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For one man, the war against Cracker Barrel never really ended

Sardar Biglari’s 14-year beef with Cracker Barrel has earned him $1 billion—yet the company continues to resist him

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Lily Mae Lazarus

Markets got what they wanted from Powell with a Fed rate cut and they’re still not happy

Jerome Powell delivered a 25bps rate cut, but Wall Street’s muted reaction reflects concern it was a risk move on jobs, not confidence.

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Eleanor Pringle

American Express’s CEO unveils a big upgrade to its $895 Platinum Card—and explains how he’s targeting Gen Z and Millennials

Together, those younger generations account for 35% of all U.S. consumer spending for Amex, up from 19% in 2019.

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Shawn Tully

How Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach is pushing employees to get over their fear of AI

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

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Diane Brady

Deliveroo CEO Will Shu turned 100-hour Wall Street weeks into a $4 billion food empire. Now he’s walking away with $250 million

From midnight cravings to millionaire: Deliveroo’s Will Shu is cashing out with $250 million after a $4 billion DoorDash deal.

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Preston Fore

Eric Adams moves to ban 150-year tradition of horse-drawn carriages in Central Park after spree of ponies running free, dying on the job

Critics dismissed the move as a "desperation act" by a mayor lagging behind his campaign rivals.

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Philip Marcelo

DBS CEO dinner auction in Singapore fetches $15,000 bid

The winning bid—more than double the pre-sale estimate—underscores how experiences are increasingly prized in Singapore’s luxury market.

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Rthvika Suvarna

Why AI prompt writing is the next core skill for finance

Salesforce and Accenture executives discuss what today’s finance and accounting resumes need to stand out.

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Sheryl Estrada

Frontier Airlines boss fires back at United CEO’s claim that low-cost flying is near extinction: ‘That’s cute’

Barry Biffle said if Scott Kirby were “good at math, he would understand that we have an oversupply issue in the United States.”

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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Why IVP’s Somesh Dash believes that Silicon Valley can look beyond artificial general intelligence for spirituality

Between Peter Thiel’s Antichrist lectures and the quest for AGI, religion is on the tech industry’s mind.

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Leo Schwartz

What many people get wrong about DeFi, according to the co-CEO of Kraken

Arjun Sethi also explained the company’s new xStocks offerings, which let users trade shares with more freedom than traditional brokerages.

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Jeff John Roberts

Big Tech’s standard for fighting AI fakes puts privacy on the line

C2PA content credentials promise a way to detect deepfakes and other AI-generated content. The risk: new privacy liabilities, identity exposure, and...

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Sharon Goldman

Intel shares surge 30% as Nvidia announces $5 billion investment in America’s one-time chips champion

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hailed the deal as a "historic collaboration," adding that "AI is powering a new industrial revolution."

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Nick Lichtenberg

Jensen & Co. caught in U.S.-China trade war crossfire—again

Jensen Huang has 4 trillion reasons to smile. But geopolitical instability is making it tougher by the day.

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Jason Del Rey

The 10 best countries to retire in right now—and America didn’t make the cut

As retiring in America becomes increasingly unaffordable, retirees are booking a one-way trip to Portugal instead.

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Jessica Coacci

Tariff whiplash is hurting small businesses — and it’s only getting worse

Trump's constant policy reversals cost Main Street an average $856,000 annually while Wall Street adapts effortlessly. Small business is left behind.

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Jacob Bennett

Amazon to invest over $1 billion in fulfillment and transportation workers to boost pay, cut health care costs

Amazon says it's investing in its U.S. fulfillment and transportation workers. Last December, seven Amazon facilities went on strike, an effort by...

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Anne Dinnocenzio

The average American homeowner lost $9,200 in home equity during the last year. It’s not a collapse but a ‘long-term market correction’

Borrower equity is the third-highest ever recorded, but Leo Pond from Four Seasons Sotheby’s told Fortune that a fast climb uphill has turned into...

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Sydney Lake

Tech investing is already a wild ride. Abandoning quarterly reports could make it even wilder

Less frequent reporting by public companies could mean better long-term decision-making, or more wild speculation—or both.

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Jessica Mathews

The economy is reliant on the ‘fortunes of the well-to-do’ says Moody’s—if the ultra-rich get nervy that means recession

Mark Zandi says of the rich: "If they turn more cautious, for whatever reason, the economy has a big problem."

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Eleanor Pringle

Just like Bill Gates, $514 trillion Samsung exec retreats to a remote cabin every year to escape the chaos

The $268 billion Samsung executive tells Fortune how she spends her time and money outside of work, including a piece of art inspired by Queen...

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Orianna Rosa Royle

A.I., a new ‘superhuman’ and the Fourth Industrial Revolution is just the latest revival of Friedrich Nietzsche’s ‘Superman’ concept

In 1883, the German philosopher famously pronounced “God is dead” because of humanity’s technological advances. We are still living in the...

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Rachel Shin

Jay-Z’s Times Square casino shot down by Broadway neighbors in ‘despicable display of cowardice,’ developer argues

The proposed Caesars Palace casino lost its bid for a gambling license Wednesday after running into fierce opposition.

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Philip Marcelo

‘I wrote that Eatbeat column so fast one day that I never expected it to be repeated’: Marilyn Hagerty, viral Olive Garden reviewer, dies at 99

In the 2012 review, the North Dakota newspaper stalwart famously wrote in praise of the chain's chicken Alfredo as “warm and comforting on a cold...

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Jack Dura

Pete Hegseth goes to war against military beards, stresses ‘grooming standards which underpin the warrior ethos’

The Defense Secretary has ordered that troops who need an exemption from shaving their facial hair for longer than a year should get kicked out of...

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Konstantin Toropin

‘It’s a circus over there’: Drama at the Fed has CEOs worrying about its reputation

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

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Diane Brady

Tim Cook says Apple’s $600 billion factory build out will create a ‘domino effect.’ But the tech giant still isn’t building iPhones in America

A manufacturer labor shortage and an “impossible-to-replicate” supply chain will keep the tech giant dependent on Asia factories, experts tell...

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Nino Paoli

Exclusive: Phia, founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, raises $8 million seed round, led by Kleiner Perkins

The AI shopping agent startup has a cap table also featuring Hailey Bieber and Kris Jenner.

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Allie Garfinkle

Robert Redford said he worked at Yosemite National Park before making it in Hollywood, inspired by his first visit when he had ‘a mild case of polio’

Redford grew up to be a Hollywood icon, but his love of nature proved to play a big role in his career and legacy.

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Dave Smith

Trump’s attacks on the Fed are hurting the dollar and driving up the price of gold

The dollar has put in such a feeble performance this year that it has begun to hurt foreign investors in U.S. assets.

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Jim Edwards

What the UK can learn from the U.S. about building a nation of investors

The United States faced a similar challenge in the 1970s. To quote Chuck Schwab himself, “investing is an act of optimism.” 

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Lisa Kidd Hunt

ChatGPT went from homework helper to confidant to ‘suicide coach,’ parents testify in Congress after teen’s death

Parents also testified about their teens being "groomed" by highly-sexualized chatbots.

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Matt Obrien

Don’t hold your breath waiting for a lower mortgage rate or auto loan after the Fed cut, analyst says: ‘Unlikely to make a noticeable difference’

For prospective homebuyers, the market has already priced in the rate cut, and steep auto loans aren't expected to decline anytime soon, experts say.

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The Associated Press

‘Bad data is AI’s kryptonite’: Experts suggest businesses fix their data first before investing too much in AI

Nearly two-thirds of practitioners indicated a lack of “high-quality data” for use with AI at their organizations.

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Alex Zank

Bridging humanity and technology: Brené Brown on leadership’s new challenge

Brown shares insights on leading organizations into the future.

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Sheryl Estrada

Jerry of Ben & Jerry’s quits, claiming Unilever has destroyed ‘independence’ of socially conscious merger agreement

"It's profoundly disappointing to come to the conclusion that that independence, the very basis of our sale to Unilever, is gone.”

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Michelle Chapman

Waymo says it will partner with Lyft for a robotaxi debut in Nashville next year

The robotaxi giant is keeping options open on who it wants to work with as it attempts to scale its service around the country.

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Jessica Mathews

Trump crackdown on ‘radical left’ after Charlie Kirk’s death targets Soros, Indivisible despite evidence of lone shooter

President Trump has made retribution against political enemies a cornerstone of his campaign.

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Chris Megerian

The labor market is cooling, so now would be the time for companies to invest in existing employees. But employers aren’t doing that, research shows

Despite a modest increase in hiring demand in the first half of this year, internal hiring and promotion rates have actually fallen.

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Paige Mcglauflin

Catholic Boy Scouts chair sees ‘a hunger out there now for finding a values-based organization’ as scandal recovery continues

The biggest blow came in 2020, when Mormons snubbed the Scouts and took 400,000 members.

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David Crary

Jerome Powell warns there’s ‘no risk-free path’ to avoid stagflation: ‘We have a situation where we have two-sided risk’

The Fed chair kept remarking on the current fix he's in, calling it "quite an unusual situation."

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Nick Lichtenberg

Architects are turning into ‘conductors’, using AI to mock up designs—and get clients on board faster

AI is letting design firms create sketches and renders more quickly, allowing architects to enrich their pitches with more imagery and video.

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Nicholas Gordon

Jerome Powell on signs of an AI bubble and an economy leaning too hard on the rich: ‘Unusually large amounts of economic activity’

“[Spending] may well be skewed toward higher-earning consumers,” Powell said. “There’s a lot of anecdotal evidence to suggest that.”

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Eva Roytburg

Openness to foreign talent could help non-U.S. tech hubs in Europe and Asia: ‘Wherever is more open still has a chance to win the next cycle’

“Silicon Valley will remain very pro-immigrant,” Notable Capital managing partner Hans Tung said at Fortune Brainstorm Tech last week.

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Nicholas Gordon

The Fed blinks: First rate cut since December comes as hiring falters and Trump rages

Stephen Miran, Trump’s pick to join the Fed, dissented against the group, voting in favor of the stronger half-point cut.

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Eva Roytburg

Caffeine may be just the workout booster you need. Here’s how to add it into your routine

“It’s a great performance enhancer,” one expert says. Here’s why it’s important to use the stimulant responsibly.

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Ani Freedman

CEO says his son is among Gen Zers questioning whether a college degree is worth it: ‘Is this education a scam?’

Employees working are working with AI more than ever, education could set them apart, experts say.

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Nino Paoli

Jimmy Kimmel suspended indefinitely by ABC after affiliates revolt over series of Charlie Kirk comments

Kimmel, among other things, said that “many in MAGA land are working very hard to capitalize on the murder of Charlie Kirk.”

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David Bauder

Wall Street turns crypto bet loved by hedge hunds into ETF bait

The basis trade comes for crypto and public markets.

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Vildana Hajric

‘This was a targeted attack on this building’: Car rams Pittsburgh FBI building, driver throws American flag over the gate

The suspect, identified as Donald Henson of nearby Penn Hills, was taken into custody after 10 a.m., more than seven hours after the incident,...

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Peter Smith