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Procurement execs often don’t understand the value of good design, experts say

In reality, firms want to build more with less—and even though visions are created by designers, they don’t always get to see them to fruition.

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Angelica Ang

Millionaire YouTuber Hank Green tells Gen Z to rethink their Tesla bets—and shares the portfolio changes he’s making to avoid AI-bubble fallout

The S&P 500’s record concentration in AI-focused companies like Nvidia, Microsoft, and Google could bear bad news in the event of a bubble pop,...

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Preston Fore

Kimberly-Clark exec is one of 76 women in the Fortune 500 with her title—she says bosses used to compare her to their daughters when she got promoted

Only 18% of chief supply chain officers in the F500 are women, including Kimberly-Clark’s Tamera Fenske. But she doesn’t just pay it forward to...

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Emma Burleigh

Warren Buffett: Business titan and cover star

As the legendary investor prepares to step down, we looked back at his many appearances on Fortune’s cover.

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Indrani Sen

Inside the Fortune 500 CEO pressure cooker: surviving is harder than ever and requires an ‘odd combination’ of traits

Mark Thompson is a top CEO coach and Byron Loflin is Nasdaq's in-house board whisperer. They told Fortune about joining forces for "CEO Ready."

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Nick Lichtenberg

Following in Paul Newman and Yvon Chouinard’s footsteps: There are more ways for leaders to give it away in ‘the Great Boomer Fire Sale’ than ever

As the president and CEO of Newman's Own, which gives away 100% of its profits, I am hearing from more and more business owners who want to try.

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Alex Amouyel

So much of crypto is not even real—but that’s starting to change

Crypto has long felt like a giant casino with imaginary chips, but big recent breakthroughs mean it's fast becoming part of the real economy.

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Pete Najarian

Trump says Netflix-Warner Bros. deal ‘could be a problem’

The $72 billion deal would combine the world’s No. 1 streaming player with the No. 4 service HBO Max, which has raised red flags from antitrust...

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Hadriana Lowenkron

Jerome Powell faces a credibility issue as he tries to satisfy hawks and doves on the most divided Fed in recent memory

"It will be difficult for Powell to send a credibly hawkish signal at the press conference," analysts at Bank of America said in a note.

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Jason Ma

Trump slams Democratic congressman as disloyal for not switching parties after pardon and vows ‘no more Mr. Nice guy’ next time

The Republican president might have expected the clemency to bolster the GOP's narrow House majority heading into the 2026 midterm elections.

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Bill Barrow

Macron warns EU may hit China with tariffs over trade surplus

Macron said the US approach to China was “inappropriate” and had worsened Europe’s position by diverting Chinese goods toward the EU market.

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James Regan

Leaders in Congress outperform rank-and-file lawmakers on stock trades by up to 47% a year, researchers say

"These results suggest that congressional leaders may not only trade on privileged knowledge, but also shape policy outcomes to enrich themselves."

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Jason Ma

HP’s chief commercial officer predicts the future will include AI-powered PCs that don’t share data in the cloud

"People want to know that if they input data to a model, the model won’t train on their data,” said HP's Dave McQuarrie.

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Nicholas Gordon

Binance has been proudly nomadic for years. A new announcement suggests it’s finally chosen a headquarters

Co-CEO Richard Teng said Abu Dhabi is where Binance’s “global platform will be regulated.”

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Ben Weiss

Trump administration waives part of a Biden-era fine against Southwest Airlines for thousands of canceled flights in 2022

The Transportation Department issued an order Friday waiving the final $11 million payment, which was due Jan. 31, 2026.

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Dee-Ann Durbin

OpenAI goes from stock market savior to burden as AI risks mount

“There’s a growing sense that Alphabet has all the pieces to emerge as the dominant AI model builder.”

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Ryan Vlastelica

U.S. trade chief says China has complied with terms of trade deals

Greer said China has gotten approximately “a third” of the way through its soybean purchase commitment for this growing season.

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Hadriana Lowenkron

What bubble? Asset managers in risk-on mode stick with stocks

More than three-quarters of the allocators were positioning portfolios for a risk-on environment through 2026.

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Julien Ponthus

These toxic wild mushrooms have caused a deadly outbreak of poisoning in California

The state poison control system has identified 21 cases of amatoxin poisoning, likely caused by death cap mushrooms, the health department said...

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The Associated Press

Jamie Dimon says even though AI will eliminate some jobs ‘maybe one day we’ll be working less hard but having wonderful lives’

"For the most part, AI is going to do great stuff for mankind, like tractors did, like fertilizers did, like vaccines did."

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Jason Ma

Supreme Court to reconsider a 90-year-old unanimous ruling that limits presidential power on removing heads of independent agencies

The court's conservatives, liberal Justice Elena Kagan noted in September, seem to be “raring to take that action.”

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Mark Sherman

U.S. vaccine advisers end decades-long recommendation for all babies to get a hepatitis B shot at birth

Several medical societies and state health departments said they would continue to recommend them.

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Mike Stobbe

Republican lawmakers in Indiana face ‘a very dangerous and intimidating process’ as threats pile up while Trump pushes redistricting

Sen. Sue Glick, a Republican who was first elected in 2010 and previously served as a local prosecutor, said she has never seen “this kind of...

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Thomas Beaumont

This pastor fills up arenas with young people by not sugarcoating the Bible, serving a generation ‘gravitating towards that authenticity and truth’

“I’m preaching without watering that down, without filtering out things that we think might be too controversial,” said Mitchell.

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Charlotte Kramon

Nvidia’s CEO says AI adoption will be gradual, but when it does hit, we may all end up making robot clothing

Jobs that consist entirely of routine tasks are most at risk of AI disruption, Huang said.

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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

After he ‘fired himself’ from a Fortune 100 job that paid up to $800k, the ‘Mister Rogers’ of Corporate America shows Gen Z how to handle toxic bosses

“How can I get people to be smarter and more comfortable about their careers in ways that are gonna help on a day-to-day basis?”

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Jessica Coacci

Mark Zuckerberg says the ‘most important thing’ he built at Harvard was a prank website: ‘Without Facemash I wouldn’t have met Priscilla’

"I’m going to get kicked out in three days, so we need to go on a date quickly," Zuckerberg told Priscilla Chan at the time.

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Dave Smith

The ‘Great Housing Reset’ is coming: Income growth will outpace home-price growth in 2026, Redfin forecasts

Lower mortgage rates and increased home sales could also help a pricey housing market, but don’t expect homes to be affordable for young families.

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Nino Paoli

‘Its own research shows they encourage addiction’: Highest court in Mass. hears case about Instagram, Facebook effect on kids

The lawsuit claims Meta designed features to make them addictive and that its actions affected hundreds of thousands of Massachusetts teenagers.

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Michael Casey

Quant who said passive era is ‘worse than Marxism’ doubles down

Inigo Fraser Jenkins calls it a “dystopian symbiosis”: a feedback loop between index funds and platform giants like Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia.

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Denitsa Tsekova

22-year-old Australian TikToker raises $1.7 million for 88-year-old Michigan grocer after chance encounter weeks earlier

Ed Bambas will soon ring up his last can of corn. The 88-year-old Michigan grocery worker was handed an oversized check for $1.7 million Friday,...

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Ed White

Why the timing was right for Salesforce’s $8 billion acquisition of Informatica — and for the opportunities ahead

It’s wrong to think of an acquisition as an end game. It’s a new chapter. 

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Amit Walia

Olivia Nuzzi to leave Vanity Fair while denouncing ex-fiance Ryan Lizza’s Substack attack as ‘fiction-slash-revenge porn’

Through a miserable week as her "American Canto" was panned and scandalous revelations mounted, Nuzzi posted about “Signs Your Book Rollout Has...

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David Bauder

25-year DEA veteran charged with helping Mexican drug cartel launder millions of dollars, secure guns and bombs

Paul Campo of Oakton, Virginia, was caught in sting involving an informant who posed as a member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, prosecutors...

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Dave Collins

A Thanksgiving dealmaking sprint helped Netflix win Warner Bros.

While most Americans were feasting, Netflix executives and advisers hunkered down to finalize a binding offer and a $59 billion bridge loan.

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Michelle F. Davis

Netflix’s $5.8 billion breakup fee for Warner among largest ever

Inc.’s $72 billion acquisition of Inc. includes one of the biggest breakup fees of all time — a $5.8 billion penalty that Netflix has agreed to pay...

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Elizabeth Fournier

Hegseth likens strikes on alleged drug boats to post-9/11 war on terror, saying Trump can order use of force ‘as he sees fit’

Hegseth dismissed criticism of the strikes, which have killed more than 80 people and now face intense scrutiny over concerns that they violated...

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David Klepper

National Park Service drops free admission on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth while adding Trump’s birthday

The new free-admission policy takes effect Jan. 1 and was one of several changes announced by the Park Service late last month, including higher...

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David Klepper

Nvidia CEO says data centers take about 3 years to construct in the U.S., while in China ‘they can build a hospital in a weekend’

China has “twice as much energy as we have as a nation, and our economy is larger than theirs. Makes no sense to me,” Huang said.

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Nino Paoli

Apple rocked by executive departures, with chip chief at risk of leaving next

Johny Srouji — senior vice president of hardware technologies and one of Apple’s most respected executives — recently told Cook that he is...

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Mark Gurman

The most likely solution to the U.S. debt crisis is severe austerity triggered by a fiscal calamity, former White House economic adviser says

"Eventually, in the unforeseeable future, austerity may be the most likely of the six possible outcomes."

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Jason Ma

The $124 trillion Great Wealth Transfer is intensifying as inheritance jumps to a new record, with one 19-year-old reaping the rewards

"A fresh generation of billionaires is steadily emerging," UBS said.

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Jason Ma

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says Europe has a ‘real problem’

“We need a long-term strategy to help them become strong,” Dimon said. “A weak Europe is bad for us.”

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Katherine Chiglinsky

SpaceX to offer insider shares at record-setting $800 billion valuation

Elon Musk on Saturday denied that SpaceX is raising money at a $800 billion valuation without addressing Bloomberg’s reporting on the planned...

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Edward Ludlow

Trump media firm dives into red hot prediction markets, in tie-up with Crypto.com

Prediction contracts will be available on the social media site Truth Social, allowing users to bet on elections and sports, among other events.

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Carlos Garcia

Former Amazon Studios boss warns the Netflix-Warner Bros. deal will make Hollywood ‘a system that circles a single sun’

"A Netflix merger with Warner Bros. would create a monopsony problem: too few buyers with too much bargaining power."

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Jason Ma

Epstein grand jury documents from Florida can be released by DOJ, judge rules

The judge said a recently passed federal law ordering the release of records related to Epstein overrode the usual rules about grand jury secrecy.

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Mike Schneider

Trump finally meets Claudia Sheinbaum face to face at the FIFA World Cup draw

A senior White House official said Trump, Sheinbaum and Carney met privately after participating in the draw.

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Will Weissert

Elon Musk’s X fined $140 million by EU for breaching digital regulations

The European Commission issued its decision following an investigation it opened two years ago under the Digital Services Act.

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Kelvin Chan

Miss Universe co-owner gets bank accounts frozen as part of probe into drugs, fuel and arms trafficking

Mexico's Financial Intelligence Unit froze Mexican businessman Raúl Rocha Cantú’s bank accounts in Mexico, a federal official told the AP.

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Fabiola Sánchez