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‘The Pitt’ reveals why healthcare desperately needs a new front door

HBO's show captures the chaos of America's overcrowded emergency departments. The fix isn't bigger ERs — it's reimagining urgent care.

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Jeremy morgan

Bank of America’s 18,000 financial advisors just got a new AI tool as the company posts a record quarter

A new AI tool for financial advisors is one sign of how Bank of America is weaving artificial intelligence into its business model.

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Sheryl Estrada

As a small business owner, I never expected to pay $100,000 protecting my business from ransomware

This is a $131 billion tax on the American economy, spread across small business owners like myself.

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Walter rowen

Most of you are rejecting AI. The data shows you’re running out of time

We have really strong feelings about AI, positive and negative.

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Nick Lichtenberg

Current price of oil as of April 16, 2026

When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.

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Joseph Hostetler

Moody’s CEO: AI has a trust problem – better models won’t fix it

Moody’s was founded over 100 years ago on the conviction that markets function better with transparent, rigorous and independent data and analysis.

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Nick Lichtenberg

The world’s most — and least — miserable economies in 2025, ranked

Venezuela tops a new global misery index covering 178 countries, while Taiwan claims the happiest economy title for the second year running.

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Steve H. Hanke

Two physicians on ending the waiting-room era: bring care home

Aetna CMO Benjamin Kornitzer and former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on why home-based care for America's sickest seniors isn't a vision anymore.

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Exclusive: Top crypto VCs like Paradigm and a16z see portfolio values shrink amid market downturn and distributions to investors

Paradigm’s holdings dipped about 6%, while a16z’s dropped almost 40% as the venture giant gave back capital from its first three funds.

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Ben Weiss

When the shocks keep coming, farmer cooperatives are the only buffer that works

My organization has approved $38.75 million in new grants supporting 16 producer organization-led projects across 27 low-income countries.

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Shobha shetty

Top New York surgeon: Americans have better data for choosing restaurants than surgeons. That has to change

A top orthopedic surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery makes the case for radical transparency in medicine — and exactly what patients should be...

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Mathias p. bostrom

Peace talks are back on while the U.S. plays cat-and-mouse with rogue ships in the Strait of Hormuz

Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.

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Jim Edwards

The Iran war’s fertilizer shock is hammering American farmers and 70% can’t afford what they need for this year’s growing season

Prices for the three main fertilizers used by farmers are all up double digits since the Iran war started.

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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Forget the chatbot wars. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is thinking about something far bigger

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

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Kamal Ahmed

This CEO pirated video games as a teen and became a hacker for the Air Force. Now he’s built a $3 billion cyber firm

Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan bootstrapped his way from online hacker forums to a $3 billion valuation—without an Ivy League degree.

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Preston Fore

Exclusive: The doctors and education experts who studied AI’s impact on the young call for a 5-year moratorium in schools

"If a local children's hospital told parents, 'We've got this new drug, it has potential, just trust us,' people would be horrified."

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Catherina gioino

Why no nation is truly ‘energy independent’ while the Strait of Hormuz remains closed

The U.S. blockade is working, but a potential global recession still looms.

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Jordan Blum

German workers take more than a day off work sick, every single month—so now the government is stepping in and proposing to cut their pay for it

Germany already told its workers to ditch four-day weeks and work-life balance—now the government wants to cut their pay for calling in sick too

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Orianna Rosa Royle

Oil prices may be falling, but for the wrong reason: a ‘demand destruction’ throttling global consumption, report finds

The International Energy Agency said oil demand is projected to contract by 80,000 barrels per day in 2026.

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Sasha Rogelberg

Meet the Americans refusing to pay their taxes in protest of the Trump administration

From a Brooklyn freelancer who hasn't paid federal taxes since the Vietnam War to a new mom horrified by the Iran war, tax resisters say they'd rather...

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Jacqueline Munis

Pause AI and Stop AI: Meet the anti-AI groups facing questions after the attack on Sam Altman

After an alleged attack on Sam Altman’s home, attention has turned to two similarly named anti-AI groups. Here’s how they differ, and why both are...

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Sharon Goldman

From wool sneakers to GPUs: Allbirds’ desperate AI pivot and 600% stock surge, explained

Allbirds is now NewBird AI. Wall Street doesn’t care that it knows nothing about AI.

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Phil Wahba

Starbucks wants you to ask ChatGPT about what coffee to get, right as America boils over with AI backlash vibes

AI-powered recommendations promise to simplify shopping and coffee runs, but data suggests humans are just messier than that.

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Tristan Bove

Trumpflation hits the World Cup: Fans face $80–$100 transit fares on top of $4,000-plus tickets

NJ Transit is modeling a 700% rail-fare surge to MetLife Stadium. Boston has already locked in 4x hikes. With $4,000 group-stage seats and $10,000...

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Jake Angelo

‘I am certain’: Harvard policy expert warns the true cost of the Iran war to U.S. taxpayers will exceed $1 trillion

Linda Bilmes, along with economist Joseph Stiglitz, previously calculated the true cost of the 2003 Iraq war was at least fourfold greater than...

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Sasha Rogelberg

Elizabeth Warren on her proposal to bring back IRS Direct File: ‘For just one day of bombing Iran, we could pay for 20 years’

“For years, giant tax prep companies like TurboTax and H&R Block have rigged our system so they can cash in on your hard-earned dollars."

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Catherina gioino

Allbirds ditches sneaker business to pivot to AI compute, stock surges over 700%

What looked like a humiliation now looks more like a setup for a wild AI pivot. Meet NewBird AI.

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Eva Roytburg

The Bezos-Musk space rivalry is shooting for the moon and the winner will not just dominate the cosmos—but the future of AI infrastructure

SpaceX and Blue Origin are racing to land on the moon, and both have filed plans to put AI satellites into orbit.

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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

How a free tax filing system from the government went from 296,000 users to zero in just one year

A wildly popular IRS pilot let hundreds of thousands file taxes for free. After two decades and $103 million in lobbying, H&R Block and Intuit helped...

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Catherina gioino

Trump says the Iran war is ‘very close to over’—despite no deal, a live blockade, and threats mounting

Both U.S. forces and Iran are now blocking the Strait of Hormuz, but negotiators say an extended cease-fire is imminent.

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Eva Roytburg

This CEO has teamed up with Google, Microsoft, and McKinsey to build an AI degree that could rival Harvard—and it will only cost $10,000 to attend

Khan Academy CEO Sal Khan is reinventing college with an AI-focused bachelor's degree program, built with Google, Microsoft & McKinsey, for under...

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Preston Fore

A $24 billion Dutch lender is cutting its workforce—and to get the remaining staff on board, the CEO is having sandwiches with them

Marguerite Bérard, the CEO of the $24 billion Dutch bank ABN Amro, has weekly talks with employees to “hear their views on the bank” over sandwiches.

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Emma Burleigh

News outlets like NYT and USA Today are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to prevent AI training models from using their content

Tech companies can skirt copyright laws by using the Wayback Machine as a workaround for training language models on their content.

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Dave Lozo

The org chart isn’t ready: How AI exposed the hidden crisis inside the American corporation

A landmark KPMG index finds boards demanding transformation, execs spending billions on tech, and the people caught in the middle burning out.

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Nick Lichtenberg

Jeff Bezos pledged $10 billion for climate change. With the 2030 clock ticking, his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, is leading the charge to spend it

The Bezos Earth Fund has disbursed more than $2 billion so far. With less than four years left to deploy the rest, the couple's philanthropy is...

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Sydney Lake

a16z’s Ben Horowitz sees ‘AI anxiety’ consuming Silicon Valley founders. Workers’ fear of something else is killing adoption

The a16z co-founder said the "laws of physics" have changed for founders — and "AI anxiety" is real. Workers are experiencing something much darker.

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Nick Lichtenberg

Why insurance giant Travelers’ CTO is placing fewer, bigger bets on AI

Mojgan Lefebvre, the chief technology and operations officer at Travelers Companies, says the insurance giant is prioritizing scale when launching new...

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John Kell

Jeff Raikes: AI is capturing cognition — and most companies are building a talent debt they don’t see yet

The former Microsoft exec and Gates Foundation CEO on why the real AI arms race isn't about tools — and why the companies need to develop human...

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Jeff raikes

Exclusive: Artemis raises $70M to help fight AI-powered attacks with AI

Backed by $70 million, Artemis is tackling the new reality of faster, cheaper AI-driven attacks.

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Sharon Goldman

Current price of oil as of April 15, 2026

When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.

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Joseph Hostetler

Iran, U.S. close to agreeing cease-fire extension, officials say

Officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the matter.

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Samy Magdy

Snap to cut about 1,000 jobs, or 16% of its global workforce

Snap Inc. said in a regulatory filing that the job cuts will cost about $95 million to $130 million in severance payments and related costs.

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The Associated Press

Hampshire College closes, the latest in a string of small schools to fold under demographic, financial pressure

"This is an incredibly painful moment for the Hampshire community," President Jennifer Chrisler said on Instagram.

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Michael Casey

Meet the millennial and Gen Z ‘attention activists’ who are trying desperately to unplug from their phones

“I realized the phones are literally getting in the way of the things I love."

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Michael Weissenstein

Polarized Minnesota politicians find something to agree on: the meat raffle

“This is probably the best feel-good bill that we have going on in the Legislature right now,” said Republican Rep. Jim Nash.

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Steve Karnowski

Citi’s new CFO touts AI gains as bank posts record $24.6 billion revenue quarter: ‘This is not the spell-checker working better’

Gonzalo Luchetti is already mapping the company's next chapter.

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Sheryl Estrada

Silicon Valley has no monopoly on AI brain power. That’s why Demis Hassabis is very happy to stay in London

Silicon Valley may lead the AI race, but Demis Hassabis is betting London can rival it—proving world-class talent, and the future of AI, aren’t...

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Kamal Ahmed

A retired general’s warning: America can’t fight the AI arms race on tech it doesn’t control

The Pentagon's fallout with Anthropic exposes a dangerous vulnerability: the U.S. military is renting AI it can't fully control.

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Robert F. Dees

I was a government official in the 1990s and watched the economy get turned upside-down. It’s happening again

I had a front-row seat to the workforce disruptions of the NAFTA era. Here's what it taught me about surviving the AI jobs crisis.

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Maria Flynn

Azzi Fudd: how I learned to use NIL for transformation, not just transactions

The number 1 pick in the WNBA draft explains what she learned about business and growth through a star-studded career at the University of...

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