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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.
Joey Chestnut is predicted to eat 70 hot dogs this year, just as prediction markets make it easier to gamble on the odds.
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.
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.
"Data center capacity in the United States is not going to age well," MNTN CEO Mark Douglas told Fortune. He gives it two years.
Trump’s excessive trades look like those of an automated, direct indexing, tax-loss harvesting portfolio, not one individual in the know.
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.
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.
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...
Esther George spent a decade dissenting in favor of tighter policy. Now she says Warsh may have no choice but to raise rates.
Paul Florsheim just wanted to walk his beach. The retired professor thinks his $313 trespassing ticket is like the fight against Elon Musk.
World Cup travelers are flocking to American products like ranch dressing and Raising Cane's. That's the beauty of bringing people together.
Heat has killed 200,000 Europeans in four years. The WHO calls it a health emergency.
Goldman Sachs put a percentage on the EV adoption "surge" after the Iran War: 3.4%.
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.
Both traders on prediction markets and even SpaceX itself thinks a human colony on Mars is unlikely.
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.
Gianni Infantino promised to quadruple FIFA's income back in 2016, and now he's throwing "104 Super Bowls" with an unprecedented tournament.
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...
The Amazon founder bets AI will create a labor shortage, not a doomsday, as he debuts Prometheus, his $41 billion startup reengineering the physical...
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...
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.
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...
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.
Today could be one of the biggest days in stock market history. After 24 years of anticipation, the SpaceX IPO finally debuted on Friday.
"No one has ever built a new stadium and made tickets cheaper. No one’s trying to.”
FIFA launched its own resale marketplace and collects 30% on every ticket resold. Economists say it was designed to extract revenue at every stage.
Lockheed Martin alone received roughly $43.8 billion in new or expanded contracts.
Matt Damon teamed up with Water.org and companies like Starbucks, Gap and Amazon to donate portions of their profit to the organization.
The Italian conglomerate posted $603 million in revenue in Q1 of this year alone, more than double the $258 million from a year earlier.
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...
The dot-com guardrails are being dismantled just as SpaceX and Anthropic go public, experts warn. Your retirement account could feel it.
Some companies on the Fortune 500 list rank even higher than national economies. Nvidia would be the fourth largest economy were it a country.
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...
Only three companies have ever installed investor-overriding mission guardians. Two of them, including Ben & Jerry's, failed.
Automating monotonous tasks will allow hotel staff to spend more time catering to the needs of each guest than before.
“Unfortunately, the tech bros, who are obviously advocates of this, are at the same time pushing for smaller government,” Stiglitz told Fortune.
Uber is partnering with hotel management system Mews to integrate into 15,000 hotels worldwide and more seamlessly offer transportation for guests.
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.
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.
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...
"I always remember being 14 years old on my summer holidays, thinking that this was so unfair," Mews founder Richard Valtr told Fortune.
Welcome to the World Cup, where the bus is a school bus, the train costs $98, and there's no sidewalk to the stadium.
Diversifying your credit card points means you're safe from point devaluations at your favorite airline.
Your hot girl summer plans to Europe are still on, but just plan a few months ahead to save as much as possible.
The complaint follows a parent who lost her son to people who groomed him on the platform.
A four-day workweek leaves employees more content and well-rested, and that directly translated to increased and sustained revenues.
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."
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...
You're not the only one who thinks their next trip for summer vacation will be a nightmare.