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Wharton’s great contrarian says AI isn't an easy excuse to cut jobs—or easy at all: 'The key thing ... is just how much work is involved in doing it'

Peter Cappelli says headcount will (eventually) go down, with a human in the loop, and productivity will go up. But "it's hugely expensive to do this."

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Netflix’s $82.7 billion rags-to-riches story: How the DVD-by-mail company swallowed Hollywood

The streaming giant has offered a master class in audacious strategy.

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Gen Z is rebelling against the economy with ‘disillusionomics,’ tackling near 6-figure debt by turning life into a giant list of income streams

Failed promises are reshaping how Gen Z approaches financial decisions and their role in the economy. Call it “disillusionomics,” Alice Lassman says.

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An exec at $62 billion giant Colgate says Gen Z workers, despite getting flak for being woke and lazy, are actually ‘pushing us to get better’

Sally Massey, the chief human resources officer at the $62 billion giant Colgate-Palmolive, is hitting back that young staffers aren’t the career sloths some typecast them to be.

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L’Oreal exec tells Gen Z to be that person who grabs their manager’s coffee—instead of making you look junior, she says it can get you noticed

Say yes to the coffee run: L’Oréal’s top HR boss says office “housework” can put Gen Z ahead

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CEO coach to the Fortune 500: The most powerful way to tackle 2026 is assuming you'll live till 130

Speaking at a Fortune event, Dr. Zhavoronkov suggested that AI will radically affect our life spans and health spans even in the next few years.

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Asia’s cash savings are double the U.S. rate. Fintech platforms like Syfe want to change that

A slew of fintech apps have emerged in recent years to tap a growing interest in investing and wealth management among Asian users.

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Trump pushes for $100 billion in oil investments in Venezuela while Exxon and others say it’s currently ‘uninvestable’ without major reforms

Oil giants tell Trump they need stability and considerable legal and political reforms before investing big in Venezuela.

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Bill Gates donated record $8 billion to Melinda French Gates' foundation as part of their divorce settlement

The donation is one of the biggest ever recorded.

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'What we call corruption': Harvard economist and former Venezuelan minister says Trump’s oil profit motives have no place in Venezuela's future

Ricardo Hausmann argued stable, democratic leadership in Venezuela can lead it back to economic prosperity.

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White House says it's 'reviewing protocols' after Trump seemingly broke the law by disclosing jobs data early

The White House claims "there was an inadvertent public disclosure" but it says the media shouldn't be "grasping at straws to foment another fake controversy."

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Silicon Valley billionaire flies coach out of solidarity: 'If I'm going to ask my employees to do it, I need to do it, too'

"Even like, yes, I have a lot of money but ... it feels like I'm out of touch," said Palmer Luckey, who set a $100k limit on his startup's salaries.

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The child prodigy who beats you at chess when you're a kid is going to fade away in adulthood 90% of the time, study says

"Across the highest adult performance levels, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance."

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Rumors are swirling about Venezuela holding $60 billion in Bitcoin—but crypto experts are skeptical

What we know about the South American country’s crypto holdings.

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Gen Z are arriving to college unable to even read a sentence—professors warn it could lead to a generation of anxious and lonely graduates

With Gen Z students struggling to read, academics have been forced to adapt—a move critics describe as “coddling” the next generation of workers.

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The future depends on copper, but a coming shortage makes it a 'systemic risk' to the economy and a strategic flashpoint, S&P Global warns

S&P Global estimated copper demand will jump 50% from current levels to 42 million metric tons by 2040 while supply will shrink in the coming years.

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Walmart’s CEO Doug McMillon out-earns the average American’s salary in less than 20 hours—during a typical 30-minute commute, he’s already made $1,563

Outgoing Walmart CEO Doug McMillon started out at the company making $6.50 hourly unloading trailers, and after four decades of climbing the ranks, he now fetches $75,000 every day.

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Strip out health care and social services, and the U.S. lost jobs in 2025—something that usually happens in recessions

“It’s fair to call this a hiring recession or a jobless boom,” said economist Heather Long.

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Sarah Jessica Parker says she only has work-life balance because of the people supporting her: 'I’m making choices differently than I used to'

Sarah Jessica Parker took home the 2026 Carrol Burnett award on Thursday.

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Bill Gates says AI could be used as a bioterrorism weapon akin to the COVID pandemic if it falls into the wrong hands

"We’ll need to be deliberate about how this technology is developed, governed, and deployed," Gates wrote.

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Netflix's competition isn't sleep anymore. Its battle against YouTube is like fighting an 'infinite number of monkeys,' top strategist says

Media disruption expert Doug Shapiro is writing a book about "infinite content" through his Substack, The Mediator. He talked to Fortune about what's next.

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Bill Gates sees the world is going 'backwards' and gives 5-year deadline before we enter a new Dark Age

"I believe that, within the next decade, we will not only get the world back on track but enter a new era of unprecedented progress," Gates wrote in his annual letter.

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Read Bill Gates's 2026 annual letter in full

"As we start 2026, I am thinking about how the year ahead will set us up for the decades to come."

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Ray Dalio on the $38 trillion national debt: 'my grandchildren and great grandchildren not yet born are going to be paying off this debt'

The hedge fund billionaire said the U.S. will do what's "always done when countries essentially go broke: They print money, devalue the currency."

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Former White House advisor on the real reason your health care costs are going up: Medicare's doctor pay gap

For years, Medicare has paid more for services and procedures provided in a hospital than in a physician practice.

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