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Elon Musk’s proposed pay package in SpaceX’s IPO filing reveals what the company actually is: a $1 trillion monster built to colonize Mars

‘We do not want humans to have the same fate as dinosaurs,’ the prospectus reads.

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The one number that will actually move Nvidia’s stock Wednesday night

A beat is almost a given—Nvidia has beaten expectations 21 of the last 23 quarters. Whether the stock rallies or falls depends on a number below the...

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The 30-year yield hasn’t been this high since the Great Recession. Do the bond vigilantes ride again?

"Wow." Analysts can’t decide if the bond market rout is nothing or everything.

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Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI founding member and inventor of ‘vibe coding,’ defects to Anthropic

Karpathy, one of AI’s most influential voices, posted a “personal update” on X: “I’ve joined Anthropic.”

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While Trump insisted the Iran war would end ‘soon,’ an account in his name was buying millions in oil, defense and gold

A brokerage account bearing the president's name made 3,642 trades in the first quarter of 2026—hedging against a war he publicly said was nearly won.

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How Trump’s ‘unusual’ brokerage account traded around his own market-moving decisions—selling hyperscalers and buying energy stocks during the war

A new filing reveals 3,642 trades in Q1 in an account held in Trump’s name. The Trump Organization and White House say the president has no role in...

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Bill Ackman has been quietly buying Microsoft since February, when AI fears were dragging the stock

The Pershing Square founder is betting that investors are wrong about Microsoft's Azure growth and $190 billion capex budget.

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Scott Bessent made a fortune spotting currency manipulation. He says Beijing’s $2.5 trillion black hole is ‘a problem for the Europeans’

Bessent has been a currency hawk ever since he worked for George Soros in 1992 and saw something off with the British pound.

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Top economist says $39 trillion national debt leaves government worse prepared for recession than ever

The Fed’s hands would be tied in the case of a downturn.

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Kevin Warsh confirmed as Fed chair in party-line vote amid Elizabeth Warren’s ‘sock puppet’ criticism

Every Republican voted for Warsh on Wednesday, as did Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania.

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‘That doesn’t sound very healthy’: Amazon’s reported tokenmaxxing might gamify AI usage, analyst warns

Amazon employees are reportedly gaming internal AI leaderboards to inflate their token counts.

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‘It’s a miserable number’: Inflation surges as the Iran war and breakneck AI spending are crushing consumers

KPMG's Diane Swonk says the Iran war is in your groceries, AI is in your electricity bill, and the Fed has no easy way out.

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‘Americans are literally getting squeezed’: A top economist on why your wages are disappearing while the rich keep booking vacations

Heather Long, chief economist for the Navy Federal Union, explains why consumer sentiment just hit a 74-year low.

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Qualcomm’s CEO is working with ‘pretty much all’ major AI players on top-secret devices—and powering OpenAI’s first push into hardware

The phone is dying. Cristiano Amon knows what's replacing it—he just won't tell you yet.

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The job market is healing for everyone—except in the office

The April jobs report showed America is hiring again at the strongest pace in over a year, but white-collar sectors keep shedding workers, and AI may...

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Elon Musk called Anthropic ‘evil’ 3 months ago. Now he’s taking $4 billion to become its data landlord

“He who controls the data center, really does control the application of artificial intelligence right now.”

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The ‘PayPal Mafia’ built a $1.5 billion fintech pioneer. The company they left behind is on life support

Fortune coined the term "PayPal Mafia" in 2007. Two decades later, the mafia is thriving, but PayPal isn't.

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The viral TikTok $1.75 bid to save Spirit Airlines is fighting the wrong villain

Spirit isn’t being scooped up by private equity, as 22-year-old Hunter Peterson behind "Let's buy Spirit" claims.

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‘You could say the ceasefire has ceased’: Iran is back on Wall Street’s radar as oil prices spike 6%

The U.S. and Iran traded shots, while the UAE was slammed by drone strikes.

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Fed whisperer splits on Powell: A+ as steward, but ‘I don’t think you could give him high marks on the economy’

"I think they made a lot of mistakes under his leadership, on the economics and the monetary policy."

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Former Fed economist raises alarm on Warsh after historically partisan vote: ‘this is not normal is going to be a theme’

Claudia Sahm worked with Warsh when they were at the Fed but doesn’t know him personally. She told Fortune that his disrespect for Democrats was...

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Half of Google’s and Amazon’s ‘blowout AI profits’ came from a stake in Anthropic—not from their actual business

Anthropic is the secret sauce this earnings season, as unrealized gains on the private company are so powerful they're adding billions of shareholder...

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‘They left me no choice’: Powell isn’t going anywhere—blocking Trump from another Fed appointee

Powell said he’ll step down when the DOJ’s investigation is “well and truly over,” with no threats of revival.

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Jerome Powell defies Trump one last time, holding rates steady: ‘The facts have moved decisively in the hawkish direction,’ top economist says

Four dissents signal that incoming Fed chair Kevin Warsh inherits a committee far more hawkish than the White House wants.

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Elon Musk accuses Google co-founder of loving robots as much as people: ‘Larry Page called me a ‘specieist”

Musk pinned the entire story of OpenAI on a single insult he says Google co-founder Larry Page once hurled at him: "specieist."

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Musk vs. Altman: Burning Man, a ‘diary,’ and a trial almost no one thinks Musk can win

The lawsuit is a long shot for Elon Musk, nonprofit legal expert Sam Brunson warns.

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Kalshi and Polymarket are racing to ban insider trading. The economist who built the theory behind prediction markets says it’s the whole point

"You want the most accurate prices. That's pretty clear. The purpose of the market is to inform decisions."

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Pirro drops Powell probe, handing Kevin Warsh a lifeline, though U.S. Attorney vows to restart probe ‘should the facts warrant doing so’

It’s unclear whether or not Powell will choose to stay on the board.

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The Gates Foundation is investigating its ties to Epstein—just weeks before Bill Gates faces Congress

After Fortune’s March investigation, the Microsoft founder's philanthropic foundation is opening one of its own.

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Trump extends Iran ceasefire after insisting he wouldn’t hours earlier, citing a ‘seriously fractured’ Iran

The president promised a “great deal” before the opening bell and extended the ceasefire after the closing one.

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Meta will start tracking employees’ screens and keystrokes to train AI tools

To build AI workers, tech companies are now mining how humans actually work.

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Apple is slipping on Tim Cook’s exit. Wall Street says buy anyway

Wall Street is betting a hardware lifer is exactly what Apple's AI problem needs.

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‘Tethered to a galaxy far, far away’: Former diplomats doubt Trump’s Iran talks can deliver in final 48 hours

Oil is already climbing again after the ceasefire started withering this weekend.

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Iran has reopened the Strait of Hormuz—but experts say they now hold a card that works ‘almost like a nuclear deterrent’

Oil prices plunged 10% on Friday's announcement, but two veteran energy analysts say the celebration might be premature.

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Americans have never been this gloomy about the economy. Wall Street has never cashed in harder

“Stock markets respond to risks shifting around,” top economist Claudia Sahm told Fortune. “Households respond to reality.”

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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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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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From Molotov cocktails to data center shutdowns, the AI backlash is turning revolutionary

Gen Z is furious about AI, and so is the American countryside.

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Trump has wanted to humble Iran since 1980. He may be humbling the American empire instead

Historians call it a “Suez moment”—when a fading empire goes to war to prove it is still one, and proves the opposite instead.

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Wall Street is the biggest winner of the Iran war — and the S&P 500 just turned positive for the year

The "Trump Always Chickens Out" trade has made investors a fortune.

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Trump threatens to blow up Iran’s last ships ‘using the same system of kill’ as drug boats as his ‘Hail Mary’ blockade begins

“With the so-called 'blockade,' soon you'll be nostalgic for $4–5 gas," Iran’s lead negotiator wrote on X.

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This TikTok sensation sold her startup for $2 billion. Now Pepsi is letting ‘Poppi be Poppi’

When Poppi started running TV spots, Ellsworth said the goal was to stand out as much as possible, doing the opposite of what's expected.

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Only five ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz Thursday, far below Iran’s pledge as negotiations begin

More ships were crossing during war-time than peacetime.

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Within a day, the Iran-U.S. ceasefire began breaking down. Markets shrugged

Israeli strikes in Lebanon were at issue, according to the speaker of Iran’s parliament. Trump ripped into “Fraudsters, Charlatans, and WORSE.”

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From brinkmanship to TACO: Trump’s Iran pause triggers $1.5 trillion market rally

After weeks of tense brinkmanship, a tenuous truce was all traders needed.

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Markets cheer as Trump says he’s in ‘heated negotiations’ over a new Pakistani two-week ceasefire plan

Markets soared on the news, betting that he’ll accept.

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Iranians begin forming human chains around power plants ahead of Trump’s deadline, social media videos show

Tehran called for citizens to physically shield critical infrastructure after Trump said an “entire civilization will die.”

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Trump’s dire warning to Iran: ‘A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again’

Iran and the U.S. have fewer than 12 hours to make a deal.

07.04.2026 10

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Trump threatens to ‘take out’ all of Iran in one night. From blackout bombs to ‘discombobulators,’ here’s what that could actually mean

The U.S. has a range of options that fall short of completely leveling the country or its vital infrastructure.

06.04.2026 10

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Wall Street knows something about Trump and Iran: both sides are running out of time

Strait of Hormuz traffic saw an uptick over a volatile weekend.

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