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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
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 2
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. Fortune · Oct 1
Citigroup raises one-year Bitcoin forecast to $113,000 A new report from the investment bank says renewed investor demand could lift crypto prices. Fortune · Oct 1
Fortune · Oct 1 Paramount promised 30 movies a year to win Warner Bros. Losing Miramax if it fails may not scare it A federal judge signed off on the deal Wednesday. The $30-million-per-film penalty matters far more than the Miramax ultimatum.
Fortune · Oct 1 Thieves stole an Nvidia-branded truck filled with just 20,000 pounds of sand—and it points to Big Tech’s $150 million AI hardware theft headache While the thieves left the sand-filled trailer unscathed, other freighters have faced real threats from organized criminals in search of high-value data center equipment.
Fortune · Oct 1 Billion-dollar tech company Starkey unveils its newest hearing aid—saying the most human AI innovation may be one you wear The Omega AI+ model builds on Starkey’s mission to make their hearing aids more of a lifestyle device.
Fortune · Oct 1 8 in 10 Gen Z and millennials have two jobs to make ends meet, Goldman Sachs finds, as the affordability crisis 'crowds out' any retirement hopes 69% of Gen Z respondents told Goldman Sachs they find it difficult to focus at work because they worry about debt or household costs, as did 67% of millennials.
Fortune · Oct 1 Paramount’s new co-CEO once hired a barista he met at a café with no résumé. His advice to Gen Z: ‘Look up and make eye contact’ Billionaire heir David Ellison tapped Mattel’s Ynon Kreiz as his No. 2 at Paramount after decades of betting on unconventional ideas, including Barbie and a barista.
Fortune · Oct 1 Exclusive: Nine-person Halluminate raises $30 million, counts four top U.S. AI labs as customers The nine-person company says it has reached a mid-eight-figure annualized revenue run rate selling finance-specific training environments to frontier AI labs.
Fortune · Oct 1 The rise of the 'two-job job': 61% of workers say they're now doing more than one role A Korn Ferry survey of more than 16,000 professionals finds workloads climbing and motivation falling as companies flatten management and lean on AI.
Fortune · Oct 1 Kylie Jenner, Selena Gomez and Hailey Bieber's brands dominate beauty's creator economy. Fame is only part of the reason Celebrity-founded companies claimed half of the top 10 spots in a new ranking of beauty brands by creator marketing performance. But a string of shutdowns shows star power alone doesn't build a lasting business.
Fortune · Oct 1 Christian Ulbrich says working from the office is ‘core’. Just make sure it is a beautiful place to be as well Office life isn’t just about executives worried about productivity. According to CEO of real-estate giant JLL, being around colleagues matters at every level.
Fortune · Oct 1 Current price of oil as of Oct. 1, 2026 When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.
Fortune · Oct 1 A Great Depression-era cost-cutting trick is back: 4-day school weeks have spread to 26 states as fuel prices surge Companies are asking workers to put in six days a week. Meanwhile, more than 2,100 schools have moved to four.