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Amanda Gerut

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Oracle gave Larry Ellison and his co-CEOs nearly $1 billion in stock options. By fiscal year end, all were underwater

New CFO Hilary Maxson, who opted to take some of her pay in restricted stock units, fared much better.

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AJ Scaramucci’s Solari Capital emerges from stealth with $350 million deployed and a case that companies stay private too long

Iron Man comics, dinosaur bones, and the long wait for an IPO.

25.09.2026 7

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A VC hired his kids’ nanny to run the back office. The SEC says she took $1.3 million

The money allegedly went towards online gambling, shopping, and meals at restaurants, regulators say.

24.09.2026 5

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From BFFs to open war: Better.com’s founder vs. the investor who replaced him

A nasty dispute between a former CEO and his interim replacement has escalated into a fight for control of the once high-flying Better.com.

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They built exoskeletons for stroke patients. Now, their robots can do eyelash extensions

Luum has raised $36 million to put a robot to work on your lash appointment—and cut the time it takes roughly in half.

09.09.2026 10

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The typical tech leader’s pay rose $810k since 2021—more than COOs, CFOs, and CIOs combined

Median compensation for tech executives rose 45% from 2021 to 2025, faster than it did for CEOs, CFOs, and COOs.

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Apple CEO John Ternus started Tuesday. His $55 million award starts next year

Apple tied 75% of the new CEO’s annual equity target to shareholder return relative to the S&P 500. Neither award is granted until fiscal 2027

01.09.2026 10

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Half of remote IT job applications now carry North Korean fraud patterns, startup Endorsed finds

Fake job applications are surging just as Mythos fear narrows the investment field.

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Deloitte sees a $566 billion lunar economy by 2050

But a market that doesn’t exist yet could yield an even larger payoff.

28.08.2026 10

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang eats dinner with someone ‘and their stock price doubles the next day’

People want to know where the CEO is dining, and more importantly, who he's with.

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Nvidia gave its first-ever year-ahead forecast—a 70% growth bombshell meant to silence AI bubble critics and ‘circular financing’ doomsayers

Nvidia’s stock climbed more than 4% in after-hours trading after delivering a blowout quarter and projecting $100 billion more revenue than analysts...

26.08.2026 10

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Nvidia doubles quarterly revenue to $96 billion and crushes Wall Street growth targets as CEO Jensen Huang says demand is accelerating

Nvidia's second quarter fiscal 2027 earnings results were released after the market closed on Wednesday.

26.08.2026 10

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Deloitte puts the lunar economy at up to $566 billion by 2050—and SpaceX is speeding the timeline

The report, shared with Fortune ahead of its Wednesday release, says ripple effects could push the total above $1.1 trillion if water-ice rocket fuel...

26.08.2026 40

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Supermicro investigation clears CEO in alleged $2.5 billion smuggling scheme while a criminal trial involving a cofounder is set for next year

The AI-hardware maker’s board found no evidence CEO Charles Liang knew anything about alleged chip smuggling but a pending trial could bring more...

20.08.2026 10

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Companies are spending trillions on AI. The C-suite doesn’t know who is in charge of it

Boards, CEOs, and the executives who report to them are sharply divided on who owns AI.

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Ousted L3Harris CEO Chris Kubasik forfeits $45 million—but he’ll still walk away with $80 million in stock and options

The ex-CEO was previously forced to resign from Lockheed Martin after a 2012 ethics investigation confirmed he had a personal relationship with a...

17.08.2026 20

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Boiler room raised $74 million selling retirees SpaceX, Anduril, Anthropic, and Perplexity while reaping ‘massive hidden fees,’ SEC claims

The New York financier at the center of the case, Andrew Spaventa, denied the allegations on Friday, and said he planned to defend himself.

15.08.2026 20

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Anthropic needs to bring in Amazon-style earnings to justify its $2 trillion valuation—but it’s barely turned a profit

Investors are hoping for a $2 trillion listing in October backed by one of the fastest revenue ramps anyone has ever seen on a company that has yet to...

14.08.2026 30

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Forget the gala, these Silicon Valley schools run their own venture capital funds

A handful of elite Bay Area schools have enlisted parent-donors from Sequoia, Lightspeed, and Battery to steer small pools of donated capital into...

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CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator cites ‘sold out’ capacity as revenue more than doubles and backlog swells to $104 billion

The neocloud provider said revenue more than doubled in the second quarter, while backlog rose 246% year-over-year to $104.2 billion.

11.08.2026 20

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‘Pure insanity’—Elon Musk details SpaceX’s plan to turn the moon into its newest manufacturing site

SpaceX’s SEC filings describe lunar satellite factories, electromagnetic launchers, and robotic mineral mining. The founders building space...

06.08.2026 10

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Elon Musk delivers ‘totally nuts’ plans for moon robots and insists $1 trillion revenue target will hit but capex tanks SpaceX on debut earnings

The rocket-and-AI company posted stronger than expected revenue, but investors choked on the rapidly rising capital expenditures.

04.08.2026 20

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SpaceX revenue surges to $7.8 billion, blowing past Wall Street expectations by nearly $1 billion

SpaceX posted $7.8 billion in quarterly revenue, surging ahead of the $6.9 billion consensus, as Starlink subscribers doubled to 12 million and $14.1...

04.08.2026 20

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Amazon’s Andy Jassy sees a $1 trillion cloud built on businesses like the PGA Tour—which swapped its server trucks for AI broadcasts

AWS just posted $42.2 billion in revenue with its fastest growth in 18 quarters and the AI platform saw more spending last quarter than in every prior...

01.08.2026 30

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Andy Jassy said Amazon will spend $220 billion this year—and still won’t have enough capacity to meet demand

AWS revenue hit $42.2 billion in Q2, marking its fastest growth in 18 quarters as AI demand outpaces Amazon's ability to build more data centers.

30.07.2026 20

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Microsoft’s stock has biggest one-day gain since 2008, adding $480 billion in market value as cloud business booms

Azure crossed $100 billion in revenue for the first time, and a new disclosure about OpenAI offered some respite.

30.07.2026 20

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Microsoft’s cloud just hit a new milestone—Azure crosses $100 billion in annual revenue

Microsoft's fiscal Q4 revenue of $90 billion topped Wall Street targets, while Copilot reached 30 million paid seats, and an investment in Anthropic...

29.07.2026 10

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Amazon and Microsoft are spending $400 billion on AI—and investors are low on patience

Days after Wall Street punished Alphabet for its unbridled spending on AI infrastructure, the world's two leading cloud giants are set to provide the...

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Neo raises $100 million to hunt the zombie AI agents haunting your company

Former SentinelOne executives are cracking down on your AI tools.

24.07.2026 20

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A new group of stocks is transforming global equities markets. Meet ‘Memi,’ the $3 trillion sector fueled by AI’s insatiable hunger for memory chips

Micron Technology, SK Hynix, and Samsung hit $1 trillion or more in market cap this year due to surging demand for memory chips.

22.07.2026 20

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After SpaceX’s $2 trillion debut, investors are eyeing Anthropic and OpenAI. Market experts share how to play the next trillion-dollar IPO

Before buying into the hype, pros say to skip the first-day frenzy, follow the revenue, and read the prospectus.

22.07.2026 50

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Netflix used AI to produce 17 minutes of a documentary ‘twice as fast and at half the cost’—as streaming competition drives up content spending to $20 billion

The streaming company touted the efficiencies of AI in its Q2 earnings, while stressing that movies will still be 'made by people who make movies.'

16.07.2026 30

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An SEC email address mix-up is causing confusion and threatening to disrupt its proposal to scrap quarterly reporting requirements

The SEC has received more than 66,000 comment submissions on the controversial rule, and now, claims that there may have been a typo in the email...

14.07.2026 30

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SpaceX and Amazon are tech dopplegangers worth $4.5 trillion—and they’re headed for a collision

Elon Musk’s space-and-AI company lost $4.9 billion last year and trades at 97 times sales. Investors need a lot to go right.

13.07.2026 30

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Elon Musk’s judge has ‘significant misgivings’ about $1.5 million Twitter settlement—but approves it anyway

“This is not to say this settlement is run-of-the-mill,” Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan wrote.

09.07.2026 40

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Amazon’s $25 billion ‘surprise’ bond sale dangled extra yield to lure in buyers—and flashed a warning sign about the AI boom

Hyperscalers have sold an estimated $194 billion in AI-related bonds this year, and widening spreads on Amazon’s latest bond issuance show the...

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Elon Musk can’t sell a single SpaceX share for a year—and then all the locks crack open at once

The rocket maker’s gated stock-sale structure is designed to keep billions of shares from cratering the stock price.

03.07.2026 50

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‘Cop on your wrist’— Wearables offer tons of data but people are still going to sleep to Netflix and TikTok

A group of experts at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech event in Aspen pinpointed a problem: People have more data than ever from their wearables, but...

29.06.2026 30

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Bill Ackman, David Tepper, and other billionaire fund managers are quietly piling into Amazon

Even as Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway exited the stock, big institutions bought 253 million more shares of Amazon during the past 12 months.

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AOL cofounder Steve Case on AI— major upside, real risk, and ‘probably a net negative’ for jobs

Speaking at Fortune Brainstorm Tech, the internet pioneer described himself as a “huge optimist” about AI's benefits but warned that the risks are...

16.06.2026 30

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AI can be a ‘secret sauce’ or a way of ‘democratizing mediocrity’—Here’s how business leaders are getting the best of the technology

AI tools can be the most effective and well-designed in the world, but two people can use the same tool and get to vastly different results.

12.06.2026 30

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SpaceX is about to make history—and 80% of VCs won’t see a dime of it

A live Term Sheet meetup of investors agreed SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic will reward a sliver of venture. But most of the industry will be watching...

11.06.2026 40

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Marc Lore’s robots make 500 burrito bowls an hour. A human can make 45

The Wonder founder is automating fast-casual food with machines that make salad and poke bowls, sauces, and eventually drinks but there are few roles...

09.06.2026 40

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‘Getting control where we can’—Europe wants sovereign AI but most of the chips are from the U.S.

At Fortune Brainstorm Tech, Mistral's Timothée Lacroix made the case for European control over the AI stack.

09.06.2026 30

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Your career needs a ‘gym membership’ to keep up with continuous AI advancements, says Campus founder Tade Oyerinde

“I'm sorry if you’re exhausted,” said AI learning founder and Campus Chancellor Tade Oyerinde.

08.06.2026 30

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Elon Musk bullet-proofed his $1 trillion ‘Mars-shot’ pay at SpaceX after the epic battle over his $56 billion moonshot at Tesla

The CEO will have almost complete control of his Texas-based space company, without colonizing Mars or building a single non-Earth data center.

06.06.2026 50

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Salesforce turbocharges $25 billion stock buying spree with debt, cuts cash flow guidance in half

In the first quarter of fiscal 2027, Salesforce returned $27.5 billion to shareholders.

27.05.2026 30

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North Korean operatives stole $2 billion last year—and financial firms are the next target

A new CrowdStrike report shared exclusively with Fortune reveals DPRK-linked hackers tripled their attack pace in a single quarter and U.S. financial...

14.05.2026 40

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Encrypted texts reveal how Nvidia chips and U.S. tech are being smuggled to China and Russia

American-made tech components are being illegally smuggled to Russia, Iran, and China and lawmakers fear it could give them a battlefield edge.

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Supermicro CEO insists ‘no one’ beyond indicted employees were involved in alleged $2.5 billion smuggling scheme

CEO and Chairman Charles Liang said Supermicro’s relationship with vendors including Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and Broadcom was “strong” despite the...

05.05.2026 40

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