Elizabeth Holmes puts on a new act in Nathan Fielder's documentary. It distracts from the real story Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Fortune · Oct 5
Wharton researchers studied 760 employees—and found an inconvenient truth about remote work The office small talk you were glad to escape was doing a job—and remote work is wearing it down, a Wharton professor’s study finds. Fortune · Oct 5
Adam Neumann says a half-hour car ride with Masayoshi Son is when his ego took over—and WeWork's $47 billion collapse began The WeWork cofounder told Steven Bartlett that by the time he walked back into headquarters after SoftBank’s multibillion-dollar offer, “I forgot what we were all about.” Fortune · Oct 5
Why ‘China plus one’ is paying off less than Southeast Asia hoped “China plus one” sent billions of dollars of investment into Southeast Asian factories. Yet the region isn’t capturing enough value. Fortune · Oct 5
Can Europe’s industrial legacy give it an AI advantage? Siemens is betting big on industrial AI—and Europe's manufacturers have the data that could give it an edge. Fortune · Oct 5
More than half of Gen Z investors have funneled cash into sports betting—but they're not coming close to breaking even Two in five Gen Zers view sports betting as an investment, but bettors in every generation are losing money. Researchers say the story is more complicated than financial nihilism. Fortune · Oct 5
Japan’s population is shrinking at an accelerating rate, but the nationalist prime minister is making it harder for foreigners to live there The latest five-year census showed the number of Japanese nationals declined by 3.5% to 119.1 million in 2025, following a 1.4% drop in the 2020 count. Fortune · Oct 4
Persian Gulf oil flows return to prewar levels, but Iran could resort to a ‘scorched earth campaign’ as U.S. deploys more ships and Marines to Mideast “That is what everyone who actually follows this region and its dynamics is worried about.” Fortune · Oct 4
‘Avengers: Endgame’ is the biggest movie ever again, 7 years later—and it says a lot about the future of Hollywood’s IP machine Disney’s 7-year-old ‘Avengers: Endgame’ just grossed $126 million in a rerelease and retook the box office crown from ‘Avatar’. Fortune · Oct 4
Even ‘Bond King’ Bill Gross warns ‘don’t own bonds’ as long-term debt enters a new era of volatility “Be prepared for the end of ‘what you are used to’ stock markets and higher volatility in prices for the benchmark 10-year Treasury bonds.” Fortune · Oct 4
Warren Buffett's first tax bill at age 14 was $7. Now Berkshire Hathaway's is almost $27 billion—and he still says the rich don't pay enough That’s a far cry from the $26.8 billion Buffett said his company, Berkshire Hathaway, paid in 2024 taxes. Fortune · Oct 4
Grindr CEO graduated with $500 in his pocket. Now the self-made millionaire plans to bring his kids to the office when they're 10 to gain grit Forget trust funds—Grindr’s multimillionaire CEO exclusively tells Fortune he is sending his kids to the office and up the ski slopes to toughen them up for real life. Fortune · Oct 4
Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei says entrepreneurs should go on vacation to road test potential cofounders—if they’re a drain, they’re ‘the wrong choice’ The Anthropic cofounder and former OpenAI exec says the secret to picking the right cofounder is to travel together before you build together. Fortune · Oct 4
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has emerged as the biggest foil to AI doomerism about the existential risk to humanity The AI chipmaking giant is stepping in to prevent further AI agent breaches. Fortune · Oct 4
Fortune · Oct 4 Gary Shapiro: why trade shows matter and how to get them right I ran powerful trade show CES for decades. Bill Gates told me once that trade shows were key for Microsoft. Now, author Robyn Davis is onto something.
Fortune · Oct 4 Meet the ‘mini Erin Brockoviches’ fighting off eminent domain—and the shadow of Amazon—as a data center hands out $10,000 to their neighbors Rural Pennsylvanians are protesting a proposed 1,300-acre data center called Project Hazelnut — not Amazon, as documents suggest.
Fortune · Oct 4 Former L'Oréal execs set out to build a $1.2 billion beauty empire. Now all that's left is Milk Makeup, and its sales just fell 57% Waldencast sold Obagi, lost its founders to the buyer, and is leaving Nasdaq. What's left is a makeup brand whose sales fell by more than half.
Fortune · Oct 4 'A Republic, if you can keep it': We served presidents from both parties and have never been so concerned about election security In the year of America's 250-year history, we are facing the most serious threat to our system of "we the people" government since 1860.
Fortune · Oct 4 This founder made millions when LinkedIn bought his start-up—but the stress landed him in the hospital. Now he’s built another $825 million brand Rahul Vohra says transcendental meditation and a healthier lifestyle helped him avoid “existential dread” when selling his second company to Grammarly.
Fortune · Oct 4 FDR’s lesson for AI regulation Like the financial industry of the 1930s, the AI industry is currently largely unregulated, heightening fears that it could do widespread harm.
Fortune · Oct 4 America’s budget, the bond market and the national debt at 250: Gradually, then suddenly America’s debt is rising by the trillion. Congress is still refusing to face the bill.
Fortune · Oct 4 Gen Z can’t control the future—so they’re paying witches and tarot readers for help A fragmented $2.3 billion industry is turning tarot, astrology, and spell work into personalized guidance for an uncertain generation.
Fortune · Oct 4 I place the world's top software engineers and interviewed over 10,000 job seekers. The difference on paper and in person is wider than ever AI has made hiring noisier, but the basics of standing out have not changed.
Fortune · Oct 3 Iran’s currency is getting obliterated as the regime is about to run out of oil to sell and can’t even get its money from customers “We can’t even get our own money out of a country to which we’ve supplied goods, let alone using those funds to pay someone else in another corner of the world.”
Fortune · Oct 3 Zohran Mamdani says 'you have to luck out in some big way' to achieve the American Dream now—and many people see better odds of winning the lottery "People think that they have better odds playing the lottery than making it in their own life. What does that say about the country that we live in?"