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Boards protected CEO bonuses as tariffs threatened business. Now, as Iran disrupts trade, CEOs may get more protection

An exclusive analysis of 50 companies found CEOs in the lowest-performing tier still collected 87% of their target bonuses last year—and boards may...

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Oracle blows investors away with 22% ‘hyper growth’—but cash flow crunches to negative $24.7 billion

Free cash flow at the enterprise software giant has tumbled over the past year as the company races to spend $50 billion on AI.

10.03.2026 4

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Oracle is under pressure from more than $100 billion in debt and massive layoffs as it pushes ahead with Larry Ellison’s 3-step transformation

The Larry Ellison-led software giant is remaking its cloud infrastructure to rival Amazon and Microsoft.

09.03.2026 3

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Google, Meta and the AI ‘hyperscalers’ are on a $1 trillion borrowing binge after years of printing cash. Here’s why Big Tech’s pivot to debt matters

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle are spending billions to fund the AI buildout—but overinvestment risk means there will be “winners...

07.03.2026 20

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Warren Buffett complained for decades that boosting profits by excluding exec stock comp was ‘cynical’—Nvidia just surprised Wall Street and agreed

The AI chipmaker will score brownie points with Wall Street by making the change, without incurring much downside. Nvidia's competitors won't be so...

04.03.2026 10

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Cyber retaliation from Iran is a problem for U.S. companies — ‘It’s in the hands of a 19-year-old hacker in a Telegram room,’ ex-NSA operative says

The bigger threat to U.S. companies may not be a data breach, but a coordinated campaign designed to make your employees stop trusting everything they...

02.03.2026 20

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What AI bubble? Nvidia posts record $68 billion quarterly revenue and $78 billion forecast, as Jensen Huang cites ‘skyrocketing’ adoption of agents

Nvidia just released Q4 and FY 2026 results showing another blowout, beating guidance on nearly every metric.

26.02.2026 10

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Trump announces 401(k) for all: ‘We will match your contribution with up to $1,000 each year’

Trump also pressured lawmakers to formally prohibit insider trading among legislators, shortly after mentioning Nancy Pelosi's name.

25.02.2026 20

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Troubled Nvidia ally Supermicro pledged to hire a new CFO ‘immediately.’ That was 14 months ago.

“No one wants this job,” Cowen Partners search firm president Shawn Cole said.

20.02.2026 20

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With Figma stock down 80% post-IPO, investors cheer solid customer growth, ties to Anthropic and OpenAI

The design collaboration platform has shed 80% of its stock value since its 2025 IPO, trading at $23 a share amid a brutal sector-wide rout in SaaS...

19.02.2026 10

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A widow lost $39,000, her house, and six dogs after a scam. ‘If the story wasn’t so horrible, people wouldn’t pay attention’

Americans are being defrauded out of billions through an epidemic of romance and investment schemes and it can happen to anybody, authorities warn.

14.02.2026 10

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Workday shed $40 billion in value. Founder Aneel Bhusri is back with a $139 million bet he can turn it around

Workday's compensation plan for its new CEO underscores how much of an uphill fight SaaS companies have in the face of AI.

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Alphabet plans to double capex spending to a possible $185 billion—but it’s keeping CEO Sundar Pichai up at night

Alphabet revealed a staggering increase in infrastructure investments that will see it nearly double the $91.4 billion it spent last year, according...

05.02.2026 10

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Disney’s new CEO Josh D’Amaro stands to make $45 million but he’ll also get something priceless—a ‘clean break’ with Bob Iger

Disney’s new CEO is getting something that could be a major factor in his success: clarity about who's in charge.

04.02.2026 8

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX buys xAI in stunning deal valued at $1.25 trillion ahead of looming IPO

“My estimate is that within 2 to 3 years, the lowest cost way to generate AI compute will be in space,” Musk wrote in a post on SpaceX’s website...

03.02.2026 20

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$14 trillion asset manager BlackRock unveils its newest weapon in Wall Street ‘alts’ talent war: profit sharing from private markets

The world’s largest asset manager is fighting to keep talent from leaving for rivals like Apollo, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and KKR.

30.01.2026 6

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Microsoft demand backlog doubles to $625 billion thanks to OpenAI, but hefty spending and slower revenue growth spook investors

Future revenues in the form of RPO rose 110% on the back of a $250 billion commitment from OpenAI, but Azure growth slowed to 39% in the second...

29.01.2026 10

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Defense companies like RTX and Anduril are feeling the heat on pay and stock buybacks after Trump’s executive order

The nation's largest aerospace and defense company has drawn the president’s ire for being “the least responsive to the needs of the Department of...

13.01.2026 8

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Consumers lost $12.5 billion to fraud last year, and AI-powered scams are set to explode in 2026, Experian warns

The consumer credit bureau predicts a fraud “tipping point” this year as more people rely on agents for shopping and deepfake employee schemes...

13.01.2026 20

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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.

07.01.2026 10

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CEO of $90 billion Waste Management hauled trash and went to 1 a.m. safety briefings—‘It’s not always just dollars and cents’

Jim Fish took his father-in-law’s advice and attended early-morning safety meetings to meet with workers, ride in truck cabs, and talk about...

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Behind glam luxury brands Michael Kors and Jimmy Choo lurks a troubled holding company losing millions

Capri CEO John Idol’s fashion powerhouse of Michael Kors, Versace and Jimmy Choo was supposed to rival LVMH. Seven years in, the company lost $1...

02.01.2026 10

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Feds are hunting teenage hacking groups like ‘Scattered Spider’ who have targeted $1 trillion worth of the Fortune 500 since 2022

Rogue teens have attacked some 120 companies—including Nike, Chick-fil-A, Instacart, and News Corporation—often posing as IT staff.

01.01.2026 10

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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 9

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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 5

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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 20

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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 10

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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 9

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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 10

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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 10

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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 6

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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 5

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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 9

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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 5

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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 8

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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 6

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

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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 4

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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 5

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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 6

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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 7

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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 6

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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. 

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