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
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
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
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
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
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
World’s smallest country plans a $117 million solar plant nearly 10 times Vatican City The Vatican plans a substantial €100 million agrivoltaic energy project outside Rome. This facility will supply electricity needs and advance carbon neutrality goals. The project is being developed on a large Vatican-owned estate near Santa Maria di Galeria. Construction is expected to take between 18 and 24 months to complete.… The Times of India · 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
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
Europe’s CEOs are ready to turn its energy challenge into a competitive edge Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Fortune · Sep 17
GM CEO Mary Barra says America has a ‘societal problem’ with skilled trades—and is putting $200 million behind training Gen Z to work with their hands General Motors invested $200 million in skilled trades last year. Its CEO Mary Barra says they could offer Gen Z a more “AI-proof” path to six-figure pay. Fortune · Sep 17
Fortune · Sep 16 Exclusive: Inside the room where Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence shared an emotional embrace in front of America's leadership class It was "shocking, historic and emotional to all," Yale Management professor Jeff Sonnenfeld told Fortune.
Fortune · Sep 16 Salesforce's Marc Benioff to AI industry: Regulate yourselves or get sued The outspoken CEO is hosting the company's annual Dreamforce conference this week in San Francisco.
Fortune · Sep 16 Man sentenced in $35 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded Travis Kelce: I 'did this out of greed' He also asked to be married to his fiance while in prison.
Fortune · Sep 16 The MLB and its Dominican pipeline is selling false promises and shady contracts to children as young as 11 Is your team giving kids behind-the-curtain deals before the MLB allows it?
Fortune · Sep 16 America's bedrot era: how the dopamine recession created the 'couch economy' New spending data shows how much of the economy now depends on people staying home, and a chase for quick, easy hits of stimulation may be driving it.
Fortune · Sep 16 Goldman says the economy is rewarding capital ownership over labor — and most Americans don't own enough of it to benefit The labor share of income has fallen to a record low, the lowest in 80 years. What is going on here, exactly?
Fortune · Sep 16 Sam Altman says he likes to relax by watching 5-10 minutes of short-form, TikTok-style videos—but admits the dopamine rush is ‘dangerous’ for kids OpenAI’s billionaire CEO Sam Altman enjoys scrolling TikTok before bed—and he’s not the only CEO who does. But he wouldn’t let his son use the app.
Fortune · Sep 16 Exclusive: Tare raises $13 million from Blockchain Capital to manage private credit transactions on the blockchain The startup uses blockchain software to streamline credit operations and boost returns for borrowers and lenders.
Fortune · Sep 16 Finance is the most dominant sector by revenue, new Fortune 500 Europe list shows The finance sector also accounts for 40% of profit and 14% of the workforce across the Fortune 500 Europe.
Barchart · Sep 16 Washington’s AI Safety Push Meets Anthropic CEO Amodei’s Call to Slow AI Development. What That Means for Nvidia and Chip Stocks. Washington’s push for AI safety rules and calls from industry leaders to slow frontier AI development could weigh on chip stocks in the near term, but the ultimate impact hinges on whether those efforts actually curb AI infrastructure spending.
Fortune · Sep 16 Arcee AI trained four models for $20 million. Now, it's worth $1 billion. Arcee AI isn’t chasing OpenAI, it’s chasing China.