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ComfortDelGro joins Singapore’s race for autonomous vehicles with new shuttle trials and public rides by 2026

Both ComfortDelGro and ride-hailing platform Grab plan to roll out AVs to the public by next year.

yesterday 10

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Angelica Ang

Arkansas becomes first state to cut ties with PBS, saying $2.5 million membership dues ‘not feasible’

PBS Arkansas is rebranding itself as Arkansas TV and will provide more local content, the agency's Executive Director and CEO Carlton Wing said.

yesterday 3

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The Associated Press

Netflix’s $11 million funding for a director’s sports cars and luxury mattresses—not a show—leads to fraud conviction

Carl Erik Rinsch, 48, never finished the show. His sentencing date is set for April.

yesterday 2

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The Associated Press

40% of Stanford undergrads receive disability accommodations—but it’s become a college-wide phenomenon as Gen Z try to succeed in the current climate

Colleges are seeing unprecedented demand for disability accommodations as Gen Z faces continued struggles with mental health—and a desire to find...

yesterday 3

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Preston Fore

Hinge CEO says he bribed students with KitKats to get the $550 million-a-year business off the ground: ‘I had to beg and borrow a lot’

"I was talking to as many people as I could and taking money from anyone who would give it to me," Hinge CEO Justin McLeod told Fortune.

yesterday 2

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Orianna Rosa Royle

Gen Z is defiantly ‘giving up’ on ever owning a home and is spending more than saving, working less, and making risky investments, study shows

Young people are crossing a ‘threshold” into dangerous financial territory.

yesterday 1

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Sydney Lake

Tariffs are taxes and they were used to finance the federal government until the 1913 income tax. A top economist breaks it down

The last major U.S. tariff law was the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, which established an average tariff rate of 20% on all imports by 1933.

yesterday 20

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Kent Jones

Honest Company CEO Carla Vernón on being mentored by Walmart’s Doug McMillon

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

yesterday 3

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Diane Brady

‘Godmother of AI’ says degrees are less important in hiring than ‘how quickly can you superpower yourself’ with new tools

Instead, she looks to hire software engineers with AI fluency to her startup that aims to revolutionize the tech.

yesterday 3

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Nino Paoli

Amtrak is slashing executive bonuses to give out $900 apiece to over 18,000 rank-and-file workers

"This long-overdue recognition of the employees who keep the railroad moving is a step in the right direction,” said union leader Mark Wallace.

yesterday 3

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Safiyah Riddle

Netflix, Warner, Paramount and antitrust: Entertainment megadeal’s outcome must follow the evidence, not politics or fear of integration

Even President Trump is concerned about this situation. But the answers aren’t obvious.

yesterday 3

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Satya Marar

SEC chair moves to boost IPO momentum: ‘Make it cool to be a public company’

Atkins outlined three obstacles he believes are holding issuers back.

yesterday 2

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Sheryl Estrada

Sheryl Sandberg breaks down why it’s a troubling time for women in the workplace right now

Hundreds of thousands of working women left the U.S. workforce this year, while issues of gender stereotyping, workplace harassment, and lackluster...

yesterday 2

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Emma Burleigh

Apple CEO Tim Cook out-earns the average American’s salary in just 7 hours—to put that into context, he could buy a new $439,000 home in just 2 days

Apple CEO Tim Cook has a $74.6 million pay package. Within the 30 minutes it takes most people to commute to the office, Cook is already $4,256...

yesterday 2

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Emma Burleigh

FAA head hasn’t sold his stake in an airline despite promises to do so, Democratic Senator claims

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration has not sold off his multimillion-dollar stake in the airline he led since 1999 despite a promise...

yesterday 2

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Josh Funk

Leading the agentic enterprise: What the next wave of AI demands from CEOs

With agentic AI on board, companies must rethink their very makeup: how work is designed, how decisions are made, and how value is created.

yesterday 2

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François Candelon

OpenAI, Microsoft face wrongful death lawsuit over ‘paranoid delusions’ that led former tech worker into murder-suicide

Police said Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56, fatally beat and strangled his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Adams, and then killed himself in early August.

yesterday 2

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Dave Collins

Asia will get steady growth next year, defying global headwinds, says Mastercard’s chief APAC economist

Asia is contributing more to global growth than the Americas or Europe, says Mastercard's David Mann.

yesterday 2

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Angelica Ang

AI data center boom sparks fears of glut amid lending frenzy

“Momentum is strong, but if this is irrational exuberance, investors will lose when the music stops,” said Squared Capital's Sadek Wahba.

yesterday 2

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Neil Callanan

AI is powering Trump’s economy, but American voters are getting worried

In both political parties there’s a sense that more thought-out AI strategies will be needed. One Trump adviser calls AI a “political football.”

yesterday 2

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Mark Niquette

Trump’s World Cup is a ‘monumental betrayal,’ breaking with decades of cheap tickets, European supporters group claims

Soccer fans have accused FIFA of a “monumental betrayal” after latest prices for World Cup tickets began to circulate on Thursday. The governing...

yesterday 3

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James Robson

Bailed-out farmers don’t want to live on Trump welfare: ‘they don’t want to go to the mailbox and get a check from the government’

"That’s not why we farm,” said Dan Keitzer, a soybean and corn farmer in southeast Iowa. “We need more demand for our product.”

yesterday 1

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Josh Funk

Lululemon CEO Calvin McDonald to step down as quarterly profit dips 13%

The board said it was conducting a comprehensive search in partnership with a leading executive search firm to select his successor.

yesterday 1

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Anne Dinnocenzio

Black Lives Matter leader in Oklahoma City indicted on claims she used funds for vacations, groceries and real estate

Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson, 52, was indicted earlier this month on 20 counts of wire fraud and five counts of money laundering, court records...

yesterday 1

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Sean Murphy

For the first time since Trump’s tariff rollout, import tax revenue has fallen, threatening his lofty plans to slash the $38 trillion national debt

Earlier this month, Trump called the country’s mounting debt "peanuts" compared to the money he was bringing in from custom duties.

yesterday 0

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Sasha Rogelberg

DOGE isn’t dead—it’s been absorbed into the bloodstream of the government, federal employees say

“It’s like taking the dust jacket off of the book and saying, ‘We’ve got rid of the book,’” one federal employee said.

yesterday 0

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Sasha Rogelberg

The fastest athletes in the world can botch a baton pass if trust isn’t there—and the same is true of AI, Blackbaud exec says

“It’s not about only running fast, but also having trust along the way,” said chief product officer Sudip Datta.

yesterday 0

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Amanda Gerut

Ryan Serhant, a real-estate mogul who’s met over 100 billionaires, reveals his best networking advice: ‘Every room I go into, I use the two C’s’

It's not about selling products, Serhant says. It's about selling relationships.

yesterday 0

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Dave Smith

Creative workers won’t be replaced by AI—but their roles will change to become ‘directors’ managing AI agents, executives say

AI agents are taking over some routine creative tasks, but executives say the shift will transform workers into "directors" who delegate to AI.

yesterday 0

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Beatrice Nolan

The AI skills gap is really a ‘critical thinking’ gap: The Fortune 500 fears it can’t find talent with enough sharp thinking

“We need to start thinking strategically. How can we create strategic thinkers, critical thinkers?”

yesterday 0

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Nick Lichtenberg

Retail investors drive stocks to a pre-Christmas all-time high—and Wall Street sees a moment to sell

Retail investors are so enthusiastic for risk assets that some on Wall Street are starting to worry about it.

yesterday 0

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Jim Edwards

Judge tells notorious crypto scammer ‘you have been bitten by the crypto bug’ in handing down 15 year sentence 

Do Kwon orchestrated a $40 billion fraud, leading to 2022 crypto crash

yesterday 0

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Carlos Garcia

‘Tragedy in the making’: Top healthcare exec on why insurance will spike to subsidize a tax cut to millionaires and billionaires

"If the two sides could talk," said UConn Health chair John Driscoll, "there probably is a way that they could agree on how to to bridge the...

yesterday 0

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Nick Lichtenberg

32-year-old’s death on Universal roller coaster was accidental despite deep forehead gash, investigation finds

The death of a 32-year-old man after riding a high-speed roller coaster at the Universal Epic Universe theme park was accidental, and an...

yesterday 0

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Mike Schneider

Michigan mystery revealed: Fired football coach had broken into a lover’s apartment and threatened to kill himself when their affair ended

As he watched by video from jail, authorities laid out extraordinary allegations against 39-year-old Sherrone Moore.

yesterday 0

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Ed White

House Democrats release new Epstein photos including Trump, Clinton, Prince Andrew

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson accused Democrats of “selectively releasing" things to "try and create a false narrative."

yesterday 0

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Stephen Groves

‘The question is really just how long it will take’: Over 2,000 gather at Humanoids Summit to meet the robots who may take their jobs someday

Researchers at McKinsey have counted about 50 companies that have raised at least $100 million to develop humanoids.

yesterday 0

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Matt Obrien

The Fed just ‘Trump-proofed’ itself with a unanimous move to preempt a potential leadership shakeup

"If I'm reading this properly, they just Trump-proofed the Fed."

yesterday 0

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Jason Ma

China is winning the biotech race. Patent reform is how we catch up

The United States is at risk of losing one of the most important technology races of the 21st century.

yesterday 0

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Gary Locke

‘We’re not just going to want to be fed AI slop for 16 hours a day’: Analyst sees Disney/OpenAI deal as a dividing line in entertainment history

"​I think the reason this bidding is approaching $100 billion-plus is the content library and the potential to do a Disney-OpenAI type of deal."

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Nick Lichtenberg

‘We have not seen this rosy picture’: ADP’s chief economist warns the real economy is pretty different from Wall Street’s bullish outlook

"We're tracking changes in real time, it's as high frequency as payroll data [can] get and we have not seen this rosy picture for 2026 in the...

previous day 10

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Eleanor Pringle

Student discounts made him a millionaire, a heart condition made him rethink life—now this millennial founder spends half the year in the French Alps

Student Beans cofounder balances London with Alpine slopes, waking up no earlier than 8 a.m. and redefining what work-life balance means.

previous day 10

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Orianna Rosa Royle

Business leaders make their 2026 predictions for the Magnificent 7: ‘I’d rather be in Jensen’s seat than anywhere else’

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

previous day 10

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Diane Brady

‘This year, I really see education and climate’: Patterns in billionaire MacKenzie Scott’s massive giving emerge with time

The amount of her annual giving has fluctuated, ranging from a reported $2.1 billion in 2023 to $7.1 billion in 2025.

previous day 5

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Thalia Beaty

Netflix looks to become Debtflix again to fund Warner Bros. acquisition

Netflix first started selling junk bonds in 2009 when it was transitioning from mainly renting DVDs through the mail into a streaming company.

previous day 3

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Emily Graffeo

Netflix’s takeover of Warner Brothers is a nightmare for consumers

Netflix promotes itself as an innovator, but its skyhigh bid for Warner Brothers suggests that its trendsetter days have peaked.

previous day 5

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Ike Brannon

When AI takes the tasks, managers take the relationships

Leaders say agents should handle the busywork so human managers can be more connected to their teams.

previous day 2

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Sheryl Estrada

Trump slams Fed’s third-straight rate cut as ‘too small,’ saying he wishes it was twice as large

Three Fed officials dissented from the move, the most dissents in six years and a sign of deep divisions on the committee.

previous day 2

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Christopher Rugaber

OpenAI aims to silence concerns it is falling behind in the AI race with release of new model GPT-5.2

OpenAI said its new model outperforms those from rivals Google and Anthropic across a wide range of evaluations.

previous day 4

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Jeremy Kahn

Coca-Cola names 30-year veteran Henrique Braun as new CEO

James Quincey, Coke's current chairman and CEO, will transition to executive chairman of the company, effective March 31.

previous day 2

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Dee-Ann Durbin