They built exoskeletons for stroke patients. Now, their robots can do eyelash extensions. Luum has raised $36 million to put a robot to work on your lash appointment—and cut the time it takes roughly in half. Fortune · Sep 9
TRM Labs valuation doubles to $2 billion as crypto crime fighter scales AI services The startup declined to specify the size of the follow-on round, but said it is on track for ARR of $100 million for 2026. Fortune · Sep 9
His family fled the Soviet Union with 1 ruble to their name. Now billionaire Igor Tulchinsky is backing the biggest European exhibition of 2026 Tulchinsky has donated $6.8 million to the British Museum to support the exhibition which has been described by King Charles as a “remarkable artwork”. Fortune · Sep 9
Alibaba.com President: AI agents can talk, but can they actually do the work? The strongest frontier model we tested successfully completed 61.7% of the tasks — high enough to be useful and low enough to be a warning. Fortune · Sep 9
AI writing is A-ok if you’re a billionaire. For everyone else, it can be a career-ending scandal We have to confront the uneven standard that society imposes on AI use: acceptable for Stanley Druckenmiller but an embarrassing scandal for others. Fortune · Sep 9
Insilico's co-CEO hopes 'we might have a chance to stop biological aging' after promising results from its fibrosis drug trial Drugmakers hope they can ease Asia's healthcare burden by tackling aging at its source, and one says it now has early evidence it's possible. Fortune · Sep 9
Current price of oil as of Sept. 9, 2026 When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why. Fortune · Sep 9
Developers are rethinking data center design as the AI backlash makes its way to Asia "There are physical limits to how quickly you can build data centers at scale," Kevin Guan, chief investment officer of Bridge Data Centres, said. Fortune · Sep 9
U.S. national debt increased by $5.1 million a minute for the past year, says Congress's economic committee—amounting to $117,279 for every American The rate of debt growth averages around $7.35 billion a day, a JEC report adds, or $306.4 million per hour—$5.11 million per minute. Fortune · Sep 9
‘I am the house now’: Scott Bessent dares the currency markets to move against him Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning. Fortune · Sep 9
Saudi's Humain seeks external investment to fuel its AI ambitions Humain is lining up an IPO and billions in new capital to supercharge its data center buildout and broader AI ambitions. But sequencing projects and securing customers could prove a challenge. Fortune · Sep 9
Americans are losing faith in capitalism. The problem isn't capitalism The public seems to think that shareholder value is a loss for consumers. A Yale research project with over 200 CEO interviews reveals something else. Fortune · Sep 9
Saudi’s Humain is planning an IPO and a $2.5 billion fund to fuel its expansion plans In this week’s Fortune Gulf Brief. Fortune · Sep 9
GM CEO Mary Barra is unfazed by the electric slowdown: 'We still think EVs are the end game' Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Fortune · Sep 9
Fortune · Sep 9 Steve Jobs didn’t trust focus groups to inform product design. These AI entrepreneurs believe they solved the problem The founders of Belgian startup Conveo are betting that AI can resolve a long-standing challenge—how to enable customer-centric decision-making without drowning companies in data.
Fortune · Sep 9 Apple unveils $2,000 iPhone Duo, its first foldable smartphone Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, unveiled the biggest iPhone update in years.
Fortune · Sep 9 Tennessee linebacker Arion Carter was suspended over a $427 flight—now he's donating that amount to charity for every tackle he makes this season Carter's girlfriend, Mariah Bryant, is nearing the end of treatment for stage 2 breast cancer.
Fortune · Sep 9 There are fewer than 4,000 billionaires worldwide, and they now hold a record $15.1 trillion. That's nearly half of the U.S. economy Just 29 superbillionaires now control more than one-quarter of all billionaire wealth, up from 7% in 2017.
Fortune · Sep 9 AGI is here, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has declared. Here’s why the market doesn’t care If AI were really about to unleash the explosive growth its boosters predict, economists say it should show up somewhere surprising: real interest rates.
Fortune · Sep 9 Macau wants to be a ‘business city,’ not just a gaming hub—and it’s spending $16 billion to help it get there IPIM board president Alex Che Weng Keong says the casino hub can use its regulatory autonomy and Portuguese heritage to become a "tech city."
Fortune · Sep 9 'Failure is a data point': Executives say flexibility, not certainty, is what's needed in a turbulent world Leaders should focus less on forecasting and more on building organizations that can change course quickly.
Fortune · Sep 8 Peru’s monetary system would not work in Venezuela As Venezuela's National Assembly debates how to kill the world's highest inflation rate, two economists argue that copying Peru would be a mistake.
Fortune · Sep 8 The pumpkin spice era is changing—if not over, as McDonald’s replaces the flavor for the first time in a decade Pumpkin spice is losing its monopoly on fall as McDonald’s pivots to caramel apple. This is not another Gen Z versus millennial war.
Fortune · Sep 8 How Canada decided to hurt its own economy, raise its inflation—and most Canadians approved because they're so angry at Trump Oxford economists predict Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s retaliatory tariffs will slow economic growth and raise consumer prices.
Fortune · Sep 8 OpenAI says it cracked Navier-Stokes, one of math's grand challenges. OpenAI denies it stole a mathematician's data. But his fear echoes concerns many CEOs have about AI companies.