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Proteinmaxxing shows a ‘meaningful shift’ in how Gen Z takes supplements versus baby boomers, new survey shows

Young shoppers are putting protein into more parts of their diet, from powders and bars to cereal and soda.

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He washed dishes beneath BlackRock’s headquarters, landed his dream job there—then quit to build his family’s restaurant empire

The 30-year-old now employs 300 people and works seven days a week. “I’ve never been more stressed,” he says.

26.09.2026 10

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The return of nostalgia is bringing back Toys “R” Us as it opens 120 stores, nine years after bankruptcy

Adult collectors are helping drive a toy boom, but the new stores are smaller than the ones shoppers remember.

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Employer health costs are set to jump the most since 2003—and even health care workers are struggling to afford care

As premiums climb, medical practices must decide whether to absorb the increase, charge workers more, or cut health benefits.

23.09.2026 9

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Walmart’s new pricing patents spark fears of surveillance: ‘Are they going to charge you a different price if they know who you are?’

Walmart’s pricing patents have raised fears of personalized prices. Two experts say they describe pricing items, not people.

22.09.2026 5

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The bank account says no while the Europe group chat says YOLO. Gen Z is cutting spending—but not on little treats and last-minute trips

Even as everyday costs pile up, Gen Z is making room for what feels worth it.

20.09.2026 10

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Card companies are on a ‘land grab’ to set the standards for AI shopping, even as consumers aren’t yet comfortable handing over purchases to a bot

Cardholders can set spending limits, but just 7% of surveyed fashion shoppers would let AI make purchases without approval.

18.09.2026 8

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Oil is back above $100—but economists say that number isn’t the real threat to the U.S. economy

Gas takes up less household income than it once did, but record diesel prices and refinery shortages could still curb spending.

17.09.2026 7

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America has lost 200 malls since 2008. Now the survivors are becoming Gen Z hangouts

Mall values are up 13% as top properties trade department-store dependency for food, fitness, entertainment, and apartments.

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Bernie Sanders says if AI is coming for workers, it should bring a four-day workweek with it

Bernie Sanders and Mark Takano want AI productivity gains to help deliver a 32-hour workweek without cuts to workers’ weekly pay or benefits.

15.09.2026 8

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman says Paul Graham’s Y Combinator taught him how to govern, not rule: ‘We won’t get every decision right’

The OpenAI CEO says his years running the startup accelerator prepared him to balance pressure from investors, governments and the wider AI industry.

14.09.2026 10

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Technology can help people sound fluent in a language, but proficiency still requires human interaction, expert says

Apps and AI can teach vocabulary and smooth an exchange, but proficiency depends on what someone can do when the script runs out.

12.09.2026 20

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Meta built an AI that can shop for you. The problem is that most people don’t want AI spending their money

Muse can browse, choose and check out on a shopper’s behalf, but most consumers say they don’t trust AI enough to spend their money.

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Hollywood’s ‘new business model’ comes into view as Gen Z shows a moviegoing taste that combines ‘fast food and fine dining’

Theaters sold nearly 249 million fewer tickets than in 2019 but still set a $4.7 billion summer record. It’s not 2019 anymore.

09.09.2026 10

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Cutting the cord was supposed to save money. Eight streaming services now cost a combined $139 a month

Choosing ads wherever possible still costs nearly $90 a month, leaving households to chase bundles, cancel subscriptions and rotate services.

09.09.2026 9

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Restaurants have been serving up fake food ads for decades—AI slop is just the latest special

Generative AI gives restaurants a cheap alternative to food photography, but customers may prefer an imperfect photo of a meal that actually existed.

06.09.2026 20

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Job seekers are waiting for the ‘September Surge.’ Economists say there’s something behind the hype and explain why it’s a good time to apply

There are real seasonal patterns behind the September hiring hype, but more job postings don’t necessarily mean faster hiring.

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USS Lincoln sailors finally hit dry land in Thailand after a record 264 straight days at sea

The carrier’s lengthy Middle East deployment raised concerns about crew mental health and food shortages.

03.09.2026 10

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Tim Cook stepped down as Apple CEO, but the ‘Trump whisperer’ isn’t going anywhere

Cook is giving up Apple’s top job, but his years navigating Trump, tariffs and China are still valuable enough for the tech giant to keep him close.

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‘If you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em’: Italy is turning its hated invasive crab into a multimillion-dollar business

After revenues plunged 75% amid the crab invasion, one fishing cooperative expects $23 million in sales this year, mostly from crab.

02.09.2026 10

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Gen Z can’t figure out how to talk to their millennial and Gen X bosses—and it’s becoming a workplace crisis

From email etiquette to office jargon, the unwritten rules of workplace communication are getting harder to read across generations.

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America’s high school graduating class is projected to shrink 13%. Colleges are already feeling the squeeze

Rising costs and steep tuition discounts are squeezing college budgets just as the pool of prospective students begins to shrink.

31.08.2026 9

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This Gen Xer spent 28 years in a cubicle and never made more than $70,000. At 59, she made $500,000 in the creator economy

Some creators are finding their age can be an advantage as brands try to reach older consumers.

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America’s Mediterranean lunch bowl is booming as NAYA races toward 200 restaurants

Mediterranean fast casual grew 16% last year, and NAYA’s founder is betting the boom can carry his Lebanese chain from 48 locations to 200.

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Zohran Mamdani’s business council includes the CEOs of Chobani and Etsy. But Wall Street and Big Tech turned him down

The New York City mayor got 15 business leaders to join his new council, but some of New York’s biggest corporate names are absent.

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ChatGPT can now search years of your texts—but security experts are most worried about the people who never opted in

One person can give the AI access to years of conversations without anyone else in those threads granting permission.

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Instagram is like a digital cigarette and box of chocolates that ‘encourages gluttony.’ How do you fix that?

“The algorithms change the whole nature of it, and that’s where my chocolate metaphor went awry,” safety advocate Larry Magid told Fortune.

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Parents cough up thousands decorating their kids’ dorms even as total college costs hit six figures a year

Families are projected to spend a record $14 billion furnishing college dorms and apartments this year.

24.08.2026 10

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Meet the sisters who got dumped by their landlords and were down to their last £15,000 before they built an £8 million business

“There were a lot of tears,” Annabel Lui said, recalling that she and her sister talked for 15 hours about what to do. Their dad said "over my...

22.08.2026 20

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Amazon, Uber, DoorDash, and Walmart are taking the delivery wars to the skies

After years of experiments and setbacks, some of America’s biggest delivery companies are racing to make drones mainstream.

21.08.2026 20

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Gen Z forced to rewrite the American Dream in the ‘Great Postponement’: Fixer-uppers, side hustles and doing life out of order

"We've not seen challenges in terms of affordability like this in more than a generation," said Wharton professor Susan Wachter.

20.08.2026 10

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Meta faces a $1.4 trillion threat that could mean ‘turning in the keys and walking away’—but the stakes of the case reach across tech

The $1.4 trillion figure may be unlikely, but the case could give states a new way to challenge how social media platforms are designed.

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The IRS is scrutinizing how UnitedHealth moved money through foreign subsidiaries—and whether it underpaid taxes

The agency wants to raise the health giant's taxable income for four straight years. Neither side will say how much is at stake.

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Nelson Peltz might take Wendy’s private following six straight quarterly sales declines as customers flee its poor franchise models and bad marketing

Peltz spent two decades helping shape Wendy's into the burger conglomerate it is today. Now he's considering buying the rest of the struggling chain.

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Check your fridge: Nearly 19 million eggs are under the FDA’s most serious recall classification

Nearly 19 million eggs linked to a 98-person salmonella outbreak now carry the FDA's highest-risk classification. Some may still be in fridges.

17.08.2026 20

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‘You’re always right with wine’: Meet the woman behind 1 in every 4 bottles of Oregon wine sold in America.

Amy Prosenjak spent 20 years scaling Oregon's biggest wine business. Now she's producing less and following the consumer.

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Meet a 29-year-old influencer who calls herself a tradwife—but she’s really more of a homesteader

Traditional living is drawing younger consumers and becoming big business as creators turn old-fashioned skills into modern commerce.

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Dating apps are swiping left on the features that made them as Gen Z looks for love in real life

Online dating is betting on fewer swipes, better matches and more real-life experiences to win over Gen Z.

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Meet ChatTJB, the “AI” chatbot with no AI, no algorithm and no LLM. It’s just one guy and 10,000 volunteers typing back

There's no AI behind ChatTJB, just a former Google employee and soon, more than 10,000 volunteers answering strangers' questions in his place.

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‘Your back’s against the wall’: How two Gen-Z founders bet everything on a Brooklyn laundromat

Their advisers said building a laundromat from scratch was a mistake. Ireland McCaughey and Ben Razin knew they could prove them wrong.

09.08.2026 20

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Fashion’s biggest brands spent years letting eBay and Depop resell their clothes. Now they want the money.

Secondhand apparel is on track to hit $393 billion by 2030—and brands no longer want eBay and Poshmark collecting all of it.

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Elon Musk says SpaceX data centers will crush competitors because having rocket scientists is like the Yankees ‘playing a little league team’

Musk said the rocket scientist behind SpaceX’s reusable rockets gives the company an edge in building AI data centers as rivals race to expand...

04.08.2026 20

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A loneliness epidemic is creating a new type of third space: the one built around curiosity

As loneliness and screen fatigue grow, a new kind of gathering space is booming—one built on curiosity instead of caffeine.

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This Dutch bookseller thought a request for 3,000 copies was ‘spam or phishing.’ Instead, AI companies are scanning and destroying books to train AI

"I was shocked!" Pieter de Vries of Haarlem told Fortune. He said several other Dutch antiquarian booksellers received the same request.

31.07.2026 30

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The rise of ‘conspicuous waiting’: The 19th-century economic theory that explains why Gen Z posts their place in line

Gen Z isn't just waiting in line. Thorstein Veblen would have recognized exactly what they're doing.

31.07.2026 30

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Instagram cracks down on growing ‘pervert glasses’ problem with Meta Ray-Bans

It highlights a new privacy challenge for Meta: not in the data that it collects, but how people use its AI glasses in public.

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Why lotteries can make winning feel more valuable than buying

From Broadway drawings to free sports tickets, lotteries distribute scarce experiences. One economist says they reveal demand.

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Coke on its rebrand accidentally nailing Gen Z’s ‘fridge cigarette’ joke: ‘building on on the things people already know and love’

"A font isn't a brand," says Metaforce consultant Allen Adamson. Meanwhile, Gen Z is letting the memes fly.

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‘It’s called StreetEasy, not StreetHard’: Mamdani cracks down on scourge of ‘housefishing’ and ‘real estate slop’

The New York mayor's proposal would require landlords, brokers and listing platforms to disclose AI-generated or digitally altered rental photos.

22.07.2026 30

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Cybercriminals are cashing in on the World Cup by selling stolen streaming accounts

Fans looking to avoid paying for World Cup broadcasts are fueling a booming black market for stolen streaming accounts worth nearly $220 million,...

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