30 years after the founding of 'Silicon Alley,' New York's tech scene is so big it has no center Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Fortune · Feb 2
Goldman Sachs leads $75 million funding round for Fieldguide, an AI-native accounting and audit platform Valued at $700 million, Fieldguide is combating the “existential” talent crisis in the CPA industry. Fortune · Feb 2
‘We’re not in a bubble yet’ because only 3 out of 4 conditions are met, top economist says. Cue the OpenAI IPO Owen Lamont told Fortune about his “Four Horsemen” of the bubble apocalypse, and one hasn’t left the stable yet. Fortune · Feb 1
CEO of $1.25 billion AI company says he hires Gen Z because they’re ‘less biased’ than older generations—too much knowledge is actually bad, he warns The founder and CEO of $1.25 billion AI identity verification platform Incode, Ricardo Amper, says Gen Z’s naivety is actually a powerful resource. Fortune · Feb 1
Hims and Hers Super Bowl ad highlights 'uncomfortable truth' about elite healthcare for the rich and 'broken' system for the rest The company is putting wealth inequality center stage as millions are expected to drop their Obamacare plans. Fortune · Feb 1
Silicon Valley legend Kleiner Perkins was written off. Then an unlikely VC showed up For the first time in eight years, Kleiner Perkins opened its doors to a reporter. Fortune gets an exclusive look inside the legendary VC firm’s turnaround. Fortune · Jan 31
Trump’s unlikely promise to ‘end inflation’ still saw families paying an extra $2,120 for goods and services in 2025 Exclusive: The year-on-year inflation increase equates to an added cost of $2,120 per household, assuming they purchased the same goods and services in 2025 that they bought in 2024. That includes an increase of $123 on electricity bills and $150 on groceries. Fortune · Jan 30
After a decade of silence, Elon Musk’s tunneling startup and its reclusive president, are hitting the media circuit The Boring Co’s Steve Davis says it’s time to be more transparent, as the company seeks to expand and put some embarrassing episodes behind it. Fortune · Jan 30
Five years after the short squeeze, GameStop’s CEO is betting on a ‘genius or totally foolish’ $100 billion-plus acquisition CEO Ryan Cohen stands to receive $35 billion if he successfully delivers a $100 billion market capitalization for the company. Fortune · Jan 30
'We’ll save the world from cancer’: Inside Pfizer CEO’s $23 billion post‑COVID bet on oncology "The winners in life are differentiated from the losers in life because the winners never fall," Albert Bourla says. "The winners always stand up again." Fortune · Jan 30
How the US is playing a 'big game of catch-up' in the Arctic A prescient new book outlines the future of warfare in the far north, and just how far behind its rivals the US still is. Fortune · Jan 30
Exclusive: Google DeepMind researcher David Silver leaves to launch his own AI startup Silver’s new startup, Ineffable Intelligence, will focus on developing “superintelligence” using the same AI methods that led to Google DeepMind breakthroughs like AlphaGo. Fortune · Jan 30
Meet Trump’s next Fed Chair Kevin Warsh: He wants a back-seat central bank, a more bullish monetary policy, and for his dog to live a really long time Trump confirmed Warsh as the Fed chair nominee Friday morning. Here’s what might be in store for the central bank. Fortune · Jan 30
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol's turnaround plan includes measuring stores on just five metrics Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Fortune · Jan 30
Fortune · Jan 30 Gen Z believes using AI is making their colleagues dumb and lazy, but may paradoxically see it as key to their own promotion, Wharton says Nearly 80% of Gen Z believes AI is making people lazier, but the young generation has increased how much they’re using the technology, a Wharton-led survey finds.
Fortune · Jan 30 German prosecutors’ raid on Deutsche Bank hurts the lender’s attempts to leave its long history of compliance failures in the past Investigators combed through the bank’s Frankfurt and Berlin headquarters just before it reported record annual profits.
Fortune · Jan 30 Pfizer CEO says he used ‘emotional blackmail’ to get employees to achieve impossible goals during COVID-19 Albert Bourla admitted to going to extreme lengths to “save the world” and get the vaccines out faster during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fortune · Jan 29 Top engineers at Anthropic, OpenAI say AI now writes 100% of their code—with big implications for the future of software development jobs As AI coding tools become more sophisticated, engineers at leading AI companies are stopping writing code altogether
Fortune · Jan 29 Walmart doubles down on health, promoting 3,000 pharmacy workers and upping earning potential—with no college degree requires A Walmart spokesperson told Fortune it’s “very easy” for associates in other roles to move into a pharmacy job.
Fortune · Jan 29 Sergey Brin makes his biggest donation ever to tackle California’s housing crisis, weeks after moving to the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe Weeks ago, the Google cofounder moved to a $42 million mansion on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe. But he’s concerned about housing across the border.
Fortune · Jan 29 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman opts to text in lowercase—but Gen Z shouldn’t copy him if they want a shot at starting their career, experts say Typing like ChatGPT boss Sam Altman might be cool online—but the habit could hurt Gen Z’s chances at jumpstarting their careers.
Fortune · Jan 29 The real promise of AI isn’t fewer jobs, it's cheaper thinking I founded one company that sold for $1.5 billion, and another with $150 million in funding, and I see the AI ROI debate as a leadership failure.
Fortune · Jan 29 The midlife crisis is only getting worse in the U.S. Around the world, the middle-aged seem to be doing quite well. It’s a different story in the U.S.
Fortune · Jan 29 Get used to the K-shaped economy. It’s likely here until 2035, thanks to AI’s outsize benefit for the wealthy “Eventually, it might bring things together, but in the meantime ... it’s unlikely that AI helps at all with the K-shaped economy,” Innes McFee, CEO of Oxford Economics, tells Fortune in an exclusive interview.
Fortune · Jan 29 A once-unthinkable C-suite appointment solidifies Walmart's new identity as a tech company Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.