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Europe’s giants still rule as startups struggle to crack the Fortune 500 Europe

Every company in the Fortune 500 Europe top 10 has roots from before the Second World War. The oldest, Banco Santander, was founded in 1857.

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Adam Gale

How Bupa’s CEO Iñaki Ereño woke a sleeping giant—and set a 100,000 strong workforce running toward digital health 

How Bupa’s CEO balances triathlons, technology and the transformation of global health.

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Aslesha Mehta

Netflix and Amazon Prime are using AI algorithms that hide content from some users, media executive says

“The larger problem comes in distribution and the use of algo when content is being shown,” Reliance Industries media president Jyoti Deshpande...

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Sasha Rogelberg

Gen Zers are using AI to skip meetings, get promoted faster and win bigger salary hikes. But they don’t feel great about it

While AI note-taking saves workers hours each week and drives faster promotions, the same young employees worry that their dependence on the tech...

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Lily Mae Lazarus

Reddit cofounder walked away with $10 million after his dog died and his mom was diagnosed with brain cancer—but he’d be sharing $38 billion if he held out

Before Reddit became a $40 billion giant, its founders sold it for just $10 million. For Alexis Ohanian, the deal that cost him billions reshaped...

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Preston Fore

With two new funds to trumpet, Sequoia’s Roelof Botha opens up about the state of the VC market—and about the firm’s controversial partner

The managing partner of Silicon Valley's storied VC firm had a lot of news to discuss in his appearance at a San Francisco startup conference.

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Alexei Oreskovic

The Gen Z job crisis is real: 1.2 million recent grads in the U.K. competed for just 17,000 open roles

Rob Breare, CEO of independent U.K. school system Malvern College International, said at Fortune’s Global Forum that AI is upending the job hunt as...

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Emma Burleigh

Ray Dalio is guided by gratitude: Why CEOs need to find their codifying principles

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

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Diane Brady

The U.S. is joining Europe’s debt club—Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ could fuel $38 trillion tab bigger than Italy or Greece by GDP share

All roads lead to Rome.

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Eva Roytburg

The world is about $4.5 trillion short of securing a sustainable food supply for the future, global food and ag business CEO says

Verghese estimated the world requires 593 million hectares of land—twice the size of India—every year for crop cultivation at current productivity...

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Nino Paoli

AI stock valuations aren’t wrong—they’re just not right … yet, says JPMorgan assets boss

"The question is how fast will we grow into those multiples?" JP Morgan's Mary Callahan Erdoes told an audience at the Fortune Global Forum.

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Eleanor Pringle

Ford’s enormous F-150 becomes unlikely part of Japan’s efforts to woo Trump

When Trump heard of the Ford truck idea as he flew to Asia on Air Force One, he reacted enthusiastically.

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The Associated Press

Trump tells Japan’s first woman Prime Minister she has a ‘very strong handshake’ in Tokyo meeting

A putter from Shinzo Abe, gold golf balls, and American steak — Takaichi played to Trump’s taste for “golden age” diplomacy in Tokyo.

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Josh Boak

Bill Gates says a ‘doomsday outlook’ on climate is driving people to focus on the wrong things

"If given a choice between eradicating malaria and a tenth of a degree increase in warming, I'll let the temperature go up," Gates said.

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Dave Smith

‘Are you crazy?’ ‘A little…’ Inside one obsessed U.S. Agent’s $50 million secret plot to capture Nicolás Maduro by turning his pilot against him

Armed with a $50 million bounty and a rogue plan, a Homeland Security agent tried to flip Maduro’s personal pilot into delivering Venezuela’s...

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Joshua Goodman

OpenAI completes for-profit restructuring and grants Microsoft a 27% stake in the company

The restructuring ends years of capital constraints for OpenAI, and grants Microsoft long-term technology access and new AGI rights under the...

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Beatrice Nolan

Michael Dell’s son aims to transform the home power business by selling electricity and backup battery power like a Costco membership

Base Power just completed a $1 billion fundraising round and is building a Texas battery factory.

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Jordan Blum

As Gen Z faces the white collar freeze in hiring, law and business school applications are soaring

Gen Z is rushing back to the classroom to dodge AI disruption as law-school applications have jumped 33% compared to this time last year.

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Jessica Coacci

From transactional to transformational: Four strategies for donors to drive lasting impact 

I’ve spent over two decades helping nonprofits and families turn generosity into lasting change. Here are four ways donors can meet this moment.

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William Jarvis

How employee ownership can uplift Gen Z’s labor force 

The newest generation of American workers feels unheard in the places that depend most on their ideas and energy.

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Stephanie Silverman

Investor Cathie Wood predicts a ‘shudder’ in Big Tech valuations, saying higher rates may test investor faith

“The way algorithms work these days, we think that there will be a reality check,” said Wood.

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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Elon Musk’s ‘polarizing and partisan actions’ may have cost Tesla more than 1 million U.S. EV sales, Yale study finds

“The easiest thing to say is, don’t antagonize your core customers,” Yale economist and study author Kenneth Gillingham said.

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Sasha Rogelberg

Google’s Ruth Porat: To unlock AI’s upside, rethink every process

"I think we are living in an extraordinary time," Porat said at the Fortune Global Forum.

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Sheryl Estrada

Wealthy family in New Jersey posts tutoring job for $264,000 a year—complete with 45 days vacation and a guest house

A job posting looking to pay $264,000 for a private tutor requires that talent be taught in the American education system, have an easygoing...

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Emma Burleigh

As OpenAI restructures, Microsoft locks in long-term gains

OpenAI has become a public benefit corporation, giving Microsoft a 27% stake and long-term access to research methods

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Beatrice Nolan

Air traffic controllers are now working without pay. Some are grappling with how to pay for the medicine needed to keep their children alive

Air traffic controllers are worried about the government shutdown when they "have to have 100% of focus 100% of the time.”

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Josh Funk

From retail to tech, here are the 10 corporations that recently announced mass layoffs

Companies are pointing to factors like tariff costs, shifts in consumer spending, and investments in AI that have led them to let go of thousands.

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Wyatte Grantham-Philips

PayPal and UPS are sparking a late-session rally, powering stocks to fresh records

S&P added 0.4%, Dow Jones was up 0.6%, and the Nasdaq was 1% higher.

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Stan Choe

The U.S. just bet $1 billion that AI supercomputers can turn most cancers from ‘death sentences’ to ‘manageable conditions’ within 8 years

Chris Wright says the supercomputers will also allow the U.S. to “re-create the center of the sun on Earth” given how they benefit fusion energy...

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Eva Roytburg

1.3 million active-duty service members face missed paychecks as government shutdown stubbornly lags on

The Trump administration says funding will run out Friday for the food assistance program that helps 42 million Americans supplement their grocery...

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Kevin Freking

A federal judge just indefinitely barred the Trump administration from firing federal employees during the government shutdown

The judge previously issued a temporary restraining order against the job cuts that was set to expire on Wednesday.

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Janie Har

Former SpaceX and X employees raise $9 million for Standard Economics, a platform for the unbanked

“Their vision is to bring about Starlink for money,” said Caitlin Pintavorn, a partner at Paradigm.

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Carlos Garcia

Saudi power chair: Tariffs weaken the global energy transition and hurt humanity

The world must embrace renewable energy, natural gas, nuclear, and more to truly power the world into the energy transition, Mohammad Abunayyan said.

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Jordan Blum

A major ICE shake-up is reportedly underway affecting at least half of the agency’s top leadership positions

Twelve ICE field office directors across the country who are responsible for immigration enforcement are being reassigned, sources say.

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Rebecca Santana

Saudi Investment Chief warns: Global business needs cooperation, not protectionism

“In my view, no nation or company can achieve resilience and isolation,” said H.E. Khalid A. Al-Falih.

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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

WeRide CEO says autonomous driving can’t guarantee 100% safety—but could be 10x safer than human drivers within the decade

“Within 10 years, you will see the driving capabilities [of self-driving cars] on par with the best human drivers,” Tony Han said.

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Sasha Rogelberg

The world is headed for re-globalization not de-globalization, as ‘coalitions of the willing’ emerge, Mastercard chair and former USTR official says

"So you're seeing more regional concentrations of trade, and I think you're seeing new experiments being born in this environment." 

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Jason Ma

Tesla board chair begs shareholders to greenlight Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package, calling the upcoming vote a ‘critical inflection point’

Musk previously said he doesn't want to "build a robot army here and then [be] ousted because of some asinine recommendations from ISS and Glass...

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Dave Smith

Lula says a U.S.-Brazil trade deal is close after ‘very good’ Trump meeting—and insists Bolsonaro is ‘part of the past’

Trump had said he could reduce tariffs on Brazil that he had enacted in a push for leniency for Brazil's imprisoned former president, a Trump ally.

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Eileen Ng

WTO director-general says calling the trade wars the greatest disruption since the 1930s is ‘the understatement of the century’—but it’s not a repeat

"I think that a lot of the criticisms made by the U.S. of the system are valid," Dr.  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said at the Fortune Global Forum.

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Nick Lichtenberg

The FOMO-fueled gold bubble may now be turning into a ‘mini-bust,’ analysts say

"The latest leg of the gold rally looks like a market bubble that is in its final stages."

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Jason Ma

Harvard says it’s been giving too many A grades to students

About 60% of the grades handed out in classes for the university’s undergraduate program are A’s, up from 40% a decade ago and less than a quarter...

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Greg Ryan

Syria’s only female minister on what she says to her new president about hiring women: ‘Quotas are so important’

“Syria is a mosaic,” H.E. Hind Kabawat told Fortune, herself a member of the Christian minority and an exile from the country for some 14 years.

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Nick Lichtenberg

These millennials working in finance and tech were among the donors who gave over $125 million after Trump slashed foreign aid

“It’s actually very uncomfortable in our society—maybe it shouldn’t be—to tell the world that you’re giving away money,” Jacob Ma-Weaver said...

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Thalia Beaty

More flight disruptions are hitting airports across the country due to a shortage of air traffic controllers, who aren’t getting paid

Most controllers are continuing to work mandatory overtime six days a week during the shutdown without pay, the National Air Traffic Controllers...

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Rio Yamat

Skyrocketing valuations, revenues, and investments: ‘That sounds like a tech story. It’s a women’s sports story,’ Alexis Ohanian says

Women’s sports revenue is expected to hit a record-breaking $2.35 billion this year.

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Sydney Lake

Open-source AI is ‘China’s game right now’—and that’s a problem for the U.S. and its allies, Andreessen Horowitz partner says

Andreessen Horowitz partner Anjney Midha says China is leading in open-source AI, driven by startups like DeepSeek, while the U.S. is playing...

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Beatrice Nolan

AIG to acquire the majority of renewal rights to Everest Group’s global retail insurance portfolio in $2 billion deal

The acquisition gives AIG access to future business without inheriting responsibility for claims and obligations predating the deal.

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Lily Mae Lazarus

Candy inflation has spooked so many consumers almost 80% say they’re forced to scale back how much to buy for Halloween

Of the 6,000 shoppers surveyed, 83% said they’re capping their candy spending at $100.

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Jeena Sharma

Ray Dalio says America is developing a ‘dependency’ on the top 1% of workers, while the bottom 60% are struggling and unproductive

"I think the issue is very much that you can't look at the U.S. as a whole nowadays," the Bridgewater Associates founder said at the Fortune Global...

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Eleanor Pringle