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Tractor Supply’s DEI reversal to appease right-wing critics could fracture its surprisingly diverse ‘exurban’ customer base
Tractor Supply last week abruptly announced it was cutting all diversity-focused positions and withdrawing its carbon-emissions and diversity and inclusion goals in an about-face meant to mollify right-wing activists, led by…
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Welcome to the era of the ‘nepo CEO’: David Ellison’s Paramount victory cements a new kind of corporate leader
Before last week, few people outside of Hollywood had heard of David Ellison, former actor, life-long aviation enthusiast, film producer, and, notably, son of billionaire Oracle founder Larry Ellison. Just…
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‘I don’t need help’: Meet some of the AI resisters who smell their own extinction
More American workers are experimenting with artificial intelligence in their jobs, but skepticism is still widespread. New Gallup polling finds that while more employees are using AI frequently in their work, there’s been an uptick…
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Nava raises $8.3 million in seed funding to keep AI financial agents from going off the rails
The crypto world has been buzzing in recent months about the potential for applying blockchain technology to agentic commerce, a term that describes AI agents undertaking purchases or other economic…
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‘Unequivocal opposition’: Over 1,000 members of Hollywood royalty lobby against Paramount/Warner merger
More than a thousand movie stars, writers, directors and other Hollywood professionals announced their “unequivocal opposition” to the proposed Paramount merger with Warner Bros. Discovery in an open letter published Monday. A large swath…
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Warren Buffett’s first tax return showed $7 owed to the IRS. The then-paperboy and former Berkshire Hathaway CEO is now worth $143 billion
Warren Buffett, who is worth $143 billion today and was once the richest man in the world, was once making mere pennies as a teenage paper boy. The Oracle of…
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United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby lies on his office floor and takes 20-minute naps—and he says it doesn’t mean he’s accomplished any less
CEOs have their own quirks when it comes to running their companies, from shoes off policies to meeting-free afternoons. United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said an office nap is his…
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IMF slashes global growth forecast, blaming ‘war in the Middle East’ for halted momentum
The Iran war has stalled the world’s economic momentum this year, likely pushing growth lower compared to 2025, the International Monetary Fund warned Tuesday. The IMF downgraded its forecast for…
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Palantir CEO says working at his $316 billion software company is better than a degree from Harvard or Yale: ‘No one cares about the other stuff’
Palantir CEO Alex Karp may have three degrees to his name—but he’s fed up with higher education. The billionaire took a shot at elite universities, including Harvard and Yale, during…
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GOP senator sues to block takeover of family’s historic resort amid $289M debt dispute
Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., and his family are suing to block what they describe as an attempt to take control of their historic Greenbrier resort after a hotel-affiliated investor acquired…
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GOP senator proposes advance tax credits to tackle rising out-of-pocket healthcare costs
EXCLUSIVE: The leader of the Senate’s healthcare-focused committee on Tuesday released a plan that would aim to make healthcare coverage more affordable for Americans, in part by giving them money…
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White House lays out fixes for housing affordability problem
The Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers indicates that boosting the housing supply and slashing bureaucratic red tape would help address the housing affordability issue in the U.S.…
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Exclusive: Paxos Labs raises $12 million after startup spins off from veteran stablecoin issuer
Paxos, the stablecoin and blockchain infrastructure firm, has long worked with major companies like PayPal and Nubank. More recently, Paxos created a spin-off operation known as Paxos Labs that has…
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Current price of oil as of April 14, 2026
As of 8 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil is trading at $100.19 per barrel, based on the Brent benchmark we’ll explain in a bit. That’s $3.52 below yesterday morning’s level…
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Americans rate Trump’s tax cuts a loser as most believe they’re still too high
Most Americans still think their taxes are too high, according to recent polls, even after last year’s tax law fulfilled several of President Donald Trump’s tax-related campaign promises. In fact,…
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Trump finds a tough guy from Chicago that he can’t intimidate: Pope Leo
Pope Leo XIV, a studious and soft-spoken cleric, and Donald Trump, an unapologetically bellicose and pugilistic politician, have long been on a rhetorical collision course. Now their disagreement over the…
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Trump’s leaky blockade: ship sneaks through and talks with Iran resume
The standoff between the United States and Iran deepened Tuesday as the U.S. declared it had blockaded Iran’s ports, Tehran threatened to strike targets across the region, and Pakistan said it…
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Trump tips $100 to DoorDash driver who dropped off 2 McDonald’s bags at White House
President Donald Trump had two bags of McDonald’s delivered to the Oval Office on Monday by a DoorDash driver he tipped $100, using his favorite food and a reality TV flourish to…
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‘If I am going to advocate for others to kill and commit crimes, then I must lead by example’: OpenAI suspect’s chilling manifesto
The man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home had written about AI’s purported risk to humanity and traveled from Texas to San Francisco intending to kill…
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Exclusive: AlphaSense names new CFO as revenue tops $500 million
Good morning. For several years, Samantha Greenberg used AlphaSense to analyze companies. Now she’s the platform’s CFO. AlphaSense is a specialized AI-powered search engine for companies, investors, and analysts. Instead…
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American Express releases tools to build AI payments—and pledges to pay the price if agents go awry
Agentic commerce, where AI agents undertake purchases or other economic activity on a user’s behalf, has so far seen relatively limited adoption despite a gush of interest from Silicon Valley…
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Man charged in arson attack on Sam Altman’s house had AI CEO kill list, prosecutors say
Good morning. On Fortune’s radar today: Markets: Back in black! Man who attacked Sam Altman’s house had CEO kill list, police say. The world is watching a Chinese tanker that…
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Wall Street is the biggest winner of the Iran war—and the S&P 500 just turned positive for the year
Markets opened down nearly 1% across the indexes on Monday, but news-aggregating accounts online and on social media picked up a report by New York Post Pentagon reporter Caitlin Doornbos.…
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China’s export boom is losing steam, thanks to the Iran war and the global energy crisis
China’s exports grew 2.5% in March from a year ago, significantly slowing from the previous two months as uncertainties rose from the Iran war and its impact on energy prices…
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Trump’s war and rhetoric are drowning out the IMF’s growth agenda
In today’s CEO Daily: Diane Brady on the factors that will determine whether the IMF can stay focused on growth. The big leadership story: One CEO is backing off a…
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Exclusive: Chad Rigetti’s Sygaldry raises $139 million to bring quantum hardware to AI data centers
Chad Rigetti has devoted his career to quantum computing—a phrase you’ve perhaps most recently encountered in Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Superhero movies aside, quantum computing is somewhere between…
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Retirees are facing a $345,000 bill they never saw coming — and most aren’t prepared
Advances in medicine have extended the “golden years” for many retirees—also increasing the number of years retirement savings must support everyday living expenses. Those added years can carry a significant…
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Anthropic is facing a wave of user backlash over reports of performance issues with its Claude AI chatbot
Anthropic, the high-flying AI company, is facing a backlash from some of its most prolific users over a perceived decline in the performance of its Claude AI models. The issues have…
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Most of Wall Street points to high oil prices as the driver of inflation. A maverick Johns Hopkins economist says they’re chasing the wrong culprit
Following the Commerce Department’s release on the morning of April 10 showing that March consumer prices rose at 3.3% year over year in March, this writer received well over a…
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Tariffs are the new normal, and now most CEOs expect the import taxes to outlast the Trump administration, PwC report finds
Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus was credited for saying, “Change is the only constant,” and about 2,500 years later, American CEOs are heeding his wisdom. Executives are accepting tariffs as the…
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350k supplements recalled for packaging flaw that poses ‘serious injury or death’ risk to children
More than 350,000 vitamins and supplements were recalled due to incorrect packaging, which federal regulators said poses a “risk of serious injury or death” to children. New Jersey-based Vitaquest International…
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United CEO has pitched possible combination with rival American
United Airlines Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Officer Scott Kirby has floated a possible combination with American Airlines Group Inc., according to people familiar with the conversations, an audacious proposition that…
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With the U.S. now blockading the Strait of Hormuz, the focus is on who has ‘the guts to go through first’
Early on April 13, the oil tanker Rich Starry—loaded with Iranian crude and headed for China—made a dramatic U-turn. Instead of exiting the Strait of Hormuz, as it had planned,…
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Trump refuses to apologize to the Pope, offers implausible explanation for tweeting himself as Jesus
President Donald Trump refused to apologize to Pope Leo XIV on Monday after criticizing the pontiff for his opposition to the war in Iran — and he sought to explain…
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Colombia approves plan to kill cocaine hippos roaming through center of country
Colombian officials on Monday authorized a plan to cull dozens of hippos roaming freely through a region in the center of the country, where they threaten villagers and displace native species years…
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Meet the man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman: a 20-year-old AI doomer
The man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home in San Francisco was opposed to artificial intelligence, writing about AI’s purported risk to humanity and “our impending…
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Americans are credit-card-maxing tax season with sign-up bonuses while half the country relies on their refund to catch up on bills
Some credit cards this year have high sign-up bonuses (SUBs), with some offering never-before-seen six-figure points for reaching the minimum spend. So as tax day nears, some Americans are credit-card-maxing…
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New drones are giving Ukraine a battlefield advantage and ravaging Russia’s oil industry
Ukraine’s constant innovation in drone technology is giving its military an edge on the battlefield, dealing major blows to Russia’s army and economy. While Russia invaded Ukraine four years ago…
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AI agents are acting like employees, but company structures still treat them like software
The governance frameworks executives built over decades were designed for people. AI agents are not people, and the gap between those two facts is where enterprise risk is now accumulating…
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LARRY KUDLOW: Trump Jiu-Jitsu aims to bankrupt and starve the Iranian regime
So the Iranians wouldn’t give up their uranium enrichment or dismantle their enrichment facilities. Or hand over their already enriched uranium. So President Trump turned the tables, applied some Trumpian…
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Union workers win their beef: New labor contract sealed at one of the nation’s largest meatpacking plants
Workers at one of the nation’s largest meatpacking plants who staged a multiweek strike have reached an agreement with plant owner JBS USA, the company and labor union representatives announced Sunday. The…
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Trump has wanted to humble Iran since 1980. He may be humbling the American empire instead
President Donald Trump has wanted to take down Iran since he was a 34-year-old soft-spoken realtor. His first known comment on foreign policy, ever, was in October 1980, when he…
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‘DoorDash Grandma’ praises Trump tax break after 11K savings amid husband’s cancer fight
A DoorDash delivery driver praised President Donald Trump at the White House, saying his “no tax on tips” policy helped her family “immensely” and delivered more than $11,000 in savings…
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Merck, Sanofi are latest companies to add medications to TrumpRx
Two more drugmakers are adding to the TrumpRx.gov website for prescription medication discounts. Merck added three popular Type 2 diabetes medications, cutting the cost by 74%. Januvia, Janumet and Janumet…
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Google partners on AI training for thousands of American manufacturing workers
EXCLUSIVE: Google is contributing $10 million to the Manufacturing Institute to support new artificial intelligence (AI) training for 40,000 manufacturing workers, FOX Business has learned. Funding for the initiative is…
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The ‘affordability economy’ has created a housing market nobody predicted: Prices collapsing in the Sunbelt, soaring in the Rust Belt
U.S. housing is experiencing a historic “reversion to the mean.” In other words, the formerly sizzling metros have gone cold, and the unsexy plodders are back in vogue. That point…
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Palantir CEO says AI ‘will destroy’ humanities jobs, but there will be ‘more than enough jobs’ for people with vocational training
Some economists and experts say critical thinking and creativity will be more important than ever in the age of artificial intelligence, when an LLM can do much of the heavy…
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Anthropic caused panic that Mythos will expose cybersecurity weak spots, but one industry veteran says the real problem is fixing, not finding, them
Anthropic caused an industrywide panic last week when it announced Claude Mythos Preview, an AI model with a knack for uncovering high-level cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Among its achievements, the model found…
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After growing up on a dairy farm, this Peter Thiel–backed founder is using AI to save cattle ranching
Growing up on a dairy farm in the rolling green hills of New Zealand’s Waikato region in the upper northwest of the country, Craig Piggott’s days began before dawn. But…
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The futility of Trump’s grandiose personal branding of public assets, from ballrooms and bills to ships and planes
In a relentless, unprecedented branding exercise, the sheer volume of entities now bearing the name of President Donald Trump strains credulity. We now live in a world of Trump RX…
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