favorites

2026 will be the year CEOs must prove AI is powering growth—not just cost cutting and layoffs

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

yesterday 10

Diane Brady

Amazon’s new Alexa aims to detangle household chaos, like who fed the dog and the name of that restaurant everyone wanted to try

This is a “classic fight in my house,” said Panos Panay, SVP of devices and services at Amazon.

yesterday 10

Amanda Gerut

A divided Fed meets today and Wall Street is listening for 4 key words from Powell: ‘In a good place’

If he does not use that phrase, he may be open to further interest rate cuts.

yesterday 10

Jim Edwards

President of $200 billion Shopify says some of the greatest workers he knows only clock in 40-hour weeks: ‘You don’t have to work 80 hours’

AI is reshaping work and productivity, but you don’t have to work crazy overtime to succeed, Shopify’s Harley Finkelstein says.

yesterday 10

Preston Fore

Borrowing by AI companies represents a ‘mounting potential threat to the financial system,’ top economist says

“Borrowing by AI companies should be on the radar screen as a mounting potential threat to the financial system and broader economy."

yesterday 20

Nino Paoli

In race to end China’s chokehold on critical minerals the U.S. needs all the friends it can get

From Australia to Kazakhstan and Greenland, the U.S. requires critical minerals mining and processing partnerships around the world to achieve its...

yesterday 10

Jordan Blum

Australia will start banning kids from social media this week—and Malaysia is getting ready to do the same

Other countries are considering less drastic ways to control teenagers' social media use. On Nov. 30, Singapore said it would ban the use of...

yesterday 10

Angelica Ang

When David Ellison was 13, his billionaire father Larry bought him a plane. He competed in airshows before leaving it to become a Hollywood executive

Ellison, 42, revived "Top Gun"—and now he’s taking the fight to Netflix.

yesterday 8

Dave Smith

Key questions to stay grounded in the AI frenzy

With startup valuations soaring, VCs at Fortune's Brainstorm AI shared their thoughts on how to navigate these bubbly times.

yesterday 8

Alexei Oreskovic

Berkshire appoints new CFO as analysts warn of more executive departures

Warren Buffett's CEO tenure is soon ending, and Marc Hamburg’s retirement as CFO after 40 years is among several leadership changes.

yesterday 2

Sheryl Estrada

Malaysia’s Johor launches 7,300-acre innovation sandbox, part of new special economic zone with neighboring Singapore

IBTEC, formally launched on Dec. 2, will make “production smarter, supply chains more resilient and operations more efficient,” said developer...

yesterday 2

Angelica Ang

The cult of productivity is killing us

This is a call for quiet thriving.

yesterday 2

Jon Rosemberg

I’m a leader in private equity and see a simple fix for America’s job-quality crisis: actually give workers a piece of the business

My dad spent 40 years operating heavy machinery. He was proud of his work but he didn’t feel respected. Today, I see those same tensions are still...

yesterday 2

Pete Stavros

HBR: only 6% of companies fully trust AI agents to handle core business processes

AI agents are at the "edge," not the core of business, and without good change management, corporates risk a "garbage in, garbage out" scenario.

yesterday 1

Nick Lichtenberg

AI isn’t the reason you got laid off (or not hired), top staffing agency says. You don’t have the right skills

The typical company expects to hire eight workers in the first quarter of 2026, ManpowerGroup's new survey finds.

yesterday 1

Nick Lichtenberg

Paramount’s streaming size would ease U.S. antitrust review

At the Kennedy Center Honors Sunday night, Paramount CEO David Ellison chatted with President Donald Trump, people familiar with the events said.

yesterday 1

Christopher Palmeri

AI doctors will be good at science but bad at business, and big talk with little action means even higher drugs prices: 10 healthcare predictions for 2026 from top investors

We hope 2026 is calmer after tariffs, public health chaos, and the cancellation of billions of research funding and health coverage support for...

yesterday 1

Bob Kocher

Kushner, Ellison and Apollo back hostile Warner Bros. bid

The hostile takeover bid brought together an array of banks, billionaires and sovereign-wealth funds, all with the aim of torpedoing Netflix's deal.

yesterday 2

Aaron Weinman

Trump’s $12 billion farmer bailout is a ‘Band-Aid on a bigger wound’ the American agriculture industry is still reeling from

"At the end of the day, the farmers, they just want to conduct business, not necessarily have to get these packages," one agricultural economist said.

yesterday 0

Sasha Rogelberg

You’re probably $30,000 short of what you need to buy a house—and you’re not alone

More than 75% of U.S. homes on the market are unaffordable for the typical household, according to a Bankrate analysis.

yesterday 0

Sydney Lake

Even the man behind ChatGPT, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is worried about the ‘rate of change that’s happening in the world right now’ thanks to AI

Sam Altman admits the rise of ChatGPT may be moving too quickly for comfort as AI shakes up jobs, education, and the global economy.

yesterday 0

Preston Fore

‘But is that real work? It’s not’ Business leaders still don’t trust AI agents, Harvard survey shows

More than two in five (43%) of respondents said they only trust agents with routine operational tasks.

yesterday 0

Patrick Kulp

CoreWeave CEO: Despite see-sawing stock, IPO was ‘incredibly successful’ after challenges of Liberation Day tariff timing

At Fortune Brainstorm AI in San Francisco, CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator defended the company’s debt-heavy strategy and argued Wall Street is...

yesterday 0

Sharon Goldman

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi says his company will be worth $1 trillion by doing these three things

Databricks CEO says AI-powered coding, enterprise agents, and rapid app development could propel it into the trillion-dollar club.

yesterday 0

Beatrice Nolan

New contract shows Palantir is working on a tech platform for another federal agency that works with ICE

The contract language suggests the new relationship aims to root out fraud including ‘wedding based schemes’ in immigration services applications.

yesterday 1

Jessica Mathews

‘Fodder for a recession’: Top economist Mark Zandi warns about so many Americans ‘already living on the financial edge’ in a K-shaped economy

The latest JOLTS report shows hiring stuck at 3.2% and quits falling again as the Fed prepares to cut rates.

yesterday 0

Eva Roytburg

Exelon CEO: The ‘warning lights are on’ for U.S. electric grid resilience and utility prices amid AI demand surge

The U.S. needs more generation, including renewables, and greater efficiencies to keep the grid from breaking down, Exelon CEO and president Calvin...

yesterday 0

Jordan Blum

Physical AI robots will automate ‘large sections’ of factory work in the next decade, Arm CEO says

Reprogrammable humanoid robots could level the global manufacturing playing field, Arm CEO Rene Haas said at Fortune Brainstorm AI.

yesterday 0

Beatrice Nolan

Google says its first Gemini-powered smart glasses are coming next year. Here’s what they can do

Google aims to not repeat the same mistakes it made with Google Glass over a decade ago.

yesterday 0

Dave Smith

Tesla promotes Optimus as its next big breakthrough, but one robot’s collapse has sparked doubts about their current level of autonomy

Tesla used employees to control Optimus robots at its robotaxi event last year.

yesterday 0

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Fortune Brainstorm AI San Francisco starts today, with Databricks, OpenAI, Cursor, and more on deck

Today, Fortune Brainstorm AI starts, and so many key players in AI will be with us live in San Francisco.

yesterday 0

Allie Garfinkle

Jamie Dimon taps Jeff Bezos, Michael Dell and Ford CEO Jim Farley to advise JPMorgan’s $1.5 trillion national-security initiative

Former military commanders, politicians, and one of Warren Buffet’s top stock pickers also comprise the advisory group.

yesterday 0

Nino Paoli

With millions of Gen Zers unemployed globally, the UK is tackling the crisis with a $965 million package that will get young people working in AI, hospitality, and engineering

Over the next three years, the U.K. government will spend nearly $1 billion getting Gen Z NEETs back into the workforce—meanwhile, young Americans...

yesterday 0

Emma Burleigh

The problem with ‘human in the loop’ AI? Often, it’s the humans

New studies show AI tools beating human professionals in law and advertising—challenging the assumption that human-AI collaboration always produces...

yesterday 0

Jeremy Kahn

‘Customers don’t care about AI’ — they just want to boost cash flow and make ends meet, Intuit CEO says

"A business is trying to get more customers. They're trying to manage their customers, sell them more services."

yesterday 0

Jason Ma

OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap says ‘code red’ will force the company to focus, as the ChatGPT maker ramps up enterprise push

At Fortune Brainstorm AI, Brad Lightcap said the company is prioritizing ChatGPT improvements and enterprise adoption.

yesterday 0

Beatrice Nolan

Jared Kushner suddenly emerges in the Warner brawl between Paramount and Netflix, backed by Saudi billions and fresh off brokering another megadeal

Trump’s son-in-law is emerging as a central conduit for Gulf money moving into American media, and they’re backing the Ellisons and Paramount.

previous day 60

Eva Roytburg

Parents are sacrificing retirement, taking second jobs, and liquidating investments just to afford college for their kids

More than 60% of parents say they’re delaying retirement to pay for college.

previous day 3

Sydney Lake

Baby boomers have now ‘gobbled up’ nearly one-third of America’s wealth share, and they’re leaving Gen Z and millennials behind

American septuagenarians hold more than $85 trillion in assets—by far the most of any generation.

previous day 2

Sasha Rogelberg

Craigslist founder signs the Giving Pledge, and his fortune will go to military families, fighting cyberattacks—and a pigeon rescue

“A nerd’s gotta do what a nerd’s gotta do, and a nerd should practice what he preaches,” Craig Newmark said.

previous day 3

Sydney Lake

Google Cloud CEO lays out 3-part strategy to meet AI’s energy demands after identifying it as the ‘most problematic thing’

Speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm AI conference, Google Cloud boss Thomas Kurian discussed how the company thinks about energy and data centers.

previous day 1

Jason Ma

Exclusive: Glean hits $200 million ARR, up from $100 million nine months back

Glean, an enterprise AI unicorn, has hit $200 million in annual recurring revenue, CEO Arvind Jain said at Fortune's Brainstorm AI conference.

previous day 6

Allie Garfinkle

‘Accounting is absolutely a profession, full stop’: AICPA president pushes back after Education Department reclassifies accounting degrees

The education department’s decision isn’t merely semantic: If it’s finalized, it will affect how much federal aid students are able to receive.

previous day 4

Courtney Vien

Cursor developed an internal AI Help Desk that handles 80% of its employees’ support tickets says the $29 billion startup’s CEO

The AI coding-assistant start-up isn't just using artificial intelligence to help developers write code, it's deploying AI across its own internal...

previous day 3

Beatrice Nolan

Netflix CEO brushes aside Paramount’s ‘entirely expected’ hostile bid, ‘super confident’ of closing deal with Warner Bros. Discovery

The Netflix Co-CEO also said he's talked with the president "many times" since the election and he'll be good to movie theaters once he’s running a...

previous day 3

Nick Lichtenberg

Amazon robotaxi service Zoox to start charging for rides in 2026, with ‘laser focus’ on transporting people, not deliveries, says cofounder

Jesse Levinson, Zoox cofounder and CTO, said the robotaxi service needs several more years before it can operate at a scale where the business is “...

previous day 2

Amanda Gerut

Paramount rips Warner’s sale ‘process’ as it reveals 2-year-long pursuit, escalating bids before going hostile

Warner "did not provide a single markup of a single transaction document" or engage in any back-and-forth negotiation for months, its jilted suitor...

previous day 2

Nick Lichtenberg

Pepsi to cut product offering nearly 20% in deal with $4 billion activist Elliott

In a joint statement, Elliott Partner Marc Steinberg said it is confident that PepsiCo can create value for shareholders as it executes on its new...

previous day 2

Dee-Ann Durbin

Robinhood launches staking for Ethereum and Solana in ongoing crypto expansion

The trading platform dives further into digital assets both domestically and globally.

previous day 3

Carlos Garcia

Paramount, Netflix spur Wall Street race to win jumbo loan deals

Loans of this size have been few and far between over the past couple of years amid subdued acquisition activity. But that’s all changed.

previous day 3

Categories

Sources

Newspaper Columnists

2026 will be the year CEOs must prove AI is powering growth—not just cost cutting and layoffs

Diane Brady

Amazon’s new Alexa aims to detangle household chaos, like who fed the dog and the name of that restaurant everyone wanted to try

Amanda Gerut

A divided Fed meets today and Wall Street is listening for 4 key words from Powell: ‘In a good place’

Jim Edwards

President of $200 billion Shopify says some of the greatest workers he knows only clock in 40-hour weeks: ‘You don’t have to work 80 hours’

Preston Fore

Borrowing by AI companies represents a ‘mounting potential threat to the financial system,’ top economist says

Nino Paoli

In race to end China’s chokehold on critical minerals the U.S. needs all the friends it can get

Jordan Blum

Australia will start banning kids from social media this week—and Malaysia is getting ready to do the same

Angelica Ang

When David Ellison was 13, his billionaire father Larry bought him a plane. He competed in airshows before leaving it to become a Hollywood executive

Dave Smith

Key questions to stay grounded in the AI frenzy

Alexei Oreskovic

Berkshire appoints new CFO as analysts warn of more executive departures

Sheryl Estrada

Malaysia’s Johor launches 7,300-acre innovation sandbox, part of new special economic zone with neighboring Singapore

Angelica Ang

The cult of productivity is killing us

Jon Rosemberg

I’m a leader in private equity and see a simple fix for America’s job-quality crisis: actually give workers a piece of the business

Pete Stavros

HBR: only 6% of companies fully trust AI agents to handle core business processes

Nick Lichtenberg

AI isn’t the reason you got laid off (or not hired), top staffing agency says. You don’t have the right skills

Nick Lichtenberg

Paramount’s streaming size would ease U.S. antitrust review

Christopher Palmeri

AI doctors will be good at science but bad at business, and big talk with little action means even higher drugs prices: 10 healthcare predictions for 2026 from top investors

Bob Kocher

Kushner, Ellison and Apollo back hostile Warner Bros. bid

Aaron Weinman

Trump’s $12 billion farmer bailout is a ‘Band-Aid on a bigger wound’ the American agriculture industry is still reeling from

Sasha Rogelberg

You’re probably $30,000 short of what you need to buy a house—and you’re not alone

Sydney Lake

Even the man behind ChatGPT, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is worried about the ‘rate of change that’s happening in the world right now’ thanks to AI

Preston Fore

‘But is that real work? It’s not’ Business leaders still don’t trust AI agents, Harvard survey shows

Patrick Kulp

CoreWeave CEO: Despite see-sawing stock, IPO was ‘incredibly successful’ after challenges of Liberation Day tariff timing

Sharon Goldman

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi says his company will be worth $1 trillion by doing these three things

Beatrice Nolan

New contract shows Palantir is working on a tech platform for another federal agency that works with ICE

Jessica Mathews

‘Fodder for a recession’: Top economist Mark Zandi warns about so many Americans ‘already living on the financial edge’ in a K-shaped economy

Eva Roytburg

Exelon CEO: The ‘warning lights are on’ for U.S. electric grid resilience and utility prices amid AI demand surge

Jordan Blum

Physical AI robots will automate ‘large sections’ of factory work in the next decade, Arm CEO says

Beatrice Nolan

Google says its first Gemini-powered smart glasses are coming next year. Here’s what they can do

Dave Smith

Tesla promotes Optimus as its next big breakthrough, but one robot’s collapse has sparked doubts about their current level of autonomy

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Fortune Brainstorm AI San Francisco starts today, with Databricks, OpenAI, Cursor, and more on deck

Allie Garfinkle

Jamie Dimon taps Jeff Bezos, Michael Dell and Ford CEO Jim Farley to advise JPMorgan’s $1.5 trillion national-security initiative

Nino Paoli

With millions of Gen Zers unemployed globally, the UK is tackling the crisis with a $965 million package that will get young people working in AI, hospitality, and engineering

Emma Burleigh

The problem with ‘human in the loop’ AI? Often, it’s the humans

Jeremy Kahn

‘Customers don’t care about AI’ — they just want to boost cash flow and make ends meet, Intuit CEO says

Jason Ma

OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap says ‘code red’ will force the company to focus, as the ChatGPT maker ramps up enterprise push

Beatrice Nolan

Jared Kushner suddenly emerges in the Warner brawl between Paramount and Netflix, backed by Saudi billions and fresh off brokering another megadeal

Eva Roytburg

Parents are sacrificing retirement, taking second jobs, and liquidating investments just to afford college for their kids

Sydney Lake

Baby boomers have now ‘gobbled up’ nearly one-third of America’s wealth share, and they’re leaving Gen Z and millennials behind