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Americans map out summer travel as mountain town claims No. 1 spot
Some Americans are already locking in their summer travel plans, and this year’s top destination may come as a surprise. New data from AirDNA, which tracks Airbnb and Vrbo listings,…
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12 Fortune 500 CEOs worked for Pepsi. Delta’s Ed Bastian explains why it’s a leadership factory
In Atlanta, loyalty often runs deep—particularly to the city’s two hometown giants: Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines. So it might come as a surprise that Ed Bastian, who has spent…
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The hedge fund billionaire betting Miami can rival New York’s Wall Street
Good morning. Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of Citadel, is making a bold, long-term wager, not just on his $69 billion hedge fund or his $2.5 billion Norman Foster-designed headquarters…
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Prediction markets caught insider traders in real time. Congress wants to shut them down anyway
Hours before U.S. missiles struck Tehran on Saturday, February 28, six Polymarket accounts placed bets that military action would begin. They were bang on the money right. Together, they raked in $1.2…
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Credit card interest rate cap could reduce access for over 100 million Americans, analysis finds
A new analysis finds that a 10% credit card interest rate cap would shrink access to credit, affecting well over 100 million American cardholders in the process. Some Republican and Democratic…
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Ford CEO Jim Farley says America is sleepwalking past its ‘essential economy’ crisis. Goldman Sachs just showed how big it really is
America’s AI ambitions may be undone not by a lack of capital or computing power, but by a shortage of electricians. That’s the emerging consensus between two disparate titans of…
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Blend’s post-IPO reset: CEO Nima Ghamsari bets that AI can turn it all around
Blend’s CEO Nima Ghamsari wants to talk less about the past decade’s fintech sugar high and more about recovering from the crash. The company, founded in 2012 by Ghamsari, set…
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Hershey to return to classic Reese’s recipe after founder’s grandson criticizes brand
The Hershey Company plans to tweak the chocolate used in a small portion of its Reese’s and Hershey’s products following criticism from a descendant of the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup…
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Here’s why King Charles is coming to America. And it is not the reason the President thinks
Falling into conversation with a London-based American banking chief executive in the chaotic aftermath of the financial crisis, I was asked about the vagaries of the British establishment. “It is very difficult to understand where power really lies, there are…
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Trump hails ‘tremendous progress’ in Iran but all Wall Street heard was ‘back to escalation’
Good morning. On Fortune‘s radar today: Wall Street hated Trump’s Iran speech. Elon Musk secretly files biggest-ever IPO. Say goodbye to insider trading on prediction markets. AI models have figured…
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Asian markets drop after Trump signals he’ll bomb Iran ‘back to the stone ages’, tells other countries to ‘take the lead’ in reopening Hormuz
Asian investors reacted poorly to U.S. President Donald Trump’s nationwide address on Thursday. After more than a day of speculation as to what Trump might discuss, ranging from sending in…
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Prediction markets have sparked a golden age of insider trading—but the party may be coming to an end
The problem of traders turning a buck on inside information is as old as markets themselves. But in the last year, the scope of insider trading has grown to unprecedented…
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Prediction markets have sparked a golden age of insider trading—but the party may be coming to an end
The problem of traders turning a buck on inside information is as old as markets themselves. But in the last year, the scope of insider trading has grown to unprecedented…
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Have a strong brand in a world of noise—it’s like having the only red T-shirt in a stadium full of white ones
A self-confessed petrolhead, it took a while for Erik Severinson to warm to the idea of electric cars. “I’ve been in the automotive industry for 20 years,” says the chief…
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Have a strong brand in a world of noise—it’s like having the only red T-shirt in a stadium full of white ones
A self-confessed petrolhead, it took a while for Erik Severinson to warm to the idea of electric cars. “I’ve been in the automotive industry for 20 years,” says the chief…
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Asia’s AI playbook gets a reality check as the Iran war sends energy prices higher and snarls supply chains
The global AI boom has bolstered economic fortunes across Asia, lifting Korean chipmakers, Southeast Asian data center operators, Chinese AI startups and Japanese component-makers alike. Even the worst Middle Eastern…
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State-by-state view of gas prices as Iran war pushes oil markets higher
Gas prices are climbing fast nationwide, adding pressure to already strained household budgets as conflict with Iran drives up global oil costs. Prices are rising across nearly every region, with…
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In the age of AI anxiety, the 100 Best Companies to Work For are betting on their people
In today’s CEO Daily: Diane Brady breaks down Fortune‘s new list of top employers. The big leadership story: The cautionary tale of Allbirds, a one-time direct-to-consumer darling The markets: The…
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Gen Z fled San Francisco for Texas and Florida. Now they’re turning ‘welcomer cities’ into the next big tech towns
From the mid-2000s through the late 2010s, San Francisco was a magnet for young graduates driven largely by Web 2.0 and the mobile tech boom. It was a cool city…
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The tax escape map: Billionaires are bolting for Florida from the West Coast and taking billions in tax revenue with them
The billionaire exodus from the West Coast to Florida is underway as the ultra-wealthy seek refuge from wealth taxes in states like California and Washington. Google cofounders Larry Page (net…
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‘I thought the war was over:’ 100-year-old Iwo Jima veteran honored decades later at Disneyland
A 100-year-old World War II veteran who witnessed the iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising said he thought the war was “going to be over” as cheers erupted across the battlefield —…
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Microsoft and Chevron enter exclusivity deal on powering West Texas AI data center complex
Big Oil is joining the data center game, with Chevron and Microsoft entering an exclusivity agreement on talks to colocate gas-fired power plants with an AI campus in West Texas’s…
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The SpaceX IPO is great — but it won’t deliver 100x returns
With SpaceX filing for an initial public offering, the tone in markets is unmistakably bullish. Analysts are already calling it “one of the year’s most-anticipated market debuts” and “one of…
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Anthropic mistakenly leaks its own AI coding tool’s source code, just days after accidentally revealing an upcoming model known as Mythos
Anthropic has accidentally leaked the source code for its popular coding tool Claude Code. The leak comes just days after Fortune reported that the company had inadvertently made close to…
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Trump will address the nation about the Iran war on Wednesday. Here’s what to expect
“April is the cruelest month,” T.S. Eliot wrote. With U.S. crude nearly doubling in price since the beginning of the year; the Strait of Hormuz still more or less blocked; and…
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Macquarie bets impact investing can fill an Asian financial access gap for the ‘missing middle’
Many women business owners around the world can’t get access to the financing they need. The Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative, a World Bank-housed partnership, estimated that 400 million female entrepreneurs…
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Delta landing attempt rattled by wrong tower radio mix-up, sparking alarm near LaGuardia
Pilots of a Delta flight contacted the wrong control tower during a landing attempt in New York City earlier this month in an alarming mix-up captured in newly surfaced flight…
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Deutsche Bank asked AI if it’s true that AI will solve the economy’s inflation problems. The robots answered
For the better part of two years, a powerful consensus has taken hold: artificial intelligence is the great disinflationary force of our time. The logic, touted by billionaire investors like…
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AI ‘slop’ is flooding YouTube Kids—and more than 200 groups and experts are calling for a ban
More than 200 child advocacy groups and experts are demanding that YouTube ban AI-generated “slop” from its children’s platform entirely, arguing that the low-quality, algorithmically produced videos are rewiring young…
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Cancer’s grim calculus for the young: their insurance status can determine how long they survive
Cancer is becoming increasingly common among young people, with cases slowly and steadily rising every year for the past decade. And what type of insurance adolescents and young adults have…
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Alaska Airlines unveils lie-flat suites, upgraded perks in new international business class
Alaska Airlines is targeting premium international travelers with a new business class experience as it expands its reach into Europe and Asia. The airline on Tuesday unveiled its all-new international…
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A Nashville suburb is becoming a manufacturing hub, and its housing market is getting a boost
A suburb near Nashville, Tennessee, is in the midst of a boom amid an influx of higher-paying tech and trade jobs. A report by Realtor.com found that Clarksville, located about 45 minutes…
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New top federal enforcer has his sights set on ending insider trading in prediction markets
The federal agency that regulates derivatives markets is ready to put the hammer down on prediction markets. In his first public remarks since joining the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on…
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Data centers are so hot their ‘heat island’ effect is raising temperatures up to 6 miles away and impacting 343 million people worldwide, study finds
The AI race heating up has taken on a more literal meaning. AI infrastructure is significantly warming surrounding areas, creating a “data heat island effect” with the potential to impact…
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Why hands-free systems in self-driving cars aren’t actually safer, according to the NTSB
The systems that allow drivers to take their hands off the wheel are convenient but don’t improve safety because people are often too reliant on them and end up paying…
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Chinese billionaire buys 1% stake in the Miami Dolphins at record $12.5 billion valuation
Lin Bin, the co-founder and vice chairman of Xiaomi, is buying a 1% stake in the Miami Dolphins along with other assets belonging to owner Stephen Ross at a record…
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JetBlue hikes checked bag fees as much as $9 on war in Iran
U.S. carrier JetBlue has raised its checked bag fees by as much as $9 as the war in the Middle East disrupts global oil supplies and increases fuel prices. The new fees took…
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Congressional report details how China buys sanctioned oil from Iran, Russia and Venezuela
A new investigation by Congress detailed how China is buying sanctioned oil from rogue regimes around the world at a discount. The House Select Committee on China released its report on…
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How the 173-year-old glassmaker behind Edison’s light bulb and iPhone screens became a Silicon Valley darling
In his corner office at Corning Inc.’s towering steel-and-glass headquarters in Corning, N.Y., CEO Wendell Weeks keeps a small, yellowed piece of paper in a dark wood frame behind his…
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After 160 years, Huntington Bancshares is powering digital growth—by opening a branch almost every 2 weeks, says CFO
Good morning. Huntington Bancshares Inc. is marking its 160th year by showing that traditional branch banking and digital growth can advance together, not at each other’s expense. Founded in 1866,…
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How 100‑year‑old Caterpillar went from making construction equipment to becoming an AI market darling
During the Gold Rush, legend had it that the best way to get rich wasn’t by panning for gold, but by selling “picks and shovels” to the miners. And there’s…
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Retail sales tick up 0.6% in February before Iran war, gas price spike
Shoppers increased their spending in February before gasoline prices spiked because of the attacks on Iran by the U.S. and Israel. Retail sales rose a better-than-expected 0.6% in February, from a revised…
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The quadruple amputee cornholer’s shooting was in self-defense, lawyer says
A quadruple amputee professional cornhole player acted in self-defense when he shot and killed a passenger in his car during a heated argument, his attorney said Wednesday. Dayton James Webber, 27, appeared…
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Tiger Woods says he’ll seek treatment for substance abuse after another DUI arrest
Tiger Woods said Tuesday he is stepping away to seek treatment, four days after his vehicle crashed in Florida and he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.…
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JOBLESS CLAIMS PLUNGE TO LOWEST LEVEL SINCE 1969 AS GDP REBOUNDS, BUT IRAN WAR CLOUDS OUTLOOK
American workers held their jobs in force last week, sending a signal that the U.S. labor market remains one of the most resilient in a half-century — even as a…
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AI is saving workers up to an hour a day—but Goldman Sachs says 80% of companies aren’t using it yet
You’re probably sick of reading about artificial intelligence, maybe especially from this byline. But amid all the discussion, hype, and hysteria, Goldman Sachs economists Sarah Dong and Joseph Briggs have…
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Warren Buffett revives his legendary charity lunch auction—this time with Stephen Curry. His last one raised $19 million
After a four-year hiatus, Warren Buffett will once again host his annual charity lunch auction, and this time, he’s got some high-profile names to help him co-host. Stephen Curry, four-time…
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Exclusive: Paradigm, a major investor in Kalshi, is building its own prediction markets trading terminal, sources say
One of the most influential investors in crypto wants a bigger slice of the burgeoning prediction markets space. Venture capital firm Paradigm is developing a prediction markets trading terminal, according…
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Gen Z shoppers are actually more deliberate than baby boomers and agonize over their cart for days
Who ever said that younger generations were impulsive spenders? RTB House’s 2026 US consumer study “Before They Buy” reveals that 50% of Gen Z customers dwell on what’s in their…
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