AI

Trump names national intelligence director Jay Clayton to lead new ‘Super Intelligence Force’ on AI

The task force will reach out to consumers, public interest groups, religious organizations, critical infrastructure providers and AI companies, Trump said.

By The Associated PressOctober 4, 2026

Daniela Amodei, co-founder and president of Anthropic

Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei says entrepreneurs should go on vacation to road test potential cofounders—if they’re a drain, they’re ‘the wrong choice’

By Emma BurleighOctober 4, 2026

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends a meeting on artificial intelligence in the East Room of the White House.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has emerged as the biggest foil to AI doomerism about the existential risk to humanity

By Joshua HongOctober 4, 2026

Former L’Oréal execs set out to build a $1.2 billion beauty empire. Now all that’s left is Milk Makeup, and its sales just fell 57%

Former L’Oréal execs set out to build a $1.2 billion beauty empire. Now all that’s left is Milk Makeup, and its sales just fell 57%

By Bilin LinOctober 4, 2026

Gary Shapiro: why trade shows matter and how to get them right

By Gary ShapiroOctober 4, 2026

A woman in a yellow jacket in front of a "NO DATA CENTERS" sign, speaks with another woman with her hands on her hips.

Meet the ‘mini Erin Brockoviches’ fighting off eminent domain—and the shadow of Amazon—as a data center hands out $10,000 to their neighbors

By Sasha RogelbergOctober 4, 2026

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Private capital is transforming sports, challenging the press box to upskill into financial forensics

ESPN owns the NFL’s network and a Red Sox owner controls the Boston Globe. The Clippers case, broken by a podcast, shows what investigators can find.

By Alex Volonte and The ConversationOctober 3, 2026

Apple’s Steve Wozniak says he cofounded the tech giant after 5 rejections from HP—not to ‘make money.’ For years, his paycheck was just $50

While he could’ve been a trillionaire today, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak sold his stake early: “I didn’t want to be near money, because it could corrupt your values.”

By Preston ForeOctober 3, 2026

We need a Department of AI, or we risk pushing the U.S. economy over the brink

I helped steer Kazakhstan out of the 2008 financial crisis. An AI czar is not enough. America needs a Department of AI to protect trust and growth.

By Yerbol OrynbayevOctober 3, 2026

Meta is building one of the world’s biggest undersea cable networks—it’s just one piece of a growing seafloor empire spanning 6 continents

Meta’s Petal cable is the latest of more than 20 subsea projects the company has bet on as its AI push demands ever more data capacity.

By James LaForgeOctober 3, 2026

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This founder made millions when LinkedIn bought his start-up—but the stress landed him in the hospital. Now he’s built another $825 million brand

Rahul Vohra says transcendental meditation and a healthier lifestyle helped him avoid “existential dread” when selling his second company to Grammarly.

By Emma BurleighOctober 4, 2026

Gen Z can’t control the future, so they’re paying witches and tarot readers to make it feel more manageable

A fragmented $2.3 billion industry is turning tarot, astrology, and spell work into personalized guidance for an uncertain generation.

By Tatiana SatauaOctober 4, 2026

Meet the 32-year-old founder who raised $3.5 million to help Gen Z feel not so alone in the world

A new app is taking the loneliness problem head-on.

By Joshua HongOctober 2, 2026

Tony Elumelu: Africa’s young entrepreneurs have great ideas. What they need is capital and business support

According to the World Bank, 10 to 12 million young Africans enter the labor market each year, but only about 3 million formal jobs are created.

By Tony O. ElumeluOctober 3, 2026

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FDR’s lesson for AI regulation

Like the financial industry of the 1930s, the AI industry is currently largely unregulated, heightening fears that it could do widespread harm.

By William R. GruverOctober 4, 2026

The GPT Oracle: 1 in 10 Americans are reviving the pagan practice of prophecy

Anthropic has reported Claude 4 drifting into mystical themes unprompted, a pattern its own engineers did not train for or predict.

By Webb Keane, Ambuj Tewari and The ConversationOctober 3, 2026

McKinsey: AI will create more jobs than it kills — after destroying 11 million

Only one in seven displaced workers has a direct path to a growing job, and most new work in healthcare and construction can’t be done remotely.

By Catherina GioinoOctober 3, 2026

Gen Alpha won’t write emails when they join the workforce in 2030—research reveals they’ll sent voice notes to their boss instead

LSE researchers say Gen Alpha will talk, not type at work—they predict that voice notes will make keyboard practically obsolete by 2030.

By Orianna Rosa RoyleOctober 3, 2026

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Customs and Border Protection tapped 80,000 Flock cameras last year — police weren’t kept in the loop

Customs and Border Protection tapped 80,000 Flock cameras last year — police weren’t kept in the loop

Danville, Illinois, logged more than 4,000 federal searches, though ICE had no Flock contract. Flock says customers control their data.

By Henry F. Fradella and The ConversationOctober 3, 2026

‘We can’t trust them completely’: AI research fellows warn that labs are running models with the safeguards off behind closed doors

Alan Chan and Sam Manning, co-authors with OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s top researchers, say that many times, “internal safeguards have not been deployed.”

By Catherina GioinoOctober 2, 2026

Top ServiceNow exec on clients delivering ‘life-changing’ results with AI agents—and he’s seeing it now at Standard Chartered

Paul Fipps, ServiceNow president of global customer operations, told the Fortune AIQ Summit some clients “can’t rely on humans” to keep AI agents in check.

By Emma BurleighOctober 2, 2026

‘Sometimes it’s more expensive than having humans’: Ecolab gets real about AI’s limits in the physical world

Honeywell CTO Suresh Venkatarayalu said customers “really demand 99.9999%” accuracy, while frontier models “could be at 85%.”

By Nick LichtenbergOctober 2, 2026

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I study tribal psychology and build AI agents for my business students—the rogue OpenAI ‘swarm’ alarmed me

I study tribal psychology and build AI agents for my business students—the rogue OpenAI ‘swarm’ alarmed me

Rogue AI agents may be forming tribes, not swarms—and that poses a new governance threat.

By Michael MorrisOctober 2, 2026

‘We don’t want to be a policeman of the internet’: How a student of John McPhee turned GPTZero into a $30 million AI-detection business

Edward Tian and Alex Cui are happy to be “the Splash Brothers of anti–AI slop,” but they aren’t really against using AI to write things.

By Nick LichtenbergOctober 2, 2026

Fortune AIQ Summit livestream (concluded)

Fortune is convening executives and senior leaders to share how they are putting AI to work across their organizations.

By Fortune EditorsOctober 1, 2026

Thieves stole an Nvidia-branded truck filled with just 20,000 pounds of sand—and it points to Big Tech’s $150 million AI hardware theft headache

While the thieves left the sand-filled trailer unscathed, other freighters have faced real threats from organized criminals in search of high-value data center equipment.

By Sasha RogelbergOctober 1, 2026

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Mark Ruffalo says Paramount’s $111 billion Warner Bros. deal ‘Will stifle creativity, weaken free speech, and cost people their jobs’

Mark Ruffalo says Paramount’s $111 billion Warner Bros. deal ‘Will stifle creativity, weaken free speech, and cost people their jobs’

By Andrew McGowanOctober 2, 2026

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Ken Griffin’s $3 billion gift exemplifies Florida’s new mindset: from attracting innovation to creating it
By Michael SimasOctober 1, 2026

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ServiceNow unpacks the Fortune AIQ list, where the widest gap between AI leaders and laggards is training for humans

By Nick LichtenbergOctober 2, 2026

Creative class guru Richard Florida confronts 189k job wipeout: ‘AI is both an enhancing technology and eliminating technology’

Creative class guru Richard Florida confronts 189k job wipeout: ‘AI is both an enhancing technology and eliminating technology’

By Catherina GioinoOctober 2, 2026

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Top futurist Amy Webb sees Fortune 500 firms suffering from ‘learned helplessness’ with AI, like taxi drivers who need Google Maps

By Nick LichtenbergOctober 2, 2026

Jolly, the mascot for the Muse AI agent, during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. Meta Platforms Inc. is expanding its smart-glasses lineup with camera-free models, support for the popular new Muse assistant and a hearing-aid mode.

A Clippy marketing moment with Muse: ‘Meta has given AI a cute face’

By Tatiana SatauaOctober 2, 2026

Ben Affleck wearing a suit jacket, behind a purple background

Ben Affleck says predictions that AI will wipe out jobs—or kill us all—are just propaganda: ‘In fact, more people technically are being employed’

By Preston ForeOctober 2, 2026

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The unicorn CEO betting her industry’s AI crisis isn’t the one you think
By Nick LichtenbergOctober 1, 2026

Ewout Steenbergen, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Booking Holdings at the Fortune AIQ Summit at the New York Stock Exchange on October 1, 2026.

Booking Holdings CFO says even AI hyperscalers don’t know their ROI—but he’s learning from his ‘AI coach’

By Nick LichtenbergOctober 2, 2026

Lightspeed Commerce CEO: our study analyzed half a million AI shopping responses and revealed who gets to compete

By Dax DasilvaOctober 2, 2026

Fortune's Andrew Nusca; Sally Moore, chief client officer and co-head of market intelligence at S&P Global; and Hari Gopalkrishnan, chief technology and information officer for Bank of America at the Fortune AIQ Summit on Oct. 1, 2026 at the New York Stock Exchange.

Bank of America and S&P Global on why AI success starts with governance and data

By Sheryl EstradaOctober 2, 2026

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Capitalism may be reinventing socialism — and probably not how you think

By Joao GomesOctober 2, 2026

I’m a humanitarian leader who’s all in on AI. Here’s why

I’m a humanitarian leader who’s all in on AI. Here’s why

By Jeannie AnnanOctober 2, 2026

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AI ‘godfather’ Yann LeCun has ‘zero concerns’ about human extinction, says Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is ‘deluded’
By Emily ForliniOctober 1, 2026

When pre-IPO shares are too good to be true

When pre-IPO shares are too good to be true

By Alexei OreskovicOctober 2, 2026

Google’s journey back to the AI frontier

Google’s journey back to the AI frontier

By Alexei OreskovicOctober 2, 2026

Zhou Yuxiang hired food delivery riders to sell AI to factories. Now he’s chasing China’s industrial AI breakthrough

Zhou Yuxiang hired food delivery riders to sell AI to factories. Now he’s chasing China’s industrial AI breakthrough

By Nicholas GordonOctober 2, 2026

GM’s Mary Barra says the EV transition is still the destination—even if the road is longer

GM’s Mary Barra says the EV transition is still the destination—even if the road is longer

By Alyson ShontellOctober 2, 2026

AI in regulated industries: BofA and S&P on the huge gains to be had, and the risks of rushing in

By Nick LichtenbergOctober 1, 2026

Stacy Dillow, executive vice president and chief people officer at HPE

Fortune 500 chief people officers say AI has killed org charts, and employees who will thrive need to ‘unlearn’

By Preston ForeOctober 1, 2026

Astronauts, from left, Joshua Kutryk, of Canada, pilot Luke Delaney, commander Jessica Watkins and Cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov, of Russia leave the Operations and Checkout Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

SpaceX sends 4 astronauts to the International Space Station on a record-fast 8-hour trip

By Marcia Dunn and The Associated PressOctober 1, 2026

Trump stands with tech CEOs.

AI’s biggest players promise to police themselves at the White House

By Beatrice NolanOctober 1, 2026

Paramount promised 30 movies a year to win Warner Bros. Losing Miramax if it fails may not scare it

Paramount promised 30 movies a year to win Warner Bros. Losing Miramax if it fails may not scare it

By Andrew McGowanOctober 1, 2026

Billion-dollar tech company Starkey unveils its newest hearing aid—saying the most human AI innovation may be one you wear

Billion-dollar tech company Starkey unveils its newest hearing aid—saying the most human AI innovation may be one you wear

By Sydney LakeOctober 1, 2026

Exclusive: Nine-person Halluminate raises $30 million, counts four top U.S. AI labs as customers

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Exclusive: Nine-person Halluminate raises $30 million, counts four top U.S. AI labs as customers

By Wen ShaoOctober 1, 2026

Kylie Jenner, Selena Gomez, and Hailey Bieber’s brands dominate beauty’s creator economy. Fame is only part of the reason

Arts & Entertainment

Kylie Jenner, Selena Gomez, and Hailey Bieber’s brands dominate beauty’s creator economy. Fame is only part of the reason

By Fernanda TroncoOctober 1, 2026

Christian Ulbrich says working from the office is ‘core’. Just make sure it is a beautiful place to be as well

Christian Ulbrich says working from the office is ‘core’. Just make sure it is a beautiful place to be as well

By Kamal AhmedOctober 1, 2026

HPE’s $1.2 billion order from Vultr puts its AI networking strategy to the test

By Sheryl EstradaOctober 1, 2026

AI is consuming human knowledge. It should learn how to pay for it

AI is consuming human knowledge. It should learn how to pay for it

By Shlomit WagmanOctober 1, 2026

There’s a pipeline of deals—for pipelines—that will help power the AI boom

There’s a pipeline of deals—for pipelines—that will help power the AI boom

By Jordan BlumOctober 1, 2026

Latina software developer reviewing code with colleague in office

Gen Z is the most likely generation to use AI for learning—but 57% say they struggle to apply what they learn

By Tatiana SatauaOctober 1, 2026

McKinsey senior partner: Why AI’s easiest wins are misleading CEOs

By David PralongOctober 1, 2026

Micron keeps the memory party going

Micron keeps the memory party going

By Alexei OreskovicOctober 1, 2026

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