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Ray Dalio says ‘a little bit of everything’ is needed to prevent a debt crisis—but it won’t happen anyway

Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio said averting $38 trillion national debt crisis requires bipartisan support—which will never happen,

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Eleanor Pringle

Treasury Secretary Bessent insists Trump’s tariff agenda is ‘permanent,’ saying the White House can recreate it even with a Supreme Court loss

Using various other justifications, the White House can implement its tariffs regardless of a Supreme Court loss, said Bessent.

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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Paramount calls Warner Bros. sale ‘tainted’ in letter to CEO

In a letter to Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav, attorneys for Paramount said the entertainment giant is favoring a rival bid from Netflix.

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Christopher Palmeri

Four key questions about OpenAI vs Google—the high-stakes tech matchup of 2026

OpenAI claimed the AI crown three years ago with the launch of ChatGPT, but as Google turns up the competitive heat, Sam Altman must prove there's...

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Alexei Oreskovic

The workplace needs to be designed like an ‘experience,’ says Gensler’s Ray Yuen, as employees resist the return to office

Employees don't want to return to the office. That poses a challenge for workplace designers like Yuen.

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Angelica Ang

Nintendo’s 98% staff retention rate means the average employee has been there 15 years

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

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Nicholas Gordon

Gen Z fears AI will upend careers. Can leaders change the narrative?

New Harvard polling shows most young workers expect AI to reduce job prospects.

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Sheryl Estrada

Facing a vast wave of incoming liquidity, the S&P 500 prepares to surf to a new record high

With fresh money on the horizon it is unsurprising that the markets have shrugged off their worries about AI and Bitcoin.

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Jim Edwards

Before running the world’s most valuable company, Jensen Huang was a 9-year-old janitor in Kentucky

“It’s hard not to love this country," Huang said. "It’s hard not to be romantic about this country.”

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Eva Roytburg

How a Texas gas producer plans to exploit the ‘mega trend’ of power plants for AI hyperscalers

BKV is growing both its shale gas and power generation footprints to attract AI data center campuses.

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Jordan Blum

Elon Musk and Bill Gates warn that AI will kill all jobs within 20 years. ‘That’s not what we’re seeing,’ LinkedIn exec says

Elon Musk may predict a jobless future, but LinkedIn’s latest hiring data shows demand rising, not collapsing. That will be music to Gen Z's ears.

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Orianna Rosa Royle

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."

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Nick Lichtenberg

Trump wants more health savings accounts. A catch: they can’t pay insurance premiums

Wealthier Americans are using them to pay for gym equipment, cedar ice baths, and hemlock saunas, but poorer Americans can’t use them for insurance.

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Amanda Seitz

Netflix to buy Warner Bros. in $72 billion cash, stock deal

Prior to the closing of the sale, Warner Bros. will complete the planned spinoff of its networks division, including CNN, TBS and TNT.

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Lucas Shaw

Turning public companies into private companies: the SEC’s retreat from transparency and accountability

If we want public markets worthy of the 21st century, we need more sunlight, not less.

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Andrew Behar

Affordability isn’t enough. Fast-casual restaurants need a fandom-first approach

In today’s experience economy, people don’t just choose meals; they choose meaning. Chains function less like restaurants and more like sports...

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Steve Milton

Netflix lines up $59 billion of debt for Warner Bros. deal

A bridge loan of this size would rank among the biggest of its type, with Anheuser-Busch InBev's $75 billion the largest ever, according to...

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Natalie Harrison

Michael Saylor’s Strategy may have BlackRock to thank for the 11% rise in Bitcoin

BlackRock’s ETF now owns 3.9% of all existing Bitcoin, more than Strategy.

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Jim Edwards

How two leaders used design thinking and a focus on outcomes to transform two Fortune 500 giants

Phil Gilbert and Tony Bynum, speakers at Fortune's Brainstorm Design conference in Macau, worked to transform IBM and Northwestern Mutual...

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Christina Pantin

Two months into the new fiscal year and the U.S. government is already spending more than $10 billion a week servicing national debt

Tariffs will bring in $300 billion to $400 billion a year, which would help to pay a fraction of the interest payments of more than $1 trillion in...

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Eleanor Pringle

Palantir CEO Alex Karp defends being an ‘arrogant prick’—and says more CEOs should be, too

Karp argues extreme confidence—checked by a “painfully flat” internal culture—is the only way to resist the "bailout culture" of modern corporate...

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Eva Roytburg

CEOs are making the business case for AI—and dispelling talk of a bubble

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

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Diane Brady

How Anthropic grew—and what the $183 billion giant faces next

In our latest Fortune cover story, AI editor Jeremy Kahn explores what's driving Anthropic's growth.

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Allie Garfinkle

You don’t need to have fun at work—take it from NBA head coach Joe Mazzulla: ‘Fun is a cop-out sometimes when things aren’t going well’

The famously intense Mazzulla was fielding a question about "fun" from a child reporter: "I struggle with that, to be honest with you."

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Dave Smith

For Wall Street, pandemic-level bad news for jobs is good news for stocks—it pushes the Fed further into cutting territory

Fed rate-cut odds surge toward 90% as weak labor data, ADP losses, and Challenger layoffs fuel Wall Street hopes for a December move despite a...

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Eleanor Pringle

AT&T promised the government it won’t pursue DEI. FCC commissioner warns it will be a ‘stain to their reputation long into the future’

AT&T rebranded its DEI programming in 2024 and made changes earlier this year, seemingly after pressure from conservative activist Robby Starbuck.

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Kristen Parisi

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...

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Nick Lichtenberg

Bari Weiss to moderate prime-time ‘town hall’ with Erika Kirk on CBS News

“Like so many people around the world, I will never forget the moment that Erika Kirk forgave her husband's killer,” Weiss said.

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‘Have they given enough? No’: Melinda French Gates rips into billionaire class, saying Giving Pledge has fallen short

The billionaire philanthropist says there’s more work to be done to get the wealthy to donate.

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Sydney Lake

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.

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Nick Lichtenberg

Meta’s Zuckerberg plans deep cuts for metaverse efforts

Meta confirmed a reduction in resources for the metaverse, and said savings are expected to funnel toward other futuristic projects within Reality...

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Kurt Wagner

Rich people are flooding dollar stores as Americans navigate a crushing affordability crisis

Dollar Tree says 60% of new customers in its most recent quarter earned $100,000 or more.

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Dave Smith

Luxury hotels need to have ‘a point of view’ to attract visitors hungry for experiences, says designer André Fu

Fu and Swire Hotels deputy chairman Toby Smith discuss design and ‘quiet luxury’ at Fortune Brainstorm Design.

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Nicholas Gordon

This Khosla Ventures–backed startup is using AI to personalize cancer care

Radical Health just emerged from stealth, having raised $5 million in pre-seed funding led by Khosla Ventures.

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Allie Garfinkle

Trump administration shows a pattern of firing Black leaders across government, former Transportation officials claim

“When you look at who has been removed without cause, and who has been left in place, the pattern is impossible to ignore," said Alvin Brown.

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Josh Funk

Build-A-Bear stock falls 15% as it reveals the real hit from tariffs, at last

“We expect this elevated level of impact to continue through the fourth quarter and into the next fiscal year," CEO Voin Todorovic said.

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Michelle Chapman

Congress flatlines in attempt to regulate college sports with bill ‘not ready for prime time’

It’s only the latest delay for a bill that had appeared headed for passage over the summer before repeatedly hitting roadblocks.

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Joey Cappelletti

Piling on Trump DOJ’s legitimacy issues, Letitia James challenges appointment of U.S. attorney suing her

The court hearing focusing on the role of John Sarcone, who is acting as U.S. attorney for northern New York.

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Michael Hill

Detroit’s bizarre romance with its very own RoboCop statue reaches happy ending, 15 years after love/hate crowdfunding campaign kicked it off

The statue campaign appears to have started around 2010 when Detroit Mayor Dave Bing was tagged in a tweet about Philadelphia's "Rocky" statue.

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Corey Williams

Spotify users lamented Wrapped in 2024. This year, the company brought back an old favorite and made it less about AI

Spotify received blowback in 2024 for going all-in on AI at the last minute.

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Dave Lozo

From Spotify Wrapped to YouTube Recap to Amazon Delivered, the holidays are becoming a time of year for our tech to tell us who we are

The end of 2025 is near. And the season of unwrapping our online lives — or at least a glimpse of what they looked like over the past year — is...

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Meet Luana Lopes Lara: The 29-year-old ballerina spent summers working for Ray Dalio—now she’s the youngest female self-made billionaire

Following in the footsteps of Taylor Swift and Scale AI's Lucy Guo, Luana Lopes Lara has just been crowned the world's youngest female self-made...

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Orianna Rosa Royle

‘There’s this fake narrative that the Democrats talk about, affordability’: Trump keeps dismissing cost of living as his party struggles to hold seats

“The danger signs are there, and we shouldn’t have had to spend that kind of money to hold that kind of seat," said Republican strategist Jason Roe...

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Meg Kinnard

Fed officials like the mystique of being seen as financial technocrats, but it’s time to demystify the central bank

As powerful as America’s central bank is, it’s still just one player in a globe-spanning ocean of financial markets.

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Alexander William Salter

AI is reshaping the rhythm of the workweek–and leaders need to pay attention

The workweek is changing for AI-enabled teams, with meetings consolidating towards the middle of the week, and engagement levels climbing.

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David Shim

White House tour is shorter this Christmas because the president has destroyed several of the historic rooms

“The tour was significantly longer last year,” said Amiah Henry, a student at Sulphur High School in Sulphur, Louisiana. “It got cut down a lot...

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Darlene Superville

Steve Cropper, legendary guitarist on Memphis classics from ‘Green Onions’ to ‘In the Midnight Hour,’ dies at 84

Comedy fans know him as a key part of the Blues Brothers band, but almost everyone knows his understated style from dozens of soul classics.

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Adrian Sainz

Trump administration orders embassies, consulates to prioritize visas for sports fans traveling for World Cup, Olympics

In a series of cables to all U.S. diplomatic missions obtained by the AP, the State Department said certain applications should be at the top of...

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Matthew Lee

I built the first iPhone with Steve Jobs. The AI industry is at risk of repeating an early smartphone mistake

When I was at Apple, we didn’t just launch the smartphone era—we built an ecosystem.

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Matt Rogers

‘There is no Mamdani effect’: Manhattan luxury home sales surge after mayoral election, undercutting predictions of doom and escape to Florida

Signed contracts for Manhattan homes over $4 million skyrocketed 25%; “the idea that people would flee New York was overblown,” said realtor Donna...

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Sasha Rogelberg