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Mark Zuckerberg takes business calls on a jet ski wearing his $800 Meta glasses—and insists ‘the other person could not tell’

Zuckerberg is convinced smart glasses will replace the smartphone—and he's spending billions to prove it, even as Reality Labs posts a $19.2 billion...

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Costco CEO promises the $1.50 hot dog isn’t going away: ‘The price will not change as long as I’m around’

The $1.50 combo hasn't changed since 1985. In a K-shaped economy where everything costs more, that's not just a deal—it's a statement.

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Most cancer philanthropy funds research. This winery cofounder is paying for the caregivers and chair lifts families can’t afford

After her husband's glioblastoma diagnosis, Kim Busch returned to the all-female California winery she'd walked away from and turned it into a fund...

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Warren Buffett breaks from a ‘lifetime’ pledge to the Gates Foundation as the Epstein fallout deepens

Warren Buffett, 95, just paused his billion-dollar Gates Foundation donation over its Epstein review.

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Elon Musk on MacKenzie Scott giving away $26 billion of her fortune: ‘sadly,’ it makes the world a worse place

Musk has offered thoughts on philanthropy: "It’s very easy to give money away to get the appearance of goodness" but it's very difficult to get...

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Stop blaming Gen Z for resisting RTO: 71% say they want a hybrid balance—and now they’re quietly leading the office comeback

Gen Z workers actually want to be in the office—just not five days a week. They're showing up voluntarily more than any generation.

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The 30-year fixed mortgage was supposed to be predictable. Two costs quietly broke that promise

A new survey shows 40% of homeowners said they’ve considered moving because their property taxes have gotten so high.

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Larry Ellison quietly gave $45 million to a pro-Trump group—then Oracle landed a starring role in a $500 billion AI buildout

While Big Tech's biggest names have publicly courted President Donald Trump, Oracle's billionaire cofounder took a quieter route—one that has...

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MacKenzie Scott alone accounted for one-third of America’s $19.2 billion in megagifts last year

MacKenzie Scott donated $7 billion in 2025, bringing her five-year total to $26.2 billion, even as she stays out of the spotlight.

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Cursor’s 25-year-old CEO turned a Discord server into a talent pipeline to build his $60 billion SpaceX-backed AI company

Cursor CEO Michael Truell hired many of his employees straight out of a Discord server.

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Texas and Charlotte used to build huge McMansions—now they’re copying the California design tricks they once mocked

The American Dream is getting smaller and more expensive than ever for homebuyers.

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A pet emergency can cost $8,000. For millions of Americans, that bill is now a ‘life and death’ decision

As emergency vet bills climb into the thousands, more Americans are making care decisions based on their bank balance—and turning to crowdfunding to...

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Former U.S. Secret Service agent says bringing your authentic self to work stifles teamwork: ‘You don’t get high performers, you get sloppiness’

“Could you imagine if I brought my authentic New York self to every interrogation I did?” asked former Secret Service agent Evy Poumpouras.

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Jeff Bezos pledged $10 billion for climate change. With the 2030 clock ticking, his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, is leading the charge to spend it

The Bezos Earth Fund has disbursed about $2.4 billion so far. With less than four years left to deploy the rest, the couple’s philanthropy is...

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Kevin O’Leary slams work-life balance, saying it’s complete nonsense and founders should work ’25 hours a day, 8 days a week’

The Shark Tank star, who sold his startup to Mattel for $4.2 billion, told Harvard Business School's The Founder Mindset podcast there's "no balance"...

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The new problem for millennial parents in the Northeast: the million-dollar starter home

The first rung onto the property ladder now costs seven figures in a record 242 cities, a new Zillow report shows.

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A ChatGPT prompt almost killed Ryan Serhant’s $50 million NYC penthouse deal. Here’s how he saved it

At Fortune's Brainstorm Tech, broker Ryan Serhant explained how a chatbot nearly blew up a $50 million NYC penthouse sale—and why he says AI still...

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Michelle Obama clarifies her famous ‘Go high’ motto: It’s not about anger or pain, but more about putting a safety lock on a gun

Nearly a decade after "when they go low, we go high" went viral, the former first lady says leadership is "like a gun": "Learn how to use it, put the...

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A 1% mistake costs $10 billion: Inside the impossible math of managing Elon Musk’s trillionaire SpaceX wealth

SpaceX's record IPO made Musk a trillionaire—and created a wealth-management challenge no advisor has ever faced.

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Gen Z fled San Francisco for Texas and Florida. Now they’re turning ‘welcomer cities’ into the next big tech towns

The next wave of the migration story is already underway, and it’s moving the innovation economy into unexpected territory.

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Stranded on a Denver tarmac, Booking.com’s CEO envisions the AI that should have rerouted him to Aspen before takeoff

At Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference, Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel described the AI travel agent he wants to build, while Ryan Serhant shared...

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Stephen Schwarzman’s grandfather inspired the Blackstone billionaire’s philanthropy: It was ‘his privilege to help others in need’

Blackstone billionaire Stephen Schwarzman has given over $1 billion to charity. He credits his grandfather—and now plans a top-10 AI-focused...

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Jeff Bezos commits himself to make ‘three good decisions a day,’ inspired by Warren Buffett’s philosophy of making smart choices

"As a senior executive, you get paid to make a small number of high-quality decisions," the Amazon founder said.

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High-earning millennials and Gen Zers feel broke and conflicted: ‘I make a good salary, I shouldn’t be struggling this much’

Just 16% of U.S. adults say they feel financially fulfilled, and experts say the anxiety gripping everyone else often has little to do with what's...

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Billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg used mortgages to buy multimillion-dollar mansions. Here’s why that’s a savvy financial decision

Even the world’s richest people borrow money to buy homes. Financial experts say mortgages can actually be a strategic wealth move for the ultrarich.

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MacKenzie Scott’s approach to her $26 billion giving spree was inspired by a book she read in college about writing

Scott signed the Giving Pledge in 2019 and has since given away 46% of her net worth.

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Women run a record 11.2% of Fortune 500 companies in 2026—but the gain came in a year of high-profile exits

Internal promotions and outside hires helped the Fortune 500 notch more women CEOs.

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Mark Cuban put $500K into a stranger’s rocket company over email. It’s now a SpaceX competitor worth $4 billion

The billionaire entrepreneur has a pattern of investing in things and people he hasn’t seen before.

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He sent out 3,200 résumés and got zero job offers in the 2008 crash. Now Outdoor Boys’ Luke Nichols is telling grads how he survived

The Outdoor Boys star survived the 2008 crash by out-saving his more credentialed peers. Now he's telling younger generations to do the same.

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Warren Buffett’s son Peter didn’t know his dad was a billionaire until his 20s—he found out from a rich list

Peter Buffett, now 68, says he laughed when he spotted his father on the list of the richest Americans—and his friends were just as shocked as he was.

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Gen Z is rejecting $200 dates and choosing ‘solo-maxxing’—and dating apps are taking a hit

As date-night costs near $200, young people are reframing single life as a deliberate, lower-cost, lower-stress lifestyle they call "solo maxxing."

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Warren Buffett says ‘you’re giving up your potential’ if you don’t have this one skill—and it has nothing to do with the stock market

The Oracle of Omaha says communication is the most under-taught skill in school. In the AI era, executives from Jeff Bezos to Jamie Dimon say it's the...

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‘PTO-maxxing’ is the summer hack turning 15 vacation days into 49 days off

With burnout climbing and Americans leaving more vacation days on the table than almost any other country, workers are getting strategic.

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Kevin O’Leary slams people who want work-life balance: ‘I hope they work for my competitors’

The Shark Tank star says he wants employees who go above and beyond, but Gen Z workers say they'd take a $5,000 pay cut to keep that boundary.

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Simon Sinek says the most successful people in the world ‘hit zero’ or came close to it: Failure is ‘the gift’

The leadership expert behind one of the most-watched TED Talks of all time says rock bottom is a feature, not a bug, of every success story.

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Inside the ‘stealth wealth’ playbook: How Silicon Valley’s elite buy multimillion-dollar mansions without leaving a paper trail

The ultrawealthy now treat visibility as a liability and they're paying to disappear from luxury real estate records.

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The Midwest is leading America’s spring housing rebound because of ‘buyers who are actually showing up,’ Realtor.com says

Kansas City, Louisville, and Indianapolis are powering the strongest spring housing market since 2022 as buyers chase affordability in the Midwest...

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MacKenzie Scott gave away more than $7 billion last year—but her secretive style got her snubbed from a top donors list

“MacKenzie Scott is among the notable absences on the Philanthropy 50 list,” the Chronicle of Philanthropy said.

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Pay transparency is exposing a bigger problem: Most companies can’t explain why they pay what they pay

Syndio’s CEO and the founder of Salary Transparent Street told Fortune workers aren't just demanding to know what their colleagues earn—they want...

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‘No one was coming to save me’: How Reese Witherspoon built a $900 million company from a problem Hollywood wouldn’t fix

The actress built Hello Sunshine after Hollywood told her there were no female-led movies to make. Six years later, she sold it for $900 million.

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Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank says micromanagement is ‘underestimated.’ Steve Jobs and Elon Musk would agree

The Under Armour founder says he runs 80-90% of the business on structure.

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Nonprofit CEOs say Trump’s economy is driving surging demand—and they’re pushed to the brink

A new Center for Effective Philanthropy report finds nonprofits are facing higher need, tighter funding, staff cuts, and worsening burnout.

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NC State graduates showed up for a commencement speech. They left with their senior-year loans paid off

Anil Kochhar, the commencement speaker at North Carolina State University's Wilson College of Textiles made a surprise donation.

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TIAA CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett’s 3 rules for Gen Z entering the workforce: Adapt, lean in, and build a bigger table

TIAA CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett told Florida A&M University's class of 2026 fear isn't the right response to an AI-disrupted job market.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Gen Z and millennials are using ChatGPT like a ‘life advisor’—but college students might be one step ahead

Speaking at a Sequoia Capital event, the OpenAI CEO said college students have built complex ChatGPT workflows and "don't really make life decisions...

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Investors are betting big on senior housing. There’s just one problem—the baby boomers they’re chasing can’t pay the rent

The senior housing boom could become real estate's next gold rush—or overbuilding disaster

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The American Dream is moving to the Midwest—Michigan and Wisconsin beat the coasts for the hottest housing markets, Redfin finds

Wisconsin landed three of the top 10 spots on Redfin's 2026 ranking, as buyers priced out of coastal markets chase Midwest affordability.

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Meet Mark Stevens: The billionaire VC, Nvidia board member, and Giving Pledge signer who just donated $200 million to USC

Billionaire venture capitalist Mark Stevens, an early Nvidia backer at Sequoia Capital, just made one of the largest gifts in USC history to fuel the...

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The IRS may owe COVID-era refunds to tens of millions of taxpayers. Here’s who could qualify

The affected taxpayers could include individuals, small businesses, large corporations, estates, and trusts.

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Dating has gotten so expensive that nearly half of U.S. singles say it’s no longer worth it, as the average night out approaches $200

This is causing a K-shaped dating economy to emerge.

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