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Cisco's John Chambers lived through the dot-com crash. He says the AI bubble is harder to navigate

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Fortune · Apr 20

Exclusive: Your delivery robot will now offer the blind real-time, on-the-ground eyes around sidewalk hazards

Coco Robotics is partnering with BlindSquare, the world’s most popular GPS app for the blind, to turn data from delivery robots into spoken alerts.

Fortune · Apr 20

The director of the Congressional Budget Office—known for its gloomy national debt data—is very optimistic that a crisis will be avoided entirely

“Making progress to address the fiscal trajectory would be a positive for the U.S. economy,” Swagel said. “We can’t go on [with] the scolding narrative.”

Fortune · Apr 20

Zillow's CEO says his friends were shocked when he quit a cushy Microsoft job—but Steve Jobs led to his success at the $10.5 billion real estate firm

Zillow CEO Jeremy Wacksman left his cushy Microsoft job in 2009 to join the struggling real estate startup during the housing crisis. His friends had concerns—but he turned it around, thanks in part to Steve Jobs.

Fortune · Apr 18

This founder was an AI layoff 9 months ago. Then he built an instantly profitable company with 2 partners and 12 agents

"We launched 2.5 months ago, and right now, we have $300,000 in ARR."

Fortune · Apr 18

From drought to demand: Biotech IPOs roar back with Kailera and Alamar

Strong demand for GLP-1 drugs and next-gen diagnostic testing is pulling investors back into life sciences, even as AI soaks up most venture dollars.

Fortune · Apr 18

Trump's big housing market solution is dead on arrival, UBS says—its model is Texas from 25 years ago

"There isn't a magic wand that will all of a sudden return housing affordability to its historic average tomorrow," ResiClub's Lance Lambert told Fortune.

Fortune · Apr 18

'We should absolutely be concerned about non-college-educated men today': higher rents, living at home, falling out of the labor market

“Very real economic forces” are “limiting the options for noncollege-educated men,” said Gabrielle Penrose of the American Institute for Boys and Men.

Fortune · Apr 18

United CEO Scott Kirby and American CEO Robert Isom were once colleagues known as ‘the dream team.’ Now Kirby wants to acquire his rival

The dueling CEOs of United and American have a long history of circling each other in the industry.

Fortune · Apr 18

Something is different about Trump's $1 trillion war on Iran and its stress on the national debt, Harvard Kennedy scholar says

During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, debt held by the public was around $4 trillion. Now it's $31 trillion, and 15% of the budget pays down interest.

Fortune · Apr 17