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An Iowa company that builds wood chippers doesn’t care about your AI buzzwords: 2 Silicon Valley CEOs get real about the hype-slop-cycle

"I don't think they come to us looking for AI other than, 'please, for God's sake tell us what it means for us.'"

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Nick Lichtenberg

Tom Freston, the beat-poet exec who made MTV cool for 20 years, sees ‘really nothing in it for the consumer’ from Netflix, Warner, or his old company

The ex-Viacom and Paramount chief is as proud of his new book as he is aghast at MTV leadership. "They've run it into the ground over the last 15...

21.12.2025 4

Nick Lichtenberg

Top AI investors say maybe it’s a bubble, but ‘bubbles are good for innovation’

"You need a bubble in technology and startups ... to not only attract the world's best talent to work on a certain set of problems."

21.12.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

‘They’ll lose their humanity’: Dartmouth professor says he’s surprised just how scared his Gen Z students are of AI

A lot of Scott Anthony's students are excited to use AI, he told Fortune, but a meaningful portion are "scared full stop." They have "hesitation and...

20.12.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

‘The rocket ship keeps going off’: Inside the Nvidia phenomenon with author Stephen Witt

In “The Thinking Machine”—just crowned the FT and Schroders business book of the year—Witt goes deep inside Nvidia’s “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

19.12.2025 5

Nick Lichtenberg

The Kennedy Center is now the Trump Kennedy Center, White House says

Trump, a Republican who's chairman of the board, said at the White House that he was “surprised" and “honored” by the vote.

19.12.2025 5

Nick Lichtenberg

The American voter is angry about one thing above all and Trump’s tariffs are in the crossfire, Goldman’s chief political economist says

Cost of living is the issue driving the midterms. Trump calls affordability a "hoax" when Democrats say it, but his tariff regime is showing cracks.

18.12.2025 5

Nick Lichtenberg

Netflix co-CEO faces the $100 billion question: ‘Why are you doing this deal?’

"Hey, you know, it's probably irresponsible for us not to actually bid on this and bid on it in a disciplined way," Greg Peters told CNBC.

17.12.2025 4

Nick Lichtenberg

Warner Bros. shareholders were ‘consistently misled’ by Paramount, board says in rejection letter: There’s no Ellison family backstop, and never was

Jilted Paramount CEO David Ellison painted a picture of no engagement from WBD. That's simply not true, according to the Warner board.

17.12.2025 4

Nick Lichtenberg

Accenture exec gets real on transformation: ‘the data and AI strategy is not a separate strategy, it is the business strategy’

"Think about the people and the culture," Accenture's Chief Responsible AI Officer Arnab Chakraborty told Fortune. "It is so paramount."

16.12.2025 5

Nick Lichtenberg

Can’t get a job? Blame AI? Train in ‘power skills,’ IBM exec says: ‘You can’t hire a college student now to just come in and create a spreadsheet’

According to Justina Nixon-Saintil, IBM's chief impact officer, 2025 was the year "the penny dropped" for AI.

16.12.2025 8

Nick Lichtenberg

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt wonders why AI companies don’t have to ‘follow any laws’

Gordon-Levitt said that, without establishing the principle that a person's digital work belongs to them, the industry is heading down a "pretty...

15.12.2025 4

Nick Lichtenberg

Deloitte’s CTO on a stunning AI transformation stat: companies are spending 93% on tech and only 7% on people

Bill Briggs recognizes an old inertia inside the boardroom: "I felt it in my travels, but I hadn't been able to quantify it."

15.12.2025 30

Nick Lichtenberg

Atlantic CEO Nick Thompson on how he learned to ‘just keep moving forward’ after his famous firing at 22

Thompson was fired on his first—and last—day at CBS News' flagship 60 Minutes. Fifteen years later, he heard what Steve Kroft really thought about it.

14.12.2025 6

Nick Lichtenberg

It’s a sequel, it’s a remake, it’s a reboot: Lawyers grow wistful for old corporate rumbles as Paramount, Netflix fight for Warner

Will Paramount or Netflix win the fight for Warner? Hollywood's takeover drama is in some ways a flashback to the 1980s, in other ways...

13.12.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

‘Tragedy in the making’: Top healthcare exec on why insurance will spike to subsidize a tax cut to millionaires and billionaires

"If the two sides could talk," said UConn Health chair John Driscoll, "there probably is a way that they could agree on how to to bridge the...

13.12.2025 50

Nick Lichtenberg

The AI skills gap is really a ‘critical thinking’ gap: The Fortune 500 fears it can’t find talent with enough sharp thinking

“We need to start thinking strategically. How can we create strategic thinkers, critical thinkers?”

12.12.2025 3

Nick Lichtenberg

‘We’re not just going to want to be fed AI slop for 16 hours a day’: Analyst sees Disney/OpenAI deal as a dividing line in entertainment history

"I think the reason this bidding is approaching $100 billion-plus is the content library and the potential to do a Disney-OpenAI type of deal."

12.12.2025 30

Nick Lichtenberg

‘Creativity is the new productivity’: Bob Iger on why Disney chose to be ‘aggressive,’ adding OpenAI as a $1 billion partner

"We'd rather participate in the rather dramatic growth, rather than just watching it happen and essentially being disrupted by it," Iger told CNBC.

11.12.2025 3

Nick Lichtenberg

AI isn’t the reason you got laid off (or not hired), top staffing agency says. You don’t have the right skills

The typical company expects to hire eight workers in the first quarter of 2026, ManpowerGroup's new survey finds.

09.12.2025 3

Nick Lichtenberg

HBR: only 6% of companies fully trust AI agents to handle core business processes

AI agents are at the "edge," not the core of business, and without good change management, corporates risk a "garbage in, garbage out" scenario.

09.12.2025 3

Nick Lichtenberg

Paramount rips Warner’s sale ‘process’ as it reveals 2-year-long pursuit, escalating bids before going hostile

Warner "did not provide a single markup of a single transaction document" or engage in any back-and-forth negotiation for months, its jilted suitor...

09.12.2025 8

Nick Lichtenberg

Netflix CEO brushes aside Paramount’s ‘entirely expected’ hostile bid, ‘super confident’ of closing deal with Warner Bros. Discovery

The Netflix Co-CEO also said he's talked with the president "many times" since the election and he'll be good to movie theaters once he’s running a...

09.12.2025 7

Nick Lichtenberg

The U.S. has over 900 billionaires and their wealth soared by 18% to $6.9 trillion this year, UBS says

The U.S. alone has nearly a third (31.7%) of the world's billionaire population, according to UBS Global Wealth Management.

08.12.2025 2

Nick Lichtenberg

Next shoe in Netflix-WBD saga drops as Paramount launches hostile bid worth $30 per share, all-cash

Over the weekend, President Trump voiced concern over the combined market share of Netflix and Warner Bros.

08.12.2025 4

Nick Lichtenberg

Inside the Fortune 500 CEO pressure cooker: surviving is harder than ever and requires an ‘odd combination’ of traits

Mark Thompson is a top CEO coach and Byron Loflin is Nasdaq's in-house board whisperer. They told Fortune about joining forces for "CEO Ready."

07.12.2025 4

Nick Lichtenberg

‘This is a bad idea made worse’: Senate Dems’ plan to fix Obamacare premiums adds nearly $300 billion to deficit, CRFB says

The plan to protect Obamacare would cost nearly $550 billion over 10 years if it were made permanent, the budget watchdog said.

06.12.2025 7

Nick Lichtenberg

Top analyst says Netflix’s $72 billion bet on Warner Bros. isn’t about the ‘Death of Hollywood’ at all. It’s really about Google

"If I were Netflix," S&P Global's Melissa Otto told Fortune, "I would want to build a moat around my business."

06.12.2025 3

Nick Lichtenberg

Netflix’s bombshell deal to buy Warner Bros. brings Batman and Harry Potter to the big red streamer and infuriates theater owners and the Ellisons

Just days before Netflix emerged as the highest bidder, Paramount tore into the "myopic process" that had become "tainted."

05.12.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

Tariffs and the $38 trillion national debt: Kevin Hassett sees ’big reductions’ in deficit while Scott Bessent sees a ‘shrinking ice cube’

The favorite to become Fed chair says tariffs are an important part of Trump’s economic policy and behind “a lot of the revenue coming into the...

05.12.2025 30

Nick Lichtenberg

America, meet your alienated youth: ‘Gold standard’ Harvard survey reveals Gen Z’s anxiety and distrust, defined by economic insecurity

The Harvard Youth Poll pulls back the curtain to reveal a generation defined by widespread distrust in the economy.

05.12.2025 6

Nick Lichtenberg

Bill Gates decries ‘significant reversal in child deaths’ as nearly 5 million kids will die before they turn 5 this year

The Gates Foundation rings the alarm on the century's first reversal in progress to save the worlds poorest children, following cuts to international...

04.12.2025 7

Nick Lichtenberg

Scott Bessent calls the Giving Pledge well-intentioned but ‘very amorphous,’ growing from ‘a panic among the billionaire class’

“When you see that people have a stake in the system, they don’t want to bring the system down,” the Treasury secretary argued at the DealBook Summit.

04.12.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

What CEOs say about AI and what they mean about layoffs and job cuts: Goldman Sachs peels the onion

“Companies that have discussed AI in the context of their workforce have cut their job openings more sharply this year,” economist Ronnie Walker...

03.12.2025 5

Nick Lichtenberg

Netflix would be ‘killing three birds with one stone’ by buying Warner Bros. Discovery, BofA says

The global media industry is standing at the edge of a “historic transformation,” with Warner Bros. Discovery at the “epicenter,” Bank of...

02.12.2025 5

Nick Lichtenberg

The man behind Google Meet went from being ‘the only Indian kid in my class’ to connecting 3 billion users worldwide. He test-drives the product every day

When Awaneesh Verma was a kid, he liked the idea of meeting people in different cultures and them truly understanding each other. He had no idea.

30.11.2025 8

Nick Lichtenberg

Tim Wu knows where you got your ‘economic resentment’ and that ‘weird feeling of something you like getting worse’: It’s ‘the age of extraction’

"My understanding of America is that it's the place where things are supposed to get better," said the "net neutrality" and "attention economy"...

30.11.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

Carmelo Anthony reflects on Hall of Fame career, investing wins and passing on Google and crypto: ‘That’s another one I should have went with my gut on’

The NBA legend talked to Fortune about his business career, his investments, NIL rights and more: "Now, I don't think these kids really enjoy that...

28.11.2025 9

Nick Lichtenberg

This founder dropped out of college at 20 to become his own boss. His journey to profitability included Shaolin monks and Ironman competition

Gustas Germanavicius, one of Lithuania's top ironmen, told Fortune what he learned from his time in Shaolin: "no pain, no gain" and "practice makes...

27.11.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

OpenAI won’t make money by 2030 and still needs to come up with another $207 billion to power its growth plans, HSBC estimates

What company has a consumer base representing 44% of the world’s adult population and a $620 billion data center bill? OpenAI five years from now.

27.11.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

Americans can’t agree on what ‘middle class’ means anymore, and they’re debating it in the comments of TikTok home tours

The "average" or "normal" home tour is fascinating, even dividing, thousands of Americans on TikTok who can't agree on social class.

27.11.2025 4

Nick Lichtenberg

Markets wipe $250 billion off Nvidia as they digest Google’s revenge, with Gemini 3 emerging as ‘current state of the art’

What if AI’s version of Google turns out to be…Google?

26.11.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

McKinsey explains why AI won’t take your job, even though it can already automate 57% of all U.S. work hours

The fastest-growing skill in U.S. job listings is "AI fluency," seeing a sevenfold increase in two years.

25.11.2025 8

Nick Lichtenberg

The analyst who once predicted the ‘end of capitalism’ sees Zohran Mamdani’s election as a ‘day of reckoning coming in’—and corporates only have themselves to blame

Albert Edwards says Zohran Mamdani’s policies are “lunacy,” but big companies “laid the seeds for their own destruction.”

25.11.2025 6

Nick Lichtenberg

Novo Nordisk stock trades at 4-year-low on the back of disappointing Alzheimer’s trial

The stock of the Wegovy and Ozempic maker is down nearly 50% year to date.

25.11.2025 3

Nick Lichtenberg

‘There’s only so much you can absorb from the tariffs, because they’re just very high’: Levi’s CEO states the plain truth

Levi’s CEO Michelle Gass spoke to McKinsey and Business of Fashion for its 10th “State of Fashion” report. It’s a “relationship business,” she said.

25.11.2025 4

Nick Lichtenberg

Trump’s gambit to save Republicans from a giant health insurance spike comes with a $50 billion price tag, CRFB estimates

The $38 trillion national debt, which always seems to be growing, could expand even further if Trump extends ACA subsidies, as reports indicate.

25.11.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

Warren Buffett’s exit is ‘leadership at its most selfless,’ McKinsey CEO whisperer says. It’s a powerful lesson in Fortune 500 succession

Carolyn Dewar told Fortune that CEO succession is so difficult that Intuit's Brad Smith invited Steve Young in to talk about succeeding Joe Montana.

22.11.2025 8

Nick Lichtenberg

Trump’s retreats on tariffs have already wiped out $800 billion of expected deficit reduction, CBO estimates

The Congressional Budget Office is projecting $2.5 trillion of deficit reduction over 11 years, down from its $3.3 trillion projection in August.

21.11.2025 10

Nick Lichtenberg

Gen Z men are flocking to quarter-zip pullovers—they’re trying to fake it until they make it in a job market stacked against them

A rallying cry for a generation struggling to find entry-level work: “It’s straight quarter-zips and matchas around here.”

21.11.2025 9

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An Iowa company that builds wood chippers doesn’t care about your AI buzzwords: 2 Silicon Valley CEOs get real about the hype-slop-cycle

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Tom Freston, the beat-poet exec who made MTV cool for 20 years, sees ‘really nothing in it for the consumer’ from Netflix, Warner, or his old company

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‘They’ll lose their humanity’: Dartmouth professor says he’s surprised just how scared his Gen Z students are of AI

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The American voter is angry about one thing above all and Trump’s tariffs are in the crossfire, Goldman’s chief political economist says

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Netflix co-CEO faces the $100 billion question: ‘Why are you doing this deal?’

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Warner Bros. shareholders were ‘consistently misled’ by Paramount, board says in rejection letter: There’s no Ellison family backstop, and never was

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Accenture exec gets real on transformation: ‘the data and AI strategy is not a separate strategy, it is the business strategy’

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It’s a sequel, it’s a remake, it’s a reboot: Lawyers grow wistful for old corporate rumbles as Paramount, Netflix fight for Warner

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‘Tragedy in the making’: Top healthcare exec on why insurance will spike to subsidize a tax cut to millionaires and billionaires

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The AI skills gap is really a ‘critical thinking’ gap: The Fortune 500 fears it can’t find talent with enough sharp thinking

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‘We’re not just going to want to be fed AI slop for 16 hours a day’: Analyst sees Disney/OpenAI deal as a dividing line in entertainment history

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AI isn’t the reason you got laid off (or not hired), top staffing agency says. You don’t have the right skills

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HBR: only 6% of companies fully trust AI agents to handle core business processes

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Paramount rips Warner’s sale ‘process’ as it reveals 2-year-long pursuit, escalating bids before going hostile

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Netflix CEO brushes aside Paramount’s ‘entirely expected’ hostile bid, ‘super confident’ of closing deal with Warner Bros. Discovery

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The U.S. has over 900 billionaires and their wealth soared by 18% to $6.9 trillion this year, UBS says

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Next shoe in Netflix-WBD saga drops as Paramount launches hostile bid worth $30 per share, all-cash

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‘This is a bad idea made worse’: Senate Dems’ plan to fix Obamacare premiums adds nearly $300 billion to deficit, CRFB says

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Top analyst says Netflix’s $72 billion bet on Warner Bros. isn’t about the ‘Death of Hollywood’ at all. It’s really about Google

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Netflix’s bombshell deal to buy Warner Bros. brings Batman and Harry Potter to the big red streamer and infuriates theater owners and the Ellisons

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Tariffs and the $38 trillion national debt: Kevin Hassett sees ’big reductions’ in deficit while Scott Bessent sees a ‘shrinking ice cube’

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America, meet your alienated youth: ‘Gold standard’ Harvard survey reveals Gen Z’s anxiety and distrust, defined by economic insecurity

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Bill Gates decries ‘significant reversal in child deaths’ as nearly 5 million kids will die before they turn 5 this year

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Netflix would be ‘killing three birds with one stone’ by buying Warner Bros. Discovery, BofA says

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The man behind Google Meet went from being ‘the only Indian kid in my class’ to connecting 3 billion users worldwide. He test-drives the product every day

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Tim Wu knows where you got your ‘economic resentment’ and that ‘weird feeling of something you like getting worse’: It’s ‘the age of extraction’

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Carmelo Anthony reflects on Hall of Fame career, investing wins and passing on Google and crypto: ‘That’s another one I should have went with my gut on’

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