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Meta added a privacy-safety feature to its AI glasses but is reportedly testing a ‘super-sensing’ prototype

Meta's new feature disables its smart glasses' camera if users tamper with the LED recording light.

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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

For 250 years, work defined American identity. That era Is ending

AI is not just disrupting jobs. It is destabilizing the work-centered identity that helped define American life, forcing us to invent something new.

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Keith Ferrazzi

A 12-person PR firm represents De Niro, Pacino, and billion-dollar clients. Its founder says the secret is staying small

The RMG founder's default answer to any prospective client is 'no.' It's helped him grow revenue more than fivefold in five years without staffing up.

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Sydney Lake

How SK Hynix just pulled off the second-largest U.S. share sale by quietly powering the AI boom

With a $26.5 billion Nasdaq debut, the South Korean manufacturer caps off a long, strange path from memory-chip also-ran to AI powerhouse

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Nicholas Gordon

Why the 2026 IPO boom is about to broaden beyond AI mega-deals

After SpaceX’s record IPO, investors are starting to eye new sectors.

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Sheryl Estrada

A $5 hair tie, a sold-out dress, cake and a fast-food order: How fans chase closeness to Erling Haaland, Taylor Swift and other celebrities

Brands cash in as fans buy small, affordable pieces of their idols' lives, even if those items are not direct endorsements.

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Mia Osmonbekov

Ulta is betting $400 million that an NYC megastore will help it compete with Sephora—and that flagships still work

An Ulta executive says the four-story behemoth is critical to its growth in the U.S. and abroad.

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Phil Wahba

Taylor Swift paid New York City more than $160,000 to cover the costs tied to her wedding, Mayor Zohran Mamdani confirmed

As they tied the knot, they also tied the city in gridlock as police barricaded streets around MSG and permits were filed to keep traffic flowing.

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The Associated Press

This summer’s hottest IPOs are minting a new class of ultra-high-net-worth ‘IPO Bros’—and family offices are changing how they approach them

A hot IPO summer means family offices are learning how to navigate newly minuted UHNW "IPO Bros" who have that entrepreneurial spirit.

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Catherina Gioino

Meet ‘Freedom Fuel Network’ stations, a new chain with cheaper gas and mysterious origins

Freedom Fuel Network sells gasoline at prices well below the average, but the chain has revealed little about itself.

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Joshua Hong

Billionaires warned New York would scare off business. Anthropic and Airbnb just made their biggest bets on the city yet

Not only are they expanding their footprint, they’re also doubling headcount. Anthropic said it plans to have more than 1,000 employees by end of...

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Mia Osmonbekov

Memory chip giant SK Hynix jumps nearly 13% in Wall Street debut as AI frenzy powers biggest initial share sale in the U.S. by a foreign company

SK Hynix priced its American depositary receipts, or ADRs, at $149 each Thursday. They opened Friday at $170 and closed at $168.01.

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Damian J. Troise

OpenAI’s latest AI model likely has similar cyber vulnerabilities to one that led to U.S. export controls on Anthropic’s Fable, British agency says

U.K. AI agency found 'universal jailbreaks' that unlocked dangerous cyber capabilities in OpenAI's GPT-5.6

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Emily Forlini

Apple accuses OpenAI, and former design star Jony Ive’s io Products firm, of stealing hardware trade secrets in blockbuster lawsuit

The lawsuit alleges that two former Apple employees now working at OpenAI stole confidential data including information about unreleased hardware...

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Sebastian Herrera

Top Iranian officials admitted to the supreme leader that the U.S. naval blockade was crushing the economy, report says, as Trump eyes reimposing it

"Ultimately, both sides need a deal soon given domestic vulnerabilities: looming U.S. midterms, Iran's economic and political fragilities."

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Jason Ma

When Erling Haaland isn’t playing for Norway in the World Cup, he’s investing in a chess championship and playing an animated Viking

Soccer star Erling Haaland has led Norway to the World Cup quarterfinals—but off the pitch, he’s investing in chess and starring in a Viking movie.

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Emma Burleigh

One Wall Street firm is paying its Gen Z interns fresh out of college $8,600 a week—more than the typical American makes in nearly two months

Susquehanna is offering master's and Ph.D. interns up to $86,000 for a 10-week summer, plus free housing, complimentary meals, and other perks.

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Preston Fore

Wyoming officials say Meta’s 715,000-square-foot data center is responsible for contaminating its water system with a rare bacterium

Cheyenne's Board of Public Utilities tightened its wastewater discharge policy following the discovery of Cupriavidus gilardii in its treatment...

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Sasha Rogelberg

Marketing’s new mandate: Why AI is forcing CMOs to think like ‘mini CEOs’

Fortune hosted a panel of marketing leaders following the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity to discuss AI’s impact on the profession...

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Sam Forsdick

Tech shares lift global markets while oil slips as Iran war keeps traders on edge

Tech shares drove gains in Asian and global markets Friday, even as oil prices slipped on strained flows through the Strait of Hormuz and renewed...

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The Associated Press

At least a million woman lose access to humanitarian supports thanks to Trump budget cuts

Nearly 90% of the women's groups surveyed said they can't meet needs, and one in five expect to shut down temporarily or permanently within the next...

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The Associated Press

Why companies are paying a premium for battle-tested CFOs—and Nike’s struggling turnaround shows what that costs

David Denton, Nike’s new CFO, is coming from Pfizer—underscoring how far companies will go to recruit proven top finance chiefs.

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Sheryl Estrada

U.S. Treasury has borrowed $155 billion every month of this fiscal year—and is now paying $24 billion a week in interest on its debts

Interest payments on the debt are now so large that the spending is higher than the outlays for the Departments of Defense, Commerce, Homeland...

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Eleanor Pringle

Current price of oil as of July 10, 2026

When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.

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Joseph Hostetler

40% of Americans didn’t read a book last year. These 3 are worth the exception

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

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Diane Brady

Strait jacket: Wall Street is worried President Trump has no good options for ending the war with Iran

Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.

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Jim Edwards

In 2026 so far, U.S. VCs have deployed a record-shattering $412.7 billion. Almost none of it is trickling down.

In the first half of 2026, U.S. VCs deployed $412.7 billion, a record that surpasses the full year of 2025 by 30%, according to PitchBook’s new...

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Allie Garfinkle

The Raising Cane’s co-CEO has seen those World Cup fans praising the chicken and sauce. He’s ‘pretty grateful’ to have ‘chicken fanatics’ worldwide

Raising Cane's co-CEO AJ Kumaran has seen those World Cup visitors' videos lauding the chain's sauce and chicken. Now he's getting requests worldwide.

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Catherina Gioino

Companies are shifting toward cheaper open‑source AI models to rein in costs, Amazon CTO says

Stories of runaway AI bills have been making some executives skittish about AI spending.

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Beatrice Nolan

Stitch Fix’s CEO inherited a broken tech darling. He’s fixing it like a traditional retail exec

CEO Matt Baer, a Walmart and Macy’s alum, is refocusing the online personal styling service on retail 101.

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Phil Wahba

Vietnam is paying women to have more babies—but there’s a catch: they have to be on baby no. 2 to qualify for the cash bonus

Like Elon Musk and governments around the world, Vietnam wants more babies—and it's giving $68 million to women who have more than one.

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Orianna Rosa Royle

Harry Styles fans flew to Amsterdam, paid a 21% premium for hotels, and sent inflation soaring. One Gen Zer paid $1,000 for a tiny ‘box’ hotel room

Young people may be struggling with financial milestones, but Harry Styles fans in the Netherlands proved their spending power can catch bankers'...

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Preston Fore

49% of young adults live at home, up 12 points since 2019. An economist says the fallout will reshape marriage, kids, and home-buying

Nearly half of adults under 30 now live with a parent—and the Fed's data shows the squeeze is creeping into their 30s and 40s

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Catherina Gioino

Hybrid‑work expert Nicholas Bloom says World Cup chaos and pricey commutes are turning July into the summer of remote work

The economist who has spent two decades studying remote work said most employers are never going back to a fully in-office set up.

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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Asia’s founders are decamping to the U.S. as the region suffers a protracted venture funding slump

Venture slowdown, weak exits and fragmented markets are pushing some Asian startups to Silicon Valley.

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Angelica Ang

Microsoft’s emissions surged 25% in 2025 during data center boom

The software company pledged six years ago to pull more carbon from the atmosphere than it was emitting by 2030.

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Matt Day

Trump cheers Gwynne Shotwell as Elon Musk’s SpaceX No. 2 gives $325 million in stock to Trump Accounts

The SpaceX stock gift joins the Dells' $6.25 billion contribution to the investment accounts for children as Elon Musk hasn’t confirmed his own

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Mia Osmonbekov

Jersey Mike’s $12 billion IPO filing reveals a $50 million payday for the founder’s stepson and a $41 million jet

The sandwich chain’s initial public offering is among the largest in restaurant history.

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Sasha Rogelberg

Meta releases latest update of AI model Muse Spark as tech giant accelerates AI push under Alexandr Wang

Meta says Muse Spark 1.1 surpasses models from OpenAI and Anthropic on certain benchmarks—but didn’t include comparisons to rival AI labs’ most...

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Ben Weiss

Amazon’s CTO on how developers can ride the AI-powered coding wave

Software engineering is going through its most dramatic transformation in years.

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Beatrice Nolan

Fed’s Williams says AI is now his main inflation concern

"Monetary policy would need to respond to that," said Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams.

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Maria Eloisa Capurro

Farm groups saved Bayer in court over RoundUp cancer claims. Five days later, Bayer called for tariffs on the ingredient farmers rely on

A tariff petition on Chinese glyphosate, a key RoundUp ingredient, has turned Bayer's biggest legal allies into its loudest critics

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Mia Osmonbekov

‘Sony essentially destroys its own defense’: How its disc-free PS5 plan triggered a $457M lawsuit and undercut its antitrust defense

Sony’s move enraged thousands of gamers and brought on a lawsuit with the backdrop of rival Xbox’s restructuring amid video game industry challenges.

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Mia Osmonbekov

Three-time Olympic canoeist pleads not guilty to touching water in Reflecting Pool vandalism charge

David Hearn said he was simply checking the current conditions.

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Michael Kunzelman

Altman says OpenAI made ‘many changes’ during talks with U.S.

Sam Altman said the ChatGPT maker had a “collaborative back and forth” with top U.S. officials in the weeks leading up to the wide release of GPT-5.6.

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Lorelei Smillie

The housing market just split in two: Prices are falling out West and soaring in the Northeast

Home list prices have dropped 7.3% in the West since 2022 but climbed 12.6% in the Northeast, according to Realtor.com data—even as the national...

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Alex Veiga

Billionaire MacKenzie Scott just donated $20 million to support America’s youth mental health, as a fifth of teens struggle with suicidal thoughts

MacKenzie Scott, worth $35.8 billion, just donated a record-breaking gift to the U.S. nonprofit Active Minds to support a “new era of mental health.”

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Emma Burleigh

Self-made multimillionaire says Canadians ‘give no money away’ compared with Americans—research shows U.S. giving is more than twice as high

“If you are rich in the U.S., you give money away, but I could name you 100 very rich Canadians who give no money away,” ex-finance CEO Bill...

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Preston Fore

Companies still don’t know how to incorporate AI in a holistic way, says Wharton expert

The real bottleneck isn’t the models—it’s change management and whether leaders can bring people along to work with AI as a partner.

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Sheryl Estrada

PepsiCo cut chip prices to win back frustrated shoppers. The Iran war got in the way

PepsiCo beat revenue estimates, but Iran war gas-price spikes left U.S. snack volumes flat and beverage sales down 4%.

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Dee-Ann Durbin