WeWork and Upwork CEOs confirm the Gen Z hiring nightmare is real—but it's nothing new WeWork CEO John Santora says it's time for older generations to step up and mentor entry-level workers. Fortune · May 19
'Blood in the streets': Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham pulls back the curtain on the AI wars to reveal a 'brutal, competitive world' GMO co-founder Jeremy Grantham says the era of Big Tech monopoly profits is over — and AI is the reason why. Fortune · May 19
JD Vance Humiliated: Donald Trump Refuses to Name VPOTUS as Successor While He Listens From the Back Donald Trump declined to name JD Vance as his political successor during an Oval Office interview, fueling speculation over Republican succession battles. International Business Times UK · May 19
'This is what the consumer wants': A new lawsuit about PFAS and other 'forever chemicals' is heating up the cookware industry Two cookware giants are suing a newer startup over claims that PFAS are toxic despite the lack of evidence. The cookware startup says consumers want better. Fortune · May 19
$30 billion Twilio CEO has been waking up and working from 4:30 a.m. since college—he says it’s why he was CFO of a multi-billion-dollar brand by 31 EXCLUSIVE: Running a $30 billion company looks like 4:30 a.m. starts, working on Sundays and running laps around the house to blow off steam—and Twilio’s CEO says all his peers have similarly strict routines. Fortune · May 19
Parag Agrawal’s Parallel wants to pay publishers when AI agents use their work The former Twitter CEO’s AI startup is launching Index, a platform to estimate how much content owners contribute to AI agent tasks. Fortune · May 19
ESG may be fading—but moral leadership isn’t Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Fortune · May 19
Billionaire says he can tell if you’ll stay stuck in the middle class forever with a simple marshmallow test—but even your car can give it away He says leasing a car is the biggest red flag you'll stay stuck in the middle class—and Americans' $1.67 trillion auto loan bill proves his point. Fortune · May 19
High gas prices are just the beginning: How the Iran war is changing the global energy map The largest global energy-supply shock in history is causing chaos around the world. Here are the winners and losers. Fortune · May 19
NextEra's $67 billion Dominion takeover creates world's largest utility—just in time to win the AI data center power surge NextEra's move to buy Dominion is a big bet on scale and affordability to win over AI data center developers. Fortune · May 18
6.7 million people thought they were ripping apart an AI-generated Monet painting. But it was real A researcher posted a real Monet painting, but tagged it as made with AI. That didn't stop people from tearing it apart online. Fortune · May 18
While Trump insisted the Iran war would end ‘soon,’ an account in his name was 'Selling America' A brokerage account bearing the president’s name made 3,642 trades in the first quarter of 2026—hedging against a war he publicly said was nearly won. Fortune · May 18
AI is eating the market and Wall Street strategists have bubble brain as they debate: are we in 1997 or 1999? Are markets partying like it's 1999, or a few years before that? Fortune · May 18
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon had 2 jobs as a teenager while also juggling 3 sports. Now, he’s telling Gen Z to stop wasting time Before becoming Goldman Sachs CEO, David Solomon scooped ice cream, flipped burgers at McDonald’s, and DJed on the side. Fortune · May 18
Fortune · May 18 A record number of 18-year-olds are set to graduate into an economy designed against them It's the commencement season that Gen Z fought back as America hits peak 18 and peak data center at the same time.
Fortune · May 18 Trump's new corporate playbook: Why the administration is taking equity stakes in companies like Intel In an interview with Fortune, President Trump discusses the dealmaking initiatives behind Washington's growing portfolio of corporate equity stakes.
Fortune · May 18 AI in the workplace is stumbling. Fortune's Workplace Innovation Summit will explore why Most AI projects fail. Workers trust it blindly. No one has it figured out—yet.
The Guardian - US · May 18 Donald Trump says he ‘wasn’t involved’ in creation of $1.7bn compensation fund – as it happened This live blog is now closed.
Fortune · May 18 Inside Trump’s vision of the U.S. as a shareholder in American companies: 'I should have asked for more' Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.
The Economic Times · May 18 Trump tells Fortune he should have asked for bigger Intel stake Former U.S. President Donald Trump stated he should have sought a greater stake in Intel for the U.S. government. The administration previously invested $10 billion, with the stake now valued over $50 billion. Trump suggested he could sell shares gradually without impacting the stock price.
Fortune · May 18 President Trump on being America's CEO-in-chief, making 'deals that no normal person would make' In a wide-ranging interview, Trump explains how the Iran war could delay his interest-rate plans, why he regrets asking for only 10% of Intel, and what will happen to America’s dealmaking empire when his term is over.
Fortune · May 17 The AI boom hasn’t stopped U.S. companies from hiring cheap offshore labor, and overseas call center employment is still skyrocketing “The technology that was supposed to shrink the industry is fueling its expansion,” said Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok.
Fortune · May 17 Gen Z is right about the job hunt—it really is worse than it was for millennials, with nearly 60% of fresh-faced grads frozen out of the workforce When millennials, Gen X, and baby boomers graduated, just a quarter could expect to be unemployed that year. Meanwhile, nearly 60% of fresh-faced Gen Z grads couldn't land a job.
Fortune · May 17 'The Butterfly Trust’: How Deutsche Bank maintained Jeffrey Epstein as a client until he was arrested The bank said it fired Epstein as a client in 2018. In reality, it kept his accounts open until after he was jailed in 2019.
The Economic Times · May 17 ‘Fortune cookie wisdom’: Shark Tank’s Anupam Mittal trashes startup advice amid tech layoffs, reveals when he got laid off Tech sector layoffs are widespread. Anupam Mittal shares his 2001 job loss experience. He criticizes the advice to start companies using AI. Mittal states entrepreneurship is brutal with low survival rates. He advises professionals to assess their position in a company's profit and loss. Understanding this is crucial for career…