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‘Godfather of AI’ says tech companies aren’t concerned with the AI endgame. They’re focused on short-term profits instead

“Researchers are interested in solving problems that have their curiosity. It’s not like we start off with the same goal of, what’s the future...

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The Middle East is one of the world’s fastest growing luxury markets—and the war in Iran may cut its sales in half, analysts say

Luxury brands such as Dior and Gucci each get 20% of their sales from the region, which grew about 6% in 2025.

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Economists agree: You’re not crazy for feeling like the rich get richer, and the poor are doing worse. Welcome to the ‘K-shaped economy’

What was a niche argument about five years ago is suddenly everywhere you look, and it’s taking on the shape of a letter with two jagged edges.

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Lamborghini CEO says ‘disappointing’ EV charging infrastructure contributed to no demand for the luxury automaker’s all-electric line

Stephan Winkelmann said luxury EVs were a nonstarter, but one analyst sees a path forward for the models.

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The Trump Administration’s proposed capital gains tax cut could add nearly $1 trillion to the national debt within the decade, think tank warns

“We need more revenue, not less,” Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas said.

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Lamborghini is selling a record number of cars—but tariffs are eating its profits

The supercar maker hit a delivery record in 2025, but operating income fell as the CEO admits there's a ceiling on how much costs can be passed to...

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Benchmark’s Bill Gurley: the AI bubble is about to burst—and a reset is coming

"One day, I just think we trip and run out of money," the legendary venture capitalist said. "I do think that moment stands in front of us."

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‘No, we didn’t’: DOGE staffer admits Elon Musk’s cost-cutting agency failed to reduce the federal deficit

At DOGE’s inception, Musk claimed the advisory could slash $2 trillion from the U.S. federal budget.

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Ulta Beauty CEO says when you get passed up for career opportunities ‘you can either choose to be bitter or you can be better’

Kecia Steelman stepped into the chief executive role at Ulta 10 months ago after serving as chief operating officer.

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America’s math and reading scores tanked after schools ditched textbooks for screens—and AI could worsen the brain rot

A major Brookings Institute study of more than 500 students and educators across 50 countries found the risks of AI in the classroom “overshadow its...

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Americans are demanding refunds from the $180 billion in tariffs they paid for, and they’re suing companies like Costco to make it happen

A Costco shopper sued the big-box retailer, saying a proposed class of plaintiffs could top 100, and they’re demanding $5 million in tariff refunds.

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If you want a promotion at Accenture, CEO says you’ve got to use AI

“If you want to get promoted, you've got to do the things that we do in order to operate Accenture,” Julie Sweet said.

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Fertilizer prices soar as Strait of Hormuz tensions rise—forcing U.S. farmers to rethink spring planting

Geopolitical turmoil is driving fertilizer prices up 30%, forcing tough crop choices, former USDA chief economist Seth Meyer told Fortune. “A bad...

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‘Proceed with caution’: Elon Musk offers warning after Amazon reportedly held mandatory meeting to address ‘high blast radius’ AI-related incident

“Folks, as you likely know, the availability of the site and related infrastructure has not been good recently,” Dave Treadwell, an Amazon senior...

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Trump’s immigration crackdown is backfiring by hurting the U.S.-born workers it was meant to help, data shows

Over the last year, following a $170 billion infusion in immigration enforcement, U.S.-born labor participation fell from 61.4% to 61%, federal data...

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‘AI brain fry’ is real — and it’s making workers more exhausted, not more productive, new study finds

Too much AI oversight at work was associated with not just brain fog, but more errors, decision fatigue, and greater intention to quit, Boston...

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Healthcare has been propping up a shaky labor market. For the first time in over four years, the sector shed thousands of jobs

Without healthcare and social assistance jobs, the U.S. labor market would have seen a plummet of about 570,000 jobs in 2025.

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Gen Alpha’s economic influence is ‘enormous’—From side hustles and bankrolling from their parents, they’ve surpassed $100 billion in spending power

“This generation has more spending money than you'd think,” DKC President Matthew Traub said.

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Meet the quiet winners of the Supreme Court tariff ruling: hedge funds creating a $100 billion market snapping up rights to importers’ tariff refunds

The market gained attention following allegations Brandon Lutnick, the son of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, participated in the otherwise legal...

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CBO highlights the good news in Trump’s lost tariff revenue hiking the deficit by $2 trillion: lower inflation and unemployment—and higher GDP

In the last year, tariffs were, at least partly, responsible for 166,000 lost blue-collar jobs and $1,700 in annual increased costs for American...

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23,000 cancelled flights and debris raining on Dubai hotels: The Iran war is jeopardizing the $12 trillion global travel industry

“This has destabilized travel on the six populated continents of the earth,” one aviation expert told Fortune.

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Trump’s $175 billion illegal tariff revenue is now accruing interest, and refund delays could be costing American taxpayers $700 million a month

“Consumers will be the biggest losers here,” a Cato Institute economist told Fortune.

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OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla predicts today’s five year olds won’t ever need to get jobs thanks to AI

“The need to work will go away,” Khosla said. “People will still work on the things they want to work on, not because they need to work.”

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Oil markets are bracing for $100 barrels and a redux of a 1970s-era crisis but ‘three times the scale,’ analyst warns

U.S. gas prices rose 40% as a result of the 1973 oil shock, and prices at the pump are threatening to increase again as a result of the U.S. and...

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American schools weren’t broken until Silicon Valley used a lie to convince them they were—now reading and math scores are plummeting

Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath warns the U.S.’s $30 billion bet on laptops in schools has made Gen Z less cognitively capable than their parents.

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MacKenzie Scott’s close relationship with Toni Morrison long before Amazon put her on the path give more than $1 billion to HBCUs

Morrison, who was Scott’s mentor at Princeton University, once called the philanthropist “one of the best students I’ve ever had in my...

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Remote employees have quietly unlocked one major workplace perk: Getting paid 12% more than their in-office colleagues, Fed study finds

The biggest remote-work winners in France are already high-paid senior employees with good negotiation skills convincing their bosses to let them stay...

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Meet your new robot fry cooks: inside the $28 billion race to disrupt White Castle and Jack in the Box

Miso Robotics’ Flippy slung chicken tenders and tots at Dodgers Stadium, and its CEO Rich Hull has bigger ambitions for the tech.

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Meet your new robot fry cooks: inside the $28 billion race to disrupt White Castle and Jack in the Box

Miso Robotics’ Flippy slung chicken tenders and tots at Dodgers Stadium, and its CEO Rich Hull has bigger ambitions for the tech.

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Lamborghini CEO axes $300,000 luxury EV, chalking it up to an ‘expensive hobby’ with ‘close to zero’ demand

Stephan Winkelmann said little consumer interest is a result of a lack of “emotional connection” to EVs because they don't have the same growling...

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Goldman Sachs says U.S. consumers are stuck with higher prices even after Supreme Court ruling opens door to $180 billion in tariff refunds

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent offered misgivings on households receiving any money raised from tariffs: “I got a feeling the American people...

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The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z...

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Nobel economist warns a dearth of blue-collar jobs is among the biggest threats to the U.S. economy—and they fell by more than 100,000 last year

Joseph Stiglitz said President Donald Trump’s efforts to reshore manufacturing jobs through tariffs was not successful.

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Sam Altman says the quiet part out loud, confirming some companies are ‘AI washing’ by blaming unrelated layoffs on the technology

Some economists are warning there’s no sign of AI-related job displacement appearing in the labor data. Altman claimed it’s just a matter of time...

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‘I’m deeply uncomfortable’: Anthropic CEO warns that a cadre of AI leaders, including himself, should not be in charge of the technology’s future

Dario Amodei, who left OpenAI before founding Anthropic, has been outspoken about the need for greater AI regulation.

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Mark Cuban slams the NBA for focusing on tanking and ignoring the real issue for fans: ‘It should worry more about pricing fans out of games’

The Dallas Mavericks, with Cuban as a stakeholder, raised prices nearly 9% ahead of the 2025-2026 season, despite fans’ ire over trading All-Star...

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Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago

In the 1980s, economist Robert Solow made an observation that reminded economists of today’s AI boom: “You can see the computer age everywhere but...

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Malcolm Gladwell tells young people if they want a STEM degree, ‘don’t go to Harvard.’ You may end up at the bottom of your class and drop out

It’s better to be a big fish in a little pond, Gladwell argues in his book David and Goliath.

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New York Fed economists confirm that Americans are the ones footing the bill for 90% of Trump’s tariffs

The president has insisted other countries are paying for his import taxes. American companies and consumers are telling a different story.

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Middle-class Americans are paying for the data center and AI boom with higher electric bills and even food costs, Goldman Sachs warns

The data center push is a one-two punch for everyday Americans with the potential to slash consumer spending and even drive down U.S. GDP growth,...

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Wall Street’s top analyst sees something weird going on with gold and interest rates, and warns inflation risks are rewriting market logic

“Investors are anxious about the level of returns they get in traditional assets,” Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok told Fortune.

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Lyft introduces feature to help get teenagers out of the house: ‘The problems of 2026 are social isolation and too much screen time’

The rideshare app launched Lyft Teen on Monday allowing 13-to-17-year-olds to request rides on the app.

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Gen Z Patriots quarterback Drake Maye still drives a 2015 pickup truck even after it broke down on the highway—despite his $37 million contract

Maye joins the list of football stars who have lived humbly, even after receiving a generous paycheck.

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Freestyle skier Eileen Gu says she suffered ‘post-Olympic depression’: ‘You can win the Olympics and still just enter the deepest rut of your life’

Gu is the youngest-ever Olympic champion in freestyle skiing. She will compete at the upcoming Winter Olympics in Milan beginning Feb. 7.

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Gen Z’s latest status symbol is running a marathon—and it’s terrible news for Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and Hermès

“I feel like saying that you ran—or that you run, or that you're going to run—the New York City Marathon is huge clout in New York,” one...

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Ray Dalio warns the world is ‘on the brink’ of a capital war of weaponizing money—and gold is the best way for people to protect themselves

“It would be very easy to go over the brink into a capital war, because there are mutual fears” between the U.S. and Europe, the Bridgewater...

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‘Immigrants are subsidizing the U.S. government’: how the undocumented helped shrink the deficit by $14.5 trillion over 3 decades

Cato Institute ran the math and found that without immigrants' contributions, the national debt would be a third higher than today's $38 trillion.

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If AI is roiling the job market, the data isn’t showing it, Yale Budget Lab report says, raising questions of ‘AI-washing’ to justify mass layoffs

Some analysts have projected AI will displace 7% of U.S. workers. Yale economists said it’s just too early to tell.

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Musk’s fantasy for a future where work is optional just got more real: UK minister calls for universal basic income to cushion AI-related job losses

This week, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned of “unusually painful” disruptions to the labor market as a result of AI.

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Gen Z believes using AI is making their colleagues dumb and lazy, but may paradoxically see it as key to their own promotion, Wharton says

Nearly 80% of Gen Z believes AI is making people lazier, but the young generation has increased how much they're using the technology, a Wharton-led...

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