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|   Eva RoytburgFortune | 
Powell said the Fed is walking a tightrope as AI-fueled investment props up growth but erodes hiring.

 
  However, the Fed chair noted that the growth is unevenly distributed and concentrated among only a few companies.

 
  The Fed will stop shrinking its $7 trillion balance sheet in December, but Powell stressed it’s a pause in quantitative tightening, rather than a...

 
  For the first time in modern history, the Fed cut rates without jobs data, acting amid a government shutdown, rising unemployment, and open pressure...

 
  As Amazon slashes 14,000 white-collar roles and the U.S. approaches a million job cuts this year, AI’s first major labor casualty might be emerging.

 
  Chris Wright says the supercomputers will also allow the U.S. to “re-create the center of the sun on Earth” given how they benefit fusion energy...

 
  All roads lead to Rome.

 
  Simon van Teutem talked to Fortune about “the illusion of infinite choice, and the social status … You’re always looking for the next level, the...

 
  Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG, sees a "creep instead of a surge" in inflation. Things are uneasy below the surface.

 
  A once-obscure data-sharing deal between ADP and the Fed helped shape monetary policy for years—until it abruptly vanished.

 
  Andrej Karpathy’s timeline for AGI is much slower than the consensus among Silicon Valley types.

 
  The CEO of the largest digital bank says stop peddling new technology as your selling point.

 
  Trump’s former economic advisor Stephen Moore tells Fortune tariffs have dragged down growth and raised prices, and says he’s concerned about...

 
  Mark Cohen expects many shelves at retailers will be empty this holiday season.

 
  Paris Martineau said Consumer Reports found “concerning levels” of heavy metals in a 2010 investigation, but the risks have been growing ever since.

 
  “No parent is going to trust that their kids can’t get through your age gating,” Cuban wrote on X.

 
  There are three times more trades on Wall Street than just four years ago, the head of the stock exchange, Lynn Martin, told Fortune.

 
  “The heat trapped by CO2 and other greenhouse gases is turbo-charging our climate and leading to more extreme weather," said WMO Deputy...

 
  Powell gave two strong signals that liquidity will soon be injected into the market.

 
  The past week could just be a preview to China weaponizing its entire supply chain, the investor told Fortune.

 
  The Wharton professor says Washington ignored the mineral threat for decades, leaving U.S. supply chains exposed and Beijing in control of 90% of...

 
  "'We as a country have done a poor job equipping our children for life," Arkeem Sturgis tells Fortune. Some people "want to work with their hands."

 
  The Comet browser was just lowered from $200 to free for students. Its “agentic” AI can navigate the web, click through tasks, and yes, finish...

 
  The automaker has tightened its return-to-office policy, requiring most salaried staff to work on-site four days a week as part of CEO Jim Farley’s...

 
  Managers and leaders have to “get their mind working on how they’re gonna use this thing,” the JPMorgan Chase CEO said. “It’s kind of the...

 
  Nathan Sheets, Citi’s global chief economist, told Fortune that it's a similar situation to the "devastating" 1930s, but maybe not in the way you...

 
  Trump didn't touch the MAGA trial balloon over an NFL boycott, but he did say he hates the new kickoff rules. "It just looks terrible."

 
  It’s an unusual attack, since it resembles Ezra Klein’s “abundance” thesis, and one of Trump’s top deputies is a homebuilding heir.

 
  “With the kind of growth we have now, the debt is very low relatively speaking. You grow yourself out of that debt,” Trump said.

 
  New Yorkers are vandalizing posters advertising friend.com, calling the AI necklace “dystopian” and “creepy.” It also just doesn’t really work.

 
  Stanford made waves with a paper saying AI is having a “significant” impact on entry-level jobs. Not so fast, Yale’s Martha Gimbel told Fortune.

 
  Linguist and AI critic Emily Bender says the shift could incentivize Meta to design its AI to prod users into even more conversations.

 
  “The audience completes the work,” Avi Schiffmann, creator of the AI wearable, told Fortune. “I purchased the zeitgeist.”

 
  Zuckerberg and Altman are scared of a bubble. Not Nvidia’s leader, who also offered thoughts on the $100,000 H-1B visa setting "the bar a little too...

 
  The schedules show high-profile names penciled in for lunches, flights and island trips.

 
  Markets actually improved on the latest surprise round of Trump tariffs.

 
  With the Ellisons (Oracle) and Murdochs (Fox) in the mix, Trump allies are poised to take at least partial control over the app’s recommendation...

 
  Washington is quietly handing Musk a foothold in the AI race with a licensing deal.

 
  The Starbucks’ workers union is not happy with the plan, which also includes huge store closures and hundreds of layoffs.

 
  “We’re pulling further and further away from one another," the former President said of shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

 
  "The uncertainty from the administration’s policies has put a damper on all investment in the oilpatch," one exec wrote in the quarterly Dallas Fed...

 
  Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its...

 
  Powell is nearing the end of a tumultuous second term.

 
  Builders are now calling for a work visa for law-abiding undocumented immigrants.

 
  While a major economic issue, there’s not much the Fed can do about that, he said.

 
  Musk inflamed a brutal Christmas-time conflict over the visas. Is he trying to win back Trump’s good graces now?

 
  “I’m obviously both terrified and maybe slightly flattered,” Whitney Wolfe Herd said of “Swiped.”

 
  Teenagers, Alexandr Wang argues, have a built-in edge.

 
  Columbia's Alex Abdo said Brendan Carr of the FCC is close to “the definition of unconstitutional coercion" while Chuck Schumer called his rhetoric...

 
  “We may be coming full circle," Robert Thompson of Syracuse University told Fortune, "back to a Carson-style, harmless late night—with NBC the...

