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Data center hate is snowballing, and construction setbacks in the first three months of 2026 have already exceeded last year’s, report finds

At least 75 data center projects worth more than $130 billion were blocked or delayed.

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‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employee’: Nvidia executive says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers

Big Tech has announced $740 billion in capex this year, but AI has yet to show evidence of widespread increased productivity.

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SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen quietly engineered its historic IPO and became an overnight billionaire

Johnsen, SpaceX’s longest-tenured and only CFO, is now worth about $1.4 billion.

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You can blame America’s plummeting fertility rate on the iPhone, study finds: ‘People are all depressed and alone and doomscrolling’

A recent NBER paper noted the link between iPhone sales and declining births could be a result of more time on devices, and less time connecting.

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Olympic champion Shaun White says AI is ‘leveling the playing field’ for professional athletes

“This is really going to be accessible for everyone,” the three-time gold medalist said at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference.

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From the Trump administration to Kevin O’Leary, there’s a new narrative that China is to blame for plummeting data center popularity

“China is a common and comfortable boogeyman in American politics, for right or for wrong,” one political scientist told Fortune.

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Trump, who has repeatedly called climate change fake, is now threatening Brazil with tariffs over the deforestation of the Amazon

“Don’t read too much into it,” one international trade expert said. “See, this isn’t serious.”

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The Seattle Storm used to be the ‘tail’ on the ‘dog’ of its NBA counterpart. Now the WNBA team is leading the city’s basketball revival

“It's the Sonics and the Storm; it's the Storm and the Sonics,” team co-owner Ginny Gilder said. “It's bread and butter, apple pie and vanilla...

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AI productivity gains are real but so is bad management: ‘Leaders are really struggling to articulate what the vision and strategy is’

In the meantime, BCG's David Martin told Fotune, fear runs amok. "A sharing culture is incredibly important, but it's not natural for fearful...

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‘Big Tech is desperate’: Amazon engineers are calling out the tech giant for its $200 billion in data center spending after slashing 30,000 workers

A group of Amazon employees spoke out against unfettered AI infrastructure expansion at a Seattle Land Use and Sustainability Committee hearing this...

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A dying satellite company sold spectrum to Elon Musk—and turned $11.1 billion in SpaceX stock into the Fortune 500’s best shareholder return

“They've been the best company I've ever worked with in 45 years,” EchoStar president and cofounder Charlie Ergen said of SpaceX.

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What is a Fortune 500 company? The story behind the list

The Fortune 500 is the ranking of the largest companies in the U.S. based on revenue.

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Ohio city workers are covering automated license plate readers with trash bags as officials sound the alarm on ‘egregious violations’ of privacy

City governments across the country have suspended use of Flock Safety cameras over concerns of data being used for immigration enforcement.

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FIFA’s foray into dynamic pricing may be backfiring by keeping actual fans out of the World Cup—and sending some prices lower as backlash hits demand

Tickets for the final match on July 19 cost as much as $33,000.

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After issuing more than $20 billion in tariff refunds, the Trump administration is now pursuing legal action to bring the process to a standstill

The Justice Department said in a court filing it would appeal a federal judge’s order allowing all importers—not just those who sued the...

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Stop blaming immigration for low U.S. reading scores, top psychologist says. The problem is actually devices giving easy access to social media

“Social media and other digital media…distracts students in class when they should be learning,” San Diego State University psychology professor...

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‘Don’t be yourself’ in the workplace, actually, Columbia professor says. Here’s why authenticity is ‘overrated’

In the ongoing debate about balancing one’s personal and professional lives, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic says “being yourself” isn’t a good enough...

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Starbucks quietly retired its AI agent just months after deployment after it miscounted coffee shop inventories and slowed down baristas

“It started off not particularly accurate and got less accurate over time,” one Starbucks employee told Fortune.

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Adding AI ’employees’ is backfiring by creating new office scapegoats and making human workers sloppier and lazier

Research from Boston Consulting Group found that human staff becomes less accountable, blaming their new bot colleagues for their mistakes.

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Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back their AI jobs apocalypse prophecies as they eye blockbuster IPOs

Goldman's David Solomon and Box’s Aaron Levie have been saying that there won’t be a white-collar wipeout. Altman says he's "delighted to be wrong."

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Uber CEO says rideshare ‘freed up’ his son from having to get a driver’s license—and he’s one of many Gen Zers who aren’t willing to drive

“This drives me crazy. My son is over 18,” Dara Khosrowshahi said on a podcast. “I’m still trying to get my son to get his driver’s license.”

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America is suffering a shortage of construction workers and sabotaging its ability to fill vacancies by wiping out the industry’s immigrant backbone

One construction trade group said the U.S. must hire 349,000 more construction workers in 2026 in order to meet demand.

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Barnes & Noble CEO clarifies the bookseller’s stance on AI-written books after refusing to ban them: ‘This is a straightforward rejection of AI books’

James Daunt told Fortune the responsibility to decide on what AI-generated means lies with the publisher, not the seller.

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‘SpaceX is his new baby at the expense of Tesla’: Elon Musk’s IPO could be bad news for his EV maker, investors warns

SpaceX will reportedly allocate 30% of shares to retail investors, betting on the CEO’s loyal base of investors—and putting Tesla under more scrutiny.

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80% of companies have an immigrant in a top leadership role—Trump’s visa crackdown is forcing them to make a ‘plan C,’ warns immigration expert

Last year, Apple and Google told employees on visas to not leave the U.S. to avoid the risk of getting stranded in another country.

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Pizza Hut franchisee claims $100 million losses from ‘cascading operational breakdowns’ in AI adoption gone wrong

The problem wasn't AI hallucination, though—it was how gig workers responded to the new tool they'd been given.

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College students are booing commencement speakers celebrating AI, but the wave of hate hasn’t stopped them from using it to cheat on their exams

The rise of AI has created cognitive dissonance among a generation resentful of AI for taking jobs, but feeling like they have to use the technology...

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The AI boom hasn’t stopped U.S. companies from hiring cheap offshore labor, and overseas call center employment is still skyrocketing

“The technology that was supposed to shrink the industry is fueling its expansion,” said Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok.

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Startups are installing tiny data centers in people’s homes to reduce strain on the beleaguered electrical grid

Span, in partnership with Nvidia and PulteGroup, uses homes’ underutilized electrical capacity in computer processing.

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Peter Thiel is leading investment in an ocean data center powered by waves—and the startup is reportedly worth $1 billion

“Extra-terrestrial solutions are no longer science fiction,” Thiel said.

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‘Maybe me too’: Elon Musk accepts some of the blame for Claude learning to blackmail users from ‘evil’ online AI stories

Anthropic recently released a report saying it had solved Claude’s “agentic misalignment,” or the bot’s behaviors that deviated from humans’...

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U.S. hotels are calling the World Cup a ‘non-event’ and 80% warn bookings are falling short of expectations, report finds

Despite FIFA selling 5 million tickets for the games, “indicators suggest the anticipated economic lift may fall short of expectations,” the...

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‘The gains will be substantial’: The AI shock is looking a lot like the China shock, and a top economist says that’s actually good news

From 2001 to 2019, China's production explosion accounted for nearly 60% of manufacturing job losses in the U.S.

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Before the McLaren CEO got a $50 million payday from his team’s F1 championship, he was a high-school dropout who got his start on Wheel of Fortune

Zak Brown’s McLaren Racing Formula 1 team earned its first double podium of the 2026 season at the Miami Grand Prix this month.

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The CEO of Maersk, which ships 14% of everything you buy, said the Iran war is adding $500 million in monthly costs it’s trying not to pass down

“As some of these costs made their way all the way up to the end consumer, will we see demand destruction at the consumer level?” CEO Vincent...

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California farmers must destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte closes its canneries and cancels more than $550 million in long-term contracts

One Del Monte canning facility processed 30% of the state’s cling peaches, and its closure left growers with a glut of crops with no one to process...

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Debris from the White House East Wing demolition was dumped at a nearby public golf course and contains toxic metals, National Park report finds

A Washington, D.C., nonprofit filed an injunction in February, claiming the debris dumped on the golf course was hazardous.

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‘Different from anything in the past 80 years of dollar dominance’: U.S. sanctions spur a ‘paradox’ pushing allies away from American currency

Economists warn the ongoing war in Iran and aggressive U.S. trade policies have eroded trust in American financial systems.

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Early retirement is shrinking Gen X’s brain, new research warns

"We should really think about the potential consequences of a really large-scale decline in employment," UC Irvine economist David Neumark told...

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America is lucky it’s no longer a manufacturing powerhouse—it’s what’s protecting the U.S. economy from the worst of the oil shock, top economist says

The U.S. has lost 35% of manufacturing jobs since its 1979 peak. Cornell economist Eswar Prasad said that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

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Sam Altman says the quiet part out loud, confirming some companies are ‘AI washing’ by blaming unrelated layoffs on the technology

Some economists are warning there’s no sign of AI-related job displacement appearing in the labor data. Altman claimed it’s just a matter of time...

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One economist’s ‘radical idea’ to solve the biggest energy crisis in history: a reverse OPEC

UMass Amherst economist Gregor Semieniuk says the U.S. is the most powerful country to make the idea work.

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Snap CEO praises AI for writing two-thirds of the company’s code but warns fellow tech executives underestimate ‘societal pushback’ to the tech

A survey in March found only 26% of Americans had a favorable view of AI.

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Your laundry bill is about to get more expensive—and Unilever says the Iran war is partly to blame

“There will be frequent price increases, but in small doses,” Unilever CFO Srinivas Phatak told analysts on Thursday.

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FedEx and UPS are pledging to give their tariff refunds back to consumers, and the sum will likely top $5 billion

“As soon as we ⁠get that money, we're going to remit it right back to our customers," UPS CEO Carol Tome said.

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More than two-thirds of U.S. schools say they’re unable to afford the cost of student free lunch—and MAHA’s dietary guidelines may make it worse

“These programs were already stretched thin before the guidelines changed,” food economist David Ortega said.

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A $500 million superyacht linked with Russia’s richest man was just able to pass through the blockaded Strait of Hormuz

The Nord, a 466-foot vessel connected to Russian steel magnate Alexei Mordashov, is the 12th largest superyacht in the world.

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‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia executive says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers

Big Tech has announced $740 billion in capex this year, but AI has yet to show evidence of widespread increased productivity.

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Baby boomers have now ‘gobbled up’ nearly one-third of America’s wealth share, and they’re leaving Gen Z and millennials behind

American septuagenarians hold more than $85 trillion in assets—by far the most of any generation.

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Most Australian teens admit the social media ban isn’t working as they try to sidestep age verification blocks with face masks and their parents’ IDs

A new survey found more than 60% of Australian kids between 12 and 15 are still using at least one social media platform following a ban implemented...

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