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Dario Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI Bomb

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the AI doomsday wind blows.

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Fortune’s AIQ Summit: The conversation has moved from experimentation to execution

The strongest companies aren’t simply distributing AI tools but redesigning workflows, developing talent, strengthening governance, and building...

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The economist behind the ‘China shock’ says AI is a paradoxical ‘skill-disequalizer’ for Gen Z workers

“Young professionals need to beware of the illusion of competence,” MIT professor and Google Technology & Society visiting fellow David Autor told...

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CLEAR founder: fast AI can be safe AI when we fix the identity layer

Every AI agent borrows its authority from a person. Before agents act for us, let’s guarantee you are you.

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Wealthy Gen Zers’ quiet love of art collecting, revealed: They’re outspending boomers and millennials—but keeping their collections off Instagram

Gen Z is on track to be the "largest, wealthiest, and highest-spending generation to date," according to Art Basel and UBS.

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The great Boomer hoard: Americans 55 and over hold $140 trillion, roughly three-quarters of total net worth

Older households' net worth rose more than 20% in two years on the back of an AI-fueled stock rally, and boomers hold most of it.

07.10.2026 10

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Exclusive: Meet the 38-year-old founder who left Wall Street for love and created an AI insurance unicorn a decade later

Gage Caligaris' Ledgebrook has raised $200 million, co-led by Allianz X and Rockefeller Capital Management. The valuation is $2.6 billion, a source...

07.10.2026 10

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‘AI Snake Oil’ author sees chatbots evolving into a ‘truth oracle’—and journalism heading somewhere it hasn’t been in 200 years

Princeton's Arvind Narayanan asked the Computation Journalism conference to prepare for AI "not as it is today, but as it will be" in five to 10...

06.10.2026 8

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Should we phase out Social Security? 2 economists debated it for an hour in front of me—then agreed the wealthy have to pay up

Teresa Ghilarducci said, “The way to get money for Social Security…is going to be at the top.” Romina Boccia agreed they’ll have to “bear the brunt.”

05.10.2026 10

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Argentina’s golden passport will be so popular that ‘really wealthy Americans will be embarrassed’ not to have it, top advisor says

Nuri Katz helped create the citizenship-by-investment program, but he sees it as the first to combine a safe haven with a huge business opportunity.

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ServiceNow unpacks the Fortune AIQ list, where the widest gap between AI leaders and laggards is training for humans

“Pacesetters” are far likelier to hire and train people. “It’s not just technology,” says ServiceNow’s Diana David, a “forward-deployed futurist.”

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Top futurist Amy Webb sees Fortune 500 firms suffering from ‘learned helplessness’ with AI, like taxi drivers who need Google Maps

"Let's be fair, Fortune 500 companies are pretty late to the party on this," said Webb, founder and CEO of the Future Today Strategy Group.

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‘Sometimes it’s more expensive than having humans’: Honeywell and Ecolab get real about AI’s limits in the physical world

Honeywell CTO Suresh Venkatarayalu said customers “really demand 99.9999%” accuracy, while frontier models “could be at 85%.”

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Booking Holdings CFO says even AI hyperscalers don’t know their ROI — but he’s learning from his ‘AI coach’

At Fortune's AIQ Summit, Ewout Steenbergen said AI is cutting costs but LLMs still only send it less than 1% of its room nights.

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Larry Fink on the lost ‘bedrock of America’ and ‘a big divide’ between wages and investment wealth

The BlackRock CEO's father "essentially had one job in his career," he said at Ford Accelerate. "I think we lost that."

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‘We don’t want to be a policeman of the Internet’: How a John McPhee student turned GPTZero into a $30 million AI-detection business

Edward Tian and Alex Cui are happy to be "the Splash Brothers of anti-AI slop," but they aren't really against using AI to write things.

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‘You need to clean up the mess your generation has left’: Volkswagen’s guilty boomer gets real about sustainability, China—and his spam folder

Volkswagen’s sustainability chief told Fortune that Europe’s industrial champions cannot protect their way out of China’s electric-vehicle challenge.

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AI in regulated industries: BofA and S&P on the huge gains to be had, and the risks of rushing in

At Fortune's AIQ Summit, BofA's Hari Gopalkrishnan said companies reach for AI too soon. S&P Global's Sally Moore said the real question is...

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The real story behind Red Lobster’s $20 Ultimate Endless Shrimp fiasco: How an American seafood icon lost its way

The disastrous promotional offer, which played a role in the chain's bankruptcy, wasn't a blunder but a conspiracy, a lawsuit alleges.

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The unicorn CEO betting her industry’s AI crisis isn’t the one you think

"This is a profession that is actually in crisis mode," Datasnipper CEO Vidya Peters told Fortune — and AI is the salvation.

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Mike Rowe on America’s great tradesperson shortage: ‘I don’t care what your politics are. Math doesn’t care, either’

At Ford Pro Accelerate, Rowe spoke alongside Education Secretary Linda McMahon and the Defense Department’s Mike Duffey about the divide between...

30.09.2026 10

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‘It’s crazy they invented it’: Nate Bargatze on the bright future of skilled trades, the urgency of live experience, and the coming of AI

“Before, when you had to Google something, it was like, it’s just article after article. And you’re like, ‘I’m not going to read these...

30.09.2026 10

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Ford CEO sees blue-collar workers using AI as a ‘companion’—but other jobs ‘are definitely going to be changed and eliminated’

"If you work in finance doing spreadsheets, or you’re in a call center, or you’re an entry-level programmer—those jobs are definitely going to...

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‘This revolution is happening in years, not decades’: Verizon CEO Dan Schulman sees AGI within 18 months—and a century of progress in a decade

“I think you’ll see the collapse of the 21st century in the next five to 10 years,” Dan Schulman said at Ford Pro Accelerate.

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‘We value the skill, but maybe not for my child’: The stigma against blue-collar jobs, laid bare

Matt Panella told Pro Accelerate he hears from high schoolers: "I want to get into the trades, but my parents don’t feel like it’s a viable career...

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Ford’s Jim Farley says Gen Z needs its own ‘Smokey Bear’ moment for the forest fire of AI paranoia, the jobs apocalypse and the skilled trades

"They get a little bit paranoid that AI might replace the job they might go to school for," Ford executive Mark Truby told Fortune about his Gen Z...

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Ford CEO Jim Farley teams with Jamie Dimon on $2 billion initiative as he fears the ‘backbone of the American dream’ is crumbling

The State of America’s Skilled Trades report finds that employers will need to fill about 1.7 million skilled-trades openings each year through 2035.

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Older millennials are pulling away from the pack in the housing market—and they’re dominating the ‘hobbies’ economy, too

"Older Millennials seem to have more in common with younger Gen Xers than they do with Gen Z or even younger Millennials," said BofA economist Joe...

30.09.2026 20

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Exclusive: AI housing unicorn EliseAI hits $4 billion valuation in new funding round led by a16z and Bessemer

"The industries where AI matters most are still not the ones getting the most attention," says CEO Minna Song.

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The man who looked into the ‘actual beating heart’ of the financial system—and saw something ‘profoundly dangerous’

Robin Wigglesworth, author of index-fund history "Trillions," is back with a thousand-year-look at bonds in "A Fabulous Debt."

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Her school blocked ChatGPT. Now this 17-year-old high school senior runs an AI startup with 1,000 users

Navya Tuteja's school WiFi blocked ChatGPT and Claude: "It made me use it in school way less ... as annoying as it was, it was still good, in a way."

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Exclusive: AJ Scaramucci comes out of stealth with a $350 million bet on ‘Programmable Reality’

Scaramucci talked to Fortune about mentors including Peter Diamandis, Kai-Fu Lee and Eric Schmidt, along with dinosaur bones, AI and the "cultural...

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Gen Z’s religious turn, the data center backlash and a ‘lack of consent’: how the youngest adults are winning battles the millennials lost

The lack-of-consent generation is making its voice heard, according to the Harris Poll.

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Gen Z is actually richer than any generation before them — but they have the curse of Great Expectations

A new BCG analysis says the youngest generation is richer than any before it at the same age. So why is it the best of times and the worst of times?

22.09.2026 10

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Exclusive: KPMG reorgs AI division to create new incubator — with a new executive role reporting directly to the CEO

"AI is awesome," said Todd Lohr, the AI chief reporting directly to CEO Tim Walsh, "but it's also an awesome responsibility that everyone needs to...

22.09.2026 10

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The 4-day workweek died at some point in the 2020s, and now it’s spread out over 6 days

Owl Labs' Frank Weishaupt, the remote work thought leader behind "coffee badging," says "billboard days" and busy Sundays mark the world of work in...

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The Bank of Mom and Dad has a new line item: guilt

U.S. Bank executives say "financial nihilism" is a myth — but parental guilt over unaffordable homes is very real.

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The Axios founders on how AI ruined your inbox, why the ’90s really were different and how to succeed through ‘Simplify’

Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen and Roy Schwartz say the tech that was supposed to save us time has done the opposite. Their book tackles how to "Simplify."

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The secret truth is corporate America is moving too slow on AI. Some of it is caution and some is terrible recruitment

The case for slowing AI down got turbocharged last week when Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon publicly resigned, but adoption is already way too slow.

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Goldman’s top strategist just added hard numbers to his earnings-bubble warning

Peter Oppenheimer first flagged the risk that AI stocks were riding an unsustainable earnings boom this summer. He's done more math.

17.09.2026 10

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Exclusive: Inside the room where Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence shared an emotional embrace in front of America’s leadership class

It was "shocking, historic and emotional to all," Yale Management professor Jeff Sonnenfeld told Fortune.

16.09.2026 10

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Goldman says the economy is rewarding capital ownership over labor — and most Americans don’t own enough of it to benefit

The labor share of income has fallen to a record low, the lowest in 80 years. What is going on here, exactly?

16.09.2026 20

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‘People just do not want the world to change so much’: The war over the future of work being fought by Gen Z

"Job hugging is real, but it's mostly happening in one part of the economy," says Gad Levanon, chief economist at the Burning Glass Institute.

16.09.2026 20

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Millennials have peaked — now they’re having their ‘is this it?’ moment

The modern age is hard to explain. The economy for middle managers wondering "is this it?" is a take it or leave it kind of thing.

15.09.2026 10

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Exclusive: The great boomer business handover just got its own Zestimate

"Our biggest competitor isn't someone else trying to sell small businesses," Baton CEO Chat Joglekar told Fortune. "Awareness is our biggest...

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The American Dream isn’t what you think it is

Eric Zwick told Fortune that the "Everywhere Millionaire" book grew out of a major surprise on wealth: “I’m like, this is not Jeff Bezos.”

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‘Crazy days’ and ‘silly season’ in the stock market raise the prospect of a ‘late-stage’ AI bubble finally popping

Wednesday could matter a great deal indeed: will Fed Chair Kevin Warsh hike rates and begin the end of the long AI bull market?

14.09.2026 10

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Jamie Dimon says the American Dream is slipping away. The dysfunctional baby boomer retirement wave is a major part of the problem

A new JPMorgan report ties its small-business agenda to a succession crisis most owners haven't planned for.

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The betrayal behind the data-center backlash: AI promised to break the rules of class but is just rewarding them so far

The people reaping the rewards of the AI revolution aren't the ones that we were told would be.

10.09.2026 10

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Why did this AI doomer moment break the internet when so many others didn’t?

A researcher's resignation post over AI extinction risk has drawn over 100 million views, telling us something about ourselves and AI.

10.09.2026 10

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