The Fortune Global 500 gets top-heavy—and more powerful than ever Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Fortune · Jul 28
No. 1 on the Fortune Global 500: Amazon's Jeff Bezos on how his garage startup became the largest company in the world by revenue As Amazon pours $200 billion into AI this year, Bezos says the company's next act will define the next decade. Fortune · Jul 28
How Wistron’s early Nvidia bet made it an unsung winner of the AI boom—and one of the biggest risers on this year's Global 500 Wistron illustrates how AI is reaching beyond trillion-dollar chipmakers and LLM developers to lift the firms making the hardware behind the revolution. Fortune · Jul 28
Can a global car company survive today's complicated world? Nissan hopes to find out "You have a China ecosystem, and you have the U.S. ecosystem," CEO Ivan Espinosa said. "If you want to be a global company, you need to live in both." Fortune · Jul 28
Sun Life launches global private wealth platform targeting Asia’s booming HNWI market Insurers are expanding into wealth management, tapping a customer base that already uses their products to protect their finances. Fortune · Jul 28
Record heat gives way to winter gas fears in Europe, Asia as Iran war rages on Natural gas prices are spiking, and the cutthroat competition for cargoes is escalating. Fortune · Jul 28
U.S.'s economic nemesis is the poster child for self-sufficiency: China's exports are so huge they're now lowering inflation in other countries A discrepancy between China's export data and U.S. import data is "not because ships are sinking mid-Pacific," notes UBS's Paul Donovan. Fortune · Jul 28
Meet the 'AI Centurions'—6 formerly sleepy stocks that now have market caps over $100 billion How the AI boom has transformed six spectacular stocks. Fortune · Jul 28
This CEO was bedridden 16 hours a day. She turned her own misdiagnosis into a self-funded, multimillion-dollar thyroid clinic McCall McPherson established Modern Thyroid Clinic to help millions of women who go undertreated for thyroid conditions. Fortune · Jul 28
Forget your degree: Gen Z say reselling their old clothes on Depop taught them more about business—and 85% of hiring managers actually agree Exclusive: Hiring managers say running a resale account impresses them more than an internship or a retail job. Fortune · Jul 28
Kalshi tiptoes back into canceled flight markets with JFK airport wager The new contract will let institutional users bet whether 50% of flights will be cancelled at JFK airport over two days in October. Fortune · Jul 28
OpenAI's first hardware device debuted at $230. Now, it's on eBay for $1,850 Although it's not the mysterious device OpenAI is developing with Jony Ive, the Codex Micro sold out the day it went on sale in 12 hours. Fortune · Jul 27
Sam Altman thinks the singularity is already here, but an expert says OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach doesn’t prove it “It’s the first time in like more than a decade I’ve thought about what is the next thing,” the OpenAI CEO said. Fortune · Jul 27
LeBron James took a pay cut to maybe live in New York and commute to Philly by chopper, risking double taxation as NYC also tries to ban helicopters LeBron James might commute to Philadelphia via helicopter from New York, and if he does call the Big Apple home, he’ll face some big taxes too. Fortune · Jul 27
Fortune · Jul 27 A Nobel economist challenged Elon Musk to donate his entire $1T fortune by 2036. Musk's reply: 'I am actually going to do something along these lines' Musk has historically been apprehensive about philanthropy, so his Monday statement would be a major change for billionaire and trillionaire giving as we know it.
Fortune · Jul 27 Elon Musk's vision of a post-money future got mocked. Vinod Khosla warns it could become a dystopia instead Khosla added a qualifier to Musk's prediction, saying money won't matter in 2036 "only if the politics permits this great abundance."
Fortune · Jul 27 LeBron James joins California's billionaire exodus — but he may not escape the wealth tax As California billionaires flee to Florida or fund the fight against Prop 40, LeBron's decision adds a new wrinkle to the tax reckoning.
Fortune · Jul 27 About half of Gen Z owe their friends more than $1,000, while nearly another half goes into debt to cover group expenses they expect to be repaid New Zelle survey data show Gen Z can't collect on shared expenses, and a financial therapist says discomfort, not carelessness, may be why.
Fortune · Jul 27 What Magic: The Gathering's record year reveals about America's stalled adulthood economy A fantasy card game invented in the mid-1990s just had its best year ever. Blame the economy, not millennial nostalgia.
Fortune · Jul 27 A VC says he declined to join the Trump family’s crypto venture after cofounder Steve Witkoff couldn’t pronounce ‘memecoin’ Longtime venture capitalist Nic Carter said Steve Witkoff’s limited crypto knowledge dissuaded him from investing in World Liberty Financial.
Fortune · Jul 27 Users’ seemingly private conversations with Anthropic’s Claude showed up in Google search results The topics of the seemingly inadvertently exposed chats ranged from erotica to programming chats to work notes to fake book reviews.
Fortune · Jul 27 The war between competing AI models could end up more like Apple vs. Android than VHS vs. Betamax “While the contest between open and proprietary AI is often presented as a winner-takes-all format war, the most likely outcome is a combination of the two.”
Fortune · Jul 27 Why did a $154 billion CEO just endorse stripping most Americans of voting rights—and taking us back to the 19th century? Should how much you pay in taxes determine how much your vote counts? Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke seems to think so.
Fortune · Jul 27 Oprah Winfrey says 'life starts at 44'—and research proves she’s right: the average founder starts their business after 40 Billionaire Oprah Winfrey says she “locked in” in her forties—as most CEOs and founders are middle-aged.
Fortune · Jul 27 Capital One’s MLB partnership is turning fan experiences into long-term customer value The company is using All-Star activations and cardholder-only MLB perks to deepen customer experience.