McKinsey senior partners: America’s growth strategy demands a health reset The gap between what we spend and how healthy we are should concern anyone who cares about the country’s future. Fortune · Aug 15
AI isn’t changing how companies work. It’s changing what a company is The companies that win the AI era will be the ones willing to eliminate assumptions built for a world where intelligence was scarce and action was slow. Fortune · Aug 15
Some gamblers are buying losing lottery tickets on eBay as a way to offset taxes on their gambling wins If you're looking to offset taxes on your gambling earnings, purchasing thousands of dollars worth of losing lottery tickets on eBay may be lucrative. Fortune · Aug 15
Meet the CEO behind 1 in 4 bottles of Oregon wine sold in America Amy Prosenjak spent 20 years scaling Oregon's biggest wine business. Now she's producing less and following the consumer. Fortune · Aug 15
People are going to extreme lengths to stop themselves from being filmed through Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’ Methods include singing copyrighted songs to downloading scanner apps, but an attorney said not all of these will be foolproof. Fortune · Aug 14
‘If your tariff was 0%, there's no need to commit fraud’: The White House is sounding off on a $112 billion tariff-dodging scheme it made worse The Trump administration is cracking down on foreign importers of record behind the evasion—which China is at the center of. Fortune · Aug 14
Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in killing of UnitedHeathcare CEO. 'I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died' The 28-year-old entered the plea at a hastily scheduled hearing, setting off a legal fight over whether he can still be tried on murder charges. Fortune · Aug 14
Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is shut down. The Trump administration says 9 million barrels a day are still getting out “Hefty chunk of non-Iranian crude still getting out, unlike the Iranian crude that isn’t.” Fortune · Aug 14
How AT&T tied ‘brand love’ to customer growth: 60% higher sign-ups and 3x lower churn AT&T’s CMO says customers who love the brand are three times less likely to leave, 50% more likely to buy a second product, and cheaper to acquire. Fortune · Aug 14
United CEO Scott Kirby tells Gen Z interns to ditch excuses—it’s a mantra he learned in Air Force training: ‘Figure out how to overcome it' United Airlines’ 58-year-old CEO shares the first mantra he learned while training as a pilot—and one that was recently publicly put to the test. Fortune · Aug 14
Meet a 29-year-old influencer who calls herself a tradwife—but she's really more of a homesteader Traditional living is drawing younger consumers and becoming big business as creators turn old-fashioned skills into modern commerce. Fortune · Aug 14
Elon Musk’s $158 billion Tesla pay was 2.5 million times his workers’ salary last year—it's ‘unlike anything we have seen before,’ exec pay watch says Elon Musk earned $158.3 billion in compensation last year, receiving the median Tesla worker's pay in just 4.23 seconds. Fortune · Aug 14
The secret history of Ray Dalio and the creation of Chicken McNuggets—how a 1980s hedge strategy unlocked a whole new menu The Bridgewater founder began as a commodities expert and doesn’t claim credit: “the cost of a chicken has nothing to do with the price of the chick.” Fortune · Aug 14
Over 400% of GDP: top analyst finds corporate equity double the level from the dotcom bubble — and triple 1987's Black Monday How high can markets get? Fortune · Aug 14
Fortune · Aug 14 Facing a decadeslong shortage, the FAA has now hired more than 2,000 air traffic controllers after its campaign recruiting Gen Z video gamers With the U.S. still 3,500 controllers short of its staffing target, the federal government is turning to Fortnite fans and Roblox players to fill the gap.
Fortune · Aug 14 The gilded cage: Why Gen Z's favorite escape is the era that looks most like now Tradwives, old money, homesteading, even bird watching. Why does Gen Z want to turn the clock back 100 years?
Fortune · Aug 14 ‘It will inherit your thoughts’: Musk tells SpaceX employees they’ll be Grok’s ‘parents’ as AI trains on company data In an all-hands, the SpaceX CEO revealed he wants his employees to be the foundation for his AI agent’s knowledge. “It will be trained on you.”
Fortune · Aug 14 Social Security is celebrating its 91st birthday. It won't live to 100, watchdog warns "Social Security won’t make it past age 97 as things currently stand," said the CRFB's Maya Macguineas. "At least not in its current form."
Fortune · Aug 14 No, AI is not your employee A strange language has crept into how we talk about artificial intelligence at work.
Fortune · Aug 14 ServiceNow CFO: Trillions are being spent on AI initiatives. Are companies asking these 3 key questions? Businesses are under pressure to move fast and stay agile as they decide where to focus investments. Urgent decisions have to be made under uncertainty.
Fortune · Aug 14 An obscure clean-energy rule change could have big consequences for investors A proposed emissions-accounting overhaul could scramble corporate net-zero plans and the renewable-energy market.
Fortune · Aug 14 Randall Lane probably didn't break the law by accepting $6 million while working at Forbes. He may still pay a price under a 140-year-old doctrine A New York legal doctrine requiring employee loyalty could pose more risk to the fired Forbes editor than any criminal exposure.
Fortune · Aug 14 Code Metal lands $80 million Pentagon deal to modernize military wargaming Code Metal, a $1.25 billion software firm, just landed a $80 million deal, as the Pentagon increasingly turns to startups for modernization.
Fortune · Aug 14 Current price of oil as of Aug. 14, 2026 When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.
Fortune · Aug 14 Anthropic's $2 trillion math problem: Its underlying business is nowhere near the IPO valuation it wants Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.