Where Americans are moving by generation, according to U-Haul: Boomers pick the Carolinas, Gen Z picks Texas and California Gen Z is still moving to California even as boomers head south, new U-Haul data shows. Fortune · Oct 3
Tony Elumelu: Africa’s young entrepreneurs have great ideas. What they need is capital and business support According to the World Bank, 10 to 12 million young Africans enter the labor market each year, but only about 3 million formal jobs are created. Fortune · Oct 3
‘We need to trust our employees’: This billionaire CEO went from counting cars in the parking lot past 6pm to embracing hybrid work Jim Kavanaugh once believed employees needed to be in the office to get the job done. Now, he says leaders need to trust workers “like adults.” Fortune · Oct 3
How to be tough, not a jerk — and why most people get toughness wrong By moving past the false choice between being "nice" and being "ruthless," you can drive extraordinary performance while building a culture to be proud of. Fortune · Oct 3
McKinsey: AI will create more jobs than it kills — after destroying 11 million Only one in seven displaced workers has a direct path to a growing job, and most new work in healthcare and construction can't be done remotely. Fortune · Oct 3
We need a Department of AI, or we risk pushing the U.S. economy over the brink I helped steer Kazakhstan out of the 2008 financial crisis. An AI czar is not enough. America needs a Department of AI to protect trust and growth. Fortune · Oct 3
Mark Ruffalo says Paramount's $111 billion Warner Bros. deal ‘Will stifle creativity, weaken free speech, and cost people their jobs’ A federal judge cleared the final legal hurdle for the megamerger on Wednesday. The deal is expected to close Oct. 6. Fortune · Oct 2
'We can't trust them completely': AI research fellows warn that labs are running models with the safeguards off behind closed doors Alan Chan and Sam Manning, co-authors with OpenAI's and Anthropic's top researchers, say that many times, "internal safeguards have not been deployed." Fortune · Oct 2
Meet the 32-year-old founder who raised $3.5 million to help Gen Z feel not so alone in the world A new app is taking the loneliness problem head-on. Fortune · Oct 2
ServiceNow unpacks the Fortune AIQ list, where the widest gap between AI leaders and laggards is training for humans “Pacesetters” are far likelier to hire and train people. “It’s not just technology,” says ServiceNow’s Diana David, a “forward-deployed futurist.” Fortune · Oct 2
Creative class guru Richard Florida confronts 189k job wipeout: ‘AI is both an enhancing technology and eliminating technology’ New York has lost one-quarter of its film jobs. The urbanist who named the creative class says AI will make cities matter more, not less. Fortune · Oct 2
'Sometimes it's more expensive than having humans': Ecolab gets real about AI's limits in the physical world Honeywell CTO Suresh Venkatarayalu said customers “really demand 99.9999%” accuracy, while frontier models “could be at 85%.” Fortune · Oct 2
Top futurist Amy Webb sees Fortune 500 firms suffering from ‘learned helplessness’ with AI, like taxi drivers who need Google Maps “Let’s be fair, Fortune 500 companies are pretty late to the party on this,” said Webb, founder and CEO of the Future Today Strategy Group. Fortune · Oct 2
Top ServiceNow exec on clients delivering ‘life-changing’ results with AI agents—and he’s seeing it now at Standard Chartered Paul Fipps, ServiceNow president of global customer operations, told the Fortune AIQ Summit some clients “can’t rely on humans” to keep AI agents in check. Fortune · Oct 2
Fortune · Oct 2 France debt crisis: Bond investors have rendered a ‘guilty’ verdict and are pricing in growing odds of a sovereign default, analyst says The cost of insurance against a French default is now the highest among the major EU countries and the U.K.
Fortune · Oct 2 A Clippy marketing moment with Muse: ‘Meta has given AI a cute face’ As AI companies ask users to hand over their inboxes and credit cards, they’re betting a friendly mascot can close the trust gap.
Fortune · Oct 2 Ben Affleck says predictions that AI will wipe out jobs—or kill us all—are just propaganda: 'In fact, more people technically are being employed' Fears that AI could wipe out humanity are overblown, says Hollywood star Ben Affleck, who sold his AI startup to Netflix for $587 million earlier this year.
Fortune · Oct 2 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.”