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For jobless Gen Z, healthcare is the place to be as blue-collar hiring outstrips office jobs, says ADP’s top economist

ADP's jobs report delivered a sucker-punch to Gen Z grads this week: While hiring is up across private payrolls according to December data, it was...

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Eleanor Pringle

Crystal Ball: What 2026 holds for cybersecurity, healthcare, robotics, and more

Term Sheet readers predict healthcare is due for a shakeup, cybersecurity breaches are imminent, and robotics is promising as ever.

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Allie Garfinkle

Exclusive: Cyera CEO Yotam Segev on raising $400 million and why the stakes in cybersecurity are getting higher

Just six months after fetching a $6 billion valuation, cyber startup Cyera has raised $400 million at a $9 billion valuation.

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Allie Garfinkle

Saks Global’s near bankruptcy is the result of risky dealmaking—and a neglect of business basics

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

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Phil Wahba

If the Supreme Court rules against Trump’s tariffs it could threaten one third of his proposed military budget

Most observers are expecting the court to strike down his tariff regime or at least curtail it.

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Jim Edwards

The U.S. naval blockade of Venezuela has cost $700 million already—and is rising by $9 million daily

Trump is urging U.S. oil companies to return to Venezuela but question marks remain with instability, high costs, and weak oil prices.

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Jordan Blum

Trump’s Venezuela plan just got a whole lot more expensive, as he says the U.S. could give ‘tremendous’ sums to oil companies building there

Before Trump suggested the U.S. government may end up footing the bill for rebuilding Venezuela's oil infrastructure, analysts were of the opinion...

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Eleanor Pringle

‘Largest LBO in history’: Warner rejects Paramount again, scoffing at $87 billion worth of debt in its $108 billion bid

Warner continues to stick with Netflix, the shock winner that emerged in early December from the auction begun by Paramount.

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Nick Lichtenberg

The 7 most overlooked CEOs in 2025—and the 4 to watch in 2026

The Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute highlights the top performers of 2025 and the top leaders to watch in 2026.

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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

‘We do pranks and stuff like that’: Craigslist ad that sought 20 child actors for Minnesota daycare centers taken down after fueling fake news

Screenshots of the ad were used in social media posts on multiple platforms, cited as proof of fraud at Minnesota day care centers.

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Melissa Goldin

The most honest prediction for 2026: nobody knows what’s next

To my fellow CEOs: stop chasing certainty. Stop waiting for perfect information. Stop anchoring decisions to forecasts that will never be stable.

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Christian Klein

What CEOs need to know about the new ‘Donroe’ doctrine

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

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Diane Brady

Minnesota fraud scandal gives Trump cover to withhold funding for kids in 5 Democratic-led states

Five states — California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York — are targeted, and the HHS said they had been notified.

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Geoff Mulvihill

The Education Department is garnishing wages for millions of student loan borrowers in default. Who is affected and how much they can take

Wage garnishment "is a scary concept since they can take 15% of after-tax income," Ashley Morgan, debt and bankruptcy attorney and owner of Ashley...

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Sydney Lake

How JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon notched $770 million in gains for his work in 2025

Dimon has accumulated a lot of equity through his compensation plan, personal purchases, and via a 2021 special award.

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Amanda Gerut

The curveball questions CEOs are asking job seekers amid Gen Z’s hiring nightmare: ‘Design a car for a deaf person’

Gen Z’s hiring nightmare is real. With fewer jobs and fiercer competition, employers are using curveball interview questions to separate candidates...

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Orianna Rosa Royle

Jollibee shares surge after the Filipino fried chicken chain says it’ll spin off its ‘higher-growth but more volatile’ global business

Jollibee is pursuing an aggressive global expansion, as it tries to grow beyond its profitable Filipino market.

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Angelica Ang

Exclusive: Fireblocks acquires crypto accounting platform TRES Finance for $130 million

This is the crypto infrastructure firm’s second acquisition over the past year.

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Ben Weiss

Crystal Ball: Where venture capital and private equity are headed in 2026

Term Sheet readers sound off what 2026 holds for venture capital and private equity investors.

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Allie Garfinkle

25 is the new 30 when it comes to AI founders as Gen Z entrepreneurs lead the way on billion-dollar unicorn startups, top VC partner says

The average AI unicorn founder was 40 years old in 2020, but now they're younger than 30, according to global venture capital firm Antler.

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Nick Lichtenberg

Business leaders are growing more optimistic, JPMorgan survey finds

Almost two in five leaders at midsize businesses expressed optimism—especially about their own company’s future performance.

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Carlos Garcia

Trump’s Greenland takeover would require ‘billions upon billions’ spent over decades to acquire a mineral industry that doesn’t yet exist, experts say

As the White House confirms military force is "always an option," experts say the costs—financial, strategic, and geopolitical—will be staggering.

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Lily Mae Lazarus

Netflix co-CEO says he doesn’t read business books—at all. Instead, he reads one 1902 fiction about a ship and its reckless ‘hot dog’ captain over and over again

Like Elon Musk and Tim Cook, Netflix’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos is a fan of good books. But instead of picking up traditional management reads, he leans...

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Preston Fore

OpenAI suggests ChatGPT play doctor as millions of Americans face spiking insurance costs: ‘In the U.S., ChatGPT has become an important ally’

Even before the expiry of ACA subsidies, more and more Americans were turning to AI to navigate healthcare.

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Tristan Bove

Americans missed out on a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ chance to buy a house—the 3 shifts it would take to make housing affordable are ‘very unlikely’

“We see the housing market remaining relatively stuck without major progress being made on affordability,” home construction CEO says.

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Sydney Lake

Nestlé’s CIO says the value of the food giant’s AI investments goes well beyond efficiency

The world’s largest food and beverage company is using AI to rethink pricing, factories, sales, but the company's chief information officer isn't...

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John Kell

More Americans will die than be born in 2030, CBO predicts—leaving immigrants as the only source of population growth

Deportations shrank this timeline by a decade, putting unprecedented pressure on Social Security.

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Eva Roytburg

The $38 trillion national debt is one thing 82% of Americans agree on: ‘Voters are understandably concerned,’ watchdog says

The nonpartisan Peter G. Peterson Foundation finds widespread — and bipartisan — concern over the debt.

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Nick Lichtenberg

Tech companies may only get half the profit they need to justify AI investment, Goldman analyst warns

There is "a diminishing probability that all of today’s market leaders generate enough long-term profits to sufficiently reward today’s investors,"...

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Jim Edwards

AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that’s masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests

"Firms don't appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale," the firm said. It suspects some are trying to "dress up layoffs" as...

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Nick Lichtenberg

Top economist says latest jobs data shows a ‘jobless expansion’ with no historical precedent—and it’s ‘gut-wrenching’ for the middle class

“We’re growing, but we can’t generate jobs,” KPMG chief economist Diane Swonk told Fortune. “Never seen anything like it.”

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Eva Roytburg

Fusion power nearly ready for prime time as Commonwealth builds first pilot for limitless, clean energy with AI help from Siemens, Nvidia

New construction milestones bring mythical fusion power closer to reality.

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Jordan Blum

RFK Jr.  is pushing Americans to eat more red meat and dairy as Starbucks, Chipotle, and others cash in on protein craze

Americans want more protein in their diets, and brands have been happy to oblige.

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Tristan Bove

These are the 10 most on-time airlines in the world, and only one American company made the cut

The only U.S. airline on Cirium’s top 10 list came in last place.

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Jacqueline Munis

Walz in the wilderness: from future VP to unemployed in just a few years

“He’s going to need employment. Maybe he finds himself a new niche, maybe in the foundation world,” said political scientist Larry Jacobs.

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Steve Karnowski

Jamie Dimon’s bombshell on proxy advisory delivers a body blow to the firms he called ‘incompetent’

In a break that shapes the architecture of shareholder power, JPMorgan Asset Management severed all ties this week with ISS and Glass Lewis. 

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Richard Torrenzano

‘It feels challenging to break through’: Most recruiters say they can’t find talent while 80% of job seekers feel unprepared to find a job

“They’re navigating fierce competition, uncertain about which roles they qualify for, and wondering whether their AI skills measure up,” said...

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Jacqueline Munis

‘There’s so much corruption, embezzlement and missing money’: Venezuela’s rumored $60 billion Bitcoin ‘shadow reserve’ draws skepticism

If true, the claim could significantly reshape the global bitcoin market.

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Jake Angelo

Staff at a major Swedish pharmacy chain are being paid to take time off with friends to combat loneliness—they can even text loved ones during the $100 ‘friendship hour’

Pharma chain Apotek Hjärtat is footing the bill for its employees to text their friends, go out to lunch, or catch up over a phone call. It could...

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Emma Burleigh

Trump threatens to ban Wall Street from buying the house next door, saying ‘American Dream is increasingly out of reach for far too many people’

Trump has not yet released draft legislation or an executive order, but officials and outside analysts say the administration is exploring several...

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Nick Lichtenberg

Shark Tank’s ‘Mr. Wonderful’ Kevin O’Leary learned the hard way that movie sets don’t work like boardrooms on Marty Supreme

Director Josh Safdie personally sought out O’Leary for the part of ruthless businessman Milton Rockwell, but he showed him who was boss.

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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

When brands play hard to get: why you’re drawn to products that neg you

We call this “dissuasive framing.” Instead of saying a product is perfect for everyone, a company is up front about who it might not be for.

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Jaclyn L. Tanenbaum

Trump may be raising your taxes with his tariffs but he could actually cut inflation with them, too, SF Fed says

The economic uncertainty a tariff shock inspires has historically led to a decline in inflation, according to the report.

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Jake Angelo

From Latin America’s richest country 100 years ago to a founding member of OPEC, the long history of Venezuela’s oil and U.S. ties, explained

In the 1990s, Venezuelan society became further split between the wealthy, who wanted to work with the US, and the working class, who didn't.

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James Trapani

NYC fights sale of bankrupt rentals after Mamdani blasts living conditions

City authorities on Monday asked a bankruptcy judge to delay a Chapter 11 auction scheduled for Thursday.

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Jonathan Randles

JPMorgan, Citi extend mortgage relief for LA wildfire victims

Most lenders limit forbearance to 12 months under a California law that expanded an emergency agreement the state had reached with banks in January...

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Maxwell Adler

President Trump stands ready to send U.S. Big Oil into Venezuela en masse, but the messy reality of rebuilding a ruined industry takes many years

Doubling Venezuela's weakened oil flows could cost $110 billion and take until 2030.

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Jordan Blum

New Haven mayor says police chief admitted to stealing money from department, accepts retirement

Mayor Justin Elicker called the allegations “shocking" and a “betrayal of public trust.”

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The Associated Press

Meet an Oregon cafe where American Sign Language is the default way to order

The cafe — owned by CymaSpace, a nonprofit that makes art accessible to the Deaf community — also hosts weekly ASL meetups and game nights.

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The Associated Press

DoorDash’s CEO blasts ‘appalling’ claim that a major delivery app gives drivers a desperation score: ‘I would fire anyone who tolerated this’

"What’s described here is appalling, and if true, whoever is operating in this manner should be ashamed," DoorDash's Tony Xu wrote on X.

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Eleanor Pringle