Bessent said 'I am the house.' The bond market disagreed Treasury yields are at their highest since 2002. Congress can restore credibility by passing a Fiscal Commission Act with real authority. Fortune · Oct 2
Trump says Biden overcharged Obamacare customers. Now almost 1 million of them are getting $500 checks—here's who qualifies The Treasury Department has started mailing one-time $500 payments to HealthCare.gov customers in 30 states who paid full price for 2026 coverage. Fortune · Oct 2
Booking Holdings CFO says even AI hyperscalers don’t know their ROI—but he’s learning from his ‘AI coach’ At the Fortune AIQ Summit, Ewout Steenbergen said AI is cutting costs, but LLMs still only send the company less than 1% of room nights. Fortune · Oct 2
Jeff Bezos just opened a free preschool inside an Arizona retirement community—and families earning up to $132,000 can apply The Glendale, Ariz., campus is the latest in Bezos Academy’s network of more than 40 Montessori-inspired schools aimed at families squeezed by the cost of childcare. Fortune · Oct 2
Americans rebel against Trump’s red-baiting, sending socialism to a record high in opinion polling More than four in 10 Americans quite like the sound of it, shrugging off Trump’s warnings about “communism, socialism, and Marxism.” Fortune · Oct 2
Current price of oil as of Oct. 2, 2026 When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why. Fortune · Oct 2
Bank of America and S&P Global on why AI success starts with governance and data At Fortune’s AIQ Summit, leaders explained why AI must begin with a clear business need and be built on reliable, traceable data. Fortune · Oct 2
Trump just soft-launched higher inflation as the new solution for rebalancing $40 trillion national debt “You know, inflation, certain levels of inflation, will also pay off that debt very rapidly. Very rapidly.” Fortune · Oct 2
Capitalism may be reinventing socialism — and probably not how you think The economics of private property could be changing massively from the dual forces of AI and quantum computing. Fortune · Oct 2
GM’s Mary Barra says 'I’m done making predictions'—but sees fully autonomous driving in 2028 Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning. Fortune · Oct 2
I’m a humanitarian leader who’s all in on AI. Here’s why Humanitarian groups should use AI—but only with evidence, oversight and strict safeguards. Fortune · Oct 2
When pre-IPO shares are too good to be true With AI companies moving towards record-setting IPOs, with trillion-dollar valuations, the demand for pre-IPO shares is greater than ever—as is the opportunity for deceit. Fortune · Oct 2
Ford CEO Jim Farley says the line between engineers and tradespeople is now 'completely blurred out' Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Fortune · Oct 2
The Fed has one interest rate. America has two economies Americans are using BNPL for rent and groceries as Fed policy confronts two economies. Fortune · Oct 2
Fortune · Oct 2 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.
Fortune · Oct 2 Billionaire George Soros has donated $102 million ahead of the midterms—and now the Democrats are coming out ahead Decades after Soros emerged as a major Democratic donor, his political network enters midterm season with tens of millions still available.
Fortune · Oct 2 'You need to clean up the mess your generation has left': Volkswagen’s guilty boomer gets real about sustainability, China—and his spam folder Volkswagen’s sustainability chief told Fortune that Europe’s industrial champions cannot protect their way out of China’s electric-vehicle challenge.
Fortune · Oct 2 GM's Mary Barra says the EV transition is still the destination—even if the road is longer She's also setting her sights on a future in which drivers can look away from the road.
Fortune · Oct 2 'Europe needs to shed its naivety': Vestas CEO Henrik Andersen on Chinese competition and the energy issue that keeps him up at night The Danish company has pivoted through multiple crises to become the world’s biggest turbine manufacturer. Now, as new competitors emerge and costs rise, its CEO is changing strategy to stay ahead.
Fortune · Oct 2 Zhou Yuxiang hired food delivery riders to sell AI to factories. Now he’s chasing China’s industrial AI breakthrough China has millions of small factories—and almost no data on them. Zhou Yuxiang thinks AI can fix both.
Fortune · Oct 2 ‘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.
Fortune · Oct 2 Larry Fink on the lost ‘bedrock of America’ and ‘a big divide’ between wages and investment wealth The BlackRock CEO’s father “essentially had one job in his career,” he said at Ford Accelerate. “I think we lost that.”
Fortune · Oct 1 AI in regulated industries: BofA and S&P on the huge gains to be had, and the risks of rushing in At the Fortune AIQ Summit, BofA’s Hari Gopalkrishnan said companies reach for AI too soon. S&P Global’s Sally Moore said the real question is reinvention.
Fortune · Oct 1 Fortune 500 chief people officers say AI has killed org charts, and employees who will thrive need to ‘unlearn’ At the inaugural Fortune AIQ Summit, executives from Palo Alto Networks, HPE, and Lennar discussed how AI is reshaping firms—and the workers within them.
Fortune · Oct 1 AI's biggest players promise to police themselves at the White House Six of AI's most powerful companies signed a voluntary safety accord at the White House this week.