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Diane Brady

Meet the American techies who don’t care where ‘good enough’ AI models come from, even China

"The open frontier is becoming increasingly Chinese-built," said Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian, who uses Kimi K3 for many of his day-to-day activities.

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Chan Ho-Him

‘The UAE has been a fantastic investor’: Jeff Zucker hails UAE partnership after Banijay merger

In this week’s Fortune Gulf Brief.

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Melissa Hancock

This CEO was bedridden 16 hours a day. She turned her own misdiagnosis into a self-funded, multimillion-dollar thyroid clinic

McCall McPherson established Modern Thyroid Clinic to help millions of women who go under-treated for thyroid conditions.

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Sydney Lake

Gen Z say selling their secondhand stuff online is teaching them more about business than college—and 85% of hiring managers agree

Exclusive: Hiring managers say running a resale account impresses them more than an internship or a retail job.

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Orianna Rosa Royle

Meet the ‘AI Centurions’—6 formerly sleepy stocks that now have market caps over $100 billion

How the AI boom has transformed six spectacular stocks.

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Shawn Tully

Record heat gives way to winter gas fears in Europe, Asia as Iran war rages on

Natural gas prices are spiking and the cutthroat competition for cargoes is escalating.

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Jordan Blum

China’s exports are so huge they’re now lowering inflation in other countries

A discrepancy between China's export data and U.S. import data is "not because ships are sinking mid-Pacific," notes UBS's Paul Donovan.

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Eleanor Pringle

Sun Life launches global private wealth platform targeting Asia’s booming HNWI market

Insurers are expanding into wealth management, tapping a customer base that already uses their products to protect their finances.

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Angelica Ang

How Wistron’s early Nvidia bet made it an unsung winner of the AI boom—and one of the biggest risers on this year’s Global 500

Wistron illustrates how AI is reaching beyond trillion-dollar chipmakers and LLM developers to lift the firms making the hardware behind the...

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Nicholas Gordon

Can a global car company survive today’s complicated world? Nissan hopes to find out

"You have a China ecosystem, and you have the U.S. ecosystem," CEO Ivan Espinosa said. "If you want to be a global company, you need to live in both."

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Andrew Staples

No. 1 on the Fortune Global 500: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos on how his garage startup became the largest company in the world by revenue

As Amazon pours $200 billion into AI this year, Bezos says the company's next act will define the next decade.

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Kristin Stoller

Kalshi tiptoes back into canceled flight markets with JFK airport wager

The new contract, created at the behest of a conference, will let institutional users bet whether 50% of flights will be cancelled at JFK airport over...

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Jeff John Roberts

LeBron James took a pay cut to maybe live in New York and commute to Philly by chopper, risking double taxation as NYC also tries to ban helicopters

LeBron James might commute to Philadelphia via helicopter from New York, and if he does call the Big Apple home, he'll face some big taxes too.

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Catherina Gioino

A Nobel economist challenged Elon Musk to donate his entire $1T fortune by 2036. Musk’s reply: ‘I am actually going to do something along these lines’

Musk has historically been apprehensive about philanthropy, so his Monday statement would be a major change for billionaire and trillionaire giving as...

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Sydney Lake

Sam Altman thinks the singularity is already here, but an expert says OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach doesn’t prove it

“It’s the first time in like more than a decade I've thought about what is the next thing,” the OpenAI CEO said.

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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

OpenAI’s first hardware device debuted at $230. Now, it’s on eBay for $1,850

Although it's not the mysterious device OpenAI is developing with Jony Ive, the Codex Micro sold out the day it went on sale in 12 hours.

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Emily Forlini

Highbrow box-office king Christopher Nolan seals biggest second weekend ever with $87 million haul for ‘The Odyssey’

The 41 rare 70mm IMAX screens are booked solid through September. Top analyst Paul Dergarabedian sees a "marathon, not a sprint."

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Lindsey Bahr

A trove of users’ seemingly private conversations with Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot showed up in Google search results

The topics of the seemingly inadvertently exposed chats ranged from erotica, programming chats, work notes, and fake book reviews.

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Beatrice Nolan

The war between competing AI models could end up more like Apple vs. Android than VHS vs. Betamax

"While the contest between open and proprietary AI is often presented as a winner-takes-all format war, the most likely outcome is a combination of...

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Jason Ma

The new Air Force One controversy is really about a 90-year power struggle over presidential travel

From Roosevelt's wartime flying boat to Bush's scramble on 9/11, the aircraft has quietly reshaped how presidents wield power at home and abroad.

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Peter Kastor

The Strait of Hormuz isn’t fertilizer’s first starring role — and 1856 law still defines U.S. overseas territory

When governments began to treat guano as a strategic resource, Congress responded with the Guano Islands Act of 1856.

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Edward D. Melillo

Sit back and watch the birds—your health will thank you, data shows

A psychologist says scientific research have cited consistent evidence to show spending time in nature leads to health improvements.

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The Conversation

Rising temperatures are putting students at risk of heat-related illnesses, and schools are scrambling to adapt

Extreme heat has increased in frequency, intensity and duration, according to University researchers.

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The Conversation

Oprah Winfrey says ‘life starts at 44’—and research proves she’s right: the average founder starts their business after 40

Billionaire Oprah Winfrey says she “locked in” in her 40s—as most CEOs and founders are middle-aged.

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Emma Burleigh

Trip.com struck with $765 million penalty from China over monopoly allegations

China alleges Trip.com prohibited hotels from collaborating with competing platforms and entered exclusive partnerships.

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The Associated Press

Why did a $154 billion CEO just endorse stripping most Americans of voting rights—and taking us back to the 19th century?

Should how much you pay in taxes determine how much your vote counts? Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke seems to think so.

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Nick Lichtenberg

U.S. and Iran edge toward talks as Hormuz shipping hits three-week low, regional officials say

Qatar- and Pakistan-led mediators are pushing the U.S. and Iran to return to an interim ceasefire deal that had collapsed after the exchanges of fire

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The Associated Press

Canadian intern at NATO’s military headquarters arrested on espionage charges

Belgian authorities arrested a Canadian woman of Chinese origin accused of spying for a third country inside NATO headquarters as an intern.

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Sam McNeil

Fuel prices stemming from a war in Iran is reshaping daily life for people in the U.S. and Chile to Turkey and Nepal

A Santiago cabdriver, an Istanbul carpet seller and a Lagos printer are among those absorbing fuel costs that have doubled since the war began.

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The Associated Press

Netanyahu accuses Mamdani of ‘fomenting hate,’ saying ‘he’s supposed to the mayor of all New Yorkers’ — waving off ICC war crimes charges

"He’s trying to turn one group against the other," said the Israeli president who has fought at least two wars in three years.

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Lisa Mascaro

In the Age of Big Players, $100,000 buys you a head start on Trump’s mood

It can even buy you something in Xi’s China and Modi’s India, too. The political economy debate about capitalism vs. socialism isn't wrong, it's...

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Steve H. Hanke

Europe has an electrification target. Here’s how it can become a competitive advantage

The European Commission’s ambitious electrification target isn’t just about improving energy security, says Andreas Schierenbeck. It offers Europe...

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Andreas Schierenbeck

Hybrid work has a $9 million problem. The fix depends on who you ask

Scrambling for conference rooms and juggling Zoom calls isn't free. A new study breaks down the real cost—and two CEOs on opposite sides of the RTO...

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Kristin Stoller

‘It looked like the apocalypse’: France’s summer of deadly heat turns into a wildfire that is making its own lightning

Near Bordeaux, a wildfire grew so intense it spawned self-feeding firestorms, forcing 220,000 people from their homes.

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Mark Carlson

Canada’s awkward tariff summer: Gordie Howe Bridge opens for traffic a week after Michigan and White House officials got uninvited

Trump slapped 50% tariffs on Canadian goods, then posted "We changed the terms" as Windsor celebrated the new Gordie Howe crossing without him.

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The Associated Press

A Chinese chip maker’s shares surged 466% in their first day of trading as AI boom worm turns

CXMT shares rocketed on their debut, becoming mainland China's most valuable listed company — as Washington debates banning it outright

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Chan Ho-Him

Capital One’s MLB partnership is turning fan experiences into long-term customer value

The company is using All-Star activations and cardholder-only MLB perks to deepen customer experience.

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Sheryl Estrada

‘Kryptonite to November voters’: Trump’s Michigan visit puts the GOP’s dilemma on display

Trump is visiting a GM facility in Milford, with early voting underway for Michigan's Aug. 4 primary.

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Will Weissert

Europe’s employers face a new challenge—keeping workers safe during heatwaves

As temperatures hit record peaks across the continent, European companies are shifting working hours and issuing cooling kits to keep workers safe and...

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Oliver Balch

Trump can’t stop shooting himself in the foot, as the stage looks set once again for Warsh to hold—if not hike—interest rates

"After months of upside inflation surprises, patience is wearing thin," writes EY-Parthenon's Gregory Daco.

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Eleanor Pringle

Apple’s next CEO helped build its hardware empire. Now he has to find its next breakthrough

Apple’s incoming CEO John Ternus inherits an operational powerhouse with the challenge of reigniting the breakthrough product innovation that once...

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Ruth Umoh

The midterms may come down to just 20 House races, including ‘the swingiest swing state’: Pennsylvania

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday unveiled the party's Fighting for an Affordable America agenda, kicking off 100 days until...

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Mike Catalini

Current price of oil as of July 27, 2026

When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.

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Joseph Hostetler

How an ex-AWS scientist plans to take on OpenAI and Meta in voice AI models

Boson AI founder Alex Smola believes voice models are ready to take AI, and human-machine interaction, to the next level.

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Sebastian Herrera

StubHub CEO Eric Baker is under scrutiny for enabling mass scalpers on his ticket reselling platform

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Diane Brady

Stocks rise globally on hopes of peace talks with Iran—but the Fed may deliver a shock on Wednesday

Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.

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Jim Edwards

One-third of Seattle’s downtown is empty: Here’s how America’s boomtown turned into one of the toughest places to find a job

What exactly has happened to work in the Emerald City?

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Nick Lichtenberg

China is using the steel playbook on AI — and America’s tech billionaires are standing in the blast zone

Scott Galloway thinks it's "modern-day steel dumping." Here's a look at what he means.

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Nick Lichtenberg

Money usually wins elections. Billionaires have already poured $433 million into the 2026 midterms—and 80% of it is going to Republicans

The bigger spender wins up to 90% of the time. But strategists on both sides say money follows winners more than it makes them.

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Sydney Lake