Who pays for a shadow fleet oil spill? No one The most effective way to stop rogue oil tankers may be to call them what they are: an environmental threat. Fortune · Aug 28
Dolly Parton wrote the song we’ll forever play on repeat Here’s the paradox at the center of it: Dolly looked like someone who had invented herself, while somehow never seeming invented. Fortune · Aug 28
Deloitte sees a $566 billion lunar economy by 2050 But a market that doesn’t exist yet could yield an even larger payoff. Fortune · Aug 28
Scammers are hijacking tap-to-pay donations to turn a $20 gift into a $2,000 charge—here's how to protect your money As tap-to-pay makes street donations effortless, fraudsters are quietly inflating charges. Fortune · Aug 28
How Katseye and Cardi B are helping Gap Inc re-establish its cool factor Gap’s sales are improving, but its comeback remains a ‘show-me’ story. Fortune · Aug 28
Gen Z’s bedazzling era is the latest Lipstick Index as youths put gems on everything from coffee cups to skincare Brands are leveraging young women's increasing spending power by jumping on the sparkly maximalism bandwagon. Fortune · Aug 28
Bridge founder Zach Abrams sees an opportunity for 'tokenized local currencies' across Asia The Stripe-owned company sees potential in Asia, where trade-heavy economies need faster cross-border payment rails. Fortune · Aug 28
Why ‘equal weight’ S&P 500 funds are having a moment—and are up almost 16% this year alone RSP has topped $100 billion in assets as it outpaces a cap-weighted S&P 500 that's exposed when Big Tech stumbles. Fortune · Aug 28
The $40 trillion national debt is growing while Social Security goes broke—because wealthy Boomers are collecting over $100k in benefits per year Boomers are getting 265% returns from Social Security—and the “great wealth transfer” won’t save Gen Z. Fortune · Aug 27
In border states, even Trump's own party wants the Canada fight to be over Governors, senators, and automakers in Maine, Vermont, and Michigan have spent 18 months warning the White House a trade war with Canada would bite. Fortune · Aug 27
A consultant who once railed against ‘the billionaire boys club’ is now leading opposition to California’s wealth tax Ned Wigglesworth once blasted big donors for buying influence. Today, he’s helping lead a nine-figure campaign against Prop. 40 Fortune · Aug 27
Bitcoin is having a great month—but Solana is doing even better as coin soars above $100 Investors have found fresh reasons to buy Solana beyond Bitcoin’s comeback. Fortune · Aug 27
Anthropic makes first move into physical AI with universal standard that could bring scientific labs to life The Model Hardware Standard (MHS) works with any AI model, not just Claude, but for now only a handful of companies can access the research preview. Fortune · Aug 27
OpenAI bans Russian ChatGPT accounts used to spread pro-Kremlin content including a think tank with researchers who say they were falsely affiliated OpenAI claims Russian users hid behind VPNs to push a think tank tied to an influence operation and spread pro-Russia content online. Fortune · Aug 27
Fortune · Aug 27 The AI Odyssey: How a primal fear from the Ancient Greek world has been awakened by new technology Long before chatbots, the Greeks built an entire philosophy around the anxiety that rules 2026. We are all Odysseus, sailing through the the sirens' call.
Fortune · Aug 27 ‘Clearly, people hate data centers’: Sam Altman admits Americans hate what he’s wrought as his own data centers head quits Seven in 10 Americans oppose an AI data center near them, even as OpenAI adds multi-gigawatt projects across the U.S
Fortune · Aug 27 Welcome to the 'upper-middle-class trap': why $300,000 a year doesn't feel like winning anymore Investopedia put a $5 million price tag on the American Dream, but Nick Maggiulli says six-figure earners are more financially fragile than they look.
Fortune · Aug 27 Chinese open-source AI is starting to win over U.S. businesses New spending data suggests companies are increasingly turning to cheaper, customizable open models—including fast-improving systems from China.
Fortune · Aug 27 Grayscale CEO: Crypto winter has thawed—but market watchers are still missing the point The CEO of Grayscale explains why the market volatility of the last 18 months barely matters in light of a broader sea change underway in finance.
Fortune · Aug 27 Zohran Mamdani's business council includes the CEOs of Chobani and Etsy. But Wall Street and Big Tech turned him down The New York City mayor got 15 business leaders to join his new council, but some of New York’s biggest corporate names are absent.
Fortune · Aug 27 The supply-chain savant: How FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam leads through ‘reglobalization’ Tariffs, conflict, and shifting trade routes are upending the flow of goods around the world. Raj Subramaniam is betting FedEx can use the disruption to its advantage.
Fortune · Aug 27 We laid him off. Then we hired him back When we rehired Jonathan at Syndio, he logged back in and found our cold, corporate restructuring announcement still sitting in his inbox. Gut punch.
Fortune · Aug 27 Pete Hegseth is worried about the Pentagon’s ‘Soviet-style bureaucracy,’ but the military’s $285 billion maintenance mess is all-American “You have to question whether the resources are being allocated in a way that provides maximum benefits,” Harvard’s Linda Bilmes told Fortune.
Fortune · Aug 27 Despite having a net worth of $400 million, Kevin O’Leary still shops at Walmart for $29 jeans: ‘I’m always looking for a great deal’ A bargain is a bargain for millionaire Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary—he still shops at Walmart for essentials like jeans, paper towels, and butter.
Fortune · Aug 27 The Apollo missions brought us rechargeable hearing-aid batteries and quakeproof buildings. The European defense industry is now looking for its own "NASA moment" Defense spending is resurrecting an engineering and manufacturing base many believed had gone forever, with the U.K., France and Germany home to world-leading defense companies.