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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.

12.12.2025 5

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The race to deploy an AI workforce faces one important trust gap: What happens when an agent goes rogue?

There’s a great deal of enthusiasm around AI agents, but as panelists discussed at Fortune's Brainstorm AI, there are still a lot of questions too.

12.12.2025 10

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Actress Natasha Lyonne dropped out of NYU and watched movies instead. Now, she’s helping to shape the future of AI

“We are the ones who are deciding what this use is going to be and how we choose to use it,”” Lyonne told Fortune’s Brainstorm AI audience in...

10.12.2025 4

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5 VCs sounds off on the AI question du jour

Who better to ask about a bubble than a group who will collectively deploy anywhere from tens to hundreds of millions of dollars over the next decade...

10.12.2025 10

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Amazon’s new Alexa aims to detangle household chaos, like who fed the dog and the name of that restaurant everyone wanted to try

This is a “classic fight in my house,” said Panos Panay, SVP of devices and services at Amazon.

09.12.2025 10

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Amazon robotaxi service Zoox to start charging for rides in 2026, with ‘laser focus’ on transporting people, not deliveries, says cofounder

Jesse Levinson, Zoox cofounder and CTO, said the robotaxi service needs several more years before it can operate at a scale where the business is...

09.12.2025 3

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The $50 billion burgeoning sector betting on your nostalgia for classic American brands

Brand management companies are gobbling up beloved brands from Martha Stewart to Dockers—but views are split on whether they are saviors or vampires.

30.11.2025 10

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The $124 trillion Great Wealth Transfer won’t be a ‘big bang’ warns Northwestern Mutual CEO Tim Gerend

Women live longer than men, and wealth will transfer across spouses before it moves from baby boomers to the next generation.

30.11.2025 8

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Silicon Valley sets its sights on building the perfect baby

Tech-savvy parents to be are using IVF and screening embryos to build families in ways that were unimaginable a few short years ago.

29.11.2025 8

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The CEO of $12 billion Ryder System caught a massive strategic blind spot after a simple question from someone in office supplies

A question about market share triggered a major aha moment for the leader of one of the largest trucking fleets in North America.

28.11.2025 8

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Four accused in black-market scheme to smuggle hundreds of Nvidia GPUs to China—while raking in millions

The smugglers are facing decades in prison for an alleged conspiracy that involved routing highly coveted chips through Malaysia and Thailand.

21.11.2025 5

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Jensen Huang pours cold water on an AI bubble, and says ‘Nvidia is unlike any other accelerator’ in the boom

The world is undergoing three massive platform shifts at once, the CEO said, as the stock soared more than 6% in after-hours trading.

20.11.2025 10

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CoreWeave’s earnings report highlights $56 billion in contracted revenue, but its guidance and share price tick down amid AI infrastructure bubble fears

All eyes were on the datacenter operator’s RPO figure, which matched Wall Street’s $50 billion-$60 billion expectations.

11.11.2025 7

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Fear sweeps the C-suite—companies pour millions into security as threats against executives surge

Personal security provided to executives jumped from 17% to 27% of companies in two years while cybersecurity protections tripled, a Goldman Sachs...

21.10.2025 2

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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says AI will eliminate jobs and ‘people should stop sticking their head in the sand’

The Wall Street bank chairman and CEO said AI is going to displace jobs but it will also dramatically increase people’s quality of life.

18.10.2025 3

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JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon gives 100% every single day even after years in the job—just like Football hall of famer Tom Brady

Dimon, who has led the bank for 19 years, spoke about his leadership philosophy at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women summit.

15.10.2025 5

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Battle over Elon Musk’s trillionaire pay package builds as pension funds face off against Tesla

Next month, investors will vote on setting Tesla CEO Elon Musk on the path to becoming the world’s first trillionaire.

09.10.2025 3

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More CEOs demand ‘moonshot’ pay—billions in compensation for aggressive, seemingly impossible targets

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

08.10.2025 10

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These co-CEOs swear by splitting the job: ‘The demands on a modern CEO are close to unsustainable’

As Oracle, Spotify and Comcast announce co-CEOs, it's vital to understand what makes good partnerships tick.

05.10.2025 2

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More CEOs want Elon Musk–style ‘moonshot’ pay packages—but comp experts are raising alarms

Moonshot grants tie CEO compensation almost entirely to aggressive, seemingly impossible performance targets.

05.10.2025 10

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Oracle’s new Gen X and Millennial CEOs get stock options worth $350 million—but they’ll have to keep the stock soaring to collect

CEOs Clay Magouyrk and Michael Sicilia will take over for Safra Catz, who will take on a new role as executive vice chair of the board.

23.09.2025 8

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London teenager orchestrated ‘help desk’ extortion scheme against 47 U.S. companies that netted $115 million, says DOJ

A 19-year old is facing a maximum 95 years in prison for allegedly calling company help desks and convincing employees to reset passwords in a massive...

20.09.2025 10

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Markets expected the rate cut, but the ‘real surprise’ is the Fed’s opinion on the current state of the economy, quant CEO says

The Federal Reserve’s policy setup is “bullish for bonds, bearish for the dollar, and neutral for equities in the near term," according to TIAA...

18.09.2025 20

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Tesla board blocks shareholder vote on policy that would ban political statements by CEO Elon Musk and other executives

The SEC has sided with Tesla’s board in a dispute over a shareholder proposal seeking political neutrality among Tesla executives and board members.

17.09.2025 4

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Opendoor brings back its founders and welcomes a new CEO from Shopify—who could earn $2.8 billion if he sends the stock soaring

If Kaz Nejatian can clear all the performance hurdles in his compensation package, he’ll own 11.6% of the tech company.

12.09.2025 10

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Tesla investor presses board to finally address the elephant in the room: Elon Musk’s politics and their impact on the EV maker

A die hard climate-change advocate is urging a policy of political neutrality. “I don’t want to see anything interfere with the completion of...

06.09.2025 2

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Colleges have a new worry: ‘Ghost students’—AI powered fraud rings angling to get millions in financial aid

The DOE found $90 million had been disbursed to ineligible students, including $30 million that went to stolen identities of deceased individuals. 

23.08.2025 10

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‘I disdain corporate speak’: Tech founder disregards comms and legal in tell-all sign-off post about the heavy weight of being CEO

“I’ve never overhyped or played into the Silicon Valley kool-aid drinking tech bro stereotypes,” said Life360 co-founder Chris Hulls in a...

13.08.2025 10

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Elon Musk retains title as the highest-paid CEO in history with $26 billion pay package—and the only thing he has to do is show up for two years

The lack of performance targets in Musk's massive new pay package has some investors crying foul.

05.08.2025 10

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North Korean IT worker infiltrations exploded 220% over the past 12 months, with GenAI weaponized at every stage of the hiring process

Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike red-flags a new North Korean software development hire to clients just about once a day.

04.08.2025 10

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Former NBA star Gilbert Arenas and suspected Israeli crime figure arrested in high-stakes illegal poker empire at California mansion, prosecutors said

The allegedly illegal poker nights included private chefs, valets, and armed security at a mansion in Encino, Calif., prosecutors said.

31.07.2025 20

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Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg laid out his AI vision that outperformed Q2 expectations and sent shares soaring

Meta reported strong financial performance on Wednesday, with revenue rising 22% to $47.5 billion.

31.07.2025 10

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Competitive cricketer turned assistant brand manager is now heading a $368 billion giant. Meet P&G’s new CEO Shailesh Jejurikar

The company behind Charmin, Bounty, and Tide named chief operating officer Shailesh Jejurikar as its next CEO, effective Jan.1, 2026.

29.07.2025 8

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Arizona woman in North Korean IT workers scheme sentenced to 8.5 years for helping to trick Fortune 500 companies out of millions

“The call is coming from inside the house. If this happened to these big banks, to these Fortune 500, brand name, quintessential American companies,...

24.07.2025 10

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Elon Musk wants more control of Tesla so activist investors can’t boot him—but not so much the board can’t fire him if he goes ‘crazy’

He said his ownership stake is "a major concern," noting he hoped the Tesla board addresses the issue at its annual shareholder meeting in November.

24.07.2025 4

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AI tracked down nearly 80,000 ‘ghost students’ trying to enroll in California colleges

“The only answer for a bad guy with AI is a good guy with AI,” said Kiran Kodithala, whose AI platform is front-and-center in California’s fight...

23.07.2025 9

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Tesla sales cratered in California for 7 straight quarters while rivals Toyota and Honda surge, report shows

The once-unstoppable electric-vehicle maker saw new car and truck registrations tumble 18.3% compared to the first half of last year, according to...

23.07.2025 4

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An American who helped North Korean IT workers rake in $17.1 million faces sentencing in scheme that tricked hundreds of Fortune 500 companies

Arizona woman Christina Chapman carefully oversaw at least 90 laptops at her home and shipped dozens of others to China, Russia, the UAE, and Nigeria,...

19.07.2025 10

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Campbell’s Soup gets a Gen X makeover — 42-year-old fashion exec joins her family at $9 billion canned-soup-and-snacks giant

A luxury shoe designer has stepped into a board role previously held by her late mother.

19.07.2025 4

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Trump’s DOJ sues to oust Hollywood movie CEO and 2 others from broadcasting board, citing medieval legal tool 

The Department of Justice filed a rare action against three Corporation for Public Broadcasting board members.

16.07.2025 10

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Banker accused in $140 million Ponzi scheme bought a Patek Philippe watch, jaunts to Kennebunkport, and put millions on his credit cards, SEC says

The sudden implosion of First Liberty Building & Loan has roiled Georgia’s conservative political network.

11.07.2025 20

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Elon Musk’s Tesla finally sets a shareholder meeting date amid doubts about his long-denied $56 billion pay package

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander told Fortune the announcement was a “welcome, if belated, recognition that the rule of law applies to...

11.07.2025 4

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Sports and entertainment mogul accused of making secret backroom deal in $338 million arena project

Tim Leiweke, co-founder of the Oak View Group, is charged with allegedly conspiring with a competitor to score a deal to develop the Moody Center at...

10.07.2025 10

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Six women thought they found love online. It was a married father of 2 scamming them out of millions

A man from Nigeria pleaded guilty in a $2.5 million romance scam that devastated six victims.

06.07.2025 10

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Microsoft suspends 3,000 Outlook and Hotmail accounts created by North Korean IT workers

The company said it discovered a repository of resumes and email accounts the workers are using to apply for jobs.

04.07.2025 10

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North Korean operative reveals the inner workings of the IT scam infiltrating the Fortune 500—‘They had no idea that we were from North Korea’

Thousands of IT workers are trapped inside a global operation that funds North Korea’s weapons program, but one managed to escape.

04.07.2025 6

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North Korean operatives and American accomplices accused in massive fraud that infiltrated the Fortune 500 and stole millions

The Justice Department, in a series of indictments, has laid out the use of front companies as a way to further the North Korean IT worker scheme.

01.07.2025 7

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Former OpenAI researcher Lucas Beyer pours cold water on $100 million Meta signing bonus 

“We did not get 100M sign-on, that’s fake news,” the AI researcher posted on X.

27.06.2025 30

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A $650 Theragun massager is the crux of an alleged multimillion broken promise between two former friends — ‘Dude, my heart just sank to the floor’

A lawsuit in California is seeking damages from Therabody and a correction to two patents held by the company.

25.06.2025 10

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Former CEO sentenced to prison after first-ever prosecution for stock sales via trading plans that thousands of executives use

A lawyer for ex-Ontrak CEO and executive chairman Terren Peizer called the case a “true miscarriage of justice from the get-go.”

24.06.2025 10

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