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Exclusive: Yahoo Finance is building a Bloomberg Terminal for everyone else

The internet giant is launching AlphaSpace, a customizable dashboard that aims to bring Wall Street-style research tools to 150 million everyday...

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Fortune

Nick Lichtenberg

6.7 million people thought they were ripping apart an AI-generated Monet painting. But it was real

A researcher posted a real Monet painting, but tagged it as made with AI. That didn't stop people from tearing it apart online.

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Communities are blocking billions in data centers. Big Tech has wagered $1 trillion otherwise

A grassroots rebellion is canceling AI infrastructure projects at a record pace — but hyperscalers are betting the math still works in their favor.

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AI is eating the market and Wall Street strategists have bubble brain as they debate: are we in 1997 or 1999?

Are markets partying like it's 1999, or a few years before that?

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Billionaire Ken Griffin used to dismiss AI as ‘garbage.’ Here’s why he changed his mind—and why he’s ‘depressed’

"You could just see how this was going to have such a dramatic impact on society."

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Nick Lichtenberg

A record number of 18-year-olds are set to graduate into an economy designed against them

It's the commencement season that Gen Z fought back as America hits peak 18 and peak data center at the same time.

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Top Chef’s Tom Colicchio got a 15x return on a tech company most Americans have never heard of. He thinks his own industry is broken

America's most famous self-taught chef talked to Fortune about diagnosing ADHD, his 15x exit, and the state of fine dining: "It's not fun anymore."

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AI’s cyborg problem: you have to embrace it to really succeed but 90% of people can’t or don’t want to

Vivienne Ming has been sounding the alarm about a "cognitive divide." She told Fortune that "most of our fears about AI are fears about other people."

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The new American Dream doesn’t live in a big city. It lives in Celina, Texas

The Census Bureau's latest data make it official: the fastest-growing places in America are small exurban cities ringing Dallas and Houston.

15.05.2026 3

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AI agents are saving California’s favorite cheese. Here’s how Salesforce brought Petaluma Creamery back from the dead

When the pandemic pushed a 113-year-old California institution to the brink of collapse, Larry Peter called his cousin.

15.05.2026 4

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Burned out and going nowhere: the American worker is too mentally drained to even look for a new job

In a low-hire, low-fire labor market with almost nowhere to go, job search burnout isn't just emotional — it's rational.

14.05.2026 3

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Half of older Americans are unfulfilled. Their doctors can’t see it

A massive new two-year study suggests the gap between how the elderly seem and how they feel may be more damaging than we all think.

14.05.2026 5

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‘Ocean Dream’ diamond, largest blue-green stone of its kind in the world, sells for $17.3 million

Christie’s called it a record price for a stone of its kind sold at auction.

14.05.2026 3

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Goldman sees an AI bottleneck that can’t be vide-coded away. Ford’s CEO warns it’s already a ‘full-blown’ crisis

"The infrastructure foundation on which AI has been constructed will not sustain the AI of tomorrow."

13.05.2026 3

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Lloyd Blankfein just put his finger on why even Goldman Sachs doesn’t trust AI agents

The former Goldman CEO's warning about AI leverage isn't about killer robots. It's about the mundane terror of being too slow to catch a mistake.

13.05.2026 3

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Teenage soccer sensation Lamine Yamal hobnobs with Olivia Rodrigo, wins championship, waves Palestinian flag

All in all, it was a very Gen Z way to celebrate the La Liga title.

12.05.2026 5

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Ted Turner built the original infinite scroll. The attention economy is running on his playbook

The CNN founder, who died May 6 at 87, designed the open-loop content model decades before Facebook's algorithm. The man with the Midas touch.

12.05.2026 6

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Even as hallucinations show up in legal filings, Big Law goes all in on AI with new Anthropic release

Quinn Emanuel's Christopher Kercher built his firm's litigation platform on Claude and it's "far beyond what I would've done on my own — probably...

12.05.2026 6

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Roger Bennett’s message to A-Rod is one for the country: Soccer has already overtaken baseball in America

Men in Blazers is partnering with the Home Depot to take the World Cup to the masses. Bennett says America's soccer moment is finally here.

11.05.2026 5

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Meet Goldman’s athlete whisperer: the woman who stands guard against $1 billion of fraud targeting sports fortunes

Nicole Pullen Ross has advised the ultrawealthy for 26 years at Goldman Sachs. She talked to Fortune about working in sports and seeing a number get...

10.05.2026 10

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‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ broke the box office. It may also be the last great victory for Hollywood’s IP machine

The $77 million opening shows the nostalgia formula still works—when conditions are right. The problem is nothing else on the calendar meets the test.

09.05.2026 7

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Nick Lichtenberg

This economist studied 400 years of recessions. His bleak conclusion: stop trying to predict them

Tyler Goodspeed's sweeping new book dismantles the idea that downturns follow predictable patterns: history is the only thing guaranteed to keep...

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Ray Dalio: the ‘heart attack’ of America’s debt crisis is just the beginning of a ‘great turbulence’ that will reshape the country

The debt crisis is converging with four other forces simultaneously reaching a breaking point, Dalio warns.

08.05.2026 8

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The $39 trillion debt is set to surpass its postwar peak—and the math says Washington can’t simply cut its way out

A new Brookings chart book lays bare the arithmetic: balancing the budget on lower-priority spending alone is "virtually impossible," and the biggest...

08.05.2026 20

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Whirlpool has a word for what the Iran War is doing to its industry: recession

"This level of industry decline is similar to what we have observed during the global financial crisis."

08.05.2026 20

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$96 billion giant ServiceNow doesn’t see a ‘SaaSpocalypse.’ It sees the ‘hard lift, heavy lifting’ phase just beginning

From the sidelines of its biggest-ever annual conference, ServiceNow COO Amit Zavery talked to Fortune about what should and shouldn't be sexy.

07.05.2026 6

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Tapestry thinks it’s cracked the code of ‘expressive luxury’ for Gen Z: a ‘Goldilocks’ combo of aspirational and approachable

The Coach parent delivered a record quarter, with its flagship brand posting 29% revenue growth—powered by a Gen Z flywheel may be just getting...

07.05.2026 9

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Ford CEO says his Gen Z son is choosing hands-on work: ‘He feels like that’s more fulfilling than doing summer school at some fancy college’

Jim Farley told Fortune that we're still only in the "second or third inning" of solving the shortage of blue-collar workers in the essential economy.

07.05.2026 6

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Trump admits World Cup tickets are too expensive—days after Infantino insisted they were ‘market rate’ for America

"I wouldn't pay it either, to be honest," the president said.

07.05.2026 10

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The AI job apocalypse is ‘unhelpful marketing, bad economics and worse history,’ a16z says

So, then, why are so many historians afraid?

07.05.2026 10

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Two Americas, one drive-thru: Welcome to fast food’s contradictory, split-screen economy

From McDonald's to Papa John's to Wingstop, Q1 earnings are painting a portrait of a nation sorting itself into winners and losers at the drive-thru...

07.05.2026 10

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I litigated the JetBlue-Spirit merger. A few thoughts on the future of antitrust in the airline industry

A former DOJ Antitrust Division attorney who worked on the JetBlue/Spirit case argues that Spirit's collapse wasn't inevitable — but it should give...

07.05.2026 20

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‘FOMO has proven a stronger incentive than poor stock performance’: Goldman Sachs just issued a brutal verdict on the AI boom

Goldman Sachs looked at the giant data-center question from both sides of the equation — and shrugged.

06.05.2026 40

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ServiceNow just told Wall Street it’s going to double again. Here’s why $30 billion of revenue isn’t crazy

The enterprise software company grew from $3.5 billion to nearly $16 billion in six years. Now it says $30 billion by 2030 is conservative.

06.05.2026 10

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Your company’s AI could delete everything in 9 seconds. ServiceNow wants to be the kill switch

Enterprises are deploying AI agents without identities, audit trails, or guardrails. Bill McDermott is betting $30 billion on fixing it.

06.05.2026 6

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The CEO of Trek Bicycle reads 52 books a year, hates smartphones, and thinks Milton Friedman was wrong

The bicycle company president talked to Fortune about a brutal post-boom market, why generational labels are overblown, and his obsession with...

06.05.2026 7

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Jensen Huang on why ‘agentic’ will rewire a $50 trillion economy: ‘operated by robots, managed by more robots, and the entire factory is a robot’

The Nvidia CEO keeps showing up at ServiceNow's annual conference. The reason why explains the next decade of the AI economy.

06.05.2026 6

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Ken Griffin says Zohran Mamdani video shocked him: ‘It took a moment to digest what I was watching’

Citadel's CEO says the mayor's stunt put him "in harm's way" — and Mamdani making him a "political puppet" was just "in poor taste, really poor...

06.05.2026 5

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Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong replacing ‘pure managers’ with ‘player-coaches’ is another sign the org chart is changing in a big way

A landmark KPMG index finds boards demanding transformation, execs spending billions on tech, and the people caught in the middle burning out.

05.05.2026 4

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ServiceNow just unveiled an AI workforce that can run your entire company: ‘Enterprises need AI that senses, decides, and securely acts’

It's already doing it at Honeywell, Docusign and the city of Raleigh.

05.05.2026 8

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Anthropic deepens push into Wall Street with new AI agents, full Microsoft 365 integration, Moody’s data partnership

With new AI agents, a massive joint venture, and a first-ever Jamie Dimon summit, the Claude maker is executing a two-track financial services...

05.05.2026 7

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Morningstar CEO: I agree with the SEC on ending quarterly reporting—with conditions

The SEC's proposed shift to semiannual reporting is right—but it will take some steps to make sure investors don't lose out.

05.05.2026 9

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‘Did we learn nothing?’ Synchrony is hybrid, the Best Company to Work For, and puzzled by the return-to-office push

Brian Doubles, Synchrony CEO since 2021, told Fortune that "it takes years to earn trust, but you can lose it in seconds."

05.05.2026 7

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BofA throws cold water on AI apocalypse panic: 60% of today’s jobs didn’t exist in 1940

AI will reshape 840 million jobs, BofA says. That's not the same as destroying them.

04.05.2026 10

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Goldman: AI will save the economy someday. First, it has to stop inflating it

The AI productivity boom hasn't quite arrived yet, but the inflation from building it has. Maybe Gen Z is onto something with their AI rebellion.

04.05.2026 5

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Anthropic takes shot at consulting industry in joint venture with Wall Street giants

The enterprise services firm with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and Hellman & Friedman puts Anthropic in direct competition with McKinsey and the like.

04.05.2026 3

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America got rich and got sad. A top economist says 2020 broke something that hasn’t healed

It's not a mystery why everyone got sad in 2020. What is: the fact they never recovered. Sam Peltzman sees a "segregated happiness society."

03.05.2026 40

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Billionaires have a problem money can’t solve: They don’t know how to talk to their kids

The largest wealth transfer in history is underway. But a new report reveals that the real obstacle isn't taxes, trusts, or market volatility — it's...

01.05.2026 9

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Nick Lichtenberg

The national debt is the same size as the economy. It’s a ‘disturbing warning and a call to action,’ watchdog says

A new bipartisan survey finds near-universal concern that the national debt is driving up everyday costs, as fiscal confidence hits a 22-month low

01.05.2026 20

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GM just boosted its U.S. manufacturing spend to $6 billion in one year—and it may be returning to the idea that made it great

GM used to say "a car for every purse and purpose." Now, SVP Michael Trevorrow told Fortune, "we have a wide variety of vehicles for everyone."

30.04.2026 5

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