CFOs are hitting a 'cost wall' on AI Accenture’s Chief AI and Data Officer Lan Guan warns that tokens are becoming AI’s hidden cost driver. Fortune · Jul 29
A new medical AI study found the same flaw in OpenEvidence, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Doximity The findings suggest healthcare AI's next challenge isn't adoption or funding—it's proving the technology can avoid dangerous omissions at the point of care. Fortune · Jul 29
The American Dream has given way to the ‘Great Postponement,’ writes Ivy League professor, and achieving it doesn’t rely on hard work anymore “The question is whether ... policies can evolve quickly enough to ensure that achieving the American Dream depends once again on opportunity and hard work rather than circumstances of one’s birth.” Fortune · Jul 29
OpenAI’s runaway AI agents also breached a customer at a second tech company in a weeklong spree The breach appears to have been one stop along a broader path. OpenAI said the models had affected four accounts across four publicly available services. Fortune · Jul 29
The Benefits Activation Gap: what claims data teaches us about employee engagement This is one of the greatest opportunities in employee benefits today. Fortune · Jul 29
Insiders knew advanced AI models would escape the lab and wreak havoc, former OpenAI board member confesses Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning. Fortune · Jul 29
What CEOs learned about AI, work, and legacy from their own Gen Z kids Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Fortune · Jul 29
Current price of oil as of July 29, 2026 When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why. Fortune · Jul 29
‘It is okay not to be okay’: NFL legend Terrell Davis joins growing roster of athletes partnering with big pharma to raise health awareness The hall-of-famer has partnered with Teva to raise awareness on Tardive Dyskinesia, a chronic movement disorder. He’s in good company with Serena & co. Fortune · Jul 29
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says his father taught him to invest with a 'brutally hard' childhood game The JPMorgan Chase CEO spent his childhood playing stock market simulation games and reading non-fiction economics books. Fortune · Jul 29
Elon Musk said money doesn’t matter. Then he rolled out X Money and admitted he’s a ‘former trillionaire’ Musk lost $750 million, nearly the entire combined net worth of the three next richest men: Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Jeff Bezos. Fortune · Jul 29
'We’re on top of every restock': This 24-year-old has made over $4 million off his subscription-based reselling community “We kind of felt like this is something we could do ourselves,” said the founder known as JS. “It started off just being a free server.” Fortune · Jul 29
Gen Z workers are sneaking out of the office to nap and cry—anywhere secluded away from the desk will do, including Zara’s fitting room Nearly half of Gen Z office workers have been reduced to tears by workplace stress—and some are sneaking away from their desks to cry in their lunch break. Fortune · Jul 29
I was Spotify’s first analytics lead. Here is what VCs get wrong about data My job under Daniel Ek was to move away from static Excel spreadsheets and toward a more dynamic way of tracking data for the first time. Fortune · Jul 29
Fortune · Jul 29 Trump broke his promise to lower—and eliminate—the national debt. A top investor thinks he’s the ‘worst-spending president in history’ “The number one job of the President is to get the deficit under control,” Jason Calacanis wrote in a post on X.
Fortune · Jul 28 FIFA’s plan to raise billions from private investors is sparking a backlash: Insider says Europe is angry because it changes soccer’s balance of power Thrive Capital’s Joshua Kushner and former Liberty Media boss Greg Maffei are involved in the controversial bid to buy a stake in a subsidiary of the nonprofit that oversees the beloved World Cup soccer tournament.
Fortune · Jul 28 TSMC and Tencent break into the top 100 of the Fortune Global 500 list, as Asia rides the AI boom Here's who's rising, and who's debuting, from Asia on this year's Global 500, Fortune's ranking of the world's largest companies by revenue.
Fortune · Jul 28 Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI is killing tasks not jobs—and the white-collar bloodbath narrative gets the future of work ‘exactly backwards’ “AI automates tasks away, but it doesn’t necessarily eliminate jobs,” Huang said.
Fortune · Jul 28 Coinbase and Robinhood are locked in a heated battle ahead of Q2 earnings—but only one is being called the industry’s ‘first hyperscaler’ Robinhood has proved better at diversifying its revenue streams—but emerging fields of AI commerce and tokenized stocks will boost Coinbase in time.
Fortune · Jul 28 ‘A lot of panic around the AI investment’: How a chip slump is driving the Nasdaq toward correction It’s a chip panic that “appears to be indiscriminate,” analysts say.
Fortune · Jul 28 Top AI companies say they want Chinese models to stay available. Is it genuine? In an open letter, Nvidia, Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and dozens of other AI companies speak out about the importance of access to the latest models—no matter where they're from.
Fortune · Jul 28 The Erling Haaland boom: Norway's 'pop-up economy' during the World Cup revealed in Visa data Wherever and whenever Norway was playing, taxidermy raccoon aside, a "pop-up economy" followed.
Fortune · Jul 28 Helen Toner: the Hugging Face hack was just a matter of time and exposes a huge blind spot in AI policy Over the last decade, including a stint on OpenAI’s board, I saw the open secret among AI developers: this kind of hack wasn’t just possible, but expected.
Fortune · Jul 28 Instagram cracks down on growing ‘pervert glasses’ problem with Meta Ray-Bans It highlights a new privacy challenge for Meta: not in the data that it collects, but how people use its AI glasses in public.
Fortune · Jul 28 Foreign buyers seem to be following Zohran Mamdani's cue — and fleeing American real estate Foreign homebuying is near record lows, National Association of Realtors data reveals, and New York isn't even in the top five anymore.