Mark Penn: How to save a billion and a half hours AI promises convenience, but the internet is still clogged with cookie banners, CAPTCHAs, passcodes and unreadable fine print. It’s time to replace it. Fortune · Sep 12
The world's largest health and beauty retailer says AI will make shopping 'more human, not less' The biggest risk with AI, warns AS Watson CEO Malina Ngai, is using it to polish today's processes. Do that, and "you get a version of yesterday." Fortune · Sep 12
'No one was coming to save me': How Reese Witherspoon built a $900 million company from a problem Hollywood wouldn't fix The actress built Hello Sunshine after Hollywood told her there were no female-led movies to make. Six years later, she sold it for $900 million. Fortune · Sep 12
Jamie Dimon runs JPMorgan’s 300,000 employees—but says it beats rivals by fighting in Navy SEAL-sized teams Decades-old research backs up the idea that individual effort decreases as group sizes increase. Fortune · Sep 12
American schools weren’t broken until Silicon Valley used a lie to convince them they were—now reading and math scores are plummeting Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath warns the U.S.’s $30 billion bet on laptops in schools has made Gen Zers less cognitively capable than their parents. Fortune · Sep 12
IBM launched limb tracking at this year’s U.S. Open – and it’s scoring every tennis player’s serve for fans to see This marks the first time IBM has launched a limb-tracking feature at a Grand Slam tennis tournament. Fortune · Sep 12
The Chamber of Commerce and the College Board on the missing subject in American high schools: business Students are graduating from high school without a clear understanding of how organizations function, how money flows, and how ideas become opportunities. Fortune · Sep 12
The ghost cartel — your pricing algorithm may have stopped competing without your knowledge Antitrust law was built to catch human agreements. It has no name for what machines learn to do on their own. Fortune · Sep 12
Boards were built for a vertical world. Risk has gone horizontal Governance may be straining against its own design. Fortune · Sep 12
A flawed system and one man's hubris cost Meta shareholders $17 billion Meta's settlement may seem large, but it may be just the tip of the iceberg. The plaintiffs' own models put the damages in the trillions. Fortune · Sep 12
From AI FOMO to AI hangover: corporate America is taking a long, hard look in the mirror right now How companies got GenAI adoption wrong, and what they need to do next. Fortune · Sep 12
After a decade of failed bills and three years of resignations, Washington finally discovers it cares about AI safety Jacob Coxon's resignation didn't start this fight, but his resignation ignited the moment officials on both sides stopped staying quiet about it Fortune · Sep 12
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta bet that AI would shrink its management ranks. Now it's quietly rebuilding them The company that spent the past year telling managers to code is now asking some engineers in a key AI division whether they'd like to lead teams again. Fortune · Sep 12
‘Combine your passion with an investment strategy’: Meet the venture capital using 500,000 Pokémon and trading cards as a hedge against a debt crisis Peter Levin thinks collectibles and trading cards are here to stay in the alternative asset market. Fortune · Sep 12
Fortune · Sep 12 Technology can supply the words. But language proficiency begins when another person answers Apps and AI can teach vocabulary and smooth an exchange, but proficiency depends on what someone can do when the script runs out.
Fortune · Sep 12 Lululemon's new CEO inherits a mess that looks like the one she left at Nike The new CEO faces an uphill battle in getting people to want Lululemon gear again.
Fortune · Sep 11 Binge watching and binge shopping come together: Amazon lets Prime viewers buy what characters wear and use, or the next closest thing Amazon’s new Prime Video feature uses AI to help viewers shop for products that look like what they see on screen.
Fortune · Sep 11 Oil prices dive on signs of Hormuz diplomacy while Saudi Arabia is left hanging in fight against an Iranian ally threatening crude's other chokepoint Foreign ministers from the Gulf Cooperation Council—which is comprised of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman—will meet their Iranian counterpart on Monday.
Fortune · Sep 11 Howard Lutnick, Larry Silverstein, Jim Pierce and Mitt Romney all had last-minute changes of plan that kept them out of the WTC on 9/11 A school run, a doctor's visit, a budget fight in Congress. Small shifts in plans kept dozens of people out of the World Trade Center that morning.
Fortune · Sep 11 Microsoft head of communications Frank Shaw leaving after nearly 30 years of shaping software giant’s public messaging Shaw worked with all three of Microsoft's CEOs—Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Satya Nadella— and has played a major role in shaping much of how Microsoft communicates to the outside world.
Fortune · Sep 11 Wall Street thought the hiking cycle was over. Now Kevin Warsh has his ‘back against the wall’ Hotter inflation, above $100 oil and a 10-year Treasury yield flirting with 5% have put another round of rate hikes back on the table.
Fortune · Sep 11 OpenAI has paused its $200 ChatGPT sign-ups as ‘unprecedented’ demand for new model Astra strains its system Even after expanding available compute 9.5-fold since 2023, OpenAI is pausing new Pro 20X accounts while it adds more capacity
Fortune · Sep 11 Fortune 500 Power Moves: Which executives gained and lost power this week, Sept. 5-11, 2026 See which Fortune 500 companies are making changes to their C-suite ranks.
Fortune · Sep 11 Students are using AI in school and test scores are down, but the OECD finds that those who use it once or twice a week perform similarly to nonusers But using AI almost everyday can create a negative feedback loop.
Fortune · Sep 11 The U.S. Open turned exclusivity into a half-billion-dollar business, and the $23 Honey Deuce is just the beginning The tournament pulls in more than $500 million a year by selling prestige as much as tennis—from $800 million in luxury renovations to a cocktail that moved 738,459 units.