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Meet the soccer-playing humanoid robot that just delivered the game ball at the Brazil v. Norway FIFA World Cup match

Meet Atlas, the 5-foot tall humanoid robot that delivered the World Cup match ball, has 56 points of movement on its body, and learned to play soccer.

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Americans will eat 150 million hot dogs today. One specific American is predicted to eat 70 of them

Joey Chestnut is predicted to eat 70 hot dogs this year, just as prediction markets make it easier to gamble on the odds.

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Those bots sending discounts to your email is dynamic pricing in action. Get revenge on those bots by abandoning your cart

Retailers are looking at your browsing history to change the price you see in your cart. Maybe you should be doing the same when looking to buy.

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The sports economy is unaffordable at the bar, let alone the stadium

New data shows fans are going into debt for tickets — and one in five can't even afford to watch out at a sports bar.

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Why build AI data centers in a cornfield when Saudi Arabia has cheap oil and cheaper power?

"Data center capacity in the United States is not going to age well," MNTN CEO Mark Douglas told Fortune. He gives it two years.

02.07.2026 6

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Trump’s 927-page disclosure is just a normal Tuesday for direct indexing and crypto wealth managers

Trump’s excessive trades look like those of an automated, direct indexing, tax-loss harvesting portfolio, not one individual in the know.

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Henry Ford, Steve Jobs, William Boeing: These Fortune 500 founders are the American-born children of immigrants

In a 6-3 majority, the Supreme Court voted to uphold birth citizenship, the idea that children born in the U.S. are automatically U.S. citizens.

01.07.2026 10

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Should you go to work during a heat wave? Your productivity suffers, and GDP tanks when it’s hot

Productivity peaks at around 22°C (72°F) and falls roughly 2% per degree above 25°C, reaching 8.9% below peak at 30°C.

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‘Humanity has chosen to become idiots’: This Brown professor switched to take-home exams after a mass shooting and discovered mass cheating

Roberto Serrano literally wrote the book on game theory, but he's befuddled: "Why are you at a university if you refuse to learn, you refuse to work...

29.06.2026 9

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A former Fed colleague of Kevin Warsh on what to expect: ‘Plan for higher rates’

Esther George spent a decade dissenting in favor of tighter policy. Now she says Warsh may have no choice but to raise rates.

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The retired college professor fighting a $313 trespassing ticket in Wisconsin thinks he’s part of a national struggle

Paul Florsheim just wanted to walk his beach. The retired professor thinks his $313 trespassing ticket is like the fight against Elon Musk.

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The ‘FIFA 15’ is American culinary diplomacy in action

World Cup travelers are flocking to American products like ranch dressing and Raising Cane's. That's the beauty of bringing people together.

26.06.2026 9

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Are Europe’s heat waves deadlier than American gun violence? Kind of—and one of the hottest summers on record is making it worse

Heat has killed 200,000 Europeans in four years. The WHO calls it a health emergency.

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The Iran war is accelerating the EV transition faster than any climate policy ever did—but it’s still just not that much

Goldman Sachs put a percentage on the EV adoption "surge" after the Iran War: 3.4%.

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For the first time ever, no young women in England died of cervical cancer. In the U.S., RFK Jr.’s vaccine skepticism stalls HPV progress

Zero deaths, 200 lives saved, and 61% vaccinated. Without the vaccine, 23 women would have died, but in the U.S., RFK Jr. still won't call it safe.

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Elon Musk to get a billion shares of SpaceX if he can settle a million humans on Mars

Both traders on prediction markets and even SpaceX itself thinks a human colony on Mars is unlikely.

22.06.2026 9

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Executive pay climbed again in 2025—and the CEO-to-worker gap kept widening

The gap between CEO and worker pay hit a four-year high in 2025, with median CEO compensation rising 13% to $4.75 million, per new data.

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How FIFA restructured the World Cup into its biggest payday ever, as host cities face a budget shortfall

Gianni Infantino promised to quadruple FIFA's income back in 2016, and now he's throwing "104 Super Bowls" with an unprecedented tournament.

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The Knicks’ playoff run that ended in a championship and parade is worth at least $380 million to New York City

The Knicks' first-ever ticker-tape parade capped a postseason that could generate at least $380M for NYC, and cost the city a small fortune to pull...

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‘AI is going to create a labor shortage’: Jeff Bezos sees more jobs being created in the new economy, not less

The Amazon founder bets AI will create a labor shortage, not a doomsday, as he debuts Prometheus, his $41 billion startup reengineering the physical...

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Infant mortality in the U.S. fell to an all-time low in 2025 thanks to antibody shots and RSV vaccines

Although it's an all-time low compared to three decades ago, the infant mortality rate in the country is still higher than other high-income...

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New Mexico is in a historic drought. Oracle and OpenAI designed their newest data center with that in mind

New Mexico lost 209,000 acres of forest to drought and insects last year. Now a data center may pull millions of gallons of water from the same area.

15.06.2026 10

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‘Buy a ticket for 60 bucks and resell it for $6,000’: NYC Mayor Mamdani criticized FIFA’s resale market, but his jersey drop created the same thing

The New York City mayor has been very vocal about FIFA's resale market and how ordinary, working class New Yorkers were priced out of a limited...

12.06.2026 10

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Live updates from SpaceX IPO debut: SpaceX valuation now at over $2 trillion as stock climbs to $165 a share

After 24 years of anticipation, the SpaceX IPO finally debuted at just over $150 a share and is now hovering at around $165 a share.

12.06.2026 10

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‘I gave SpaceX less than a 10% chance of succeeding’: Elon Musk addresses Nasdaq ahead of SpaceX IPO

Today could be one of the biggest days in stock market history. After 24 years of anticipation, the SpaceX IPO finally debuted on Friday.

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American taxpayers have spent $33 billion on sports stadiums. They got fewer seats—and higher prices

"No one has ever built a new stadium and made tickets cheaper. No one’s trying to.”

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FIFA says ‘market rates’ explain World Cup prices. Economists say the market was rigged by design

FIFA launched its own resale marketplace and collects 30% on every ticket resold. Economists say it was designed to extract revenue at every stage.

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Lockheed, Palantir and Amazon helped fund Trump’s White House ballroom. They also share more than $50 billion in federal contracts

Lockheed Martin alone received roughly $43.8 billion in new or expanded contracts.

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Corporate America has been draining the world’s water. Matt Damon’s new campaign asks Gap, Starbucks, and Amazon to help give it back

Matt Damon teamed up with Water.org and companies like Starbucks, Gap and Amazon to donate portions of their profit to the organization.

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Bending Spoons, the Italian app acquirer behind AOL, Evernote, Vimeo, and WeTransfer, files for a U.S. IPO

The Italian conglomerate posted $603 million in revenue in Q1 of this year alone, more than double the $258 million from a year earlier.

08.06.2026 10

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How Howie Mandel turned a panic attack into a mental health movement and helped build a company now worth hundreds of millions

Howie Mandel did a campaign with NOCD, a telehealth app to help spread awareness of OCD. Out of that campaign, Billy Bob Thornton and "celebrity...

07.06.2026 10

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SpaceX and Anthropic are about to go public—and your 401(k) may be forced to buy in

The dot-com guardrails are being dismantled just as SpaceX and Anthropic go public, experts warn. Your retirement account could feel it.

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These Fortune 500 companies are bigger than most national economies—here’s where they’d rank as countries

Some companies on the Fortune 500 list rank even higher than national economies. Nvidia would be the fourth largest economy were it a country.

03.06.2026 10

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Live updates from the NYC bar that promised to cover everyone’s tabs if the Knicks won, and used Kalshi to hedge their bets

Fortune is on scene at The Jeffrey, a small New York City bar that offered to cover everyone's tabs up to $100 if the Knicks win—and hedged the bet...

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Harvard Law: Anthropic is about to sell a safety mission Wall Street can veto

Only three companies have ever installed investor-overriding mission guardians. Two of them, including Ben & Jerry's, failed.

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AI will turn all of your hotel experiences into luxury ones

Automating monotonous tasks will allow hotel staff to spend more time catering to the needs of each guest than before.

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AI will make the ‘tech bro’ class even richer, Nobel laureate Joe Stiglitz says, just as it can take your job

“Unfortunately, the tech bros, who are obviously advocates of this, are at the same time pushing for smaller government,” Stiglitz told Fortune.

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Uber wants to answer the hotel industry’s most asked question. Now it’s integrating into 15,000 hotels globally

Uber is partnering with hotel management system Mews to integrate into 15,000 hotels worldwide and more seamlessly offer transportation for guests.

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‘Boy, what a team,’ says Trump as Queens native scores an invite to see the New York Knicks in the NBA finals

He said he didn't know if he would be able to attend his son's wedding but he was very excited to get the courtside seats.

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He left big law, became a DJ to pay his bills, and built sports clubs inside refugee camps. Now he wants more members than Bayern Munich

Jan van Hövell's KLABU turns shipping containers into community hubs for some of the world's 120 million displaced people. PSJ just signed on to help.

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AI is changing the hospitality industry, and it’s changing how you stay in hotels

Hotels are using AI to build a guest profile of you when you book a room, meaning you won't have to wait in line to check in, and you'll get champagne...

27.05.2026 10

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The unlikely origin of a $2.5 billion hospitality unicorn: a bored teenager working the night shift at his family business

"I always remember being 14 years old on my summer holidays, thinking that this was so unfair," Mews founder Richard Valtr told Fortune.

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The U.S. campaigned to host the World Cup. Now soccer fans will trade their countries’ train system for the U.S.’s ‘D’ rated infrastructure

Welcome to the World Cup, where the bus is a school bus, the train costs $98, and there's no sidewalk to the stadium.

25.05.2026 10

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You wouldn’t put your entire 401(k) in one stock. Why are you doing it with your credit card points?

Diversifying your credit card points means you're safe from point devaluations at your favorite airline.

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Your ‘flexible hot girl summer’ is going to cost you

Your hot girl summer plans to Europe are still on, but just plan a few months ahead to save as much as possible.

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Exclusive: Advocacy groups file complaint against Roblox, alleging its manipulative design puts kids at risk

The complaint follows a parent who lost her son to people who groomed him on the platform.

20.05.2026 10

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ThredUp’s CEO has a warning for five-day companies: You’re going to lose the talent war

A four-day workweek leaves employees more content and well-rested, and that directly translated to increased and sustained revenues.

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Trump and Mark Cuban end war of words to tag-team America’s drug pricing crisis: ‘Democrats want cheaper medications, too’

Trump seemed to relish winning the support of his one-time foe, turning to Cuban and saying, "Well, he made a mistake. It was a big mistake."

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‘This is what the consumer wants’: A new lawsuit about PFAS and other ‘forever chemicals’ is heating up the cookware industry

Two cookware giants are suing a newer startup over claims that PFAS are toxic despite the lack of evidence. The cookware startup says consumers want...

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The American airline industry is so untrustworthy that 89% of travelers are bracing for delay or cancellation

You're not the only one who thinks their next trip for summer vacation will be a nightmare.

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