Kevin Warsh just revealed a huge change for the Fed. The press missed it Warsh is shaping up to run the Fed in a totally different way than it has been for decades. Fortune · Sep 18
Mastercard and Visa want AI bots at checkout. Shoppers still want the final click Cardholders can set spending limits, but just 7% of surveyed fashion shoppers would let AI make purchases without approval. Fortune · Sep 18
Snap is betting $3.5 billion on AR glasses that businesses can use as CEO Evan Spiegel sees a post-smartphone era Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the era of the smartphone is coming to an end—with smart glasses being the future. Fortune · Sep 18
Sydney Sweeney doesn’t just star in controversial ads. She helps engineer them. The actress became an equity partner and creative director at sports prediction market Novig before the viral advertising campaign’s launch. Fortune · Sep 18
Fortune 500 Power Moves: Which executives gained and lost power this week, Sept. 12-18, 2026 See which Fortune 500 companies are making changes to their C-suite ranks. Fortune · Sep 18
Meet Warren Buffett's son Howard, a former sheriff, war photographer, and now, Berkshire's new chairman He received top honors from Mexico, Colombia and Rwanda; he runs a family farm and held elected office. Fortune · Sep 18
A Home Depot exec’s resume is going viral on X. She started out as a cashier and has worked her way up to a $1 million salary Ann-Marie Campbell joined Home Depot in 1985 to pay for college and help her immigrant family. 40 years later, she’s a top exec earning $1 million. Fortune · Sep 18
Amazon is investing $230 million in higher pay, benefits, and college perks for more than 100,000 Whole Foods workers—bumping up hourly pay to $21 U.S. Whole Foods workers will now get healthcare plans starting at $5 a week, college perks, and free Amazon Prime. Fortune · Sep 18
Warren Buffett abruptly steps down as Berkshire chair as 'Father Time' wins, handing role to son Howard who will 'guard its culture and values' "Serving as your Chairman has been the privilege of a lifetime, and I have never taken your trust for granted. Father Time always wins. He has, however, been generous with me." Fortune · Sep 18
Onchain finance is coming to Wall Street—and ignoring it is no longer an option Two veteran financial attorneys say once-exotic blockchain are already being integrated into traditional finance. Fortune · Sep 18
Current price of oil as of Sept. 18, 2026 When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why. Fortune · Sep 18
Should you fear private market assets in your 401(k)? Georgetown Retirement Research says no The Labor Department’s proposed safe harbor would give 401(k) fiduciaries clearer legal footing to evaluate private-market investments. Fortune · Sep 18
AT&T CFO Pascal Desroches reflects on a nearly 40-year finance career before retiring Desroches shares the lessons behind AT&T's $150 billion network bet, a hard dividend call, and why he says he never hesitated. Fortune · Sep 18
The secret truth is corporate America is moving too slow on AI. Some of it is caution and some is terrible recruitment The case for slowing AI down got turbocharged last week when Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon publicly resigned, but adoption is already way too slow. Fortune · Sep 18
Fortune · Sep 18 Chair of the Taiwan Stock Exchange on the index’s near future This year, Taiwan became the world’s fifth largest stock market by total value in May.
Fortune · Sep 18 Three guys using Anthropic’s Claude hacked into OpenAI and accessed its source code for $6,500 reward Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.
Fortune · Sep 18 Bots now outnumber human traffic on the web. Cloudflare's CEO wants AI companies to pay for it Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.
Fortune · Sep 18 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.
Fortune · Sep 18 S&P kept Oracle investment grade. Its own numbers don't support that call. I am not opposed to credit rating agencies giving companies time to prove their business models. However, the numbers must also make sense.
Fortune · Sep 18 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.
Fortune · Sep 18 Gen Z doesn't trust AI with their job, but trusts it with their stocks and sports bets 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.
Fortune · Sep 18 Data centers are swapping water for forever chemicals to keep AI cool A new ChemSec report finds most of the world's largest PFAS producers are expanding output to meet demand from AI data centers.
Fortune · Sep 18 Ed Sheeran asked Patriots owner Robert Kraft for $2 million aid donation after Macklemore was dropped from his tour for pro-Palestine comments Kraft said his objection was to Macklemore’s rhetoric, not Palestinian aid, as Sheeran’s tour reels from a wave of artist exits.
Fortune · Sep 18 Insilico Medicine's Alex Zhavoronkov bets China and AI can deliver the drug industry’s next breakthrough AI drug discovery firm Insilico Medicine is profitable, publicly listed in Hong Kong, and running the drug industry's most consequential experiment.
Fortune · Sep 18 Waymo to launch robotaxis in Singapore, its first Southeast Asia market, by 2028 Singapore is already one of the world’s most crowded AV markets.