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Jellyfish swarms knock out 3.2 gigawatts of French nuclear power

The offline power comes as the country is forecast to see temperatures near 104F in the coming days.

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Bloomberg

Trump’s media and crypto firm just posted a $238 million quarterly loss—here’s where those losses came from

The decline in Bitcoin’s price and merger-related legal costs hurt results, prompting a push into new businesses.

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Camila Grigera Naón

France hits unsolicited telemarketers with $87,000 fine per call, following similar provisions in other European nations

The Netherlands, Germany and other countries have employed policies to restrict unsolicited telemarketers for years.

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Joshua Hong

‘A prisoner can oppose incarceration while remaining confined’: The paradox of Gen Z, capitalism, and consumption

Every generation flirts with anti-capitalism when it’s young, but has something broken down along the way?

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Nick Lichtenberg

When OpenAI employees have a problem, they email this special address to see if Sam Altman will solve it immediately

From office parking issues to technical roadblocks, the friction@openai.com inbox is a way for senior leadership to get direct visibility into...

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Emily Forlini

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses

The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.

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Sasha Rogelberg

How a book that inspired Warren Buffett and a $14,000 side hustle helped billionaire Bill Ackman get started as an investor

The Pershing Square Capital Management CEO Bill Ackman says he was inspired to become an investor after working at his dad’s real estate company.

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Emma Burleigh

The cofounder of $2 billion toy giant Spin Master says the best time to start a business is in your 20s because ‘no one sees you as competition’

While the average founder is 42 years old, Spin Master cofounder Ronnen Harary says your 20s is actually the best time to start a business.

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Emma Burleigh

Steve and Connie Ballmer are splitting their $8 billion philanthropy into three so the people closest to the work can decide how the money is spent

Ballmer Group is spinning its three regional offices into independent nonprofits, and CEO Terri Ludwig says she'd rather run them like startups than...

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Sydney Lake

How Khloé Kardashian’s snack brand Khloud got ahead of the protein craze: ‘The timing was everything’

Khloud is winning over consumers at Target, Starbucks, and Walmart. For Khloé Kardashian, the journey to this point has been "a lot of trial and...

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Emma Hinchliffe

Jamie Dimon warns dollar dominance depends on the military: ‘If we’re not the strongest military in 25 years…we won’t be the reserve currency either’

The JPMorgan CEO said U.S. military might will be the only thing keeping the world from being "very dangerous for us."

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Mia Osmonbekov

Almost all top U.S. companies had board diversity rules. Now most are gone

Apple, Google, Amazon, Starbucks and Wells Fargo are among the top US companies that have eliminated diversity provisions for their directors in the...

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Bloomberg

Kalshi CEO slams founders for being over-reliant on ‘mostly trash’ business advice—he founded his now-$22 billion prediction market as a college grad

Kalshi’s 30-year-old CEO says most business advice is ‘trash’—he doesn’t read management books or listen to podcasts: ‘I’m gonna make it up as I go’

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Preston Fore

‘Hear it here first’: Trump’s media company doubles down on the president and Truth Social

Truth Social's new Truth API charges traders up to $100,000 a month for a head start on Trump's posts, as it retreats from failed side bets.

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Bernard Condon

Nvidia taps Wall Street for $500 billion funding commitment

Blackstone, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and others will create dedicated debt pools for Nvidia's customers, deepening scrutiny of its circular AI deals.

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Bloomberg

‘Chronic’ heat risk in Europe draws warning from Swiss Re

Europe's low heat infrastructure has the research arm concerned, with only about 20% of European households having air conditioning.

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Bloomberg

Startup B3IQ has found a new AI niche: Supplying rent-to-own machines to privacy-conscious university researchers

The New York based firm's clients include Stanford and Dartmouth u

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Jeff John Roberts

EU study warns pesticide import curbs risk lifting food prices

Concerns from 19 countries at a World Trade Organization meeting were raised on risk assessments and price increases for consumers.

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Bloomberg

Spotify asks creators to label songs when they’re AI-generated

Users can now flag songs generated with AI—and not have them recommended to them through Spotify's algorithm.

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Bloomberg

Apollo inks $2.6 billion financing deal with NY Yankees

Proceeds from the deal will be used to support the growth of the Major League Baseball team and refinance existing debt.

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Bloomberg

Germany weighs options as low water levels trigger price surges

Critically-low river levels are causing German officials to discuss options due to extreme heat waves.

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Bloomberg

The AI dividend in healthcare is real. Now the focus is extending its impact

Driven by the pressures on health systems, AI is moving from promise to practice. It's beginning to pay dividends.

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Jeff Dilullo

U.S. Treasury is paying $3 billion a day in interest on national debt, says the CBO—having spent $10 billion to prop up the currency of its top lender

The CBO reported that net interest on public debt totaled $963 billion between October 2025 (when the fiscal year begins) and July 2026.

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Eleanor Pringle

OpenAI’s CFO insists AI won’t replace judgment

Sarah Friar's five steps for building an AI-native finance team, from access to accountability.

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Sheryl Estrada

Zach Dell aims to build a name for himself with Base Power

Zach Dell, who turns 30 this month, has built a home battery and tech business, successfully fundraising on a $13 billion valuation.

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Jordan Blum

Ex-MI6 chief says the biggest risks for CEOs are the threats they already know about

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

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Diane Brady

Current price of oil as of August 11, 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

Apple stock sinks as hopes that new CEO John Ternus will launch a high-end, ‘all-glass’ iPhone are shattered

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

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Jim Edwards

Mark Zuckerberg writes 6,500-word essay calling concentration the biggest AI risk, days after his model hacked another company

Zuckerberg says distributing AI power keeps it safe. Five days earlier, Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 broke into another company's systems during testing.

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Kelvin Chan

Italy’s ‘perfectly healthy’ wine grapes go unpicked in the afternoons because it’s just too hot this year

Extreme heat pushed Franciacorta's harvest 10 days earlier than last year — a month earlier than three decades ago.

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Colleen Barry

Meet the 37-year-old single mother and former line cook rattling Democratic moderates in Wisconsin

Francesca Hong has called for free childcare and healthcare and a moratorium on data center construction. She used to want to defund the police.

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Scott Bauer

Jackie the Bald Eagle, social media star of California for a decade, leaves ‘heartbroken’ fans behind with her death

The nonprofit Friends of Big Bear Valley installed the nest camera in 2015 and documented the successes and failures of each breeding season.

yesterday 10

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The Associated Press

A year in the life of HP: How the UK&I MD is balancing perfection and speed—and putting people first

Over the past few months, Fortune has spoken with senior HP leaders to understand how the company is evolving—from innovation and culture to...

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Francesca Cassidy

FDA’s new additive list isn’t a ban — and won’t be checked

Companies self-certify their own additives are safe, then just tell the FDA. Nobody checks their homework.

yesterday 10

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Matthew Perrone

AI’s biggest buildout is here. These stocks offer a way to invest in the data center boom

For those seeking a pick-and-shovel approach to the AI wave, here's a guide to utilities, grid hardware, cooling firms, and refinery stocks.

yesterday 10

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Camila Grigera Naón

Record beef prices are minting fortunes for ranchers—but straining the American farmers who fatten their cattle

“Pretty much everybody above [cow-calf producers] is a margin operation,” one economist said. “And most of those margins are under some sort of...

yesterday 10

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Sasha Rogelberg

CareScout CEO: the hidden economic cost of an aging baby Boomer generation

CareScout’s Cost of Care data show the median cost of assisted living exceeds $74,000 annually, while a private room in a nursing home approaches...

yesterday 10

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Samir Shah

Arianna Huffington says even high-flying CEOs are unhappy and feel stuck in their multimillion-dollar jobs: ‘It’s a trap’

Huffington Post's multimillionaire founder Arianna Huffington says success is a ‘trap’—CEOs with big salaries are afraid to leave jobs they no...

yesterday 10

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Orianna Rosa Royle

Americans are as unhappy as ever. Could ‘a happiness-segregated society by marriage’ be why?

Americans went through a “happiness crash” right after the pandemic. The ones who are married are the only ones who really recovered.

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Catherina Gioino

Italy’s $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral

Extreme heat is straining the vaults that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral, and economists say the damage runs wider than the vault

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Catherina Gioino

Trump’s $200 billion tariff hit swells budget deficit to $2.1 trillion for 2026, CBO confirms

A major tool for deficit reduction—Trump’s IEEPA tariff regime—is unconstitutional.

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Nick Lichtenberg

Everything’s bigger in Texas: Musk’s planned $16.8 billion chip factory is five times bigger than the world’s current largest building

SpaceX and Tesla’s planned Terafab would span more than 100 million square feet and will assist humanity’s space colonization—according to Elon Musk.

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Joshua Hong

Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt was a Carnival Cruise ship officer before building his bookstore empire

Barnes & Noble has thrived under its new CEO’s independent bookstore twist.

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Sarah Glodek

Meta brandishes open-source AI models again, as Zuckerberg media blitz emphasizes battle against Chinese rivals

It comes as Meta tries to regain ground on OpenAI and Anthropic, and as Chinese open-source labs close in on the American frontier.

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Beatrice Nolan

Zuckerberg’s vision for an AI assistant is far more intimate than ChatGPT: It watches him sleep, train and bake with his 8-year-old daughter

The “superintelligence” pitch comes amid an FTC inquiry into child chatbot safety and days after Meta disclosed a sharp drop in free cash flow

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Mia Osmonbekov

With latest Wall Street downgrade, Apple now has the most ‘Sell ratings since shortly after Steve Jobs’ death

Investment firm Jefferies on Monday downgraded Apple from hold to underperform, cutting its price target from $285.56 to $263.66.

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Sebastian Herrera

Strategy dumps yet more Bitcoin, latest $109 million sell-off comes amid a seven-week buying hiatus

The company’s fourth Bitcoin sale since June underscores its push to build cash and reassure investors.

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Camila Grigera Naón

The stock market may be doing so well that it’s causing more Baby Boomers and Gen Xers to drop out of the labor force

"My hunch is that this is as at least partially attributable to wealth effects from record highs in the stock market."

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Jason Ma

Global wildfire surge hits U.S., propelled by rising temperatures

Fire country is becoming hotter and drier with flammable landscapes—forcing more than 60,000 residents from their homes.

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Bloomberg

MacKenzie Scott has given away $26 billion and rarely speaks publicly. Now she’s releasing a novel—but you won’t find it on Amazon

The billionaire philanthropist and novelist studied under Toni Morrison and is releasing her first novel since 2013.

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Sydney Lake