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. Fortune · Sep 18
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 Fortune · Sep 17
OpenAI hires Brian McCarthy from SpaceX as its VP of worldwide sales McCarthy is the first major hire by Dali Rajic, OpenAI's new CRO who joined less than a month ago. Fortune · Sep 17
As AI CEOs clash over regulation, a new culture war is brewing Tech leaders are split over who should regulate advanced AI, while the Trump administration and its allies are stoking a culture war. Fortune · Sep 17
Goldman's top strategist just added hard numbers to his earnings-bubble warning Peter Oppenheimer first flagged the risk that AI stocks were riding an unsustainable earnings boom this summer. He's done more math. Fortune · Sep 17
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. Fortune · Sep 17
A critical pipeline that helped cushion the Hormuz shock just shut: Here’s what it reveals about corporate energy security The Strait of Hormuz crisis offers a business playbook for managing energy disruptions and supply-chain risk. Fortune · Sep 17
The people building the most powerful AI are telling us to slow down. Congress should listen before it's too late Under current law, incident reporting is totally mandatory. Let that sink in. Fortune · Sep 17
Crypto.com founder: Crypto's battles will continue, but the war is over I spent years championing the Clarity Act framework, it is natural to view Tuesday's result as a significant setback, but the war has already been fought. Fortune · Sep 17
Fortune · Sep 17 Former White House economist: science has delivered a cancer detection revolution, now the FDA must keep pace Nobody should defend the status quo. Routine screening exists for only a handful of cancers.
Fortune · Sep 17 Trump just explained why an AI agency cannot work. He is right AI companies already have internal safety systems. What they need is independent standard-setting and auditing—not a White House-controlled regulator.
Fortune · Sep 17 Americans' data center fears are coming true—a New Jersey location just leaked 5,500 gallons of diesel The oil and gas sector isn't the (only) face of oil spills anymore.
Fortune · Sep 17 Nike bets on a millennial Arnault heir after bleeding $200 billion and being ousted from the S&P100 Alexandre Arnault joins the board after helping revive heritage brands Rimowa and Tiffany as Nike fights to restore growth and cultural relevance
Fortune · Sep 17 In transparency push, OpenAI discloses six more incidents of agents going rogue—including one removing the 'obligation to be subservient' They are the first reports OpenAI is putting out under a new disclosure framework.
Fortune · Sep 17 Kevin Warsh, an angry Trump and Jerome Powell Déjà vu: how history is repeating itself The S&P 500 fell 1% and the Dow lost 1.7% as the Fed chair said rates weren't restrictive before Wednesday's hike.
Fortune · Sep 17 Congress is so dysfunctional and irresponsible it’s only done its job four times since World War II The federal government had a record $432 billion deficit in July and hit the $40 trillion total debt threshold in August — and Congress took a break.
Fortune · Sep 17 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.
Fortune · Sep 17 Current price of oil as of Sept. 17, 2026 When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.
Fortune · Sep 17 As Anthropic heads towards a $2 trillion IPO, some of the loudest critics are company insiders "I would burn my equity to the ground in a heartbeat for a 1% higher chance we make it out of this situation alive,” wrote one researcher.
Fortune · Sep 17 Zocdoc CEO: I’ve watched Walmart, IBM, and others try to ‘disrupt’ healthcare. Here’s why they failed. For too long, we have mistaken disruption for progress. Patients still struggle to find a doctor who takes their insurance.